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Data centre hardware
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Orange Business Services touts internet offload service
Orange Business Services (OBS) claims business applications can excel on VPNs by pushing non-critical applications onto local ISP networks
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July 04, 2012
04
Jul'12
Vodafone and 3 to enter 50/50 Ireland network deal
The two mobile networks are in the late stages of discussions to pool their network infrastructure, a source tells Computer Weekly
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July 02, 2012
02
Jul'12
Dell buys Quest Software for $2.4bn to boost enterprise family
Following its acquisition of Wyse earlier this year, Dell is to buy Quest Software to bolster its software virtualisation portfolio
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July 02, 2012
02
Jul'12
Cystic Fibrosis Trust deploys CommVault for auditing
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust has implemented CommVault Simpana file and e-mail archiving software
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June 29, 2012
29
Jun'12
Universities deliver HPC for business via the cloud
The University of Cambridge and Imperial College are pooling their resources to create a high-performance computing (HPC) service that will offer some of the UK’s fastest computer resources to industry through the cloud
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Cambridge University turns to computer games to unlock secrets of the universe
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Cambridge University targets businesses with commodity supercomputer services
The University of Cambridge is offering businesses supercomputer services built on commodity Intel chips
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Amazon delivers high-performance computing applications from Ireland datacentre
Amazon debuts a computer cluster at its facility in Ireland to support European high-performance computing (HPC) applications
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June 22, 2012
22
Jun'12
RBS and NatWest face second day of outages
Account balances still fail to update for RBS and NatWest customers as the banks go into their second day of technical issues
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
BT suffers broadband outages due to to ‘equipment failures’
London, Sheffield and Glasgow are among the cities to be hit by the BT broadband outage caused by separate hardware crashes in the network
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
EU to fund cloud-based supercomputers for SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises will have access to cloud-based supercomputers to run complex engineering simulations, under a €16m project backed by the European Commission.
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June 20, 2012
20
Jun'12
Airbus looks north to reduce datacentre energy costs
Airbus is considering moving its high-performance computing centre to a colder climate to combat rising power and cooling costs in France and Germany.
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June 20, 2012
20
Jun'12
Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?
Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.
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June 20, 2012
20
Jun'12
Supercomputers running up against the barriers of Moore's Law
The next generation of supercomputer will require a radical re-think, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law.
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June 18, 2012
18
Jun'12
Dell says datacentre is ready for disruption
Dell’s head of networking Dario Zamarian tells Computer Weekly why the supplier is ready to stand on its own two feet in the networking space