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Data centre hardware

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  ID7 buy takes Fusion-io deeper into software-defined storage

  Server flash pioneer Fusion-io buys ID7 for its Linux SCSI stack storage expertise and will offer products for hyperscale storage later in 2013

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn enters fray over Dell’s sale

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has entered the fray over the proposed sale of PC maker Dell to the company’s founder

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Logicalis saves 2e2's UK managed services arm

  Logicalis has taken over the European business of defunct IT services supplier 2e2, which went bust in January 2013, owing millions to creditors

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  HP's Whitman sticks with PC business as revenue crashes

  HP CEO Meg Whitman reports that the ailing computer company has a lot of work ahead to rebuild its enterprise business.

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Claranet cloud powers Channel 5's Big Brother

  Cloud computing is the only way Channel 5 ‘s IT can cope with spiky traffic driven by calls to action on the Big Brother TV show

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Cisco Unified Access connects University of Wales Hospital

  New Catalyst switch, combining wireless and wired access into one product used by University of Wales hospital to benefit patients and staff

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  Dell to go private in bid to dump ailing PC business

  Dell is set to reinvent itself as an IT services provider by exiting the PC business through a $22bn buyout by a private equity firm

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  NHS trust opts for HP active-active no-SSD tier SAN deployment

  Brighton NHS trust chooses HP private cloud instead of Dell servers and storage, and revamps IT and disaster recovery with active-active LeftHand SANs and no SSD tier

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  Intel’s business hit by falling PC sales in 2012

  Chip maker Intel has reported fourth quarter net income of $2.47bn, down 27% compared with the same period a year ago

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 business software articles of 2012

  The main thrust in enterprise software this year has been the introduction of a new Windows OS, programming model and user interface.

• December 24, 2012 24 Dec'12

  Top 10 server virtualisation stories of 2012

  Check out our top 10 server virtualisation resources to help storage professionals address the variety of storage-related challenges they may face in a virtual server environment

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched

  Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  Nutanix supports Red Hat KVM in upgraded storage stack hardware and OS

  Nutanix upgrades OS to add replication and disaster recovery, no-downtime addition of nodes, high availability and Red Hat KVM hypervisor support

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012

  Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights