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Data centre networking

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  VMware puts network virtualisation to work in McAfee environments

  VMware announces an integrated system to automate distribution and enforcement of McAfee’s network security platform using its NSX network virtualisation system

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  EMC predicts return to double-digit sales growth

  Storage giant's EMEA chief claims downbeat first quarter results are as bad as things will get for EMC, and that normal service will soon resume

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  Brewer Marston’s ISP upgrades core network with SSE

  Marston’s house networking unit Marston’s Telecoms rolls out a resilient nationwide network to accommodate demand for its managed services offering

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  2015 IT priorities: SDN yet to prove itself, fear of network hacks growing

  In Computer Weekly’s 2015 IT priorities study, software-defined networking is still behind management and monitoring as a networking priority

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mercedes AMG Petronas IT director on the need for speed in IT

  When Matt Harris became IT director for F1 team Mercedes AMG Petronas in 2009, IT costs needed to be slashed

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Technology needed to help ambulance services cope with increased demand

  The future of the ambulance and emergencies services needs more investment in networking

• November 28, 2014 28 Nov'14

  CGI secures communications between pilots and air traffic control

  Satellite communications firm Inmarsat has outsourced the provision of security IT and services to CGI

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Juniper CEO Kheradpir resigns over misconduct allegations

  Shaygan Kheradpir steps down from his role as CEO of Juniper Networks after less than a year in the post, after a customer negotiation went sour

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion

  Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers

  ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Suppliers discuss Emergency Services Network with Home Office

  Suppliers have attended an event held by the Home Office to discuss details of the new Emergency Services Network

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  UK wants Russia blocked from using financial messaging system

  The UK is pushing for a ban on Russian businesses using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) network as a sanction in reaction Russia’s role in the current crisis in Ukraine.

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

  Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

  Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal

  CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

  BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Finance watchdog to investigate colocation services

  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating colocation services

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity

  The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

  Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

  Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

  Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT

  BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  Zayo buys UK dark fibre provider Geo Networks

  American bandwidth infrastructure newcomer Zayo adds more than 1,800 miles of national fibre across the UK following its acquisition of local player Geo Networks

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  RWE signs seven-year network deal with Vodafone to improve efficiency

  Utility provider RWE has signed a seven year, multi-million pound contract to run its network, to reduce cost and gain greater efficiency

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for networking: 2014 winners

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for networking. See who made the top spots

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

  State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Cloud to drive Cisco Indian mid-market growth in 2014

  Cisco aims for growth in India by targeting the rising mid-market as 65% of India’s currently under-served mid-market firms plan to get more from their networks

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

  Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  How web giants are making datacentres lean and green

  Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider

  Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Fibre Channel vs FCoE. Fibre Channel rules. For now

  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged network adapters (CNA) offer storage and networking on one infrastructure, but what are the pros and cons of moving to FCoE?

• October 07, 2013 07 Oct'13

  Driving Standards Agency updates WAN with MDNX

  The government agency has revamped its WAN solution to link its datacentre through the PSN network to its driving test centres across the UK

• August 30, 2013 30 Aug'13

  How networks and data win Formula One races for Mercedes AMG Petronas

  Tata Communications joins the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team to bring speedy connectivity worthy of its cars

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Bet365 improves latency and peering by updating network infrastructure

  Online gambling site Bet365 upgraded its network and improved its latency to deliver a fast, smooth and reliable experience to its customers

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Emulex shakes up leadership with Q4 still unclear

  Current Emulex CEO James McCluney becomes chairman of the board as COO Jeffrey Benck takes his place

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  IT energy consumption lower than previously claimed

  Research has debunked the myth that consuming IT and media services on mobile devices is hurting the environment

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Datacentres must be tuned to the application in the mobile-cloud era: Cisco

  Cloud, big data and mobile applications are challenging the traditional datacentre infrastructure, says Cisco

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Users’ top datacentre pain points

  Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US