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• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  NCR promises 40% annual savings with thin-client cash machines

  NCR has developed smart thin client cash machines to replacing ageing Windows XP-based ATMs

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15

  AWS promises to lower skills barrier to machine learning for developers

  AWS wants to make it easier for developers to use data stored in its cloud for machine learning purposes

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

  Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Atomic Weapons Establishment to build supercomputer for Trident simulations

  The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) builds HPC cluster based on SGI ICE XA system to support Trident programme

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  HP Helion Rack looks to speed up enterprise private cloud adoption

  HP wants to take the heavy lifting out of moving to the private cloud by offering enterprises pre-configured and tested infrastructure packages

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Talon upgrades MobileFast for web and Windows file sync and share

  Enterprise file sync and share provider Talon Storage adds web browser and Windows workstation access to MobileFast

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Home devices threaten enterprise data security, warn researchers

  Poor or lacking security on ADSL routers and other devices used by teleworkers a threat to global enterprise information security

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Microsoft to cut 9,000 jobs at Nokia plants in China

  Microsoft plans to shut down two former Nokia manufacturing plants in China, which means 9,000 jobs will be lost in the latest round of cuts

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems

  Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  PernixData FVP boosts RAM as host storage with up to 4x compression

  Flash caching firm PernixData adds compression to FVP 2.5 for more scope to use RAM as host-based storage for high-performance datasets

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  IBM moves to MLC in FlashSystem 900 and V9000 all-flash arrays

  IBM boosts density with new Micron MLC flash drives in revamped all-flash arrays, the FlashSystem 900 and the V9000 that includes SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation hardware

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Suse launches Ceph-based cloud software-defined storage

  Suse launches commercially-supported object, block and file Ceph distribution Enterprise Storage, software-defined storage

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Lloyds Bank launches smartwatch service

  Lloyds Bank will send offers to its mobile banking customers direct to their smartwatches

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  National Grid uses IBM to add predictive maintenance capabilities

  National Grid is using cloud-based analytics powered by IBM SoftLayer to provide preventative maintenance

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances

  EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis

  The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Microsoft revenue drops due to “restructuring”

  Microsoft’s year-on-year net income has dropped by around $695m due to “integration and restructuring” plans, according to the firm’s fiscal statement

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Cancer Research UK trials contactless donations

  Cancer Research UK installs four smart charity shop windows to enable contactless donations

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  IBM revenue declines as company shifts to higher value deals

  IBM has reported a 12% decline in profits for the fourth quarter of 2014 following the sale of its System x business to Lenovo

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Younger users prefer biometrics to passwords

  Younger bank customers would rather use biometrics than PINs and passwords for security, according to Visa Europe

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash

  Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  N3 network outage knocks NHS users off internet

  An internet gateway fault causes problems for users of the NHS N3 network

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Tablet growth slows as consumers hand down devices

  Sales of tablets are expected to slow down during 2015

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war

  The price battle among commodity cloud players is set to rage on, but how much impact is it really having for enterprise customers?

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  DECC publishes annual report on delayed smart meter scheme

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its annual report on the roll-out of smart electricity and gas meters

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Avaya brings contact centres to Google Chromebooks

  Avaya and Google team up to streamline customer service agent workflows by enabling desktop contact centres on Chromebooks

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Hero Group uses vMotion to replace SAN and servers with Nutanix

  Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman

  At the HP Discover event in Barcelona, CEO Meg Whitman addressed the future for customers following HP's split into two businesses

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Ministry of Defence consolidates with green datacentre

  The MoD is aiming to reduce its IT carbon footprint with the construction of a new datacentre to replace the existing host site in Bath

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  ABN Amro re-signs IBM for 10-year, multibillion-euro IT contract

  ABN Amro has extended its multibillion-euro outsourcing deal with IBM by another 10 years

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Barclays bank launches mobile video banking

  Barclays Bank has launched a 24-hour video banking service that will enable customers to receive face-to-face service from anywhere

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  HP results disappoint ahead of split

  HP has announced disappointing fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the company’s planned split aimed at reversing its recent decline

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  National Trust for Scotland overcomes legacy network challenge

  The National Trust for Scotland has replaced a historical network infrastructure with a core service from Brocade

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Increase in mobile users sees 2.7 billion devices worldwide in 2014

  Mobile subscriptions have increased by 800 million in 2014, bringing the total number of devices to 2.7 billion worldwide, according to a report

• November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

  Intel merges PC and mobile divisions

  Intel plans to merge its profitable PC group with the loss-making division that sells chips for smartphones and tablets

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Amazon unveils Docker-friendly container service and EC2 instance

  Amazon has launched its free, Docker-friendly EC2 container management service

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Juniper CEO Kheradpir resigns over misconduct allegations

  Shaygan Kheradpir steps down from his role as CEO of Juniper Networks after less than a year in the post, after a customer negotiation went sour

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  ITN deploys wireless transmission technology for breaking news

  ITN introduces camera-mounted wireless transmission technology from BT to track breaking news stories around London

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots

  Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making

  Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  British fashion retailer AllSaints picks Google tools for innovation

  Fashion brand AllSaints has refreshed its technology strategy with Google technologies to improve collaboration

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy

  Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework

  Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations