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Datacentre systems management
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February 22, 2013
22
Feb'13
Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres
Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps
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February 20, 2013
20
Feb'13
British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows
British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it
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February 20, 2013
20
Feb'13
Action for Children takes fundraising to the cloud with Rackspace
Charity Action for Children has overcome its website traffic issues and has saved costs by using Rackspace cloud
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February 18, 2013
18
Feb'13
Rackspace creates 300 UK jobs with datacentre expansion
Rackspace is leasing datacentre space in the UK to serve customers who want to host data in the EU to comply with data sovereignty rules
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February 15, 2013
15
Feb'13
Daisy Group takes control of 2e2's datacentre operations
Daisy Group has entered an agreement to acquire and manage 2e2's datacentre business unit
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February 15, 2013
15
Feb'13
Siemens intensifies datacentre focus with launch of DCIM tool
Siemens has launched its first datacentre infrastructure management tool, Datacenter Clarity LC, in a bid to intensify its focus on datacentres
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February 14, 2013
14
Feb'13
CIF urges users follow procurement best practice after 2e2 closure
The high-profile closure of 2e2 should serve as a lesson in best practice for businesses contracting cloud or managed service providers, says CIF
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February 14, 2013
14
Feb'13
Businesses are more willing to take datacentre risks amid budget cuts
Datacentre cost, traditionally a secondary consideration to resilience, has moved higher on IT’s agenda, shows DataCentre Dynamics study
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February 13, 2013
13
Feb'13
Case study: ICEF Germany improves financial fortunes with Salesforce cloud apps
The International College of Economics and Finance has brought IT efficiencies and doubled its revenues by using Salesforce and Financialforce for CRM tasks
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February 13, 2013
13
Feb'13
Datacentre managers fail to act on EC energy efficiency targets
Only 21% of European datacentre managers have acted to address the EC's 20-20-20 Renewable Energy directive
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February 12, 2013
12
Feb'13
VMware buys Virsto Software to extend software-defined datacentre strategy
VMware is buying storage virtualisation specialist Virsto Software to deliver on its software-defined datacentre strategy
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February 11, 2013
11
Feb'13
SaaS remains most popular form of cloud computing for UK IT
SaaS is the top cloud service that UK IT professionals plan to use in 2013
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February 11, 2013
11
Feb'13
IBM integrates Emerson Trellis platform for DCIM
IBM has combined its IT service management with Emerson Network Power’s Trellis platform for datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM)
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February 08, 2013
08
Feb'13
2e2 datacentre administrators hold customers' data to £1m ransom
Administrators of insolvent datacentre services provider 2e2 have asked customers for £1m in funding if they want uninterrupted services
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February 07, 2013
07
Feb'13
Virtualisation and datacentre consolidation still top priorities for UK IT
Many UK IT professionals are still prioritising virtualisation and datacentre consolidation over cloud computing in 2013
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February 07, 2013
07
Feb'13
BriForum London 2013: Brian Madden discusses what is hot in VDI space
Deadline for session submissions for BriForum London 2013 on 16-17 May is looming. VDI guru Brian Madden on what is hot in the sector
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February 06, 2013
06
Feb'13
Cloud implementation costs higher than expected, finds KPMG
Higher cloud implementation costs and IT integration challenges have come to the fore as use of cloud services rises
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February 05, 2013
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Feb'13
Totaljobs hires public cloud services for agility, better performance
Totaljobs Group, the recruiter that runs Totaljobs.com, adopts AWS public cloud to improve IT performance and have an agile infrastructure
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February 04, 2013
04
Feb'13
Brits stash £24bn of digital assets in the cloud
Brits are storing about £24bn of photos, music and videos in the cloud, as well as sensitive data such as passwords, study shows
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February 01, 2013
01
Feb'13
Dell could prosper as private firm with Michael at the helm, say analysts
Becoming a private company under the stewardship of founder Michael Dell could help Dell avoid the position HP is in, say experts
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February 01, 2013
01
Feb'13
Datacentre boom will push demand for energy-efficient UPSs in Europe
Datacentre facilities will fuel growth in the European uninterruptible power supply (UPS) market
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January 31, 2013
31
Jan'13
Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem
Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos
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January 31, 2013
31
Jan'13
Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre
Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing
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January 31, 2013
31
Jan'13
SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana
SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system
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January 31, 2013
31
Jan'13
Menzies Aviation replaces VMware with Windows Server 2012
Menzies Aviation has become one of the first UK companies to install and use Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0 in production
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January 28, 2013
28
Jan'13
Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study
European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud
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January 28, 2013
28
Jan'13
Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth
Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers
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January 25, 2013
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Jan'13
Dell's OpenStack-based public cloud to go live in Q4
Dell’s Openstack-based public cloud, which is in beta-testing, will be made generally available in the fourth quarter of 2013
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January 24, 2013
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Big data and green IT receive large share of £600m government fund
Technologies around big data and energy-efficient computing have attracted millions of pounds in funding
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January 23, 2013
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Jan'13
Nasdaq OMX picks Slough datacentre to host NLX platform
US stock exchange Nasdaq has picked Equinix’s Slough datacentre campus to host its London-based trading platform NLX
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January 23, 2013
23
Jan'13
UK lags behind US in cloud adoption
Research from Vanson Bourne highlights the differences in attitude towards cloud computing between enterprises in the UK and the US
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January 22, 2013
22
Jan'13
National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud
National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud
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January 21, 2013
21
Jan'13
Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation
Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source
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January 18, 2013
18
Jan'13
Beware of 'rogue clouds' and hidden costs, warns Symantec
A growing number of enterprises and SMEs are experiencing escalating costs tied to rogue cloud use, warns Symantec
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January 17, 2013
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Jan'13
EESC puts forward alternative EU cloud strategy
The European Commission’s cloud strategy falls short, says EU consultative body as it puts forward an alternative
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January 17, 2013
17
Jan'13
Brighton hospital bucks trend by moving from shared services to in-house IT
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust moves to an in-house, converged infrastructure for agility and cost savings
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January 16, 2013
16
Jan'13
Oracle adds on-premise IaaS to its private cloud portfolio
Oracle IaaS allows customers to use cloud features such as capacity on demand within the security and control of its in-house datacentre
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January 16, 2013
16
Jan'13
FusionIO launches hyperscale computing server flash card
FusionIO launches PCIe card-based server flash ioScale for hyperscale users who want to dispense with HDDs in commodity-based servers
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January 15, 2013
15
Jan'13
Global energy management software market to grow in 2013, say analysts
Businesses are increasing investment in energy management software to improve IT efficiency, says Verdantix
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January 11, 2013
11
Jan'13
Microsoft opens Azure cloud to Linux apps and VMs
Microsoft Open Technologies has released VM Depot to allow users to deploy and share Linux apps and virtual machines on the Azure cloud
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January 10, 2013
10
Jan'13
News International presses ahead on the cloud with AWS
News International has reaped public cloud benefits such as scalability, quick time-to-market and cheaper capital expenditure with AWS cloud
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January 09, 2013
09
Jan'13
Virtualisation's complex licensing is a 'ticking timebomb', claims study
Software licensing under virtualisation remains complex and many firms may have a significant shortfall in compliance, warns License Dashboard
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January 07, 2013
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Jan'13
Multi-cloud strategies will become commonplace, says Rackspace CTO
Large enterprises are already considering multiple clouds to mitigate the risk of a single cloud outage
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January 04, 2013
04
Jan'13
Cloud computing skills gap is widening, warns IDC
About 1.7 million cloud computing-related job roles globally could not be filled in 2012 because applicants lacked cloud-related skills
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January 02, 2013
02
Jan'13
Government awards £5m to research projects that address cloud challenges
The government is offering £5m funding for research and development projects that will address cloud computing challenges and push its adoption
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December 12, 2012
12
Dec'12
Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched
Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds
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December 11, 2012
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Dec'12
Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge uses datacentre tools to improve efficiency
Microsoft Research Cambridge used datacentre planning and management tools to improve efficiency and support the researchers
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December 11, 2012
11
Dec'12
Competing standards could damage cloud industry, warns APM group
Standards are crucial to maturing cloud services but too many could damage the industry, says certification body the APM Group
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December 06, 2012
06
Dec'12
Microsoft undercuts Google, AWS in cloud storage price drop
Just days after Google and Amazon Web Services dropped their cloud storage prices, Microsoft has announced a steeper cut
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December 06, 2012
06
Dec'12
Case study: CERN adopts OpenStack private cloud to solve big data challenges
CERN is using OpenStack private cloud to overcome IT inefficiency and big data challenges