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May 19, 2014 19 May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
Digital rights group lists best companies for data protection

Digital rights group examines technology giants including Amazon, Google, Yahoo, At&T, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
CIO interview: Adecco UK sets global model

The UK operation of global recruitment company Adecco has created an IT infrastructure to make bit more agile in the face of increasing competition from small firms
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 flash arrays

All-flash array maker Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 series arrays and upgrades Purity operating environment

May 15, 2014 15 May'14
More user control and freedom from lock-in will make cloud successful: Werner Vogels

Giving users more control and freedom from supplier lock-in will ensure cloud’s success in Europe, says Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels
May 15, 2014 15 May'14
Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects

Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency
May 15, 2014 15 May'14
Oxford University gets 330TB of Panasas clustered NAS/HPC storage

Oxford University gets Panasas ActivStor 14 clustered NAS as HPC storage for high-performance processing
May 14, 2014 14 May'14
Object storage: An architecture for the petabyte era?

Object storage offers massively scalablility for unstructured data.. But can it break out of the niche it is in?
May 14, 2014 14 May'14
‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues

Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies
May 13, 2014 13 May'14
Quarter of Europe’s small businesses interested in mobile point of sale

Over a quarter of small businesses are interested in introducing mobile devices as a point of sale technology within six months as attitudes towards mobile point of sale (mPOS) change in Europe

May 12, 2014 12 May'14
Microsoft fleshes out cross-platform mobile strategy

Microsoft users should be productive on all operating systems, including iOS, Android and Windows, according to vice-president Brad Anderson
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
The digital CIO: How to be a digital innovator

CIOs need to think about their IT budgets in a different way to free up funds for innovation
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS

IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.
May 09, 2014 09 May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Lawyers get Unitrends backup appliance for virtual server backup

Notts law firm Rothera Dowson moves from Symantec plus tape to Unitrends disk-based backup appliance for virtual server backup and cuts recovery time from days to minutes
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres

Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg

The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand
May 07, 2014 07 May'14
CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed
May 07, 2014 07 May'14
HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services

HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too
May 06, 2014 06 May'14
Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG

A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”
May 06, 2014 06 May'14
Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS

Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
April 23, 2014 23 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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 26, 2014 26 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
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
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
March 20, 2014 20 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
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
March 18, 2014 18 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
March 05, 2014 05 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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
February 27, 2014 27 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
February 26, 2014 26 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
February 26, 2014 26 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.
February 25, 2014 25 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
February 25, 2014 25 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
February 24, 2014 24 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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