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• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  ABN Amro re-signs IBM for 10-year, multibillion-euro IT contract

  ABN Amro has extended its multibillion-euro outsourcing deal with IBM by another 10 years

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Barclays bank launches mobile video banking

  Barclays Bank has launched a 24-hour video banking service that will enable customers to receive face-to-face service from anywhere

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  Two-thirds of UK staff bring wearables to work

  IT bosses say 69% of UK staff bring wearables into their organisations, according to a survey by Trend Micro

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  Nottingham University Hospital embeds video in cystic fibrosis centre

  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust used Cisco video technology to enhance care quality at a dedicated facility for cystic fibrosis patients

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  HP results disappoint ahead of split

  HP has announced disappointing fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the company’s planned split aimed at reversing its recent decline

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  National Trust for Scotland overcomes legacy network challenge

  The National Trust for Scotland has replaced a historical network infrastructure with a core service from Brocade

• November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

  Network Rail extends fibre network to rural broadband providers

  Network Rail Infrastructure asks Ofcom for more powers to build out its fibre network for the benefit of broadband and mobile suppliers

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  IT at Coca-Cola Enterprises attains low-energy accreditation

  The IT department at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has completed Stage 3 of the Low Energy Company accreditation

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  NetApp: Hybrid cloud storage is a big deal; flash is not

  At its Berlin Insight event, NetApp says hybrid cloud is the big storage story, with flash set to disappear from prominence

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Increase in mobile users sees 2.7 billion devices worldwide in 2014

  Mobile subscriptions have increased by 800 million in 2014, bringing the total number of devices to 2.7 billion worldwide, according to a report

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Fujitsu touts 'human-centric innovation' model

  Fujitsu wants to take customers on a journey towards what it terms “human-centric” IT

• November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

  Intel merges PC and mobile divisions

  Intel plans to merge its profitable PC group with the loss-making division that sells chips for smartphones and tablets

• November 16, 2014 16 Nov'14

  Food firm dodges €250,000 spend with PernixData flash caching

  Danish food firm Chr. Hansen avoids a €250,000 spend on application licences with PernixData FVP flash caching software

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Amazon unveils Docker-friendly container service and EC2 instance

  Amazon has launched its free, Docker-friendly EC2 container management service

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  BYOD tablets cheaper than corporate-owned devices, says Gartner

  Firms benefit more from bring-your-own-device (BYOD) than corporately-owned-personally-enabled (Cope) policies

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  City of London Corporation fed up with BT broadband

  City of London Corporation launches drive to improve superfast broadband for residents and SMEs after losing patience with BT’s roll-out

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Cisco CEO John Chambers attacks Barack Obama over net neutrality

  Just days after US president Barack Obama backed net neutrality, Cisco CEO John Chambers says it will hurt business

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  ASA rules in BT’s favour on fibre-to-the-cabinet complaints

  The ASA has not upheld complaints that BT misled consumers when it claimed its Infinity service was fibre-optic broadband

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Lack of in-house skills stymies IaaS migration, says report

  Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) supplier Reconnix says most businesses fear they lack the skills to move to the cloud

• 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