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July 16, 2012
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Jul'12
Vodafone and 3 confirm Irish shared infrastructure partnership
Mobile operators Vodafone and 3 sign a deal to manage shared infrastructure in Ireland in a 50/50 joint venture
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July 02, 2012
02
Jul'12
Apple pays $60m to settle iPad trademark dispute in China
Apple is to pay $60m to Chinese electronics firm Proview Technology to settle a long-running dispute over rights to the "iPad" name
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June 26, 2012
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Jun'12
Cambridge University turns to computer games to unlock secrets of the universe
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science
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June 22, 2012
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Jun'12
RBS and NatWest face second day of outages
Account balances still fail to update for RBS and NatWest customers as the banks go into their second day of technical issues
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?
Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.
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June 18, 2012
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Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers
Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
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June 13, 2012
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Jun'12
The cloud will move supercomputers into the mainstream
Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs into mainstream business, says Amazon
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June 12, 2012
12
Jun'12
Cisco UCS blade servers integrate Fusion-io PCIe flash cards
Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers
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June 12, 2012
12
Jun'12
2012: Will this be the year TPM finally comes of age?
Will 2012 be the year that TPM finally delivers on its potential to provide a hardware-based "root of trust" for enterprise information security?
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June 08, 2012
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Jun'12
Apple faces £1.43m fine in Australian 4G iPad case
Apple has agreed to pay a £1.43m fine for misleading Australians about the 4G capacity of its latest iPad in a case brought by the national consumer watchdog
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June 06, 2012
06
Jun'12
HP eyes EMC’s storage market
HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system, which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour – three times faster than EMC’s recently launched Data Domain 990
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May 23, 2012
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May'12
Dell's quarterly profits take a dive
Dell saw its profits dive 33% in its first financial quarter of 2013 as consumer and large enterprise sales fell 12% and 3% respectively
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May 23, 2012
23
May'12
Vblocks revenues on track to hit $3bn in 2013
The tie-up between Cisco, EMC and VMware is ramping up revenues from its datacentre-in-a-box product
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May 22, 2012
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May'12
Tucci: FusionIO ‘darn right foolish’ for Flash attitude
EMC’s CEO hits back at FusionIO as the war of words continues between the two companies
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May 10, 2012
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May'12
European economy dents Cisco forecast
The stormy outlook for the European economy leads the networking firm to predict a weak quarter
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May 03, 2012
03
May'12
MasterCard certifies raft of NFC mobiles
MasterCard has certified HTC, Intel, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Sony mobiles to use its near field communications (NFC) payment system
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May 01, 2012
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May'12
Open Data Center Alliance focuses on big data collaboration
The Open Data Center Alliance, a group of 12 major IT users, is collaborating with industry on big data architectures
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April 27, 2012
27
Apr'12
Amazon results demonstrate commitment to cloud
Amazon's AWS cloud business made $500m in sales in the first quarter of 2012, comprising 3.79% of Amazon's Q1 business
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April 25, 2012
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Apr'12
Apple overtakes IBM and HP in sales
Apple has posted another remarkable set of financial results, overtaking IT giants IBM and HP in sales during its latest financial quarter.
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April 19, 2012
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Apr'12
Supercomputers will reach 'exascale' speeds within decade
Supercomputers will be powerful enough to simulate the human brain within seven years, says founder of Top500 list.
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April 12, 2012
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Apr'12
European PC sales boosted by Windows 7 upgrades
European PC sales grew faster than expected in the first quarter of 2012 as corporate users started Windows 7 upgrades, according Gartner.
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April 10, 2012
10
Apr'12
CIO interview: David Jones, CIO, Crown Prosecution Service
CPS CIO David Jones is leading a comprehensive technology revamp to modernise operations across the entire criminal justice system.
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April 04, 2012
04
Apr'12
Microsoft improves virtual desktops but drops inventory software
Microsoft is expanding its desktop virtualisation product family with software that retains user preferences as they switch between devices
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April 03, 2012
03
Apr'12
STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed a £30m deal with IBM to develop high performance computing (HPC)
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March 21, 2012
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Mar'12
EDF signs £100m datacentre deal with Atos
Energy company EDF has signed a £100m 10-year deal with outsourcing provider Atos for datacentre services
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March 20, 2012
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Mar'12
Birkbeck College consolidates servers to cut PUE rating to 1.3
Birkbeck College has consolidated four equipment rooms into one £700,000 datacentre with a PUE rating of just 1.3
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March 06, 2012
06
Mar'12
CW500: Getting to grips with big data
Experts from Standard Life, Deloitte and Intelligent Business Strategies share some useful tips for CIOs on understanding big data
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February 29, 2012
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Feb'12
Datacentres and mobile devices drive 7% server shipment rise in 2011
Server shipments rose 7% in 2011 as businesses built datacentres and smartphones and tablets were increasingly used to access web content
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February 20, 2012
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Feb'12
Podcast interview: Stephen Glen, WorkIT on hosting and private clouds
Stephen Glen, software architecture engineer at retail intelligence firm WorkIT, discusses hosting and cloud computing.
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February 20, 2012
20
Feb'12
CIO priorities 2012: Ali Jaffri, ICT manager, Gallions Housing
Ali Jaffri, ICT manager at Gallions Housing, talks about the challenges of 2012.
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February 17, 2012
17
Feb'12
Generation Y is a myth, says Corporate Executive Board research
Generation Y – the computer-literate youngsters who need the latest high-tech gadget to work effectively – is a myth, the latest research reveals
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February 13, 2012
13
Feb'12
IT professionals prioritise Windows 7 upgrade, but cloud takes a back seat
Windows 7 upgrade will drive virtualisation but businesses are slow to take up cloud computing
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February 13, 2012
13
Feb'12
Case study: Cogenta migrates to Claranet VDC
Cogenta is among the first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service, which launched last month.
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February 09, 2012
09
Feb'12
Cisco back on acquisition trail after record quarter
Cisco Systems has reported record revenues of $11.5bn for the second fiscal quarter that ended 28 January 2012, up 11% on the year-ago quarter, and profits of $2.6bn or 47 cents a share, up 27%.
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January 27, 2012
27
Jan'12
Nokia smartphones bomb as sales drop 27%
Nokia’s latest results for Q4 2011 show just how far the company that was once the standard choice for almost every corporate mobile user has fallen.
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January 25, 2012
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Jan'12
CIOs can’t stop staff using unapproved devices
Businesses are allowing unapproved devices to be used within their business as workers increasingly want to use their own computers at work before companies draw up policies.
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January 17, 2012
17
Jan'12
Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers
Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.
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January 12, 2012
12
Jan'12
Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations
Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.
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January 10, 2012
10
Jan'12
CES 2012: Intel demos Windows 8 touchscreen ultrabooks
Intel used its keynote presentation at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate the merits of ultrabooks from Acer, Toshiba, Asus and LG.
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January 04, 2012
04
Jan'12
RIM shareholders support plan to appoint a new chairman
Shares in Blackberry maker Research In Motion gained 7% on Tuesday in response to news that the company plans to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.
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December 29, 2011
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Dec'11
Top 10 gadgets of 2011
We pick our top 10 gadgets of 2011, with highlights including the rush to grab a cut-price HP Touchpad and the Nokia-Microsoft tie-up.
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December 16, 2011
16
Dec'11
Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer
JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.
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December 13, 2011
13
Dec'11
CIOs believe cloud, SaaS, consumerisation and mobility increase risk
Business models such as cloud computing and trends such as the consumerisation of IT, social media and mobility are exposing performance blind spots in IT management, a CIO survey has revealed.
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December 12, 2011
12
Dec'11
Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?
Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?
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November 29, 2011
29
Nov'11
Framework accelerates safety-critical defence systems development
Manufacturers and academics are collaborating in a 3.5 million project to create a software modelling framework that will speed up the development and certification of safety-critical systems used in aerospace and defence.
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November 24, 2011
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Nov'11
How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency
Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.
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November 18, 2011
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Nov'11
MIT scientists take a step closer to artificial intelligence
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an analogue silicon chip with 400 transistors that emulates the activity of a brain synapse in the first step to building truly intelligent systems.
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November 17, 2011
17
Nov'11
Biffa ups virtualisation in infrastructure refresh
Biffa Waste Services is reducing the number of physical servers it uses from over 150 to about 25 as it accelerates its existing virtualisation strategy.
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November 16, 2011
16
Nov'11
Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell
Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.
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November 03, 2011
03
Nov'11
HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.