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• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Google robotics project sparks speculation

  Google has revealed it has acquired seven robotics companies in the past six months, sparking speculation about what it plans to develop

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Google revs up cloud engine in AWS catch-up race

  A renewed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) push by web giant Google could heat up competition among top providers

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Server revenue in Europe is on a downwards spiral

  Server revenue is at its lowest level in 15 years, Gartner’s worldwide server shipments market share report

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  VillageBroadband brings superfast Wi-Fi to rural Northamptonshire

  The community project turned company serves up 10-15Mbps Wi-Fi to 3,500 residents in rural parts of the East Midlands county

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Up to 1,100 jobs to go in the UK as HP Europe faces the squeeze

  HP is set to axe 1100 jobs as part of its plans to lower operations costs, in a bid to improve profits.

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  University tiers HPC cloud with HDS, Spectra Logic and QStar

  Oslo University builds academic cloud for research data scalable to exabytes with HDS disk, Spectra Logic tape and QStar archive

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Dell launches startup competition

  Dell has launched a competition offering two UK startup entrepreneurs free office space, technology solutions, mentorship and networking opportunities

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Insurance firms invest £25bn in UK infrastructure

  UK’s biggest insurance firms will invest £25bn into infrastructure projects including broadband roll-out and railway networks

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Telematics firm builds datacentres on Compellent hybrid flash

  Pan-European telematics firm Masternaut builds active-active datacentres on hybrid flash arrays with automated tiered storage from Dell Compellent to cope with a 5x growth in data

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Virtualisation continues to drive European server purchases

  TechTarget survey finds 97.3% of large organisations plan to expand their deployments in 2014, with consolidation the main driver

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves on constructing a new bottom line

  Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves reveals the challenges of rethinking IT from the ground up after inheriting 10 datacentres

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Huawei invests £10m in UK university research

  Chinese telecoms firm Huawei boosts investment in the UK, promising £10m funding for universities' technology projects

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Oxford Brookes revamps network with Juniper

  Oxford Brookes University signs Juniper Networks to overhaul its infrastructure and modernise services for students and staff

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Sudlows pushes tight-squeeze datacentre to the limits

  Award-winning project turned a would-be office block into a high-capacity, energy-efficient colocation facility in six months

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Interview: Steve Furber on UK chip innovation

  ARM chip designers Stephen Furber and Sophie Wilson will be honoured at the Economist Innovation awards on 3 December 2013

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Security is network professionals’ top priority for 2014

  New research from TechTarget and Computer Weekly shows networking professionals see security as the biggest priority for 2014, whilst they claim the vendors’ favourite – software defined networking – is just not ready yet

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  Fujitsu to exit London Stock Exchange

  The Japanese firm submits an application to withdraw from the London Stock Exchange and liquidate one of its US subsidiaries in a bid to cut costs

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  University boosts VDI IOPS by 70% with Nimble hybrid flash array

  The University of Wolverhampton chose Nimble hybrid flash over all-flash from Violin and Fusion-io to boost IOPS for persistent desktops in a staff VDI roll-out

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  Many enterprises not getting value of consumerisation, says IDC

  There is still a wide variety of approaches to mobility and consumerisation within the enterprise, says IDC

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  HP shareholders win out as revenue declines by $8bn

  HP shareholders are set to receive an early Christmas present in spite of the company making $8bn less in 2013 compared to 2012

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  Microsoft admits RT mistake

  Microsoft has admitted that its RT operating system may have confused people, who expected full blown Windows.

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Argos brings O2 Wi-Fi to 735 stores

  The retail giant is rolling out Wi-Fi to all its stores in time for the Christmas rush

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Janet6 ‘offers the future’ for research networking needs

  Jisc takes back the network from a managed service provider to light up its own fibre and offer a future proofed service to researchers, universities, colleges and schools across the UK

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Tesco consolidates global datacentres into UK shared service

  Tesco is six months away from completing a three-year programme to deliver a single datacentre operation to support UK and international operations

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  How web giants are making datacentres lean and green

  Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Facebook authentication - Like?

  As Cisco teams up with Facebook to offer authentication for public Wi-Fi, is this option safe for businesses?

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Apple acquires Kinect developer PrimeSense

  Apple has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli motion-sensing firm PrimeSense

• November 22, 2013 22 Nov'13

  Firm launches banking app for wearable technology

  A new banking app has been launched by British firm Intelligent Environments for use with Pebble wearable smart devices

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  Scientists banish NAS sprawl with Red Hat scale-out NAS software

  Reading University meteorology department tackles NAS sprawl with Red Hat open source storage software to build scale-out NAS cluster on commodity x86 server hardware

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Nordics push to become European datacentre hub

  Do growing datacentre investments in the Nordic countries by IT giants really signal the region is the best place in Europe to site servers?

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Salesforce offers dedicated infrastructure with HP

  Salesforce.com has announced a partnership with HP that will offer its services on dedicated infrastructure within its multi-tenant platform

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Scottish environment agency cuts carbon through desktop virtualisation

  A quarter of staff at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) are accessing applications via Citrix

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Movie FX house gets Avere NAS caching for Gravity production

  Movie special effects production shop Framestore deploys Avere NAS acceleration and caching to boost access to high-resolution movie files in 1PB storage infrastructure

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Cardiff chooses BT for free Wi-Fi project

  The Welsh capital signs a deal with BT in its bid to become a ‘super connected city’

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Cisco forecasts revenue declines

  Networking giant Cisco expects revenues to fall by up to 10% this quarter as it fails to build momentum in emerging markets

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Gartner: "UK sees fastest falling PC shipments in Western Europe"

  PC sales to UK businesses slumped by more than a quarter between July and September 2013, according to research by Gartner.

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Further education college graduates to near all-virtual with Dell Compellent SAN

  College of North West London replaces ageing EMC SAN with tiered storage for virtual machines and apps on Dell Compellent SC040s

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  IT spending up as companies invest in digital technology

  Businesses are stepping up their spending on IT as they invest in strategic digital technologies, a CIO survey by Deloitte reveals

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  School gets Nimble hybrid flash and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

  Berkshire private college has revamped data protection with Nimble hybrid flash storage and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  University cuts software installation time from days to hours

  The University of Dundee claims to have reduced the time its central IT department takes to install software to over 1,300 academics from days to hours, after investing in privilege management software

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Atlantis VDI storage helps hospitals save £500,000 a year

  Leicester hospitals study Atlantis ILIO flash caching to boost VDI storage efficiency and cut £500,000 a year from hardware refresh

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Red Hat and Intel launch educational initiative to drive OpenStack cloud adoption

  Red Hat and Intel have collaborated to launch an initiative called On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack to help accelerate enterprise uptake of OpenStack

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Teradata goes cost neutral in the cloud

  Teradata has announced that its database, analytics platform and applications will also be available in the cloud, initially in the US

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  G-Cloud raises the ceiling again for government IT procurement

  The fourth version of of G-Cloud - G4 - has gone live, aiming to provide more SMEs a chance to win government IT contracts

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop

  Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Apple’s profits fall as iPad sales flatten

  Apple’s quarterly profits have dropped year on year, despite the increase in iPhone sales

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Uncertain energy policies crippling UK datacentre industry’s future

  Uncertainty on energy policies could cause potential investors in the UK’s datacentre industry to look abroad instead, experts warn

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Loughborough University implements 400 virtual desktops

  Loughborough University has cut maintenance costs and enabled a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme for academics with virtual desktops.

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider

  Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Capital markets set to increase cloud investment, predicts Ovum

  Both the buy side and sell side of the capital markets are set to increase their IT spend on cloud computing services, says research firm

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Help for Heroes picks hybrid cloud to optimise databases and website

  Help for Heroes is building a hybrid cloud to optimise performance and resilience of the charity’s websites and databases

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Samsung reports record Q3 profits of £4.8bn

  Samsung has reported record third quarter profits of £4.8bn driven mainly by revenues from memory chips

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Microsoft shares up on strong Q3 results

  Microsoft shares rose 6% on third quarter earnings of $5.2bn, a 17% increase compared with the same period the year before

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  NTT Europe saves time with Sepaton data deduplication VTL deployment

  NTT Europe was sick of tape libraries “shoeshining” so went for a $2.5m deployment of Sepaton data deduplication virtual tape libraries to slash backup and restore times

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Firms using cloud for competitive advantage double revenue, claims IBM study

  Firms using cloud platforms robustly for analytics, collaboration and CRM are reporting nearly double the revenues of those that are more cautious

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Michael Dell lays out enterprise plans for re-privatised Dell

  In a keynote presentation at the Dell Technology Camp in Paris, Michael Dell outlined how the newly re-privatised firm will target the enterprise

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner

  Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Apple makes Mac operating system software free to download

  Apple has made its latest Mac operating system, OS X Mavericks, available to download for free from the Mac App Store.

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  The commercial reality of Huawei’s trust issues

  The Chinese firm is working tirelessly to tell the world it can be trusted but, the US remains unwilling to budge

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Apple tablet slims down with iPad Air as competition grows

  Apple has launched a smaller and lighter iPad, the iPad Air, which the supplier claims to be a leap ahead in tablet computing

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  75% of UK IT leaders believe in big data benefits, finds EMC

  Three-quarters of UK IT leaders surveyed by EMC see business benefits of big data analytics, yet nearly half fail to see clear ROI case

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  SAP reports in-memory Hana boost in Q3 2013 results

  SAP has posted double-digit growth for Q3 2013, partly due to a boost in Hana sales

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy

  Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Microsoft withdraws faulty Windows RT 8.1 update for Surface tablets

  Microsoft has widthdrawn its Windows 8.1 update for Surface RT tablets after some users reported system crashes

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Mobile operators ready to embrace Wi-Fi

  The CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance claims ‘the era of reticence and resentment is gone’ and mobile operators are now looking to how Wi-Fi can benefit them, rather than seeing it as their enemy

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  EU forces manufacturers to develop universal mobile charger

  MEPs will amend the European Parliament’s radio equipment directive forcing mobile manufacturers to make their handsets compatible with a standard power source

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  EC: Europe should become a ‘trusted cloud region’ in the post-Prism age

  European cloud providers must turn the Prism revelations into an opportunity to build trusted cloud services, says the EC

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Government overhauls security classification to fit digital age

  In its first overhaul since World War II the government is consolidating six security bands to three with a system deemed more appropriate in the digital age.

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Lenovo on track to be top provider of business technology

  Lenovo is on track to become the leading PC maker in the European market, according to a report by Gartner.

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  IBM's hardware and services businesses decline as overall business drops 4%

  IBM has reported revenues of $23.7bn for the third quarter of 2013, down 4% from the same quarter last year

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Windows 8.1: Microsoft targets the enterprise with new Start button

  Microsoft has brought back the Start button with the general availability of Windows 8.1

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Air France offers mobile alerts to passengers

  Air France is developing mobile apps that will allow passengers to receive real-time travel alerts and book flights on their mobile devices

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Swiss train drivers equipped with iPads to save millions in energy costs

  Switzerland’s rail network is equipping train drivers with iPads that will advise them on the optimum speed to save millions in energy costs

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform

  Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Huawei confirms UK R&D centre

  Huawei says it will build an R&D centre as part of its £1.3bn UK investment after the firm's CEO met Chancellor George Osborne

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Intel profits dip as glitch delays Broadwell chip

  Intel profits dipped after it announced that production of its next-generation PC chip, Broadwell, will be delayed by a quarter

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  VSan a work-in-progress in VMware software-defined storage plan

  VMware’s VSan storage virtualisation is all set for general availability, but even VMware execs say it’ll be a while before it’s fit for enterprise-level vSphere storage use cases

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  Datacentre traffic to triple by 2017 with cloud as biggest traffic source

  Global datacentre traffic will grow threefold to reach 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017, study finds

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  VMworld 2013: VMware acquires Desktone to for cloud computing

  VMware has acquired desktop as a service provider Dsktone in a bid to deliver a cloud-based PC for about the cost of a laptop

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Italian university reduces costs by 23% with cloud platform

  Italy’s first open university, Marconi University, has launched an IT project to host its e-learning services on a cloud platform

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  VMworld 2013: Hertz deploys thin clients using VMware across Europe

  Car rental firm Hertz is using VMware to virtualise 4,000 PCs across its European operations

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Scottish Government pilots Windows 8 tablets to improve services

  The Scottish government is piloting how Windows 8 could be used to improve citizen relationship

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Case study: South Staffordshire College leads technology revolution in education

  South Staffordshire College is to open a digital campus, where students will be encouraged to immerse themselves in education through tech

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Building railways not broadband is a ‘strategic mistake’

  The chief technology officer for Microsoft in EMEA claims the government is making a mistake investing billions into HS2 rather than broadband infrastructure which could enable more mobile working

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Case study: Sky Broadband looks to scale with Cisco

  Sky Broadband ISP chooses Cisco’s new Network Convergence System (NCS) to meet the demand of its growing customer base

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Orange builds datacentre in Normandy to boost cloud services

  Telecoms operator Orange, has built a 16,000m² datacentre facility in Val-de-Reuil, Normandy

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Former BlackBerry CEO considers buying firm

  Mike Lazaridis ups his stake in BlackBerry and is in talks with fellow co-founder Doug Fregin about buying the struggling mobile manufacturer

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Fibre Channel vs FCoE. Fibre Channel rules. For now

  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged network adapters (CNA) offer storage and networking on one infrastructure, but what are the pros and cons of moving to FCoE?

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  PC sales continue to slump despite signs of economic recovery

  PC shipments have slumped to the lowest level since the height of the recession in 2008

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  BT to offer mobile services over EE network

  The telecoms giant has announced EE is its preferred bidder as it looks to re-enter the mobile market as an MVNO

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  Case study: Bensons for Beds owner opts for third-party datacentre and managed services

  Owner of Bensons for Beds and Harveys furniture stores outsources IT infrastructure and adopts third-party datacentre

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Modular datacentre cheaper than ‘bricks and mortar’ datacentre

  A modular datacentre may cost an enterprise 14% less than a traditional datacentre, according to a research by DCD Intelligence

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Alcatel-Lucent to axe 10,000 staff

  The networking company’s new CEO continues his cost saving plan by wiping almost 14% of its global workforce

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Rural 10% forced to wait for broadband

  The most rural areas of the UK may have to wait for BT to complete the BDUK broadband roll-out before they get connected

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Hybrid IT becomes a reality as cloud goes mainstream in the UK

  Over 60% of organisations in the UK have formally adopted at least one cloud-based service

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Actuary gets NetApp, rejects flash drives, Vblocks and FlexPods

  Number-crunching actuarial consultants Hymans Robertson opt for spinning disk plus flash cache over flash drives and reject Vblock and FlexPod converged stack products

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  UK companies missing from top 100 innovators

  UK companies have failed to make it onto a global ranking of the 100 most innovative organisations