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Datacentre systems management

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• October 01, 2013 01 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

• September 30, 2013 30 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

• 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

• September 27, 2013 27 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

• September 25, 2013 25 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

• September 24, 2013 24 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”

• September 23, 2013 23 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• September 17, 2013 17 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

• September 13, 2013 13 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• August 30, 2013 30 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

• August 29, 2013 29 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• August 19, 2013 19 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• August 13, 2013 13 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

• 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

• 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

• August 07, 2013 07 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• July 31, 2013 31 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

• July 29, 2013 29 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