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Datacentre systems management
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October 08, 2013
08
Oct'13
Hybrid IT becomes a reality as cloud goes mainstream in the UK
Over 60% of organisations in the UK have formally adopted at least one cloud-based service
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October 08, 2013
08
Oct'13
Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2013 Shortlist
See who made it on to the shortlist for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2013.
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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
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October 04, 2013
04
Oct'13
How London Met improves students’ job prospects with IBM Academic Skills Cloud
London Metropolitan University's Faculty of Business & Law implemented IBM Academic Skills Cloud to improve the prospects of its students
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October 04, 2013
04
Oct'13
CIO interview: Carlos Morgado, CTO, Just Eat
Carlos Morgado, group CTO of online takeaway service Just Eat, discusses the company's move to public cloud
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October 02, 2013
02
Oct'13
Staffordshire County Council picks ANS cloud to improve public services
Staffordshire County Council has implemented private cloud computing services as it aims to offer more public services online
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October 01, 2013
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Oct'13
Half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud by 2017, says Gartner
About half of large enterprises will have adopted a hybrid cloud computing model in the next four years, according to Gartner
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September 30, 2013
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Sep'13
How Barnsley Council became a tier three datacentre
Spending cuts, the need to deliver high-quality IT at lower costs and efficiency needs saw Barnsley Council pick a robust tier 3 datacentre facility
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September 30, 2013
30
Sep'13
Cloud computing drives infrastructure upgrade at service provider
IT services company Ardenta has implemented F5 network security to upgrade its infrastructure and offer cloud services
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September 27, 2013
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Sep'13
Mainframe dead? IT still sees it as robust, long-term solution, shows study
Despite suggestions of its extinction, 93% of global IT execs say mainframe remains a robust, long-term solution in their enterprise IT strategy
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September 25, 2013
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Sep'13
Industry bodies launch security certification to boost confidence in cloud
BSI and Cloud Security Alliance together launch Star certification to assess security of cloud providers
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September 24, 2013
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Sep'13
Portugal Telecom opens modular datacentre to boost cloud offering
Telecoms operator Portugal Telecom has opened a modular datacentre in Covilhã, Portugal, claiming the 75,500m2 facility is the “largest in the world”
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September 23, 2013
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Sep'13
DECC names IT suppliers for smart meter project
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced the IT suppliers that will provide the technology to underpin smart meters
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September 23, 2013
23
Sep'13
CIO interview: Wolfgang Krips, head of global operations, Amadeus
Wolfgang Krips, head of global operations at Amadeus, on how automation and a skilled team work in unison to provide high-availability IT services
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September 23, 2013
23
Sep'13
Poundland outsources end-to-end datacentre management to NextiraOne
Discount retailer Poundland has signed a multi-year contract with NextiraOne for complete datacentre infrastructure management
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September 20, 2013
20
Sep'13
NTT increases UK colocation and cloud capacity with new datacentre
NTT Communications is building a datacentre facility in Hemel Hempstead to meet the soaring demand for scalable colocation services
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September 19, 2013
19
Sep'13
Open source datacentre hardware helps Facebook save costs, energy
Facebook has reduced costs and IT energy consumption since it started using open source hardware systems in its datacentres
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September 18, 2013
18
Sep'13
BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure
After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production
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September 17, 2013
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Sep'13
VCE launches datacentre, cloud products as converged infrastructure spend grows
VCE, the joint venture company formed by Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel has launched new variations of its converged cloud suite Vblock as CI market soars
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September 13, 2013
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Sep'13
After virtualising IT estate, Jaguar Land Rover now eyes cloud computing
Jaguar Land Rover's IT team takes its newly virtualised infrastructure to the next stage of IT evolution by adopting cloud-based services
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September 12, 2013
12
Sep'13
European datacentre uptake slows in first half of 2013, but London bucks trend
Uptake of colocation datacentre facilities in the first half of 2013 was down 31%, according to CBRE
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September 11, 2013
11
Sep'13
Interview: Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Piers Linney on cloud and UK tech sector
UK cloud entrepreneur Piers Linney, who made his debut in the latest Dragon’s Den series, discusses the future of cloud and the UK's tech sector
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September 09, 2013
09
Sep'13
Research predicts ‘explosive growth’ in enterprise cloud projects
Over the next two years, there will be an explosive growth in the number of enterprise cloud computing projects, shows study
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September 06, 2013
06
Sep'13
Ark ditches spreadsheet tool to plan datacentre capacity and costs
Ark has ditched its traditional spreadsheet technique to calculate its datacentre capacity planning and costs
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September 06, 2013
06
Sep'13
Siemon opens datacentre training and demonstration suite in the UK
Network infrastructure specialist Siemon has launched a datacentre training and demonstration suite for its customers in Chertsey
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September 05, 2013
05
Sep'13
Cloud provider Iomart acquires datacentre company Redstation for £8m
Glasgow-based cloud computing company Iomart has acquired Hampshire-based datacentre operator Redstation for £8m
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September 05, 2013
05
Sep'13
Intel launches micro-server, network, storage technologies to power cloud datacentres
Intel has launched Atom C2000 for micro-servers, a silicon for software-defined networking, and a rack to help providers build cloud datacentres
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September 02, 2013
02
Sep'13
Ericsson to build three modular datacentres to power its cloud services
Ericsson is investing £682m in the next five years to build three modular datacentres to help the company provide cloud-powered services
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August 30, 2013
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Aug'13
DigiPlex expands wholesale datacentre facility
DigiPlex is building its sixth datacentre facility on a 10-acre site outside of Stockholm to create Stockholm’s first wholesale datacentre
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August 29, 2013
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Aug'13
Conference call service Powwownow refreshes datacentre infrastructure
UK-based conference call service provider Powwownow refreshes datacentre to support its growing voice and video services
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August 28, 2013
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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
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August 27, 2013
27
Aug'13
Case study: Seadrill migrates in-house datacentre to virtual private cloud in six months
Offshore drilling company Seadrill moved its in-house datacentre in Norway to HP's virtual private cloud infrastructure in the UK in six months
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August 27, 2013
27
Aug'13
VMware strengthens cloud and software-defined datacentre portfolio at VMworld 2013
At VMworld 2013, VMware launched products and services to accelerate enterprise adoption of software-defined datacentre architecture
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August 20, 2013
20
Aug'13
Cloud revenues to touch $20bn by 2016 with PaaS as the fastest growing segment
Cloud computing sector will grow at a pace of 36% every year and its revenues will fall just shy of $20bn (£12.7bn) by 2016
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August 19, 2013
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Aug'13
Case study: Derby school upgrades IT to make teaching more engaging
Noel-Baker Community School virtualises datacentre to help students learn in a more engaging way and to provide an automated IT infrastructure
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August 15, 2013
15
Aug'13
Virgin Money keeps mainframe ticking over by extending Fujitsu contract
Virgin Money has extended a contract with Fujitsu to prolong the life of its mainframe system until 2018
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August 15, 2013
15
Aug'13
Public cloud limitations drive enterprises to hybrid cloud, shows study
Many enterprises are turning to a hybrid cloud model as the limitations of public cloud platforms become more apparent
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August 15, 2013
15
Aug'13
Security and accreditation obstacles act as G-Cloud barriers, claim SMEs
Despite winning over 60% of G-Cloud contracts, a group of SMEs claim that security accreditation is a roadblock to winning government business
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August 14, 2013
14
Aug'13
Case study: Car supermarket deploys cloud for agility and business expansion
With inconsistent IT infrastructure and dated hardware hindering growth and expansion plans, Motorpoint turned to private cloud
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August 14, 2013
14
Aug'13
Enterprise Ethernet services market to reach $62bn by 2018, says Ovum
Ovum has predicted that the enterprise Ethernet market will exceed $62bn (£40bn) by 2018, growing 13.6% every year
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August 13, 2013
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Aug'13
SMEs struggling to win G-Cloud contracts due to accreditation complexities
Despite government’s aspiration to put half of all new IT spending through small IT suppliers, SMEs have received only 10% of the G-Cloud contracts
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August 12, 2013
12
Aug'13
NHS Central Midlands CSU updates datacentre with standardised data warehousing
It improved the quality and safety levels of healthcare for over 5 million citizens across the West Midlands by standardising data warehousing
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August 09, 2013
09
Aug'13
Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey
Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options
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August 07, 2013
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Aug'13
Google, IBM and Nvidia form datacentre consortium OpenPOWER
Big enterprise technology stakeholders including Google, IBM and Nvidia are forming a datacentre alliance called OpenPOWER
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August 07, 2013
07
Aug'13
Luton and Dunstable Hospital finds IT efficiency with converged infrastructure
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has integrated IT into clinical workflows with converged infrastructure
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August 07, 2013
07
Aug'13
VMware hires SAP's Sanjay Poonen to lead end user computing division
VMware has appointed software veteran Sanjay Poonen as executive vice-president and general manager of its end user computing business unit
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August 06, 2013
06
Aug'13
Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit
With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy
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August 02, 2013
02
Aug'13
Ken Brill, datacentre visionary and founder of Uptime Institute passes away
Kenneth Brill, the datacentre innovator and founder of Uptime Institute has passed away at the age of 68
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July 31, 2013
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Jul'13
Case study: Nexor dumps ageing proprietary operating system for open source OS
IT services company Nexor is migrating to the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for efficiency
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July 29, 2013
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Jul'13
Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification
Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US