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• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Met Police needs significant tech investment to overhaul creaking legacy systems

  The Metropolitan Police needs significant capital investment in technology if it is to overhaul its legacy IT infrastructure

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Worldwide government IT spending to remain flat in 2013, says Gartner

  Government organisations worldwide will spend 0.1% less on IT this year, but cloud computing, mobile technologies and IT modernisation remain top IT priorities

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  NHS awards multi-million pound private cloud contract to Manchester-based ANS

  Greater Manchester Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) has signed a three-year multi-million pound cloud contract with ANS

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Microsoft puts Office Mobile on iPhone

  iPhone users can now use Microsoft’s Office Mobile product which is available as a free download from the AppStore

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  EU to probe Android licensing

  The EU is to look at Google’s anti-competitive practices relating to how it sells Android

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Facebook's Arctic datacentre in Luleå, Sweden goes live

  Facebook’s newest datacentre in Luleå, Sweden is turned on to handle live traffic and is storing users’ photos, videos, comments and likes

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  HP beefs up its converged cloud services, launches Cloud OS

  HP updates its Converged Cloud portfolio with features to reduce cost for cloud environments and releases OpenStack-based HP Cloud OS platform

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  NetApp boosts scale and functionality in clustered Ontap 8.2

  NetApp has boosted scalability to 69PB over 24 nodes and met customer needs for SnapMirror functionality in the new version of its clustered NAS operating system, Ontap 8.2

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Colt slashes datacentre power use by 43GWh and saves €4m

  Colt has reduced annual datacentre electricity consumption by 43GWh and saved €4m per year since its energy efficiency programme began

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Universities minister David Willetts backs Chinese telecoms firm Huawei

  Universities and science minister David Willetts praises Huawei a week after the ISC voiced concerns over its involvement in UK infrastructure

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  BMI adopts Avaya to boost communications

  The British Midlands International (BMI) airline installs Avaya's internet protocol (IP) phone system to connect 150 remote workers and two sites

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  CityFibre and Level 3 join forces for gigabit internet

  CityFibre and Level 3 bring their fibre and IP assets together to offer gigabit-speed internet to business across the UK

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  HP boxes clever in flash array fray with 3Par 7450

  HP launches 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array, with operating system and controller hardware that provide flash performance to rival ground-up designed products

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?

  Dell has ditched its public cloud IaaS in favour of partner cloud programme. But will the strategy help secure its future in the cloud era?

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Heineken rolls out new communications network

  Heineken plans to link 60,000 employees across 53 countries using a secure private network from Orange Business Services

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Samsung frightens market with slim Galaxy S4s

  Samsung sees shares slide by more than 6% as investors worry about slowing smartphone growth and a focus on lower-end devices

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Users’ top datacentre pain points

  Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Businesses failing to manage personal devices at work

  Businesses are allowing employees to use personal devices at work but are failing to manage them effectively, survey reveals

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Fruit firm dumps HP servers for EMC VSPEX bunch

  Birmingham exotic fruit firm MWW upgraded from HP servers and DAS to twin EMC VNX SANs under its VSPEX reference architecture and saved about 15% on the HP equivalent

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Worldwide mobile payment value to jump 44% but NFC plunges

  The value of mobile payments made globally in 2013 will be 44% higher than last year, at $235.4bn, but near-field communications (NFC) transactions value dropped 40% after disappointing adoption

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Danish tunnel builder Femern opts for DataCore storage virtualisation

  Femern will use DataCore storage virtualisation in place of EqualLogic array, cutting disk costs by 75%

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Airport authority cuts server deployment time with Dell’s Active Infrastructure

  Indianapolis airport authority cut its server deployment time from three days to less than an hour with Dell’s Active Infrastructure

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure

  Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 and flash array on the way

  Dell upgrades Compellent Storage Center OS to version 6.4 and announces Flash Optimised Solution all-flash array

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  IT not ready to be the ‘Apple Genius Bar’

  Aruba Networks' study shows BYOD will shape future of the enterprise, but CMO says the IT department needs to change for the mobile era

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Irish Life migrates mainframe workload onto Windows

  Insurer Irish Life has migrated 97% of its mainframe workload onto a Windows server environment to save costs and support expansion

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Sky-high Wi-Fi a challenge for Europe

  Satellites, frequencies and finding the cash to invest is holding European airlines back from installing Wi-Fi, according to an industry expert

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Case study: TGI Friday's goes wireless with Aruba

  TGI Friday's across the UK uses wireless technology from Aruba Networks to process payments and has big plans for the future

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Apple faces possible US sales ban on older iPad and iPhone models

  As the International Trade Commission rules Apple infringed a Samsung patent, some older iPad and iPhone models could face a US sales ban

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  A malicious charger could hack Apple devices easily, claim researchers

  A modified phone charger or battery could be used to hack Apple devices, say researchers from Georgia Tech

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Microsoft set to become a smartphone company, says Canalys

  Microsoft is on course to become a dominant player in the smartphone market, according to the latest data from Canalys

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Finance house deploys Tintri hybrid flash array for VMware View VDI

  Fund investment advisor MVision has deployed a VM-centric Tintri hybrid flash array to speed consultant remote access to its VMware View 5.1 virtual desktop infrastructure

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Could mobile manufacturing be heading back to Europe?

  Motorola's announcement of a new plant in the US suggests the West could make a comeback when it comes to mobile manufacturing

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Movie FX shop adds Avere NAS acceleration to BlueArc scale-out NAS

  Video effects specialist Image Engine adds Avere NAS acceleration to provide high-performance cache while retaining BlueArc clustered NAS arrays as bulk storage

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Microsoft's Windows 8.1 update fails to deliver

  Microsoft’s stab at pacifying users has back-fired, as it readies Windows 8.1, which will be available at its Build developer conference next month

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Most employees use personal devices to store business documents

  Over 90% of enterprise workers use personal devices to store, share and access work documents

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  iPads in the boardroom at mining firm Kazakhmys

  The mining company has saved time and money in preparing for board meetings by using iPads and Diligent software

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Intel buys ST-Ericsson’s GNSS business

  US chipmaker has entered into an agreement to buy the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) division of ST-Ericsson

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Small businesses increase IT budgets

  Renegotiations and renewals inevitably bring better terms but businesses could be missing out by sticking with the suppliers they know

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  BIS awards Thales five-year PSN contract

  Thales will provide secure network services to The Insolvency Service for its headquarters, regional offices and datacentres

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Datacentre provider Node4 completes management buyout

  UK datacentre provider Node4 has been bought out by its management to fund further growth and acquisitions in the cloud space

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Headphone technology to boost fibre connections

  New research claims the same technological theory used to create noise-cancelling headphones could boost connections running over fibre

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  EU investigates Apple’s iPhone sales strategy

  The European Commission’s competition division confirms it is looking into the distribution practices of Apple when it comes to its flagship smartphone

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Supermarkets and banks hold the key to mass adoption of mobile payments

  Payment using mobile devices would gain momentum if supermarkets and banks offered payment apps.

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Europe moving faster towards BYOD

  The head of Europe for Citrix believes the region is moving much faster towards embracing bring your own device than US counterparts

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Templeton: Enterprises must think ‘mobile first’

  Citrix CEO Mark Templeton claims mobile enterprise should be the rule and not the exception to make employees more productive

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Network virtualisation threatens telecom suppliers

  Chris Koopmans from Citrix believes network virtualisation offers more opportunities for companies such as Cisco and Juniper

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Lenovo sales increase amid PC market crash

  PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced an increase in sales as its competitors suffer with the slump in the PC market

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Moonshot fails to lift HP's server revenue

  HP’s plans to use the low-powered Moonshot servers to rekindle its ailing commodity server business has yet to deliver meaningful benefits

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  VMware's hybrid cloud to allow users to extend datacentres to public cloud

  VMware has launched vCloud Hybrid Service IaaS to allow users to extend their datacentre to the public cloud without rewriting applications

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Apple calls on the US to cut corporate tax

  Apple has called on the US government to cut corporate tax rates after admitting to sheltering at least $30bn of international profits in Irish subsidiaries

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Dell appoints new UK head to drive services transformation

  As the company attempts to reinvent itself, Dell has a new UK head, Tim Griffin who aims to deliver a single country focus

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Jolla launches smartphone running on new Sailfish OS

  The first handset running the new Sailfish operating system (OS) has been introduced to the market by ex-Nokia employees

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  UK ranked safest datacentre location in Europe but lags behind US in global ranking

  The UK has been ranked as the lowest-risk destination in Europe for businesses to build datacentres, a Data Centre Risk Index 2013 shows

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Dell sees profits plummet amid hardware freefall

  Dell saw profits plummet by 73% to $226m (£149m), as its first quarter results revealed its hardware division's profits to be in freefall

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Plattner, Sikka hail HANA growth beyond SAP

  In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, Hasso Plattner and Vishal Sikka said at Sapphire 2013

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  BlackBerry Live 2013: Orr claims mid-range Q5 will attract UK corporations

  BlackBerry’s Q5 handset will attract corporations rolling out large volumes of handsets, claims UK managing director Rob Orr

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Spoilt for choice: Enterprise flash deployment options

  The question is no longer whether to use flash, but where in the enterprise server and storage infrastructure it should go

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  UK PC sales drop buffered by enterprise market

  UK PC sales dropped 16% in the first quarter of 2013, but slower decline in the professional market cushioned the fall

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  BlackBerry Live 2013: Blackberry launches Q5 device

  The mobile manufacturer launches a new handset based on the BlackBerry 10 operating system, aimed at emerging markets

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Case study: Horsley ITU brings iPads to patients

  The intensive therapy unit at the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust helps seriously ill patients communicate with consultants and relatives using tablet devices from Apple

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Mobile phone sales drop in Europe

  As users swap their feature phones for smart devices, the overall European mobile market stalls, according to Gartner

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Camden Council rolls out free Wi-Fi

  Camden London Borough Council signs a deal with Arqiva to provide free wireless connectivity to businesses, residents and visitors

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Suffolk university dumps failing IBM DS SAN and gets Fujitsu DX-80s

  University Campus Suffolk couldn’t go on when IBM “washed its hands” of a failing DS4700. After disastrous pitches from numerous storage suppliers it went with Fujitsu

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Arqiva wins government rural mobile contract

  Arqiva is awarded £150m to boost mobile coverage in rural areas as part of the government’s Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP)

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Case Study: Brent Council cuts costs with mobile tech

  Brent Council implements mobile technology to cut costs and involve more staff in the future running of the organisation

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Carl Icahn and Southeastern join forces in fight over Dell

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has teamed up with Dell investor Southeastern to try to stop founder Michael Dell buying the firm

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  TfL revamps mobile solutions on the buses

  TfL has revamped its mobile solutions across the London bus network with O2 and Cognito

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Case study: TKAB adopts mobile for Swedish railways

  The winners of cloud innovation of the year in Computer Weekly’s European user awards for networking tell us how they have used the Appear IQ mobile platform to boost efficiency and its transport service

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Acer sets sights on SME market amid sales drop

  The SME market looks set to be a core strategy for Acer in the UK over the next five years

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Microsoft to bring back the Start button in Windows 8?

  Amid lacklustre take-up of Windows 8 and a declining PC industry, Microsoft may be set to reintroduce the much-loved Start button in Windows 8

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  EMC: Data everywhere – ViPR software-defined storage the answer

  At EMC World the company set out its vision of a future of massive amounts of distributed data and revealed ViPR – software-defined storage with which it aims to tame it

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  EC slams Google-owned Motorola Mobility for Apple GPRS patent case

  The European Commission (EC) could fine Motorola Mobility for anti-competitive behaviour in pursuing a GPRS patent infringement case against Apple

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Government consults on mobile broadband deployment

  The government has launched a consultation to lay out its proposals for accelerating mobile broadband infrastructure deployment across the UK

• May 06, 2013 06 May'13

  EMC unveils ViPR software-defined storage platform

  EMC’s Project Bourne comes out of stealth mode as ViPR, a software-defined storage platform aimed at a future of hyperscale datacentres and big data analytics

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  BlackBerry 10 and Samsung Knox approved by US military

  The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on its networks

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Case Study: Solihull Council picks Juniper for BYOD

  The Metropolitan Borough Council upgrades its bring your own device system and reaps the benefits of more efficient staff

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  University does the maths and dumps HDS for Nexenta storage software

  Greenwich university school of computing and maths opts for Nexenta storage software on commodity hardware and gains 20% savings

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Google Android takes tablet OS market share crown from Apple iOS

  Google's Android operating system (OS) took 56.5% of the tablet OS market in the first quarter of 2013 but Apple's iPad sold the most devices

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Public cloud: Ready for business?

  Cloud computing is moving beyond small companies, start-ups and software development to the era of full-scale enterprise deployments.

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Jaguar Land Rover develops in-car firmware updates

  Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has developed an open source framework to enable remote firmware to update in-car entertainment systems

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  O2 hires BT for 4G backhaul

  Mobile operator O2 has signed a 10-year contract with BT to build a new high-capacity network for 4G services

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Smartphone sales top feature phones for first time

  Analyst firm IDC claims smartphones outsold feature phones for the first time in the opening quarter of 2013

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Samsung wary of smartphone competition

  Despite announcing significant profits for Q1, Samsung admits more competition in the smartphone market could affect its figures

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  US judge sets FRAND rates for Motorola patents in Microsoft case

  A US district judge has ruled that Google’s Motorola Mobility is entitled to $1.8m a year from Microsoft for its use of certain patents in its Xbox and Windows products

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Fusion-io buys NexGen to join hybrid flash array fray

  PCIe server flash pioneer Fusion-io has bought itself an array maker; Nexgen and its PCIe flash/SAS hybrid. Is Fusion-io’s next move into all-flash arrays?

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  EMC posts record Q1 revenues; VMware and RSA star performers

  EMC’s first quarter results include record Q1 revenues. VMware and RSA show stellar growth and storage hardware lags, but COO says, “We’re on course for $30bn in 2016”

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Tata goes trackside with Mercedes F1

  Mercedes AMG Petronas signs a deal with Tata Communications to provide connectivity to the famous Formula One racing team

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Sophos updates free Android security app

  Google’s Android mobile operating system is an increasingly popular target for malware and SMS phishing, says security company Sophos

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Juniper Networks gives bleak outlook for 2013

  Juniper Networks reports positive results for the first quarter of the year, but predicts tough times ahead for its enterprise division

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Apple suffers first profit slump in a decade

  Apple’s revenue growth continues but profits drop for the first time in 10 years due to increasing market competition

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  UK chip manufacturer ARM increases sales by 28%

  ARM sales rise by almost 30% as the increase in the use of smart devices drives demand for its processors

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Lenovo reported to be in talks to purchase IBM Server X business

  Lenovo is believed to be in talks with IBM to buy its x86 server business

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Blackstone pulls out of bidding for Dell over financial concerns

  Private equity group Blackstone has pulled out of the bidding for Dell due to falling sales and financial concerns

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Businesses buy more speciality MIPS, but IBM Power fails

  Q1 revenue in IBM's server hardware business crashed due to poor sales of Power-based Unix systems

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  IT rationalisation must be combined with layoffs for long-term savings

  Long-term IT cost reduction requires more than just server consolidation and cuts to software licences, says Gartner

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Lumia boost fails to save Nokia results as profits tumble €150m

  Nokia releases first quarter results for 2013, reporting a loss of €150m despite encouraging sales of its flagship Lumia smartphone range

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage

  The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer