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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
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
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
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

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
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
November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14
Nationwide launches smartwatch banking capabilities

Nationwide customers are now able to check their bank balance on smartwatches
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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%
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14
VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation

Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
BT launches cloud voice service for businesses

BT to deliver flexible cloud-based VoIP services to SME customers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Dell bets on its end-to-end datacentre infrastructure strategy

Michael Dell has outlined the company’s datacentre and cloud strategies
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
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
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