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Datacentre systems management
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June 30, 2014
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Jun'14
IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers
IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers
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June 27, 2014
27
Jun'14
Facebook moves Instagram photos out of Amazon and into own datacentre
Facebook has moved all the user photos on Instagram out of Amazon’s cloud platform into its own internal datacentre and cut costs
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June 27, 2014
27
Jun'14
Intel's new lab in Swindon to fuel IoT projects
Intel has opened an IoT Ignition Lab in Swindon to allow UK enterprises to develop projects in retail and more
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June 24, 2014
24
Jun'14
Intel unveils its most powerful chip, Xeon Phi, for supercomputers and HPC
At ISC 2014, Intel unveiled its next-gen chip, Xeon Phi, with an array of integrated hardware capabilities for HPC and supercomputers
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers
The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Don’t let bean counters determine your cloud strategy, says Bank of England CIO
John Finch, the CIO of the Bank of England, warns users to be wary of financial promises made by cloud providers
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Coca-Cola bottler seeks to put mission-critical systems on the cloud
Coca Cola bottling company is moving the company’s mission-critical workloads, including ERP systems on to the cloud
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June 17, 2014
17
Jun'14
Kemp Little lawyers offer tips for public cloud journey
Cloud CIOs need to have a “sense check” while planning their public cloud strategies, say technology lawyers
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup
Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
80% of UK CIOs cite significant gap between business needs and IT delivery
80% of IT decision-makers in the UK feel there is a significant gap between business needs and IT delivery – the highest in Europe
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres
HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
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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
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June 09, 2014
09
Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms
Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
Microsoft calls for US to respect privacy
Microsoft has taken its strongest stance to date against the US government’s far reaching snooping laws
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June 04, 2014
04
Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines
VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
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June 04, 2014
04
Jun'14
Busy Bees nursery virtualises desktops and servers to improve users' IT experience
UK nursery chain Busy Bees has made its IT scalable, mobile-friendly and easy to use by deploying Citrix products
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June 03, 2014
03
Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS
The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
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May 30, 2014
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May'14
Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price
Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant
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May 30, 2014
30
May'14
Why European Commission wants cloud standards and policies in Europe
Cloud is key to stimulate growth and create jobs in Europe, but needs a single cloud market, easy policies and cloud standards, says EU
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May 29, 2014
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May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
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May 29, 2014
29
May'14
Universities debut £8.1m centre to develop laser and photonics data storage technology
Universities and industry partners launch centre to train researchers in developing laser technology and silicon photonics for big data storage
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May 28, 2014
28
May'14
Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs
As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore
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May 27, 2014
27
May'14
Digital Single Market for cloud in Europe is crucial, says EC
Europe is moving towards a Digital Single Market for cloud to promote the uptake of cloud computing and reduce complexities
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May 23, 2014
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May'14
HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost
A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012
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May 23, 2014
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May'14
Microsoft overturns FBI request for enterprise user's data in Seattle court
Microsoft successfully challenges an FBI National Security Letter requesting data about one of the company's enterprise customers
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May 22, 2014
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May'14
Storage, business growth and virtualisation driving datacentre expansion
The top three drivers for datacentre capacity expansion in Europe are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation
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May 20, 2014
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May'14
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College switches to Google cloud
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College has migrated to a Google cloud system to support education outside the classroom
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May 20, 2014
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May'14
HP debuts Orchestrated Datacentre to automate IT operations and delivery
HP launches its Orchestrated Datacentre service suite to help the IT department deploy the full stack and automate IT delivery and management
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May 19, 2014
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May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure
From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
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May 16, 2014
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May'14
Digital rights group lists best companies for data protection
Digital rights group examines technology giants including Amazon, Google, Yahoo, At&T, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox
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May 14, 2014
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May'14
‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues
Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies
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May 12, 2014
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May'14
IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS
IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.
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May 09, 2014
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May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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May 08, 2014
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May'14
Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres
Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms
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May 08, 2014
08
May'14
Gartner recommends IT develops real-time system administration
Businesses will need to rethink their datacentre scaling within two years, to support the demands of web-scale computing
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May 08, 2014
08
May'14
Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg
The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand
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May 07, 2014
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May'14
CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data
As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed
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May 07, 2014
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May'14
HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services
HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too
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May 06, 2014
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May'14
Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG
A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”
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May 02, 2014
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May'14
Microsoft buys PaaS firm Greenbutton to improve Azure service
The software giant will integrate Greenbutton’s PaaS offerings into Azure and release it as a new cloud service within Azure later in the year
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
FT takes data warehousing to the cloud and cuts costs by 80%
How the Financial Times beat its data warehousing woes with AWS Redshift and saved costs
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
HP and Foxconn build servers for cloud and hyperscale computing
HP and Foxconn have entered into a joint venture agreement to produce a new line of servers designed to suit the cloud-based IT delivery model
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
Datacentres to evolve in next dacade, says research
Use of solar power, increased cloud adoption, higher utilisation rate and increased density will characterise the datacentre by the year 2025
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer
The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes
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April 30, 2014
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Apr'14
News Corp rolls out cloud to Harper Collins, Dow Jones and WSJ after News UK success
News Corp is rolling out cloud services across its Harper Collins, Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal titles.
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
US judge orders Microsoft to hand over email data held in Dublin
A US Judge has ordered Microsoft to give the District Court access to the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located in Dublin
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
US cloud security firm builds datacentre in Cardiff for EMEA expansion
US cloud security company Alert Logic is building a datacentre and security operations centre in Cardiff to support its EMEA expansion strategy