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IT architecture

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Atos revenue slips but UK growth up 3.7%

  Revenue of Atos dipped 1.9% in the first half of 2014 because of slowdown in IT orders in Europe, but UK growth was up

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Dr Who visual effects studio builds desktop as a service for graphics

  Jellyfish Pictures, the visual effects and animation studio behind Dr Who and the Line of Duty link has developed a DaaS for GPU

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Gartner: Businesses set to standardise supply chain systems

  Businesses are expected to standardise on integrated supply chain systems to improve the visibility of their business processes

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

  Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  London’s Orchard and Fig join Docker

  San Francisco firm Docker has acquired London-based Orchard Labs and its orchestration tool Fig

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  VMware Q2 revenue up 17% as investor pushes for spin-off from EMC

  VMware has reported a 17% year-on-year revenue growth to $1.46bn for the second quarter of 2014

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  VMware opens cloud datacentre in London for European IaaS customers

  VMware launches its second UK datacentre to provide vCloud Hybrid Services for enterprises that want data their in Europe

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  System for seven-day bank account switching underused

  The IT system that underpins government’s regulation of seven-day bank account switching is being underused

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Facebook carbon footprint grows but energy-efficiency metric glows

  Facebook’s carbon footprint report shows energy-efficiency metric for all-important datacentres comfortably outperforms gold-standard figure and set to get better

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  NAO criticises GDS IT savings method

  The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the Government Digital Service over its approach to calculating public IT savings

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Microsoft signs 20-year wind energy deal to power datacentres

  Microsoft has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind energy with EDF Renewable Energy – its “largest wind investment to date”

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Cisco work together on cloud and datacentre

  Cisco has entered a three-year sales collaboration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise cloud and datacentre services

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  The SDN state of play: first steps for the enterprise

  Software-defined networking experts say telcos will be first to push SDN ahead of enterprises and suggest how CIOs can prepare

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s open-source Kubernetes project

  Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  AWS targets mobile with Amazon Cognito, analytics and SDK

  AWS has expanded its capabilities for mobile developers with Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile Analytics and a unified mobile software development kit (SDK)