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Datacentre systems management

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  Ipswich hospital improves healthcare service with Esri data visualisation

  Health pilots location-based technology that delivers data visualisation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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