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Datacentre systems management
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December 19, 2014
19
Dec'14
Case study: Sky News turns to Red Hat for IT upgrade
To ensure the resiliency of its operations, Sky News has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and Red Hat Satellite in two datacentres
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December 16, 2014
16
Dec'14
European Space Agency turns to Orange for private cloud services
European Space Agency deploys a private cloud solution from Orange Business Services
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December 04, 2014
04
Dec'14
Alcatel-Lucent shores up cloud network pact with HP
Alcatel-Lucent and HP expand their existing alliance to support the construction of network-enabled, distributed cloud systems
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December 02, 2014
02
Dec'14
HP puts big data in the cloud and announces services enhancements
On the opening day of HP Discover in Barcelona, HP has announced a major milestone in its big data strategy
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November 21, 2014
21
Nov'14
IBM releases hybrid cloud-based DevOps service
IBM has beefed up its DevOps portfolio by releasing a cloud-based DevOps services, software and infrastructure toolset
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November 18, 2014
18
Nov'14
Businesses struggle to bind cloud services together, says Forrester
Most enterprise cloud users struggle to consolidate their cloud services and gain a holistic view of their infrastructure
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November 14, 2014
14
Nov'14
Johnson & Johnson turns to AWS for hybrid cloud and borderless datacentre
Johnson & Johnson adopted Amazon Web Services to develop its hybrid IT strategy, its CTO told the AWS re:Invent 2014 conference
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November 11, 2014
11
Nov'14
Lack of in-house skills stymies IaaS migration, says report
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) supplier Reconnix says most businesses fear they lack the skills to move to the cloud
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November 06, 2014
06
Nov'14
Capgemini third-quarter revenues grow 2.8% to €2.59bn
IT services provider Capgemini posts 2.8% revenue growth in Q3 2014 to €2.59bn with strong UK and US demand
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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
HDS takes a stab at managed service provider market
HDS announces Hitachi Cloud Compute-as-a-Service and updates Unified Compute Platform
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October 31, 2014
31
Oct'14
Ipswich hospital improves healthcare service with Esri data visualisation
Health pilots location-based technology that delivers data visualisation
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October 30, 2014
30
Oct'14
UK lags behind US and Australia in DevOps adoption
The UK is significantly behind other markets in terms of DevOps adoption
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
British fashion retailer AllSaints picks Google tools for innovation
Fashion brand AllSaints has refreshed its technology strategy with Google technologies to improve collaboration
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
Standards will enhance the maturity of IT, says Shell's Karel van Zeeland
Shell's Karel van Zeeland is founding member and lead architect of IT4IT Consortium and campaigns for open standards for integrating IT
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage
Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
Finding success in the public cloud: Financial Times CTO John O’Donovan
As the Financial Times migrates data workloads to the cloud, CTO John O'Donovan explains FT's cloud strategy
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level
Microsoft's Satya Nadella made a slew of Azure announcements in San Francisco
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner
Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
What’s driving the adoption of desktop as a service?
Two important factors are driving the cloud desktop phenomenon – the BYOD trend and the migration of enterprise workloads to the public cloud
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October 22, 2014
22
Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions
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October 21, 2014
21
Oct'14
Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum
Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards
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October 20, 2014
20
Oct'14
IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit
IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year
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October 17, 2014
17
Oct'14
Ahli United Bank boosts IT availability and resiliency with HP ConvergedSystem 300
Ahli United Bank refreshes datacentre infrastructure with HP converged systems to simplify its virtualisation estate
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October 16, 2014
16
Oct'14
Intel bets on custom silicon as specialised workloads rule datacentres
Intel is betting on workload-optimised silicon as datacentre workloads become sophisticated, dynamic and varied
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October 14, 2014
14
Oct'14
SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud
SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform
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October 10, 2014
10
Oct'14
Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies
Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle
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October 09, 2014
09
Oct'14
Government as a platform will be fully ready in three years, says Liam Maxwell
Government CTO Liam Maxwell has outlined its digital transformation vision of delivering government as a platform
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October 09, 2014
09
Oct'14
The first big SDN data breach is just a matter of time
As more enterprises opt for software-defined networking implementations, the potential for a major security breach will grow
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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
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
Convenience foods producer tastes success with software-defined datacentre
Greencore Group signs a fully managed software-defined datacentre service to speed up its plans for expansion
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September 26, 2014
26
Sep'14
Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C
Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3
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September 24, 2014
24
Sep'14
Conventional datacentre skills and tools to limit business growth
IT skills including capacity planning and performance management are no longer sufficient for business growth
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September 24, 2014
24
Sep'14
Accommodation booking site picks Dell cloud to fix downtime issues
Eviivo, a UK-based online accommodation booking website, has placed its business-critical systems on a Dell cloud platform
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September 23, 2014
23
Sep'14
Google to build giant '40-football pitch' datacentre in the Netherlands
Google will invest €600m to build a giant, 120-megawatt datacentre in the Netherlands
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September 22, 2014
22
Sep'14
Digital Realty’s €150m Dublin datacentre goes live
Digital Realty Trust has opened a €150m datacentre in Dublin as part of plans to develop 15.36MW of datacentre space
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September 19, 2014
19
Sep'14
Dell bets on its end-to-end datacentre infrastructure strategy
Michael Dell has outlined the company’s datacentre and cloud strategies
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September 18, 2014
18
Sep'14
Software-defined infrastructure challenges legacy IT culture, warns Gartner
Software-defined infrastructures are rapidly emerging and could disrupt conventional IT control, responsibility and support
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September 18, 2014
18
Sep'14
Rackspace ends rumours of partnership and acquisition
Rackspace remains independent and appoints Taylor Rhodes as chief executive to drive its managed cloud strategy
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September 18, 2014
18
Sep'14
Dell: 'If ARM works and costs less, we will use it'
Michael Dell, founder of Dell, says the company may work with Cambridge-based microprocessor company ARM in the future
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September 17, 2014
17
Sep'14
Gas company builds datacentre in The Shard
London’s 87-storey skyscraper, The Shard, which is home to plush restaurants, cafes and bars, also has a datacentre
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September 16, 2014
16
Sep'14
Microsoft pitches new Dynamics CRM 2015 as ‘one cloud for all’
Microsoft is making its Dynamics CRM 2015 available next quarter along with updates to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online services
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September 16, 2014
16
Sep'14
Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to create open-source telco cloud
Nokia Networks and OpenStack provider Red Hat join forces so mobile broadband operators can create a telco cloud infrastructure
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September 15, 2014
15
Sep'14
Five signs that VMware is becoming a developer platform company again
With its Docker and OpenStack love, and DevOps and mobile initiatives, is VMware under pressure to bring back developer platform capabilities?
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September 11, 2014
11
Sep'14
Datacentre market set to undergo dramatic change says Gartner
Disruptive factors including cloud dominance, datacentre competition, market fragmentation and changing economic dynamics will dramatically reshape datacentres by 2016
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September 10, 2014
10
Sep'14
Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users
Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources
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September 09, 2014
09
Sep'14
Capgemini and VMware collaborate for enterprise mobility
Capgemini is teaming up with VMware to bundle its consulting and mobile services with VMware’s MDM capabilities
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September 08, 2014
08
Sep'14
Intel launches Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors
Intel has launched Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (codenamed Haswell-EP) designed for the software defined infrastructure
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September 05, 2014
05
Sep'14
King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project
A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics
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September 05, 2014
05
Sep'14
EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT
EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure
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September 03, 2014
03
Sep'14
Server OEMs at risk as white box providers target cloud datacentres
Server ODMs are targeting datacentres operated by IT giants such Amazon and Microsoft, threatening traditional server OEMs