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Data centre networking

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers

  Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  VR over 5G helps Belfast Harbour vision to become smart port

  Harbour teams up with BT to deploy 5G-enabled applications including virtual reality

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Intel makes Pivot towards 5G with Smart Edge acquisition

  Chip giant Intel has signed a definitive agreement to buy the Smart Edge intelligent-edge platform business from infrastructure and service provider Pivot Technology Solutions

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  AI Singapore to set up on-premise HPC infrastructure

  Singapore’s national AI programme is getting its own high-performance computing infrastructure to support more compute intensive workloads

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments

  As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Buyers think SD-WAN is too expensive and complicated

  Building and maintaining an SD-WAN is perceived as a complicated endeavour, and the industry’s messages are not getting through, says a new report

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Cisco frozen out of China as Trump’s trade war rages on

  Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins reveals the firm is being edged out of the Chinese market

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Cloud demand fuels 18% rise in colocation M&A activity in first half of 2019

  Merger and acquisition activity in colocation market leaps as demand for cloud continues to reshape the enterprise and hyperscale datacentre landscape

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Huawei ‘galvanised’ by Trump ban

  Huawei has found itself caught in the crossfire of the US president’s trade war with China, but chairman Liang Hua says the firm is rising to the challenge

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Australia to upgrade supercomputer in HPC boost

  The Gadi supercomputer at the Australian National University will run 10 times faster than its predecessor, giving researchers access to high performance computing resources to solve the toughest research problems

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  BT picks Canonical Ubuntu to build 5G core

  Canonical will help BT and EE deliver new services to end-users more quickly

• July 07, 2019 07 Jul'19

  There’s no free lunch in SD-WAN, says Tata Communications

  Software-defined wide-area networks may help to lower connectivity costs and prioritise network traffic, but enterprises must still invest in bandwidth to reap the benefits of the technology

• July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19

  NTT picks London for newly formed global business

  NTT says unifying its various units under one umbrella and basing it in London will help it take full advantage of both its clients’ demands for joined up digital services, and the capital’s booming tech economy

• June 11, 2019 11 Jun'19

  Cisco shows off AI-driven network analysis at customer event

  New tools to help IT departments better understand network behaviour and predict potential problems were among a series of announcements made on the opening day of Cisco Live in the US

• May 16, 2019 16 May'19

  ISPs get nine months prep time for Ofcom shake-up of broadband contract renewal rules

  Regulator Ofcom is giving broadband, phone and pay-TV service providers nine months to ready their systems and processes for the emergence of new rules, designed to make it easier for consumers to switch providers