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• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  MoD shells out £1.5bn on two IT contracts

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) signs two IT contracts costing more than £1bn, which it hopes will save money over the next 10 years

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Obama orders superfast computer for 2025

  The US is aiming to build a supercomputer that is able to process one exaflop or a billion billion operations a second to process big data

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Facebook to boost Internet.org with UK drone

  Facebook is ready to test a UK-developed drone that is designed to fly in a circle with a radius of about 1.8 miles and provide internet coverage for an area with a radius of 30 miles

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Sony posts best quarterly results in eight years

  Sony posts its strongest June quarter since 2007 with profits driven mainly by Sony’s PlayStation 4 software and its camera sensors

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Executive interview: Lenovo targets key tech provider position

  Lenovo has set its sights on becoming the number one technology provider for corporates and consumers. We speak to the company’s UK general manager David McQuarrie

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  X-IO's Iglu Blaze adds replication to ISE HDD, flash and hybrid arrays

  X-IO Iglu Blaze adds a second controller hardware layer to ISE with advanced storage features including asynchronous replication, disaster recovery and high availabillity

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  World Trade Organisation strikes $1.3tn deal to wipe out IT trade tariffs

  World Trade Organisation's planned update to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement could see prices fall across a wide range of technology products

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Scottish government denies "cloud-washing" mobile device procurement framework

  Scottish government's National Framework for Cloud Computing and Proprietary Devices risks confusing suppliers, claim analysts

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Cisco quits set-top boxes and reshuffles IoT and cloud organisation

  Cisco sells off the set-top box business it acquired in 2005 and restructures its cloud and IoT businesses

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Qualcomm to cut staff and costs as quarterly profits falls by 47%

  Although Qualcomm's profit of $1.2bn for the past quarter is up by 12% on the previous quarter, the figure is down by 47% compared with the same period in 2014

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for

  We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  iPhone, Mac and services deliver record quarter for Apple

  Apple posted quarterly revenue of $49.6bn, up by 33% compared with a year ago, while quarterly net profit was up by 39% to $10.7bn

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Retail should invest in upskilling to close employee skills gaps

  A report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills suggests retailers will need to invest in upskilling to prevent a drop-off from older employees and appeal to the younger generation

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Mainframe fails to save IBM from 13th declining quarter

  IBM's second-quarter revenue was down 13% year-on-year to $20.8bn, but IBM said the decline is only 1%, adjusting for the sale of its x86 server business and the impact of the strong dollar

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Dell first to market with TLC drives for enterprise flash arrays

  Dell SC series storage customers will be able to use TLC flash drives, which are suited to read-intensive workloads, from August in arrays with MLC, SLC and/or spinning disk

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Stop telling patients not to Google – one man’s quest for joined-up healthcare

  Technologies such as Google, health trackers and social media will be contributing factors in the future of joined-up healthcare, says one digital healthcare advocate

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  All-flash array maker Kaminario plans TLC flash in arrays

  All-flash array pioneer Kaminario says software smarts can overcome limits of TLC flash storage to allow it to offer all-TLC and mixed MLC/TLC arrays

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Specialist clothing brand Musto deploys Cybertill point of sale system

  Luxury sailing brand Musto signs payments company Cybertill to redesign its point of sale (POS) system for its multichannel operation

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nimble OS upgrade gives all-flash tier in CS hybrid flash storage

  Nimble Storage operating system upgrade gives ability to pin data to flash for constant high performance needs in addition to hybrid operations and disk-only

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Banker’s startup experience feathers the nest for Starling Bank

  Starling Bank founder Anne Boden relates how her time with startups outside traditional banking convinced her to build a digital bank from scratch

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Seagate embarks on renewed HPC push through partnerships with HP and IBM

  Storage supplier hopes to increase the total addressable market for its ClusterStor appliance by joining forces with HP and IBM

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  IBM squeezes more out of chip technology with 7nm breakthrough

  IBM has worked with Samsung and silicon chip researchers in an attempt to push the limits of chip technology

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas boosts scale-out NAS offerings with flash and disk AS18

  Scale-out NAS specialist Panasas has replaced its AS16 appliance with two AS18s that combine flash tier and helium-filled hard drives in 4U units that scale up to 20PB

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Facebook builds wind-powered datacentre in Texas

  Social networking giant Facebook adds momentum to green datacentre trend with plans to power a datacentre in Texas with a 17,000-acre wind farm

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Retailers failing to utilise mobile generation, says Shoppercentric

  Retailers know consumers are becoming more mobile and want an omni-channel experience, but customers still seek more

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Barclays expands cheque imaging service

  Barclays extends the ability to pay cheques into accounts via a smartphone to more customers

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Samsung lowers second quarter earnings forecast

  Samsung expects second quarter sales to total 48tn won, 8% down on the same period the year before and 5tn won below Samsung’s previous estimate

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  The internet of things could save the honeybee from extinction

  Gemalto’s M2M unit is developing an ambitious project with agricultural science firm Eltopia and the University of Minnesota. The objective: to save the honeybee from extinction

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage

  100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Intel president Renée James departs in senior management reshuffle

  Intel's departing president, Renée James, will stay on until January 2016 to steady the ship in the face of sweeping management changes at Intel

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Swedish cloud provider gets Solidfire all-flash storage for OpenStack

  Stockholm-based Elastx uses Solidfire all-flash arrays to support as-a-service provision on OpenStack with easy API connections to Cinder

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Tablets replace need for multiple devices in the enterprise

  Far from being a companion device, tablet computers are increasingly being deployed as the only device for certain groups of users

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Sony Professional deploys ServiceMax for engineering support

  Sony Professional Service Europe updates its service desk with ServiceMax and integrates it with Salesforce

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Fujitsu launches petabyte-scale DS8700 and 8900 S3 enterprise flash arrays

  Fujitsu replaces DS8700 S2 array with two enterprise class arrays, the DS8700 and DS8900 S3, with all-flash and hybrid flash capability and scalability into multiple petabytes

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  CIOs warned of IT overspending risks as US dollar strength grows

  The strengthening US dollar could result in enterprises overspending on IT, as suppliers sneak in under-the-radar price hikes, Gartner warns

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Windows 10 release won't save the PC market, warns Gartner

  The next iteration of Windows will give PC sales a short-term boost, but nothing will change long-term, Gartner claims

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Barclaycard ups the ante on Apple with band, fob and sticker

  Barclaycard launches a range of contactless payments devices as Apple pay threatens to tuck into payments market

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Alstom runs 4G LTE multi-services pilot for train operations

  Transport engineering company Alstom conducts the first live pilot test of 4G LTE multi-services on French railways

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  The rise of general-purpose AI and its threat to humanity

  Socially aware general-purpose artificial intelligence in the form of a dog could be the ideal form factor to take over the world

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Virgin Active CIO calls for wearables market to adopt open standards

  Health club provider's IT chief claims boosting the interoperability of devices will increase their overall usefulness to consumers

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Housing provider in spat with EMC gets Tintri hybrid flash

  Social housing provider Housing & Care 21 lost patience with EMC and signed Tintri hybrid flash with three years’ support for two-thirds of the price

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  British Gas to power more of its business using public cloud from 2017

  Energy supplier says public cloud move will boost its business agility while cutting costs

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays

  NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Google scolds businesses for citing security as a reason not to use cloud

  Search giant reckons on-premise data is more likely to be breached than information stored in the cloud

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Interview: Christina Page explains how Yahoo keeps its datacentres green and clean

  Yahoo's global director for sustainability explains why cloud providers need to get clued up on renewable energy

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Goldman Sachs datacentre deal sees IO open first European site in Slough

  US datacentre provider IO has opened its first facility in the UK, with the help of global investment bank Goldman Sachs

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics

  Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Cumbria Constabulary issues Samsung Galaxy Note smartphones to officers

  Smartphones to replace police notebooks as EE and Cumbria Constabulary partner up to deliver mobility to officers

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Enterprise adoption of hybrid devices tipped to soar post-Windows 7

  Enterprise IT departments should consider hybrid devices in their post-Windows 7 migration plans, claims Gartner

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Datacentre operators warned off prioritising on-site security over cyber threat protection

  Too many datacentre operators prioritise physical security over protection from cyber attacks, it is claimed

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Connected Data extends file sync and share to on-site NAS

  Connected Data allows users to create internal Dropbox-type file sync and share services from any compatible enterprise NAS box with Transporter Network Storage Connector

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching

  Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  SolidFire adds data protection and Cisco/OpenStack to all-flash arrays

  All-flash array maker goes for enterprise market with added data protection features and adds Cisco UCS-based reference architecture for OpenStack cloud environments

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Nutanix’s Acropolis free hypervisor takes aim at VMware

  Hyper-converged server/storage pioneer launches free-of-charge hypervisor in an explicit move to tempt customers from existing VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V deployments

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Nationwide quick off the mark with Apple Watch banking app

  Nationwide claims to be the first high street finance firm to offer an Apple Watch app

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Gartner: Smart machines are coming

  CIOs will need to assess how smart machines, capable of making decisions without human intervention, will impact business processes

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Nutanix offers hypervisor as it moves towards on-demand hardware

  Nutanix aims to offer public cloud economics for private cloud deployments

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Apple Pay to be available in the UK within months

  Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users in the UK will soon be able to use Apple Pay

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  EasyJet uses drone to inspect aircraft

  Airline easyJet has trialled the use of drones to carry out automated testing on aircraft

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Swedish hardware hub pairs big businesses with IT startups

  Swedish hub pairs hardware-focused startups with businesses to tap into opportunities such as the internet of things

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Peugeot Citroën prepares for in-car apps with Sierra Wireless

  French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën plans to deploy device-to-cloud technology to support its connected car strategy

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Enterprise storage performance a mystery to most IT chiefs

  Survey finds more than two-thirds of storage leaders at large enterprises don’t know the impact of I/O from core applications on their storage infrastructure

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  HP launches 3PAR StoreServ 20000 flash and hybrid flash enterprise storage arrays

  HP replaces 3PAR StoreServ 10000 series arrays with 20000 series featuring upgraded CPUs, controller ASICs and on-drive firmware, plus doubled flash drive capacities

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Pure Storage replaces FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m

  Pure Storage upgrades FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m series devices

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Interview: Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE

  Six months on from becoming an EMC-owned company, VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju talks about how the move will benefit his firm

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Dell forms IoT unit and launches gateway products

  Dell has cut the ribbon on a new product division focused on creating internet of things systems

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  BBC tests 4G broadcasting at FA Cup final

  The BBC turns to EE to test out 4G-powered mobile broadcasting during the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Equinix to acquire datacentre rival TelecityGroup for £2.35bn

  Equinix's bid to acquire rival wins backing of the board, beating Interxion to the crunch

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  Internet of things and smart cities need UK-wide consensus

  At a TechUK event, delegates call for cross-body collaboration on IoT to ensure local authority CIOs get the best from the emerging technology

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  NetApp launches AltaVault hybrid cloud backup appliance family

  NetApp repackages the SteelStore hybrid cloud backup appliances it bought from Riverbed as AltaVault physical, virtual and cloud products

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  Commvault launches DropBox-style File Sharing file sync and share

  Commvault is among first enterprise backup software makers to provide file sync and share deployed from datacentres or public cloud

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  TfL kicks off network tower procurement

  TfL is to begin £400m network tower procurement exercise in June

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  EMC plots managed cloud push with $1.2bn deal to acquire Virtustream

  Storage giant claims latest purchase will reinforce its hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  HP CEO hails business split progress amid downbeat Q2 revenue slumps

  Despite chalking up revenue declines in several business units, Meg Whitman is more convinced than ever of the need to breakup HP

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Leeds Building Society embarks on digital services push with HP Cloud

  The building society wants to make it easier for customers to manage their money online using HP technology and support services

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Russian enterprises unconcerned by NSA network hack allegations

  Despite allegations the NSA hid spyware in the equipment of a number of suppliers, the market in Russia for western network hardware remains buoyant

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Dell boosts midrange backup appliance range with DL4300

  Dell ups number of drives in Intel Xeon-powered backup appliances to create the DL4300 with standard and high-capacity editions and AppAssure backup software

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

  A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Premier Inn integrates Apple Watch with its customer app

  Premier Inn joins Apple Watch bandwagon with app that lets customers use the smartwatch to control the heating, lighting and entertainment systems in showcase hotels

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  HGST plans all-flash and hybrid flash storage for cloud customers

  Western Digital subsidiary best known as a drive maker plans to make scale-out, high-capacity all-flash and hybrid flash arrays

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Fire services to keep Airwave Tetra radios until 2020

  The Department for Communities and Local Government approves a major extension of the fire services' Firelink Tetra network to the end of 2019

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  Cisco’s John Chambers: I’m pumped about new leadership

  Outgoing Cisco boss John Chambers shares his thoughts on the future of the business as he prepares to step down from the bridge

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Rackspace's share price tumbles amid talk of revenue slump

  Rackspace talks up prospect of supporting users of other firms' cloud services after lacklustre second-quarter guidance causes share price to plummet

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Ctera 5.0 adds Hyper-V, OpenStack and more to cloud sync and share

  Ctera adds more than 100 upgrades to Portal product, and now runs in Hyper-V and OpenStack environments

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  College boosts student access with DataCore software-defined storage

  Kirklees College uses DataCore SAN symphony software-defined storage and NexSan arrays for online student access

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

  Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Use of Halifax mobile banking app doubles

  Halifax customers logged into their bank accounts 40 million times in March 2015, double the amount in the same month in 2014