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May 05, 2014
05
May'14
EMC launches Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) with ViPR 2.0
EMC’s Project Nile to be sold as Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) private cloud storage mega-appliances that can scale to Exabytes with ViPR 2.0 as control for underlying VNX arrays
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May 02, 2014
02
May'14
Microsoft buys PaaS firm Greenbutton to improve Azure service
The software giant will integrate Greenbutton’s PaaS offerings into Azure and release it as a new cloud service within Azure later in the year
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May 01, 2014
01
May'14
Datacentres to evolve in next dacade, says research
Use of solar power, increased cloud adoption, higher utilisation rate and increased density will characterise the datacentre by the year 2025
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May 01, 2014
01
May'14
Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer
The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes
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April 30, 2014
30
Apr'14
Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?
Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?
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April 30, 2014
30
Apr'14
News Corp rolls out cloud to Harper Collins, Dow Jones and WSJ after News UK success
News Corp is rolling out cloud services across its Harper Collins, Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal titles.
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April 29, 2014
29
Apr'14
VirtualWisdom4 boosts storage performance with server, app views
Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom4 aims for admin-friendly server, app and storage-centric views of SAN performance with “entity-based” approach to storage monitoring tool
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
US cloud security firm builds datacentre in Cardiff for EMEA expansion
US cloud security company Alert Logic is building a datacentre and security operations centre in Cardiff to support its EMEA expansion strategy
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
LateRooms overcomes database bottleneck with flash storage strategy
The hotel and accommodation booking firm refreshes its datacentre with virtualisation, consolidation and flash-based storage
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April 24, 2014
24
Apr'14
Modular datacentres yield 30% more savings than traditional datacentres
A comparison of the total cost of ownership of two datacentre architectures – traditional facility and the modular datacentre reveals which one is cheaper
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April 24, 2014
24
Apr'14
Barclays bank launches investment app
Barclays bank has launched an app for investment companies to give them access to content to support their investment decisions.
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April 24, 2014
24
Apr'14
Apple beats expectations and woos investors
Apple has reported first-quarter revenue of $45.6bn and profits of $10.2bn, beating expectations
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours
Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours
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April 23, 2014
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Apr'14
Google’s renewable energy purchase for datacentres soars over 1GW
Google's latest agreement with MidAmerican Energy to power its Iowa datacentre with 407MW of wind energy takes its renewable energy deals to 1GW
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
HDS upgrades its mainframe-friendly VSP G1000 enterprise storage array
Hitachi Data Systems launches the Virtual Storage Platform G1000 enterprise storage array, which boosts capacity, performance and lifespan for the storage virtualisation platform.
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
HP firmware bricks ProLiant server models
HP has released a server patch which it has admitted will kill 100 of its server models and 14 network adapters.
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April 22, 2014
22
Apr'14
Microsoft and Equinix collaborate to privately connect Azure cloud and on-premise IT
Equinix and Microsoft have collaborated to help businesses connect their on-premise IT infrastructure with Azure cloud via a private network
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April 22, 2014
22
Apr'14
Microsoft invests in next-gen energy technologies to power datacentres
Microsoft is investing in next-generation energy technologies such as microturbines and distributed generation for datacentre power
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April 22, 2014
22
Apr'14
Disaster recovery is vital in software-defined datacentre era
Jon Toigo argues against virtualisation advocates that say the software-defined datacentre, with its high availability and clustering, does away with the need for disaster recovery
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April 17, 2014
17
Apr'14
Dell skips smartphones to focus on convergence
With the smartphone industry grinding to a halt,Dell has chosen to take the software avenue rather than trying to push into the smartphone space.
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April 17, 2014
17
Apr'14
IBM hardware struggles, with first quarter earnings a fifth lower than last year
IBM reports 21% drop in first quarter revenue as it continues to "take actions to transform parts of the business"
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April 17, 2014
17
Apr'14
Datacentre lessons learnt from Heartbleed bug
The Heartbleed bug, an OpenSSL flaw affecting millions of websites, has some lessons for datacentre providers and operators
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April 17, 2014
17
Apr'14
Claranet acquires Dutch cloud provider NovaData
Managed hosting provider Claranet has acquired Netherlands-based cloud firm NovaData to expand its services portfolio
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April 16, 2014
16
Apr'14
Scotland will be home to UK’s first fully green datacentre
Come summer and work will start on a £40m green datacentre covering 75,000 sq ft at Queensway Business Park in Glenrothes, Fife
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April 16, 2014
16
Apr'14
Ericsson picks OpenStack for its $30m datacentre and cloud infrastructure
Ericsson has picked open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack for its $30m datacentre, cloud and telecommunications infrastructure update
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April 15, 2014
15
Apr'14
Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency
Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy
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April 14, 2014
14
Apr'14
Most cloud services pose security and compliance risks to European businesses
About 99% of cloud services used in Europe either don’t have enterprise-grade security or store data outside Europe’s jurisdictional boundaries
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
XP end of life levels PC shipment decline, says Gartner
PC shipments are still in decline, but the fall in PC sales in the first quarter of 2014 is not as steep as those seen in the last seven quarters, says research firm Gartner
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
TCG releases TPM 2 specification for improved security
The Trusted Computing Group has published an updated specification for the Trusted Platform Module
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April 09, 2014
09
Apr'14
Peterborough council to ditch SAN in move to Box cloud storage
Peterborough City Council will not renew maintenance on its EMC storage arrays and aims to migrate all staff to Box cloud storage by 2015
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April 09, 2014
09
Apr'14
Data set to grow 10-fold by 2020 as internet of things takes off
IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts the world's data will amount to 44 zettabytes by 2020, 10% of it from the internet of things
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April 08, 2014
08
Apr'14
UK cloud pioneer scores world first with true utility pricing
ElasticHosts steals a march on Google, Amazon and Microsoft by billing on the basis of actual consumption of resources
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April 08, 2014
08
Apr'14
Banks content to keep ATMs on XP despite support ending
Research has revealed that 89% of European banks still run ATMs on XP despite Microsoft removing support for the software today
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April 07, 2014
07
Apr'14
The problem with regional clouds
The clamour to keep clouds closer to home could lead to internet restrictions, fragmentation and a slowdown in the movement of data
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April 03, 2014
03
Apr'14
EMC upgrades Avamar, Networker and Data Domain products
EMC boosts application and hypervisor integration on Avamar, Networker and Data Domain as part of a strategic push to "backup-less backup" and a "data protection continuum"
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April 03, 2014
03
Apr'14
Microsoft Build 2014: Start menu returns as Phone users get new runtime
Microsoft unveiled moves to bring its Windows operating system (OS) into the tablet era during its Build developer conference in San Francisco
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks
Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council migrates from Windows XP to Google Chromebooks
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
CIO interview: Andrew Marks, Tullow Oil
How speeding up seismic data transfer between African oil fields and a Dublin datacentre helps the London-based oil exploration company save millions
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Gartner: Tablet market heads towards saturation
Gartner has predicted a slowdown in the uptake of tablets, which has been cannibalising PC sales for the last few years
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts
Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?
The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity
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March 26, 2014
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Mar'14
Facebook pays $2bn for virtual reality company Oculus
Facebook announces it will buy virtual reality firm Oculus VR for $2bn and adapt the VR technology to communication and media applications
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March 21, 2014
21
Mar'14
EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency
GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands
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March 21, 2014
21
Mar'14
Symantec hunts for new CEO
Symantec has got rid of its CEO and president, Steve Bennett, and has hired an executive search company to find a replacement
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March 20, 2014
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Mar'14
Mine machine data to boost business value
Businesses risk losing their competitive edge if they are unable to drill down into the information captured by machine-generated data
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March 19, 2014
19
Mar'14
Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business
Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results
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March 18, 2014
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Mar'14
Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court
University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric
DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency
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March 17, 2014
17
Mar'14
Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers
A cloud archive offers a flexible and cost effective alternative to in-house archiving where maintenance is outsourced, but what are the key questions to ask a potential supplier
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March 13, 2014
13
Mar'14
CIO Interview: Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds
The IT chief of vocational training body City & Guilds is generally positive about cloud computing – with some key qualifications
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March 13, 2014
13
Mar'14
Shropshire hospitals dump NetApp for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust retires ageing NetApp and replaces Fibre Channel-connected filers with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs with flash, SAS and SATA tiers
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March 12, 2014
12
Mar'14
VMware VSAN software-defined storage comes out of beta
VMware’s VSAN software-defined storage promises pools of flash-driven shared storage created from under-utilised server-attached disk with per-VM performance profiles
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March 11, 2014
11
Mar'14
London South Bank University: modelling tomorrow's cleaner, greener datacentres
How London South Bank University (LSBU) meets the IT industry's rising demand for research into building more energy-efficient datacentres
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March 07, 2014
07
Mar'14
CIOs hold fire over datacentre decisions
When it comes to devising datacentre strategies, are CIOs paralysed like rabbits in the headlights, or playing a calculated game of wait and see?
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March 05, 2014
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Mar'14
Workers spend more on devices than tea
Over a third of works have spent more than £250 on their own devices,compared to just £97 on tea or coffee per year
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March 05, 2014
05
Mar'14
Does Gigaclear’s broadband win show new direction for BDUK?
Why Gigaclear's rural broadband contract win could signal a change of direction for the future of the BDUK project
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March 04, 2014
04
Mar'14
Netflix shows how to get cloud rolling
Streaming movie giant’s former cloud architect reveals how to dramatically speed up processes and shorten product development cycles
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March 03, 2014
03
Mar'14
Android tablets sell more than iOS tablets
Sales of Android powered tablet devices grew 127% in 2013, taking the leading position in the tablet operating system market for last year, according to research by analyst firm Gartner.
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March 03, 2014
03
Mar'14
Why cloud's not reigning in the enterprise
Lack of business-focused offerings from suppliers and misguided private cloud projects are stifling progress, say Cloud Expo speakers
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February 28, 2014
28
Feb'14
The big themes of Mobile World Congress 2014
This week saw the world’s largest mobile conference hit Barcelona. Computer Weekly takes a look at the big themes of Mobile World Congress 2014
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February 28, 2014
28
Feb'14
BT criticises Ofcom over unbundling prices
BT claims Ofcom regulations give Sky and TalkTalk an unfair advantage over smaller ISPs and calls for change
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February 28, 2014
28
Feb'14
Three UK sees 48% rise in profits for 2013
As Three transfers all its customers to its 4G network at no extra charge, the mobile operator reports full-year profits of £417m
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February 28, 2014
28
Feb'14
Virgin Media boosts broadband speeds
Virgin Media promises a top speed of 152Mbps for customers across the UK, as well as boosting its entry-level connection from 30Mbps to 50Mbps
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February 27, 2014
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Feb'14
CenturyLink brings hyperscale storage/compute service to UK
California-based cloud provider CenturyLink will bring hyperscale storage/compute as-a-service to the UK from summer 2014
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February 26, 2014
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Feb'14
Dragon tells cloud businesses to focus on service
Outsourcery boss Piers Linney warns cloud providers that collaboration and investment are key to the industry’s future success
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February 26, 2014
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Feb'14
Telefónica to embrace SDN and NFV with UNICA network initiative
The mobile operator plans to revamp its network infrastructure to embrace more virtualisation technologies and bring more efficiency to its backhaul.
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February 25, 2014
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Feb'14
Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era
IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true
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February 25, 2014
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Feb'14
VMware shifts from on-premise to hybrid cloud virtualisation
VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has been in London to launch vCloud Hybrid Service in the UK, which will drive a shift away from on-premise VMs
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February 24, 2014
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Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision
State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
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February 24, 2014
24
Feb'14
Backup appliances offer easy backup for SMEs and branch offices
Product survey: We run the rule over backup appliances; hardware and software bundles that enable easy deployment and management of backup for SMEs and remote offices
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February 21, 2014
21
Feb'14
Datacentres must tackle local challenges for global growth
Diverse range of opportunities and obstacles shows there’s no ‘one size fits all’ strategy for the datacentre industry
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February 21, 2014
21
Feb'14
Mining firm dumps IBM/NetApp for Tintri hybrid flash storage
Coal Marketing Company upgrades to Tintri hybrid flash storage to meet latency needs of virtual server and desktop environment
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February 20, 2014
20
Feb'14
CIO interview: Fashion house Paul Smith steers a hybrid path to IT excellence
Paul Smith's head of IT has developed a Microsoft hybrid cloud strategy to increase responsiveness and operational efficiency
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February 19, 2014
19
Feb'14
Newcastle to go digital with £9m government fund
The North Eastern city will benefit from superfast broadband, free Wi-Fi and a cloud computing centre
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February 19, 2014
19
Feb'14
NetApp slims product family with launch of FAS8000 series
NetApp launches FAS8000 line that will replace FAS3000 and FAS6000 series filers
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February 19, 2014
19
Feb'14
Hyperoptic targets three more UK cities for 1Gbps broadband
The fibre to the home provider is extending its reach outside of London to bring 1Gbps connections to Bristol, Cardiff and Reading
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February 18, 2014
18
Feb'14
HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics
New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company
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February 17, 2014
17
Feb'14
Latvia’s Lattelecom: 1Gbps will be standard by 2018
Latvian telecoms firm will make 1Gbps its standard connection to homes by 2018, with the internet of things and customer demand necessitating the rise
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February 17, 2014
17
Feb'14
NHS Scotland awards SWAN contract to Capita
Capita wins the £110m contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network project, while BT continues to seek damages for losing out
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly
Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Birmingham City University revamps IT backhaul
The University works with Logicalis to overhaul its IT infrastructure, from designing two new datacentres to rolling out new wired and wireless networks
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Smartphone sales decline in mature markets
Smartphone sales slowed significantly in developed markets in 2013, according to research firm Gartner
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February 13, 2014
13
Feb'14
VMware puts Windows on Chromebooks
VMware has partnered with Google to provide a virtual desktop environment for Google Chromebooks
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February 13, 2014
13
Feb'14
Cisco profits plummet for second quarter
A one-off charge for faulty memory chips sees profits for the networking firm tumble by almost 55%, while revenues decline 8% year on year
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills
Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Virgin Atlantic trials Google Glass for Upper Class
The airline is piloting Google Glass with its staff at Heathrow to try and improve customer service
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Atlantis joins the software-defined storage fray with USX
Atlantis ILIO USX software-defined storage allows customers to virtualise commodity to create flash, hybrid and hyperscale storage
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Analysis: Dell’s open embrace of SDN
Dell's recent announcement shows it is betting big on software-defined networking, but will it win out?
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Head of BBM becomes latest BlackBerry casualty
Andrew Bocking is leaving the ailing mobile manufacturer as BlackBerry Messenger is integrated into the enterprise business
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Case study: University Technical College Reading closes digital divide with help from Fujitsu
University Technical College Reading aims to educate and train the next generation of technicians, engineers and industrial innovators
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits
Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
AMD and ARM rewrite datacentre computing
AMD has collaborated with ARM on a chip architecture system to lower the energy envelope of server-based computing
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
Aer Lingus opts for Tegile hybrid flash over IBM and EMC
It was cheaper and easier for Aer Lingus to deploy 80TB of Tegile hybrid flash storage than buy more IBM or EMC, says the airline's CTO
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Glasgow City Council signs BT for free Wi-Fi before Commonwealth Games
Glasgow City Council signs BT to provide free Wi-Fi across the city in time for the Common Wealth Games in summer 2014
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Met Police to trial iPad Minis
The Metropolitan Police Service is to trial iPad Minis for use by officers in the Hammersmith and Fulham Borough this year
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market
AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
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February 06, 2014
06
Feb'14
Sony sells PC business in favour of smartphone push
Sony announces plans to reform its PC and TV divisions by selling off its PC branch to Japan Industrial Partners
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February 06, 2014
06
Feb'14
Three signs 4G backhaul deal with Virgin Media Business
Three's five-year, multi-million pound deal will see Virgin Media Business soup up the mobile operator’s backhaul to prepare it for its 4G future
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February 06, 2014
06
Feb'14
Gartner figures show PC market in continued decline
The PC market continued to decline in the UK according to the latest shipment figures from Gartner, although Lenovo continued to make gains