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November 11, 2014
11
Nov'14
Juniper CEO Kheradpir resigns over misconduct allegations
Shaygan Kheradpir steps down from his role as CEO of Juniper Networks after less than a year in the post, after a customer negotiation went sour
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November 10, 2014
10
Nov'14
Vtesse loses appeal over state aid for broadband in Cornwall
Court rejects Vtesse’ appeal against the European Commission’s decision that state aid for BT was legal
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November 07, 2014
07
Nov'14
How networking brought innovation and automation to Heathrow Terminal 2
Heathrow Airport has put automation and collaboration at the heart of a £34m network deployment in Terminal 2
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November 06, 2014
06
Nov'14
Tintri raises capacity and adds Hyper-V in hybrid flash T800 series
Hybrid flash firm Tintri boosts capacities and adds Hyper-V support in T800 series with upgrade to operating system
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November 06, 2014
06
Nov'14
ITN deploys wireless transmission technology for breaking news
ITN introduces camera-mounted wireless transmission technology from BT to track breaking news stories around London
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November 06, 2014
06
Nov'14
CityFibre takes gigabit network to West Yorkshire
Fibre network operator CityFibre urges businesses in West Yorkshire to sign up to Kirklees Core network service
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November 05, 2014
05
Nov'14
Nationwide launches smartwatch banking capabilities
Nationwide customers are now able to check their bank balance on smartwatches
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November 05, 2014
05
Nov'14
Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots
Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming
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November 05, 2014
05
Nov'14
Ministry of Justice eventually outsources user computing services
The Ministry of Justice has finally contracted Atos to deliver user computing services years after it had planned to go to market
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November 05, 2014
05
Nov'14
Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making
Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe
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November 05, 2014
05
Nov'14
Government may force networks to accept national roaming
The government plans to eliminate poor mobile coverage in the UK by making MNOs adopt national roaming
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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
The View from The Shard to deploy Aruba mobile location services
London’s highest viewing gallery, the View from the Shard, helps launch Aruba Network’s new Mobile Engagement service
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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation
IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy
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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
Wi-Fi forecast predicts one hotspot for every 20 people by 2018
Worldwide audit for Wi-Fi network aggregator iPass reveals how public Wi-Fi might change in the next four years
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November 03, 2014
03
Nov'14
West Yorks Police deploys 4,000 Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phablets
West Yorkshire Police force partners with Samsung to provide 4,000 Galaxy Note 3 devices to frontline staff
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November 03, 2014
03
Nov'14
MPs launch inquiry into rural broadband coverage for farmers
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee launches inquiry into rural broadband coverage and its impact on digital-only services
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October 31, 2014
31
Oct'14
DataDirect Networks adds Amazon S3 gateway to WOS platform
DataDirect Networks (DDN) announces Amazon S3 gateway device for its Web Object Scaler (WOS) storage platform
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October 30, 2014
30
Oct'14
BT sees increasing fibre demand, but sales remain flat
BT attracts new fibre customers but fails to translate growth to revenues in the second quarter of 2014
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October 30, 2014
30
Oct'14
Samsung shares up despite falling profit
Samsung Electronics has reported operating profit of $3.9bn for the third quarter of 2014, down by 60%
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October 29, 2014
29
Oct'14
Apple Pay could boost NFC adoption
The launch of Apple Pay could increase use of NFC devices for mobile payments, according to a survey by Netbiscuits
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
British fashion retailer AllSaints picks Google tools for innovation
Fashion brand AllSaints has refreshed its technology strategy with Google technologies to improve collaboration
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy
Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage
Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework
Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
Fujitsu goes hyperscale with CD10000 open-source storage
In a tilt at the hyperscale market the CD10000 marries Fujitsu hardware with Red Hat Ceph open-source storage software
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
Cloud providers rush to build European datacentres over data sovereignty
Cloud providers IBM and Google build datacentres in the EU as enterprises insist on keeping their data in Europe
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
CIO interview: David Johnstone of Martin Currie Investment Management
The head of solutions management at the asset management firm discusses IT projects and the changing role of IT leaders
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
Finding success in the public cloud: Financial Times CTO John O’Donovan
As the Financial Times migrates data workloads to the cloud, CTO John O'Donovan explains FT's cloud strategy
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October 27, 2014
27
Oct'14
Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level
Microsoft's Satya Nadella made a slew of Azure announcements in San Francisco
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October 26, 2014
26
Oct'14
How big data, mobile and cloud are fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone
IBM applies data analytics, mobile technology and cloud computing to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
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October 24, 2014
24
Oct'14
Six networks that changed the world forever
The Science Museum opens its Information Age gallery, dedicated to the history of information and communications
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October 24, 2014
24
Oct'14
Carlsberg cheers the move to Office 365 for collaboration among 20,000 employees
Carlsberg picked Microsoft Office 365, to improve collaboration among its employees as well as to support its business vision – GloCal – Carlsberg’s vision for global efficiency
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October 24, 2014
24
Oct'14
Arrays cost councils four times more than software-defined storage
Nexenta finds UK councils spend around £1,200 per terabyte on storage arrays – four times more than on storage software
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October 24, 2014
24
Oct'14
AWS to launch second EU datacentre region in Frankfurt
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services has launched a datacentre region in Frankfurt Germany
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
Bank of America customers charged twice for Apple Pay mobile wallet transactions
Software glitch charges Bank of America customers twice for purchases they have made through Apple's mobile wallet application, Apple Pay
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes
Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner
Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
What’s driving the adoption of desktop as a service?
Two important factors are driving the cloud desktop phenomenon – the BYOD trend and the migration of enterprise workloads to the public cloud
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October 22, 2014
22
Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions
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October 21, 2014
21
Oct'14
Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum
Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards
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October 21, 2014
21
Oct'14
Apple Pay now available in the US
The Apple Pay mobile wallet is now available for iPhone users in the United States
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October 21, 2014
21
Oct'14
Apple posts better-than-expected quarterly results
Apple has reported better-than-expected financial results for the quarter ended 27 September 2014
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October 20, 2014
20
Oct'14
IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit
IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year
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October 20, 2014
20
Oct'14
Government seeks suppliers for £2bn telecoms framework
The government is seeking suppliers for a £2bn procurement framework to replace Whitehall’s telecommunications requirements
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October 20, 2014
20
Oct'14
Disney spreads the magic through wearable technology
The Walt Disney Company is using wearable technology to improve customer experience and engage with visitors
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October 20, 2014
20
Oct'14
IBM to ditch costly chip-making unit
IBM has reportedly reached an agreement with Globalfoundries to take over its semiconductor operations
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October 20, 2014
20
Oct'14
Kingston University gets 600 IOPS per desktop with Atlantis Ilio
Surrey-based university deploys virtual desktops for 1,000 remote users and gets up to 600 IOPS per user
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October 17, 2014
17
Oct'14
National Museum of Wales tackles digital technology
The National Museum of Wales is digitising and using modern technology in its seven exhibition campuses
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October 17, 2014
17
Oct'14
Ahli United Bank boosts IT availability and resiliency with HP ConvergedSystem 300
Ahli United Bank refreshes datacentre infrastructure with HP converged systems to simplify its virtualisation estate
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October 17, 2014
17
Oct'14
Pernod Ricard toasts centralised data backup and cloud disaster recovery
Drinks company Pernod Ricard turned to the cloud for backup and disaster recovery for its IT systems in Europe
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October 16, 2014
16
Oct'14
VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation
Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?
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October 16, 2014
16
Oct'14
Cope could be the future of mobility, says BBC technology chief
A corporate-owned, personally enabled (Cope) implementation could be the best option for mobility plans in the future
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October 16, 2014
16
Oct'14
As VSAN 2.0 goes beta VMware aims at hyper-converged x86 storage
VSAN version 2.0 is in beta with VMware targeting the storage virtualisation product at x86-based hyper-converged storage use cases
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October 16, 2014
16
Oct'14
Intel bets on custom silicon as specialised workloads rule datacentres
Intel is betting on workload-optimised silicon as datacentre workloads become sophisticated, dynamic and varied
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October 15, 2014
15
Oct'14
Nottinghamshire Council goes mobile with Windows
Nottinghamshire County Council is turning to Windows 8.1 to mobilise its workforce, starting with its social care division
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October 15, 2014
15
Oct'14
Intel sees revenue uplift from PCs, servers and internet of things
Intel has seen revenues increase 8% year-on-year to $14.6 billion, thanks to shipments of PCs, servers and internet of things
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October 15, 2014
15
Oct'14
Global research reveals limited appetite for smartwatch payments
While consumers in the US and China show interest in making purchases on smartwatches, Brits are less interested, finds research
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October 15, 2014
15
Oct'14
Gartner: Longer-lived devices causing tablet slowdown
Tablet sales will slow in 2014 as hardware buyers favour alternative devices, and others extend the life of their tablets
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October 15, 2014
15
Oct'14
Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service
The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations
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October 15, 2014
15
Oct'14
Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie
The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model
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October 14, 2014
14
Oct'14
SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud
SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform
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October 14, 2014
14
Oct'14
HP on board with VMware’s EVO:Rail as scale-out future hinted
HP and HDS join the hardware makers’ list for VMware’s EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance
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October 14, 2014
14
Oct'14
More firms sign up to offer Paym
Six more banks and building societies have signed up to offer the Paym mobile payment service
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October 13, 2014
13
Oct'14
Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things
GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts
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October 10, 2014
10
Oct'14
Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies
Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle
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October 09, 2014
09
Oct'14
CaixaBank rolls out contactless wristband after successful pilot
Spanish Bank CaixaBank is rolling contactless wristbands out following a pilot of the wearable technology with select customers
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October 09, 2014
09
Oct'14
PC shipments remain steady as market segments shift
PC sales in the third quarter of 2014 declined by just 0.5% year-on-year according to research firm Gartner
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October 09, 2014
09
Oct'14
Druva targets server backup to the cloud with Phoenix
Endpoint/BYOD backup specialist Druva aims at the remote office market with Phoenix for server backup to the cloud
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October 09, 2014
09
Oct'14
Cloud, web-scale IT and IoT in Gartner’s 2015 top technologies
Research firm Gartner has highlighted the top 10 technology trends for 2015
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October 08, 2014
08
Oct'14
Retailers buy into Zapp mobile wallet
Large retailers such as Sainsbury’s and House of Fraser will allow customers to pay using the Zapp mobile wallet service.
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October 06, 2014
06
Oct'14
SolidFire 2405 and 4805 all-flash arrays target the enterprise
SolidFire adds all-flash arrays in a 1U box with 50,000 IOPS in a move to shift customer focus from cloud providers to enterprise users
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October 06, 2014
06
Oct'14
HP to separate into enterprise IT, and PC and printing companies
HP has confirmed plans to split into two separate companies, one focusing on PCs and printers, the other on enterprise computing
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October 06, 2014
06
Oct'14
HP plans to split business, say reports
Hewlett Packard is planning to split the company into two separate businesses, according to reports
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October 03, 2014
03
Oct'14
The prospects for Apple Pay in the UK
Apple recently announced Apple Pay which allows customers to pay for goods using mobile wallet and NFC capabilities
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October 02, 2014
02
Oct'14
CIO interview: Ben Hine, technology director, UKTV
UKTV director Ben Hine says every piece of the company's technology has been replaced over the last four years
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October 02, 2014
02
Oct'14
Red Hat Storage Server boosts capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots
Open source software-defined storage Red Hat Storage Server version three ups capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots
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October 02, 2014
02
Oct'14
Sunborn puts network in the cloud at Docklands’ first floating hotel
Hospitality firm Sunborn picks Mitel 3300 IP Communications platform for London's first floating hotel
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October 02, 2014
02
Oct'14
DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle
DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product
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October 01, 2014
01
Oct'14
Microsoft readies Windows 10 Technical Preview
Microsoft is today releasing a preview of Windows 10, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system
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September 30, 2014
30
Sep'14
PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software
Flash caching software maker PernixData adds the ability to create cache pools from server RAM
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September 30, 2014
30
Sep'14
All-flash array roundup: A two-track approach from big storage
The big storage suppliers are split between all-flash array products with ground-up designs and retrofitted HDD arrays with flash
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
Can Lenovo turn around IBM's x86 business and win in the enterprise?
Lenovo has stated it will turn its acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business into a $5bn profitable business within 12 months
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers
ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
BT launches cloud voice service for businesses
BT to deliver flexible cloud-based VoIP services to SME customers
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
Convenience foods producer tastes success with software-defined datacentre
Greencore Group signs a fully managed software-defined datacentre service to speed up its plans for expansion
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
CIO interview: Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO, University of Oxford
Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO at the University of Oxford, discusses plans to replace current IT systems with managed services
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September 26, 2014
26
Sep'14
Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C
Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3
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September 26, 2014
26
Sep'14
Public shared service cuts costs and improves operations
Kent's Fire and Rescue and police force's shared command and control system saves costs and improves operations
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September 25, 2014
25
Sep'14
Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking
Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently
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September 25, 2014
25
Sep'14
Oracle releases OpenStack Support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
Oracle has made its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available to support customers
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September 25, 2014
25
Sep'14
Huawei ploughs $4bn into fixed broadband research
Huawei announces major R&D investment in ‘ultra-broadband’ research over the next three years as interest in new networking standards grows
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September 25, 2014
25
Sep'14
Apple promises another fix after iOS 8.0.1 is withdrawn
Apple has promised to issue another iOS 8 update after it was forced to withdraw the first within hours of its release
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September 24, 2014
24
Sep'14
Conventional datacentre skills and tools to limit business growth
IT skills including capacity planning and performance management are no longer sufficient for business growth
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September 24, 2014
24
Sep'14
Accommodation booking site picks Dell cloud to fix downtime issues
Eviivo, a UK-based online accommodation booking website, has placed its business-critical systems on a Dell cloud platform
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September 23, 2014
23
Sep'14
Google to build giant '40-football pitch' datacentre in the Netherlands
Google will invest €600m to build a giant, 120-megawatt datacentre in the Netherlands
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September 22, 2014
22
Sep'14
Digital Realty’s €150m Dublin datacentre goes live
Digital Realty Trust has opened a €150m datacentre in Dublin as part of plans to develop 15.36MW of datacentre space
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September 19, 2014
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Sep'14
Dell bets on its end-to-end datacentre infrastructure strategy
Michael Dell has outlined the company’s datacentre and cloud strategies
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September 18, 2014
18
Sep'14
Software-defined infrastructure challenges legacy IT culture, warns Gartner
Software-defined infrastructures are rapidly emerging and could disrupt conventional IT control, responsibility and support
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September 18, 2014
18
Sep'14
Rackspace ends rumours of partnership and acquisition
Rackspace remains independent and appoints Taylor Rhodes as chief executive to drive its managed cloud strategy
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September 18, 2014
18
Sep'14
Dell: 'If ARM works and costs less, we will use it'
Michael Dell, founder of Dell, says the company may work with Cambridge-based microprocessor company ARM in the future