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• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  BMI Healthcare assesses mobile devices for hospital consultants

  Healthcare provider BMI Healthcare is evaluating mobile device management to give consultants flexible access to patient records

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Cisco plans to buy UK-based Ubiquisys

  US networking giant Cisco wants to extend its service provider portfolio by picking up UK-based small cell specialist Ubiquisys

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Vanhamme: 'The start of the journey for Dell'

  Dell’s newest EMEA executive, Dominique Vanhamme, has high hopes for his firm to take on the big incumbents with network virtualisation

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Will the iPad ever be a true corporate device or will Microsoft usurp it?

  The iPad is used in enterprises today but will it ever be a true corporate device or just one that IT departments create workarounds to support?

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  St Andrews upgrades to Dell Compellent SANs with SSD tier

  St Andrews university gets dual FCOE-linked Compellent SANs with an SSD tier as it consolidates storage from DAS/NAS at 50 locations to two sites for disaster recovery provision

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  US Army practises poor data security on mobile devices

  Pentagon inspector general finds smartphones and tablets the US Army buys are not configured to protect sensitive data and allow remote wipe

• April 02, 2013 02 Apr'13

  Dell filing reveals poor state of PC industry

  Dell has revealed the dire state of the PC industry, poor take-up of Windows and the need to invest in research and development

• April 02, 2013 02 Apr'13

  Mobile operators must change tack to claw back revenues

  Operators need to find new sources of revenue and use unique skills to tackle the threat of OTT providers, according to Juniper Research report

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending

  The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  Total shuns flash storage for 17PB SGI HPC supercomputer

  Oil company Total unveils 17PB €60m supercomputer based on short-stroked Sata drives and tape. Flash storage rejected as too costly until the price comes down

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  EC proposes broadband installation savings

  European Commission (EC) proposes to cut costs of installing fibre broadband by 30% to address the lack of standards across Europe

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Watch out for hidden Wi-Fi costs

  IT departments must keep track of Wi-Fi roaming costs, study warns

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Icahn may join forces with Blackstone to win Dell from its founder

  US billionaire investor Carl Icahn may join forces with private-equity group Blackstone to outbid Michael Dell for the company he founded

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  Oracle continues telecoms push with Tekelec buy

  Larry Ellison’s firm continues its move into the telecoms space with its latest acquisition

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  Carl Icahn and Blackstone fight Michael Dell for Dell PC company

  US billionaire investor Carl Icahn and private-equity group Blackstone will fight Michael Dell in a bidding war for the computer company he founded

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  University shuns cloud archiving and Quantum for Spectra Logic tape

  Bristol University builds Spectra Logic tape archive with NexSan disk front-end, rejecting cloud archive due to uncertainties over data control

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Chris Shaw, IT director, Intel

  Intel faces the same IT challenges as many large enterprises. IT director Chris Shaw discusses how the chipmaker's IT department approached virtualisation

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  HP shareholders challenge directors

  HP shareholders have challenged the board with a strong protest vote against the re-election of five directors at its annual meeting

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  EasyJet rolls out managed Windows 7 and Office 2010 desktops

  EasyJet has refreshed PCs and migrated to Windows 7 to improve efficiency and reduce staff dissatisfaction with IT

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  QLogic launches FabricCache for shared server flash

  QLogic merges PCIe server flash and cache management in FabricCache QLE10000 to share flash cache between servers for clustered applications

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CESG says BlackBerry’s new BB10 software not secure enough

  The government's technical security advisor CESG says BlackBerry's new BB10 software is not secure enough for essential work

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  ARM will remain independent, says incoming CEO Simon Segars

  ARM president Simon Segars has vowed to maintain the chip designer’s independence when he takes over from outgoing CEO Warren East

• March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

  ARM CEO Warren East steps down

  Warren East, CEO of semiconductor firm ARM, is retiring from the company after almost 12 years in the leadership role

• March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

  RAF Operations Wing pilots iPads

  The Operations Wing of RAF Brize Norton is using 20 iPads and five iPad minis as part of a trial to evaluate flight management technologies

• March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

  Easynet opts for HP compute/storage with SSD tier for Agile Platform

  Managed services provider Easynet shuns point solutions for HP compute and storage with SSD tier for Agile Platform end-to-end services

• March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

  John Riccitiello steps down as Electronic Arts chief

  Games developer Electronic Arts (EA) is looking for a new CEO after John Riccitiello announced he will step down at the end of March 2013

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  Fujitsu pulls out of BDUK

  Fujitsu, BT’s only rival in BDUK – the government-funded roll-out of superfast broadband – has withdrawn from the process

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  ID7 buy takes Fusion-io deeper into software-defined storage

  Server flash pioneer Fusion-io buys ID7 for its Linux SCSI stack storage expertise and will offer products for hyperscale storage later in 2013

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Samsung launches Galaxy S4 with improved software and Knox security

  Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4 – which was released in New York – aims to boost software and Android OS security

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  Violin Memory enters PCIe server flash SSD market with Velocity

  Violin Memory enters the PCIe server flash SSD market with Velocity cards that aim at server flash pioneer Fusion-io, with claims of doubled price/performance advantages

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Case Study: Telestroke Network hastens stroke treatment

  The public sector winner of our European User Awards for Networking worked with Virgin Media to bring treatment to stroke patients

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Cisco and Multiven lock horns over legal battle

  Cisco and Multiven enter a public feud, accusing one another of software and data theft

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Google Android OS tablet sales will overtake iPads in 2013, says IDC

  Sales of Google Android operating system (OS) tablets will overtake Apple iPad sales for the first time in 2013, says research company IDC

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  UK’s million missing laptops a data time bomb, says report

  The million laptops that have gone missing in past year are a business data time bomb, says Sony’s VAIO Digital Business report 2013

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  US billionaire investor Carl Icahn reviews Dell’s books

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he will review the books of PC maker Dell as he tries to prevent its sale to founder Michael Dell

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Lamouche jumps ship from ST Ericsson

  ST Ericsson CEO resigns as the telecoms chip firm is dumped by partner STMicroeletronics

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Midlands health trust trials BlackBerry 10 OS on PlayBook with Z10 roll-out

  The Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust tests the Blackberry 10 operating system (OS) for a mobile fleet deployment

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Samsung loses UK patent battle with Apple

  Samsung has lost its UK patent battle with Apple, days after announcing it would seek further cuts to the damages awarded to Apple in the US

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn enters fray over Dell’s sale

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has entered the fray over the proposed sale of PC maker Dell to the company’s founder

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Google’s Motorola Mobility to cut 10% of workforce

  Google’s Motorola Mobility is to cut 1,200 jobs – 10% of its global workforce.

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  CIOs offering tablets over laptops

  Half of the CIOs in mid-sized business across the UK are considering giving employees tablets rather than laptops

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Apple iPhone growth outstrips Android OS smartphones in the US

  Apple's iPhone has overtaken Google Android operating system (OS) mobiles, which had a second slow month in a row in December 2012

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Dell board seeks alternative to founder’s $24bn offer

  The board of manufacturer Dell is looking for rival bids for the company amid shareholder anger over founder Michael Dell's $24bn offer

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Google ousts Apple as investors' technology favourite

  Google has ousted Apple as a favourite among investors because of growing confidence in Google’s ability to capture advertising revenues

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  EMC XtremIO flash array available July, server flash cards expanded

  EMC's XtremIO flash array will be available in July as server flash capacities are expanded and flash cache roadmapped

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Computers cannot replace human ingenuity, say business bosses

  Fears that machines will encroach on human skills in the workforce are greatly exaggerated, a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit claims

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Airlines to become biggest investors in mobile services

  By 2015, airlines will be the biggest spenders on technologies to help them engage digitally with mobile consumers, research finds

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Lack of killer apps curbs PC refresh

  CIOs used to refresh PCs because they wanted to run the latest software. Now, software is not compelling enough to justify a PC upgrade

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Rapid malware growth for smartphones, reports G Data

  Malware is increasingly targeting smartphones and tablet PCs with an Android operating system, according to a malware study from G Data

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Logicalis saves 2e2's UK managed services arm

  Logicalis has taken over the European business of defunct IT services supplier 2e2, which went bust in January 2013, owing millions to creditors

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Derbyshire council saves £200,000 with tiered storage architecture

  Derbyshire County Council has made substantial savings using NetApp NAS and Sata drives to create tiered storage with integrator Phoenix

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Samsung seeks cuts to Apple patent payments

  Samsung Electronics wants a review of the patent damages awarded to Apple after winning a reduction of about 45% to the $1.05bn bill

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Serco opts for Quantum DXi data deduplication and saves £1.3m

  As part of a £20m technology refresh to its private cloud services, Serco chooses Quantum data deduplication hardware to make £1.3m storage savings

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Local government IT departments must plan for digital skills shortage

  IT managers in local government face a shortage in digital skills as workers demand the ability to use consumer IT in the workplace, says Socitm

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises

  HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  Intel steps up Android chipset efforts at MWC

  Intel hopes to increase its mobile presence with more powerful systems on a chip based on Atom processors, at Mobile World Congress

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Will the Nokia portfolio win over the world?

  As the former leader of the mobile market tries to entice customers to use its handsets, we ask whether the strategy will succeed

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Nokia Siemens Networks unveils Liquid Applications

  New technology enables data-rich applications to be run from base stations, reducing latency in mobile networks

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  HP back in with consumer tablet

  HP launches Slate 7 tablet, its latest attempt to break into the market, which runs Android Jelly Bean and offers Google services

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Can Huawei compete with Apple and Samsung?

  At the Mobile World Congress, Huawei unveiled its high-end smartphone – the Ascend P2 – and laid out its plans to topple the big guns

• February 24, 2013 24 Feb'13

  Mozilla announces handsets for Firefox OS

  Alcatel, LG and ZTE will be the first mobile manufacturers to bring Firefox OS handsets to the market

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Vodafone chief appointed Alcatel Lucent CEO

  Struggling telecoms firm, Alcatel Lucent names its new chief executive officer (CEO) as Michel Combes, to take over from 1 April 2013

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  HP's Whitman sticks with PC business as revenue crashes

  HP CEO Meg Whitman reports that the ailing computer company has a lot of work ahead to rebuild its enterprise business.

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  4G could entice mobile operators to SDN

  A Juniper Networks executive claims the refresh needed for 4G networks could lead mobile operators to become early adopters of software defined networking

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  Dell results highlight PC decline

  As it prepares to reprivatise, Dell has reported an 11% decrease in revenue for Q4 2012, compared to the same period last year.

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  Case study: City of London School goes wireless

  The independent boy’s school installs a wireless network and mobile device management systems to enable staff, pupils and visitors to get connected

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  CIO interview: Carol Fawcett CIO of Dell software

  Fawcett deployed a 23 country BYOD strategy while at software firm, Quest, which was acquired by Dell. She is now hoping to take her experience to Dell.

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  McAfee warns of NFC threat to mobiles

  As near field communications (NFC) becomes a more popular feature on mobile phones, more attacks based on the technology will arise

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  HTC One X and iPhone 5 rank highest for customer satisfaction

  In terms of satisfaction, HTC’s One X and Apple’s iPhone 5 are the UK’s favourite handsets

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Tax charges lead to losses for Brocade

  The networking firm reports record revenues, but confirms a tax charge pushed it to report losses of $21m

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Huawei bets on cloud for SDN strategy

  Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei, hopes its cloud-based software defined networking (SDN) strategy will help service providers simplify networks

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Nutanix CEO: Converged storage makes SAN look like the mainframe

  Nutanix CEO interview: How converged storage will make the SAN obsolete; and the threat from VMware’s VSAN storage virtualisation plans

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  iOS 6.1 security flaw allows iPhone lock screen bypass

  Apple may have to release another fix for its recently released operating system update iOS 6.1 to protect against thieves and hackers

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  European Commission funds research to eliminate latency

  Researchers from universities and enterprises across Europe are undertaking a project to minimise latency over the internet

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  US Army boots up VDI with Atlantis ILIO flash caching software

  US Army Medical Command equips 11,000 staff at six hospitals with virtual desktop access and login times slashed to 30 seconds using Atlantis ILIO flash caching software

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Mobile phone sales fall in 2012

  Economic pressures and increased market competition are to blame for a 1.7% in the mobile phone market in 2012, according to Gartner

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Mobile operators failing to plan for 4G backhaul

  Network providers not investing in their backhaul to keep performance levels high, despite increase in mobile data and influx of 4G services

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  Apple releases fix for latest iOS update

  Apple has released iOS 6.1.1 as a fix for iPhone 4S users' 3G connections after some mobile operators warned of problems with the latest update to the operating system.

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  Intel and F5 invest into SDN

  Software defined networking has secured new interest this week with Intel investing into Big Switch Networks and F5 acquiring LineRate Systems

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  Intel adds flash cache for Linux, with multi-node write planned

  Intel adds Linux capability to CAS flash cache software product acquired from Nevex last year and plans multiple-node write cache functionality later in 2013

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  SDN adoption plans still stalling in Europe

  TechTarget and Computer Weekly surveys find that less than 10% of organisations looking to implement software defined networking (SDN)

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  Australia to quiz tech giants on pricing

  The Australian parliament has summoned Microsoft, Apple and Adobe to appear before a committee investigating pricing

• February 08, 2013 08 Feb'13

  Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen resigns as company posts losses

  Telecoms hardware manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent reports losses of €1.37bn and confirms CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, head of IT, The Wellcome Trust

  As The Wellcome Trust enters year two of a five-year IT strategy, head of IT Mark Bramwell is preparing to lead some high-profile projects

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Interview: Rob Orr, UK managing director, BlackBerry

  UK managing director of BlackBerry Rob Orr talks about the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system (OS) and Z10 handset

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Raspberry Pi Model A computer goes on sale for £16

  The latest version of the small single-board Raspberry Pi computer – Model A – has gone on sale in Europe at just £16

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Recruitment firm enables BYOD through service management software

  Recruitment company SThree set up a bring-your-own-device scheme by provisioning software through service management software from Hornbill

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Dell goes private helped by $2bn loan from Microsoft

  Michael Dell has succeeded in raising $24bn to buy back the company he founded in 1984, thanks in part to a $2bn loan from Microsoft

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Endpoint backup scales past 100,000 with Druva inSync

  Endpoint backup and BYOD data protection specialist Druva re-architects its inSync product to scale past 100,000 users

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Employee hardware ubiquitous but BYOD policies remain weak, finds survey

  Bring your own device (BYOD) policy remains patchy despite near 100% prevalence and instances of data loss

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Oracle makes UC buy with Acme Packet

  Silicon Valley giant Oracle expands into the IP networking business with the $1.7bn acquisition of Acme Packet

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  HTC forecasts sales decline for sixth consecutive quarter

  Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC has forecast a sales decline for the sixth consecutive quarter in the face of competition from rivals

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Claranet cloud powers Channel 5's Big Brother

  Cloud computing is the only way Channel 5 ‘s IT can cope with spiky traffic driven by calls to action on the Big Brother TV show

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  University shuns HP array features for SIOS host-based replication

  Nottingham university deploys SIOS host-based replication in £500k HP shared storage project across two mirrored sites to provide 2,000 research staff with 0.5PB capacity

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Is BlackBerry 10 enough to woo the business world?

  We ask whether the new BlackBerry 10 software will bring the enterprise back into the fold

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  VMware a highlight as EMC posts record revenue results

  EMC’s revenues of $21.7bn show demand for VMware virtualisation and more growth for storage hardware and RSA security products

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  BlackBerry drops RIM brand at BB10 launch

  Mobile manufacturer chooses launch of its BlackBerry10 OS and first touchscreen phone to drop Research in Motion as its brand name

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Quantum aims at Data Domain and claims 4x throughput advantage

  Quantum launches new disk-based backup data deduplication hardware that offers faster throughput