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• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  B&Q owner Kingfisher dumps Raid rebuilds and saves 40% on disk with X-IO

  Kingfisher puts X-IO drives behind IBM SVC storage virtualisation to save 40% disk costs and dispenses with Raid rebuilds in £120,000 project

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Microsoft chief Satya Nadella states commitment to software

  Microsoft's recently appointed CEO Satya Nadella will focus on software engineering, which he sees as key to the cloud and mobile markets

• February 05, 2014 05 Feb'14

  Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Colossus, the WWII codebreaking machine

  The National Museum of Computing marks the anniversary of Colossus, the computer that broke coded messages from Hitler to his generals in WWII

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Samsung to open 15 UK stores with Phones 4u

  The mobile manufacturer will team up with the retailer to open 15 Samsung-focused stores across the UK

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike

  How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  EE and Three sign ‘passive’ network share deal for rural UK

  The two providers will not be sharing spectrum or antennae as in previous deals, but will work together on the backhaul to bring 4G services to rural areas

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  BT criticised for ‘knocking out competition’ in Wiltshire

  BT and Wiltshire County Council have been accused of using public funds to build out broadband in areas set to be served by alternative providers

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Microsoft Windows 8.1 update to offer native desktop boot

  Screenshots of a beta of the next update to Windows 8.1, have been leaked, which suggest Microsoft will allow users to boot directly into desktop mode.

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Is Cisco’s ‘SDN plus’ the best software-defined networking?

  The networking giant has been accused of not embracing software-defined networking, but Cisco claims it offers better SDN than its competitors.

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Lenovo buys Google’s Motorola Mobility in $3bn deal

  Google has announced the sale of its Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese computer maker Lenovo in a $3bn deal

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Are businesses turning to Windows Phone instead of BlackBerry?

  It's been a year since BlackBerry tried to reclaim the smartphone market with the BB10 operating system and the Z10 and qwerty Q10 handsets

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Cisco engineers – an innovative future?

  Will network engineers be given more chances to innovate post-economic crash? We ask those at Cisco Live 2014

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  EMC brings Hadoop into ViPR upgrade and unifies SRM modules

  EMC launches version 1.1 of its software-defined storage/big data platform ViPR by building in Hadoop analytics capability

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard

  Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Internet of Things could be held up by physical flaws

  Cisco’s managing director of IoT warns physical issues with sensors and batteries could hamper the effectiveness of connected cities

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  How will Lenovo compete in the PC server market?

  Watch out HP, Lenovo is coming. Following the $2.3bn acquisition of IBM’s x86 business, Lenovo is expected to use aggressive pricing to win customers

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  IT departments need to address complexity, says ZK Research founder

  The founder of ZK Research says if IT departments fail to address their complexity then they are set to fall behind the times when it comes to technology

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  DECC IT overhaul follows government digital standards

  The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is accustomed to large outsourcing contracts, yet it is the first department within government to move away from a single supplier approach, to a new multi-sourcing model across all its core ...

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Apple shares down on flat profits

  Apple share fell almost 9% in after-hours trading despite reporting record quarterly revenue of $57.6bn for the quarter ending 28 December 2013

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Google, Samsung sign 10-year technology cross-licensing deal

  Google and Samsung have signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement to reduce "the potential for litigation"

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Father of European supercomputing: Hans Meuer

  Professor Dr Hans Werner Meuer, 1936-2014

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Business college gets Nimble hybrid flash to replace LeftHand SAN

  Ashridge Business School dumped creaking end-of-life LeftHand array for Nimble Storage hybrid flash array in a move that also saw Nexenta storage software rejected

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  BT pledges extra £50m to commercial broadband roll-out

  The telecoms giant promises to bring a further 400,000 premises onto its fibre network across 30 cities

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Qualcomm buys up Palm patents from HP

  Mobile chip maker Qualcomm is to take over almost 2,500 patents from HP, picked up from its acquisition of Palm

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Samsung profits fall in Q4 2013

  Electronics firm Samsung sees profits fall 11% quarter on quarter – the first decline it has seen in two years

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Microsoft shares up on better than expected results

  Microsoft's shares rose nearly 4% on news of better than expected financial results for the quarter ending 31 December 2013

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Nokia ends 2013 in decline

  All of Nokia's divisions see falls in sales and profits, but its CEO remains positive the remaining businesses will flourish in the future

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Can elephants dance in the cloud?

  IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3bn

  Long-rumoured deal marks IBM's exit from commodity, Intel-based server market after hardware sales slump

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  BT and Alcatel Lucent test 1.4Tbps broadband

  The two firms ran the trial over existing infrastructure and claim it is the fastest speed to have ever been achieved over commercial grade hardware

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  Huawei exec named chair at Open Networking Foundation

  In a boost to his company’s reputation, Dr Serge Manning is named the chair of the wireless and mobile working group for the ONF.

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  IBM revenues drop 5% as hardware sales crash

  IBM has reported a small increase in its fourth quarter profit, but revenue declined due to an accelerating slump in its hardware business

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  Movie FX house puts 1.3PB on Nexenta Software Defined Storage

  Special effects house Framestore moves 1.3PB from “difficult to support” HDS/BlueArc/Engenio clustered NAS to Nexenta Software Defined Storage storage software on Dell servers

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Fleet control system boosts Warburtons’ productivity

  Warburtons has integrated Navman wireless GPS to its vehicle tracking system Paragon to allow better planning of distribution routes

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Allianz deploys Rumba to provide secure mainframe administration

  Insurer Allianz UK has deployed Rumba terminal emulator software from MicroFocus to provide a mainframe-based policy admin system

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  HP offers Windows 7 PCs with discount

  HP is offering a $150 saving on new PCs running Windows 7 in the US, although there is no indication yet whether this offer will be available in the UK and the rest of Europe

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  EE routers vulnerable to ‘incredibly easy’ hack

  A blogger claims to have found a flaw in EE’s BrightBox broadband routers that could leave sensitive information accessible to hackers

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM in talks with Dell, Lenovo about offloading x86 server business

  Dell is rumoured to be in talks with IBM about purchasing the x86 server family. Lenovo is also believed to be in discussion with IBM.

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  QLogic buys Brocade’s converged network adapter business

  Brocade sells converged network adapter division to QLogic, as the two firms announce SAN partnership

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs

  NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Air France uses HP automation software to manage Linux server cloud

  Air France automates 1,500 Linux servers using a private cloud based on HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) software

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  IT mobility trend continues in 2014

  More than half of enterprises plan to issue employees with mobile devices in 2014, a Computer Weekly survey has found

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Intel grows datacentre business but desktop struggles

  Intel has posted fourth quarter 2013 revenue of $13.8bn, with growth in its datacentre business and a decline in desktop systems

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup

  Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  IBM boosts memory writes on updated PureSystems server

  For memory-hungry applications, the new X6 server family has been designed to deliver three times the scalable memory of servers, IBM claimed

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Microsoft extends XP security updates by 15 months

  Microsoft has caved in to user concerns over XP end of support and will now extend security updates by another 15 months

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Case study: Berkshire NHS adopts 4G for home visits

  The Foundation Trust enables its nurses to access and update patient records on the move with 4G mobile Wi-Fi from EE

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Olympics executive named new BDUK chief

  Chris Townsend will lead the government’s rural broadband project, including pilot schemes of alternative technologies for areas that are hardest to reach

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Disaster recovery and virtual server backup top 2014 storage projects

  As budgets rise and businesses emerge from recession, disaster recovery and virtual server backup are the top storage projects in 2014

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

  Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises

  New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Desktop strategy in 2014 to focus on mobile business

  A shift in IT strategy in 2014 is expected to lead to a move away from the desktop to supporting mobile technologies in European enterprises

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  4Q13 global PC shipments suffer worst decline in PC market history

  Worldwide PC shipments have declined for the seventh consecutive quarter, according to Gartner. View its figures in this interactive graphic.

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold

  A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Free Wi-Fi coming to Edinburgh buses and trams

  Today sees the tender close for a government-funded project to bring free Wi-Fi to Edinburgh’s public transport network.

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  SDN still failing to spark interest in Europe

  Research shows just 9% of companies across Europe are planning to implement software-defined networking in the next 12 months

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  2013 saw worst global decline of PC shipments in history

  PC shipments have seen their steepest decline in the history of the PC market, according to analysts at Gartner

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  O2 to stop supporting its mobile wallet

  Mobile operator O2 will stop supporting its mobile wallet after 31 March and plans to invest in alternative m-commerce initiatives

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Fairfax bails out BlackBerry with another $250m

  The mobile manufacturer’s largest shareholder ploughs another $250m into the firm, buying up more of its debts and giving BlackBerry some extra cash to play with.

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  EMC’s David Goulden made storage CEO

  Former CFO Goulden appointed CEO of EMC’s giant storage-focussed information infrastructure division. EMC now has three divisional CEOs ahead of chairman Tucci’s 2015 retirement

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe

  Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Eurotunnel signs deal with EE and Vodafone

  EE and Vodafone have signed a 10-year contract with Eurotunnel to enable customers to use their mobiles in the Channel Tunnel

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Oracle enters SDN game with Corente buy

  The software giant buys New Jersey-based startup Corente to take advantage of its software-defined networking technology

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  CES 2014: Intel shows Edison-powered onesie

  Intel has unveiled a computer the size of an SD memory card to power next-generation wearable devices such as a baby onesie

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Chief operating officer of flash array maker Violin steps down

  Chief operating officer Dixon Doll leaves the beleaguered flash array maker as share price dips towards $3 and company faces shareholder class action after disastrous IPO

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Samsung expects profits to fall

  Samsung Electronics has announced it expects profits to fall in the fourth quarter of 2013

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  BlackBerry hires ex-HTC exec to lead devices

  In the latest in a raft of new hires by BlackBerry CEO John Chen, the company appoints Ron Louks as its head of devices and emerging solutions

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Accenture: get ready for the smart tech revolution

  Consumers are gravitating towards wearable devices like smart watches to complement their digital lifestyle, a new study from Accenture has found

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  ARM developer: Raspberry Pi not enough to get kids coding

  Sophie Wilson was the designer of the Acorn Micro-computer and creator of the programming architecture for the original ARM chip

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Flash storage alternative MRAM takes another step forward

  MRAM, a likely successor to flash storage, takes a step toward easier manufacture and longer life with new structures theorised by scientists in Singapore

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  HP to make 5,000 more job cuts

  In its 10K filing with the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) HP revealed that it needs to eliminate an additional 15% of its workforce.

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Barclays to pilot smartphone cheque deposits

  Barclays Bank will pilot a scheme allowing customers to pay cheques into their accounts via pictures taken on their mobile phones

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Apple denies creating backdoor for NSA

  Apple has denied working with the US National Security Agency to create a backdoor in any of its products

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 mobile networking stories of 2013

  Computer Weekly takes a look back over the past 12 months at the biggest headlines in the mobile networking industry

• December 29, 2013 29 Dec'13

  Top 10 desktop computing articles of 2013

  In the desktop area, there has been a continued decline in PCs. Lenovo and HP have battled for the top spot in a market where people are taking longer to upgrade

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013

  The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 mobile stories of 2013

  It is clear that 2013 has been another huge year for the world of mobile. There have been phone, tablet and phablet launches, ups and downs, and a noticeable increase in the bring your own device trend that cannot be ignored

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Cheques to be payable by smartphone

  Plans to allow bank customers to cash cheques by smartphone are soon to be put in motion

• December 24, 2013 24 Dec'13

  Top 10 flash storage stories of 2013

  2013 has been the year of flash, where the big six array makers started to catch up with the pioneering startups and new frontiers opened in flash deployment in the datacentre

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013

  It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 gadget reviews of 2013

  Here is a roundup of the top ten Inspect-a-gadget reviews to help you decide what to get for Christmas, or what to grab during the January sales

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  BlackBerry posts huge losses as CEO promises enterprise focus

  BlackBerry posts more disappointing results for its third fiscal quarter, but CEO remains optimistic for the firm’s future in the enterprise market

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Fujitsu set to lose three government outsourcing deals

  A number of outsourced contracts with Fujitsu will not be renewed by government over the coming year

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Met Police IT strategy expected 9 months late

  A new Metropolitan Police IT strategy is to be released in January nine months later than recommended by a critical report into the force’s IT

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Ofcom threatens BT with fines over repairs

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom tells BT Openreach to fix faults with telephone and broadband services in two days or it could face fines

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  Evelina London Children's Hospital uses real-time video to aid heart treatment

  The London hospital saves time, money and stress through Polycom’s video-conferencing solution within their theatres

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  GCHQ told to tighten reins on Huawei security centre

  A report commissioned by David Cameron has called for tighter controls on Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Centre amid fears around the company’s ties with the Chinese government

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Is BT ‘embedding secret spy equipment’ in routers?

  UK telecoms giant BT is accused of enabling GCHQ and the NSA access to customer data through its routers used in millions of homes and businesses across the UK. BT claims it is just a conspiracy theory. Computer Weekly looks at both sides

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  John Lewis trials transactional tablets and debuts on Google Street View

  John Lewis has announced a range of shopping technologies it will be trialling over the Christmas period

• December 16, 2013 16 Dec'13

  Nvidia delivers GPU grid to power Citrix virtual workstations

  Nvidia has released vGPU grid technology for Citrix XenDeskop and Xenserver to support remote, hardware accelerated graphics processing.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Top 10: The top business application articles of 2013

  The so-called IT megatrends of social, cloud, analytics and mobile have influenced the types of applications organisations are deploying.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  EE promises £275m investment into call quality

  The mobile operator announces a multi-million pound investment into the quality of phone calls as part of its larger network upgrades

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Cable theft causes three-day broadband outage in West London

  Customers of BT, TalkTalk and Sky broadband in West London have been suffering outages for three days after an attempted cable theft in the capital

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT

  Parliamentary ICT director Joan Miller talks about how Parliament should use technology and the challenges of the digital world

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Dell adds top-end PS6210 flash array to EqualLogic iSCSI family

  Dell has announced a new PS6210 at the top end of its iSCSI SAN EqualLogic family with all-flash array and hybrid flash variants

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  US researchers share plans for low-cost metal 3D printer

  Researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have developed a low-cost 3D printer capable of producing steel objects

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Can HP Moonshot deliver blue-sky energy management in datacentres?

  New servers that have more in common with laptops than datacentre hardware are being developed to tackle the energy time bomb