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• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Premium ultramobiles set to drive PC sales

  The PC market remains weak, but premium products are selling in both the consumer and professional markets

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Hackers to probe engine control units amid emissions scandal

  ICCT hires computer whizz-kids to find out who else besides Volkswagen uses ‘defeat devices’ in cars

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  OSNexus unlocks Ceph object storage in QuantaStor v4

  Software-defined storage maker OSNexus adds Ceph-based object storage to its QuantaStor product, adding it to block and file storage from ZFS, Gluster and Ceph

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Cloud, compliance and data protection top storage priorities for 2016

  The results are in for Computer Weekly’s IT priorities survey 2016, with storage and backup for virtual servers a key task while flash storage has plateaued

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Currency-related price hike could boost non-US server sales

  Shift to recoup Forex losses means the likes of Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM are less attractive price-wise than Asian rivals

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Santander launches voice-controlled banking

  Santander has made technology available that enables its customers to control its mobile banking app and access information using their voices

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Intel's former chief Andy Grove dies, aged 79

  Andy Grove, Intel’s former chairman who helped the company make the change from memory chips to processors, passes away at the age of 79

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  South Dublin County Council declares Amazon datacentre planning application "invalid"

  Amazon appears to have fallen foul of Irish council’s planning regulations, potentially delaying its latest datacentre building project

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Apple emerges as Google Cloud Platform user – report

  Report suggests Apple has joined Spotify in signing up to use Google’s cloud infrastructure services

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Private mobile network powers Ocado’s robotic warehouse

  Online supermarket Ocado rethinks 4G mobile technology to power a network of 1,000 robot workers operating in the grocer's 'hive' warehouse

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Germany-Finland subsea cable tipped to fuel European datacentre market growth

  The deployment of a European subsea data cable could put Finland on the map for datacentre investors

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Dropbox invests in building out on-premise storage as user numbers soar

  Cloud-based file share and sync service reveals details of its hybrid cloud strategy, which has seen it invest large sums in building its own on-premise infrastructure

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

  MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  Pure aims at unstructured data with Flashblade flash system

  Pure Storage charts new waters with all-flash storage array that aims at unstructured and big data analytics workloads with a scale-out modular architecture

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  451 Research warns of software-defined infrastructure skills gaps

  Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Management overhead frustrates organisations' digital ambitions, says Capita study

  Many UK business are in no position to roll out Windows 10 and are concerned about supporting diverse IT estates with their existing infrastructure

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  HSCIC develops Raspberry Pi telehealth kit

  The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) uses open source and agility in creating a Raspberry Pi telehealth kit that can connect to the NHS Spine

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem

  Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  Hyperscale computing boosts server revenue

  The likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft have bolstered server sales as they build increasingly powerful scale-out datacentres

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Virgin supplies Ethernet connectivity to Met Office supercomputer

  The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Meg Whitman uses Q1 results to argue the case against Dell/EMC

  HPE posts its first financial results following the split of the business

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Civil engineering firm goes follow-the-sun with Azure cloud and Talon

  Robert Bird deploys Talon Storage CloudFAST with Microsoft Azure cloud storage on the back end to enable 24-hour working between offices on three continents

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project

  Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  Virtual insanity: Is 2016 the year users go big on VR?

  At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, virtual reality appeared to emerge as a technology that is at long last hot to trot – but is it still a lot of virtual hype?

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  EMC adds DSSD D5 and VMAX all-flash arrays to enterprise portfolio

  DSSD D5 brings array-based PCIe flash to market for EMC. VMAX hybrid arrays upgrade controller software to create two all-flash arrays, the 450F and 850F

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Google calls for datacentre storage disk design overhaul

  Search giant Google says an overhaul of traditional 3.5in disks could lower the total cost of ownership and improve infrastructure performance

• February 25, 2016 25 Feb'16

  HP Inc sales plummet 12%, with tough times ahead

  HP Inc reports a big drop in revenues, and the CEO predicts some difficult quarters to come

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Internet of things providers set to battle over platform dominance

  The need for interoperability will lead to rival internet of things (IoT) standards and ecosystems – which could put the brake on adoption

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  London overtakes Amsterdam as most in-demand location for datacentre space

  Research from real estate advisory organisation CBRE shows demand for colocation space in London continues to grow, outstripping Amsterdam

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Spotify to move datacentre workloads to Google’s cloud

  Spotify says building and buying datacentres to keep up with demand for its services is no longer viable, as it prepares to shift its infrastructure into the Google cloud

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Nimble enters all-flash market with AF series arrays

  Nimble Storage – until now solely a provider of hybrid flash arrays – has added the AF series of all-flash arrays to its portfolio

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Rebooting desktop IT

  Following years of decline, the PC industry is being reset. Windows 10 and an evolving range of PC devices are refining the user computing landscape

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Samsung Pay processes $500m in first six months

  Samsung Pay is being used by around five million people in the US and South Korea, with China being the next step in its global launch

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  MWC 2016: Faulty mobiles usually users’ fault, report claims

  Consumer behaviour seems to be the primary cause of faulty mobile devices, reports Blancco Technology Group

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Hybrid flash array roundup 2016: The startups

  Startups are as active as ever in the hybrid flash market, with new entrants to the fray since last year, but all-flash is making inroads too

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  Amazon seeks permission to build datacentre on site of former Irish biscuit factory

  Cloud services giant is continuing on with its plans to build out its European datacentre region with another facility in Ireland

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Law firm snubs big players for Gridstore hyper-convergence

  Scottish law firm MacRoberts replaces more than 80U of ageing, heterogeneous HPE infrastructure with 4U of hyper-converged servers and storage from Gridstore

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Interxion to build third Irish datacentre as demand for colocation grows

  Colocation provider is set to begin the construction of its third Irish datacentre during the fourth quarter of 2016

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Bromley Council signs £9m desktop and datacentre contract with BT

  Bromley Council hopes to make 10% cost savings by contracting BT to deliver computer and datacentre services for the next five years

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Cisco sees slowdown in large network deals as stock markets wobble

  Erstwhile customers are putting large networking deals on hold in an uncertain financial climate, claims Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds could boost sustainability

  Professor Ian Bitterlin makes the case for combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds for heat re-use purposes

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  The OpenStack Foundation: Building enterprise trust in open-source clouds

  With HMRC and the European Commission emerging as OpenStack adopters, the OpenStack Foundation's CEO explains how it has set about winning over the enterprise with its open-source cloud platform

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Cisco recalls Ethernet switches over fault risk

  A potential fault on a number of IE-5000 switches could give users a nasty shock, says supplier

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Asean PC sales drop 5.5% in 2015 fourth quarter

  Weak consumer demand and high inventories blamed for falling PC sales in Asean, which mirror Asia-Pacific trend

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  SaaS provider rejects “costly” VMware for Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor

  Data services provider Pi rejects VMware as too costly and complex, opting for Nutanix’s computing and storage Acropolis hypervisor

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  Hunt promises £4bn investment in NHS IT

  Government has announced a £4.2bn investment in a ‘paperless NHS’, with money to be spent on electronic patient records, cyber security, apps and Wi-Fi

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Service provider turns RAM into VDI storage with Atlantis

  OGL Computer rolls out virtual desktop service to customers using Atlantis software to provide RAM as VDI storage for non-persistent desktops with 200 IOPS of performance each

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  HDS launches Pentaho-based HSP 400 scale-out big data appliance

  Hitachi Data Systems launches big data appliance, the HSP 400, aimed at data lake use cases, with hardware nodes running the Pentaho Enterprise Platform acquired in 2015

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Gridstore plans KVM and container support in further tilt at VMware

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Gridstore gets $19m in funding to drive KVM and container support to provide an alternative to “costly” VMware

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  No supplier immune from declining smartphone market, says Juniper Research

  Juniper Research’s latest assessment of the smartphone market reveals virtually all suppliers are being affected by the global slowdown

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  TfL shifts corporate archive to AWS public cloud in digital preservation push

  London transport authority has begun moving its first 3TB of corporate archive data to the AWS cloud with the help of Preservica

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Microsoft profits fall but cloud success sends share price up

  Strong fourth-quarter performance of Microsoft’s cloud services indicates that CEO Satya Nadella’s transformation plan is working

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Samsung upbeat despite profit slump

  Samsung says that it will continue to plug away at diversifying and reinforcing its business in a bid to return to profitable growth

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Apple warns of dip as it posts record quarter

  Apple's share price dips in response to forecast fall in iPhone sales despite record quarterly revenues and profits

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Costain opts for hybrid cloud and hosted bare metal from Navisite

  Construction and civil engineering group Costain gets mix of pure cloud and bare metal hosted at Navisite datacentres as it tools up to provide key highways infrastructure systems

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Facebook to start building second European datacentre in Ireland

  Facebook to construct second datacentre facility in Ireland after overcoming resident opposition in planning application appeal

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Finance firm gets Violin all-flash arrays for performance databases

  Finance sector services provider sidestepped existing NetApp storage to get all-flash arrays for high performance and 100% fault tolerance for Oracle-based apps

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  IBM beats estimates with growth in strategic areas

  IBM claims its transformation efforts are working, but share prices dropped on news of a fall in revenue for the 15th consecutive quarter

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Dell SDN’s OS10 promises new levels of network flexibility

  Dell expands its SDN product with a new operating system designed to maximise customer choice and capability

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Young high-earners driving fintech revolution

  Consumers are quickly adopting fintech products and services, with young high-earners leading the charge

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Device shipments to grow 1.9% in 2016, but user spend will fall

  Analysts at Gartner forecast what lies ahead for the PC and mobile device markets in 2016

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Mobile services helping banks retain customers and add revenue

  Investments in mobile banking services are helping banks increase revenue and retain customers

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Digital Single Market must be adopted without delay, says EU parliament

  MEPs pass resolution urging the EU to adopt Digital Single Market proposals and enact new protections for consumers as soon as possible

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Sigfox brings the internet of things to Antarctica

  Connectivity provider teams up with GPS supplier Sensolus and Belgian government to use the IoT to support climate change researchers

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Cloud host dumps hybrid for all-flash software-defined storage

  Cloud firm Togglebox tried Linux software-defined storage and Nimble hybrid flash, but customers hit it too hard so it opted for all-flash with storage software from StorPool

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  PCs will redefine the workspace

  The PC market has been in decline since 2012, thanks in part to the popularity of tablets – but, with Windows 10, the PC is set for a comeback

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Kim Lindgren, Tieto

  Tieto's CIO is taking the Finnish IT services company through a “cloudification” transformation, starting with Google Apps and with cognitive computing on his horizon

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Gartner: IT spending to grow just 0.6% in 2016

  US-based IT companies were hit hard by a strong dollar last year, with sales totalling $216bn less than in 2014

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Intel share price drops despite strong results

  Despite growth in Intel's key datacentre and IoT businesses, investors remain concerned by falls in its core PC chip business amid market declines

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  HPC research cluster get Red Hat OpenStack private cloud

  Petabyte-scale eMedLab consortium opts for private cloud on Red Hat Linux OpenStack with hybrid Cinder and IBM Spectrum Scale storage, and rejects object and cloud storage

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent celebrate honeymoon

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent officially complete their merger and celebrate their first day of combined operations

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Southend-on-Sea Council embarks on £1.5m hybrid cloud datacentre refresh

  Local authority says hybrid cloud datacentre plans will pave the way for greater use of services offered via G-Cloud framework

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash not good enough, says Kaminario customer

  Cloud software provider Clarizen re-tools storage with all-flash arrays from Kaminario and forecasts the end for hybrid flash products that don't deliver on performance promises

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  PC sales decline but Europe benefits from Windows 10 release

  Windows 10 help PC sales in Europe, but tablets and the strong US dollar make a negative impact

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  St Claraspital deploys virtual desktops to boost staff efficiency

  St Claraspital took home the prize for best desktop virtualisation project at the 2015 Best of VMworld Europe User Awards – and this is why...

• January 11, 2016 11 Jan'16

  Taking a closer look at the Milton Keynes smart city project

  The "MK: Smart" project took home the Best of Show prize at the recent VMworld Europe show in Barcelona – and this is why...

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Wildscreen conservation charity uses colocation to preserve endangered species media library

  Wildlife charity explains how Virtus Data Centres is helping it spread the word online about the importance of conservation

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Verizon’s rumoured datacentre sell-off: Why telcos are turning their backs on colocation

  Reports suggest US comms provider Verizon will become the latest telco to sell off its colocation assets, but what is driving this trend?

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  2015 was a breakthrough year for cloud adoption, says Synergy Research Group

  Analyst house’s latest cloud market tracker reveals how enterprise IT buying behaviours are moving to incorporate off-premise technologies

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  Disk system deployment set to decline as datacentres plan for flash

  Survey finds nearly one-fifth of IT departments plan to decommission disk, while hybrid leads the flash assault on the datacentre

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  The Office Group responds to flexible working boom with Microsoft cloud deployment

  Flexible workspace provider rolls out Office 365 after business growth caused email storage capacity crunch

• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Intel acquires German drone maker Ascending Technologies

  Intel adds to previous strategic investments in drone technology to bolster its competitive position in the drone chip market

• December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15

  Top 10 internet of things stories of 2015

  2015 was the year the internet of things began to move from theory to widespread practice, and the fledgling industry shook off the millstone of connected kitchen appliances

• December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15

  Top 10 PC and desktop stories of 2015

  The PC is not dead – but the desktop is evolving as IT departments embrace BYOD, software as a service and cloud-based storage

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage stories of 2015

  The year 2015 in storage was dominated by the continued rise of flash and Dell’s purchase of EMC, but there were steady upticks in trends such as hyper-converged and software-defined storage

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Isle of Man eyes datacentre industry growth opportunity after Safe Harbour ruling

  Government's e-business head explains how island could be a safe haven for enterprises concerned by the Safe Harbour fallout

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Building regulations will drive IoT in offices

  Gartner predicts 1.6 billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2016, an increase of 39% from 2015

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Samsung agrees to pay $548m to settle dispute with Apple

  Samsung is expected to pay the outstanding damages to Apple by 14 December 2015, but it has reserved the right to collect reimbursement

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Virtual Instruments to launch hardware NAS probe in 2016

  Maker of SAN testing product Virtual Wisdom is all set to announce a beta-tested hardware NAS probe in 2016, but currently NAS protocols supported will be limited to NFS and CIFS

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  VMware research shines light on volume of UK enterprise data stored overseas

  A poll of UK IT decision makers suggests just 37% know exactly where their enterprise data is located

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  HPE will use its experience to help customers with M&A, says CEO Meg Whitman

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO claimed the firm would be able to better assist customers undergoing structural changes

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Violin doubles all-flash array range with FSP 7250 and FSP 7600

  Violin Memory doubles the size of its all-flash array product family with entry-level and high-performance additions to the enterprise-featured FSP hardware line

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure

  Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Orange enhances internet of things strategy with additional services

  Orange has beefed up its internet of things strategy and announced the deployment of a long-range network to support IoT projects in 17 urban areas in France

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Arcserve Cloud offers customers cloud target and remote failover

  Backup software and appliance supplier guarantees availability but latency depends on customer-bought infrastructure

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Steel firm gets Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global ops

  Dowco rejected pure cloud over latency concerns but opted for Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global collaboration between offices on different continents

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Equinix rolls out AWS Direct Connect in Slough datacentre

  Datacentre provider launches private internet connection to Amazon Web Services to help customers build hybrid clouds