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• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Server shipments up but revenues down

  More servers were shipped in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period last year but revenues for the suppliers fell, according to the latest report from Gartner.

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  BT to recruit 150 engineers in Scotland

  BT is creating 150 new posts in Scotland to help with its broadband roll-out across the country

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Case study: Seadrill migrates in-house datacentre to virtual private cloud in six months

  Offshore drilling company Seadrill moved its in-house datacentre in Norway to HP's virtual private cloud infrastructure in the UK in six months

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  ARM buys Sensinode for ‘internet of things’ push

  ARM acquires the start-up to boost communication capabilities between devices and gain a stronger place in the open standards community

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  BT to shut down dial-up in September

  BT tempts its customers over to broadband services, although also offers PlusNet narrowband alternative for those outside of its footprint

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  VMware strengthens cloud and software-defined datacentre portfolio at VMworld 2013

  At VMworld 2013, VMware launched products and services to accelerate enterprise adoption of software-defined datacentre architecture

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  The end of the Ballmer era for Microsoft

  Microsoft’s eccentric CEO will step down from his role with12 months, so what does that mean for the future of the firm?

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding drive fails to raise target $32m

  After breaking the record for crowdfunding, a drive to raise $32m for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone has failed to meet its target

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Delta Air Lines roll out 19,000 Nokia 820s

  The US airline teams with Microsoft, Nokia and Avanade to speed up in-flight shopping for travellers

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  HP revenue growth unlikely in 2014, says CEO Meg Whitman

  HP reports revenues of $27.2bn for the quarter ending 31 July 2013, down 8% compared with the same period the year before

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Worcestershire County Council overlaps connected areas with BDUK broadband roll-out plans

  Worcestershire County Council lists 14 parishes as ‘intervention areas’ despite funding superfast broadband, breaking EU rules

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  VMware must demonstrate it is a ‘serious IaaS provider’ at VMworld: Gartner

  As VMworld 2013 is about to kickoff, Gartner analyst explains what users can expect at the event and VMware’s future in the mobile and cloud era

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Fleet management firm LeasePlan embraces private cloud for BYOD

  LeasePlan is implementing private cloud services for flexible IT infrastructure and a centralised virtual desktop to support BYOD

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Ofcom champions faster satellite connections

  The telecoms regulator launches a consultation into using higher frequency bands for satellite broadband connections, enabling faster speed for trains, aeroplanes and ships

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Hempsons Solicitors cuts costs with Enterasys network

  Legal health specialist Hempsons Solicitors rips out its existing Cisco infrastructure for increased functionality and cost savings

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Case study: Derby school upgrades IT to make teaching more engaging

  Noel-Baker Community School virtualises datacentre to help students learn in a more engaging way and to provide an automated IT infrastructure

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Multimillion-pound broadband project axed in Yorkshire

  Despite millions of taxpayer’s pounds sunk into the Digital Region project in South Yorkshire, the councils involved decide to drop it to save £12.5m

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Dell struggles as founder prepares for vote on going private

  Dell has reported second quarter revenue of $14.5bn, flat year over year, with a big decline in PC sales

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Virgin Money keeps mainframe ticking over by extending Fujitsu contract

  Virgin Money has extended a contract with Fujitsu to prolong the life of its mainframe system until 2018

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Public cloud limitations drive enterprises to hybrid cloud, shows study

  Many enterprises are turning to a hybrid cloud model as the limitations of public cloud platforms become more apparent

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Cisco cuts 4,000 staff

  Despite announcing record results, the networking giant Cisco says 4,000 jobs will go

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Security and accreditation obstacles act as G-Cloud barriers, claim SMEs

  Despite winning over 60% of G-Cloud contracts, a group of SMEs claim that security accreditation is a roadblock to winning government business

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Case study: Car supermarket deploys cloud for agility and business expansion

  With inconsistent IT infrastructure and dated hardware hindering growth and expansion plans, Motorpoint turned to private cloud

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Brocade profits rise despite stifled sales

  Increased profits offset a drop in revenues at Brocade due to recovery in the storage market and cost reductions elsewhere

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Enterprise Ethernet services market to reach $62bn by 2018, says Ovum

  Ovum has predicted that the enterprise Ethernet market will exceed $62bn (£40bn) by 2018, growing 13.6% every year

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Microsoft overtakes BlackBerry to become third player in smartphone market

  Microsoft has increased its global smartphone market share to 3.3%, overtaking BlackBerry for the first time

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey

  Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Smart and Diablo launch Ulltra DIMM memory channel storage

  Ulltra DIMM memory channel storage from Smart and Diablo puts flash on DDR3 cards to outperform PCIe flash

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Google, IBM and Nvidia form datacentre consortium OpenPOWER

  Big enterprise technology stakeholders including Google, IBM and Nvidia are forming a datacentre alliance called OpenPOWER

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Luton and Dunstable Hospital finds IT efficiency with converged infrastructure

  Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has integrated IT into clinical workflows with converged infrastructure

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Vodafone announces 4G launch date

  Vodafone becomes the third mobile operator to confirm the launch of its 4G network, which will go live on the same day as O2

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  UK PC market struggles as buyers wait for next Intel processors

  People in the UK bought 13% fewer PCs in Q2 2013 than in Q2 2012, according to the latest market data from Gartner

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  UK average broadband speed rises

  The average download speed for broadband in the UK has reached 14.7Mbps, but take-up of superfast connections still low

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Case study: Birmingham rolls out free public Wi-Fi

  Birmingham City Council is working with Virgin Media Business to bring free Wi-Fi to public spaces and encourage mobile operators to invest in better 3G and 4G signals

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Gigabit internet speeds brought to Bournemouth businesses

  CityFibre launches leased line broadband service in the seaside town of Bournemouth

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Ken Brill, datacentre visionary and founder of Uptime Institute passes away

  Kenneth Brill, the datacentre innovator and founder of Uptime Institute has passed away at the age of 68

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Android takes a 14% bite out Apple's pie

  Shipments of Apple iPads have declined 14% compared with Q2 2012 according to the latest market share data from analyst Canalys

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Facebook's datacentre carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions rise

  Despite its focus on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy resources, Facebook’s datacentre carbon footprint increased 52% in 2012

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Surface blasts $900m hole in Microsoft empire

  Microsoft’s latest 10Q filing with the SEC, has shown it took a $900m hit associated with the Surface tablet and paid an EU fine of $733m

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Case study: Nexor dumps ageing proprietary operating system for open source OS

  IT services company Nexor is migrating to the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for efficiency

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Digital TV spectrum clear for 4G

  Ofcom confirms the 4G spectrum it auctioned off earlier this year is now cleared and ready to be used by mobile operators

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  HTC warns of first-ever operating loss

  Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC warns in its second quarter financial results that first-ever operating loss is likely in the third quarter

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  Customer demand for digital shakes up banking business cases

  Customer demand for new ways of banking is forcing retail banks to look at new ways to justify IT investments

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  Windows XP migration: Reassess your desktop IT strategy

  The cost of PCs has remained pretty stable over the past year, but people are expected to pay a big premium for hybrid devices. Is it time to rethink desktop IT?

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  DCMS reveals locations for mobile signal project

  Department for Culture, Media and Sport publishes a map showing UK areas that will benefit from £150m mobile infrastructure project

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  CW500: Internet of things to pose 'huge security and privacy risks'

  The internet of things will pose enormous security and privacy challenges, a recent CW500 Club meeting heard

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Cisco reseller arrested for fraud

  Head of Network Genesis is accused of buying fake Cisco equipment and selling it on as the real thing to make a profit

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Symantec Web Gateway flaw enables hacker surveillance

  Security flaws in Symantec’s Web Gateway appliance expose users to surveillance of all internet activities, says SEC Consult

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Barclays bank trials touchscreen devices in branches

  Barclays bank is to trial touchscreen devices in branches to add to its digital credentials following its deployment of wireless

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Amazon declares $7m loss due to operating costs

  Online retailer Amazon has reported a second quarter loss of $7m, despite a 22% rise in sales to $15.7bn

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Services boost drives VMware double-digit revenue growth

  Virtualisation and IaaS provider VMware reported revenues for the second quarter of $1.24bn, an 11% increase compared to 2012

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Balfour Beatty tackles IT simplification through Fujitsu contract

  Balfour Beatty signed an agreement with Fujitsu to transform its IT infrastructure and outsource second line support

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Dell updates OpenStack cloud and Hadoop service as buyout vote delayed

  Michael Dell submits revised a buyout proposal – delaying a vote until next week – but it was business as usual in the cloud division

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Juniper Networks bids farewell to CEO as profits rocket

  Kevin Johnson announces his retirement on the same day the networking firm records a rise in profits of 70%

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Mimecast enables 2GB Outlook attachments

  Mimecast has introduced Large File Send for Outlook, a service to enable users to send large attachments

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  IBM updates zEnterprise mainframe products for cloud, mobile and analytics

  IBM updates System z mainframe products, launches cheaper, entry-level mainframe and OpenStack cloud integration features

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Ubuntu crowd sources funding for PC smartphone hybrid

  Ubuntu has invited early adopters to join crowd-funding ventures to launch Ubuntu Edge, a hybrid PC and mobile phone platform

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Monarch builds datacentre for Boeing 787 Dreamliner training

  Monarch Aircraft Engineering has picked a datacentre facility at its Luton engineering base for Boeing 787 Dreamliner training

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Microsoft takes $900m hit on Surface RT

  Microsoft has reported net income of $4.97bn on revenues of $19.9bn for the quarter ending 30 June 2013

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Government awards £1m fund to help UK datacentres cut carbon footprint

  The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has awarded £1m to help datacentres reduce their carbon footprints

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Intel Q2 profits down, but in line with expectations

  Chip maker Intel reported a second quarter profit of $2bn, down 29% from a year ago, roughly in line with analysts’ estimates

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Colt deploys a petabyte of SolidFire all-flash arrays

  European telecoms provider Colt rolls out more than a petabyte of SolidFire all-flash array storage to support cloud services

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  IBM misses revenue expectations again

  IBM has reported second quarter revenues of $24.9bn, missing market estimates of $25.39bn

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  BT accused of ‘bullying tactics’ over BDUK

  BT accused of bullying local authorities while negotiating broadband roll-out schemes, threatening to put them ‘to the bottom of the list’

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Egnyte synchronises Google Drive with enterprise storage

  Hybrid cloud and on-premises provider Egnyte has integrated its product with Google Drive

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Emulex shakes up leadership with Q4 still unclear

  Current Emulex CEO James McCluney becomes chairman of the board as COO Jeffrey Benck takes his place

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Microsoft slashes the price of its Surface tablet

  Microsoft has cut the price of its flagship Surface tablet

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  National broadband projects key to UN goals

  The Broadband Commission claims national projects are the best way to ensure the benefits of the internet are enjoyed by all

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Young’s signs Wi-Fi deal with BT

  A deal between BT and the Young and Co.’s Brewery is set to bring free Wi-Fi to its customers by the end of the year

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Carl Icahn raises bid for Dell

  US investor Carl Icahn is to raise his offer for PC maker Dell to try to stop a $24.4bn buyout by company founder Michael Dell

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  O2 extends 4G backhaul with Virgin Media Business

  Mobile operator O2 will use Virgin Media Business’s superfast fibre network to bring capacity for its 4G roll-out later in 2013

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Steve Ballmer launches Microsoft 2.0

  Steve Ballmer plans to reinvent Microsoft with a big push to develop hardware from phones to set top boxes, as it attempts to remain relevant

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Ofcom proposes cuts to wholesale broadband charges

  The telecoms regulator wants to reduce the wholesale price BT charges to smaller ISPs, which it hopes will lead to price drops for broadband and landline packages

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Windows out of touch as PC shipments crash

  All manufacturers except Lenovo showed a massive decline in PC sales, with buyers continuing to purchase tablets over laptop devices

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Icahn wants judge to appraise Dell buyout offer

  Billionaire US investor Carl Icahn says he will go to court to get a better price for his stake in the computer manufacturer Dell

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Apple guilty of e-book price fixing

  Apple has been found guilty of conspiring with five publishers to raise the prices of e-books to challenge Amazon's dominance of the market

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Avamar and NetWorker to merge for 'backup-less backup'

  EMC looks forward to backup as an embedded process, with apps and hypervisors copying versioned replicas in native format

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  EMC upgrades Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy

  EMC Data Domain data deduplication boxes get faster CPUs and bigger disks; Avamar gets NAS and virtual machine enhancements; NetWorker gets point upgrade; Mozy gets AD integration

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Today’s datacentres are not fit for the cloud, shows study

  Some 91% of IT pros admit their current IT requires substantial upgrades to meet the requirements of virtualisation and cloud

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Colt adds 1.65MW of additional datacentre capacity to its Dutch facility

  Colt is adding an additional 1,000 m2 and 1.65MW of datacentre capacity to its network-neutral facility in the Netherlands

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Ashridge Business School revamps network with HP

  Ashridge Business School, in Berkhamsted, rolls out HP FlexCampus to encourage its students to bring their own devices

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Slow storage market hits Brocade revenues

  Networking firm Brocade blames SAN sales not meeting expectations for a revenue slide of 8% in its second quarter

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Computer genius, Doug Engelbart, dies, aged 88

  Doug Engelbart, who introduced the world to the computer mouse, has died at the age of 88

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Are alternative mobile operators the answer to roaming charges?

  EU law to allow travellers to choose alternative operators abroad takes effect in 2014. But will operators be ready and is there a better way?

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Microsoft unveils prototype 3D touchcreen

  Microsoft is working on a 3D touchscreen that enables users to 'feel' through tactile feedback and manipulate images

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Middlesex University digitises snail mail

  Middlesex University has digitised paper mail delivery with a digital mail service provided through a managed service from Canon partner, CDS

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  Nokia buys out Siemens from NSN joint venture

  Nokia is paying €1.7bn to take the Siemens out of Nokia Siemens Networks

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  East Surrey College refreshes ageing XP desktop estate with VDI

  East Surrey College has refreshed its ageing desktop estate with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  BlackBerry Z10 shipments a mystery as company posts $84m loss

  BlackBerry has reported a net loss of $84m on revenue of $3bn, compared with the $518m loss for the same quarter last year

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Power supply is top consideration when choosing datacentres, shows study

  Power supply is most important to managers choosing a new datacentre, says UK and European Data Centre Barometer study

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Surveyor E.surv builds on Nimble hybrid flash arrays

  House valuation surveyor E.surv retires creaking Dell EqualLogic iSCSI arrays and boosts IOPS with a pair of Nimble Storage CS240 SAN with front end MLC plus bulk SATA drives

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Sepaton boosts VTL integration with TSM and Symantec

  Sepaton has upgraded the software on its S2100-E3 2925 virtual tape library to offer support for Symantec Netbackup OST over Fibre Channel and boosted TSM integration via Gresham

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Fusion-io upgrades ioTurbine with VM flash cache choices

  Previously only available as a hypervisor-plus-VMs deployment, ioTurbine can now apply flash cache intelligence where users want it in the physical/virtual server environment

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Scality CEO: Why would any start-up go to Europe?

  The French CEO of the object storage specialist vents his frustration at the difficulty of breaking into Europe for US start-ups

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Windows 8.1 plus new processors improve PC market

  The introduction of new Intel processors running the Windows 8.1 update will slow the decline of PC sales according to Gartner

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  EMC to build ViPR adapters for other suppliers’ arrays

  EMC won’t need to wait for other storage companies to build adapters for its ViPR storage virtualisation/big data platform. If they don’t write them, EMC will do it for them.