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• September 06, 2010 06 Sep'10

  Reach Internet moves in with UKSolutions

  UKSolutions has announced that online training provider Reach Internet has moved its in-house data provision to the company's Studley data centre; plus more daily news.

• September 03, 2010 03 Sep'10

  IT managers ignore data centre consultants' advice

  IT managers are increasing their use of independent data centre consultants, but most have admitted to ignoring their advice; plus more daily news.

• September 02, 2010 02 Sep'10

  VMware and Novell unveil SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

  VMware and Novell have announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware; plus more daily news.

• September 01, 2010 01 Sep'10

  VMware acquires Integrien and TriCipher

  VMware will acquire application and analytics software vendor Integrien and access management applications firm TriCipher; plus more daily news.

• August 31, 2010 31 Aug'10

  VMworld: Colt offers vCloud hybrid datacentres for UK and Europe

  IT managed services provider Colt will be the first company to offer VMware's hybrid service to UK and European businesses.

• August 31, 2010 31 Aug'10

  Colt offers VMware's vCloud service in Europe

  UK telecoms firm Colt will be the first European operator to offer VMware's vCloud datacentre services. The deal will allow organisations to extend...

• August 23, 2010 23 Aug'10

  Oracle unveils virtualisation strategy for enterprise apps

  Oracle has unveiled its desktop to server virtualisation strategy which it has positioned as a more rounded suite compared with the market leading VMWare.

• August 23, 2010 23 Aug'10

  Bidding war breaks out between HP and Dell for 3Par

  HP has put in an offer to buy 3Par for $1.6 billion, topping Dell's bid made last week; plus more daily news.

• August 20, 2010 20 Aug'10

  IT managers rescued by cloud computing

  IT chiefs explain why and how they chose to use cloud computing, including the Telegraph Group, British Airways and a life boat charity, to name a few.

• August 18, 2010 18 Aug'10

  Interxion cuts ribbon on 28th European data centre

  Colocation service provider Interxion has opened its sixth data centre, to be based in Frankfurt; plus more daily news.

• August 16, 2010 16 Aug'10

  Dell bolsters storage portfolio with 3PAR acquisition

  Dell, adding to its storage virtualisation portfolio, is set to acquire virtualised storage vendor 3PAR for $1.15 billion; plus more daily news.

• August 12, 2010 12 Aug'10

  Rackspace launches Cloud Servers for Windows offering

  Hosting provider Rackspace has announced its Cloud Servers for Windows offering, featuring various administrator upgrades; plus more daily news.

• August 03, 2010 03 Aug'10

  Telecity adds more power capacity due to online demand

  Data centre operator Telecity has boosted its power capacity in order to meet the demands for its services, including Facebook photos and Spotify playlists; plus more daily news.

• July 28, 2010 28 Jul'10

  Warwickshire College chooses RES Software for virtual desktop deployment

  Warwickshire College has opted for RES Software's workspace management solution for its new virtual desktop environment; plus more daily news.

• July 27, 2010 27 Jul'10

  Phoenix Insurance puts two million customer records in the cloud

  Insurer Phoenix Group has consolidated two million UK customer records, which resided on multiple legacy systems, onto a single system in the cloud as part...

• July 27, 2010 27 Jul'10

  VMware launches volume purchasing software licensing programme

  VMware has unveiled its VMware Volume Purchasing Programme (VPP), designed to provide global customers with software licensing discounting; plus more daily news.

• July 26, 2010 26 Jul'10

  Savvis' net loss widens for Q2

  Cloud services provider Savvis has announced a net loss of $13.9 million for its second quarter results, widening from $6.17 million when compared to Q2 2009; plus more daily news.

• July 23, 2010 23 Jul'10

  IBM unveils zEnterprise mainframe

  IBM has announced the availability of its zEnterprise mainframe system, which is said to be 40% to 60% faster than its previous system; plus more daily news.

• July 20, 2010 20 Jul'10

  Equaterra pulse survey shows weakening outsourcing growth in Europe

  The growth in the demand for IT outsourcing in Europe has declined by 5% in the second quarter of this year compared with the first, the latest survey carried out by sourcing consultancy Equaterra has found.

• July 19, 2010 19 Jul'10

  Rackspace unveils open source cloud platform

  Rackspace has announced an open source cloud platform called OpenStack which uses code that powers its public cloud offerings; plus more daily news.

• July 16, 2010 16 Jul'10

  IBM cuts ribbon on cloud computing centre in Germany

  IBM has unveiled a Cloud Computing Competence Centre in Ehningen, Germany, which is designed to provide services to customers locally and internationally; plus more daily news.

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  IBM joins forces with European Union on e-services research

  IBM has announced that it is collaborating with the European Union, industry and academia, to launch an e-services research consortium; plus more daily news.

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Citrix announces advanced virtualisation certifications for engineers

  Citrix Systems has announced its advanced certifications are now available to engineers and architects; plus more daily news.

• July 12, 2010 12 Jul'10

  Microsoft lets businesses run Windows Azure in their own data centres

  Microsoft has announced plans for businesses and partners to run the cloud-based operating system Windows Azure in their own servers through purchasing its Appliance package; plus more daily news.

• July 08, 2010 08 Jul'10

  CIOs should plan for a second economic downturn, Gartner says

  If a second recession unfolds in the next 12 to 18 months, no CIO should be forgiven for being unprepared, according to analysts at Gartner; plus more daily news.

• June 29, 2010 29 Jun'10

  SAP certifies Verizon cloud platform

  German software giant SAP AG has certified Verizon Business' Computing as a Service platform, allowing Verizon to offer a broad service portfolio; plus more daily news.

• June 24, 2010 24 Jun'10

  HP and VMware collaborate to enable cloud computing

  HP joins forces with VMware to produce virtualisation solutions for customers using a converged infrastructure framework ready for cloud computing; plus more daily news.

• June 23, 2010 23 Jun'10

  Microsoft brings HealthVault to the UK

  By launching the cloud-based organiser HealthVault in the UK, Microsoft will provide a monitoring platform for such data as blood pressure and heart rate; plus more daily news.

• June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10

  World Cup player's downtime inspires free VMware uptime

  The injuries keeping Greek defender Vangelis Moras off the World Cup field spur hosting company StratoGen to give away VMware services; plus more daily news.

• June 17, 2010 17 Jun'10

  Brazil IT struts the world stage

  The Brazilian IT industry aspires to claim a substantial slice of the outsourcing pie that India and China currently enjoy over the next few years. It is a tall order, but the country has some ambitious plans to reach that goal.

• May 21, 2010 21 May'10

  Nottingham Building Society boosts efficiency with data analytics

  The financial services firm has improved productivity and customer service levels after rolling out a business intelligence suite as part of a £10m IT revamp.

• May 21, 2010 21 May'10

  Rackspace brings Xen-based cloud to the UK: News roundup

  VMware and Google integrate cloud computing and GoogleApps; Citrix and Amazon team up for software in the cloud; and other news of the week.

• May 14, 2010 14 May'10

  Hosting provider Savvis puts £20 million into Slough data centre expansion

  Hosting provider Savvis has expanded its Slough facility by 20,000 feet to keep up with the growing demand for outsourced IT services in the U.K.

• April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10

  Cloud computing models: Which one is best for your business?

  With so many different cloud computing models and cloud definitions, how do you know which one is best for your business? Industry experts explain each aspect of the cloud.

• April 26, 2010 26 Apr'10

  Virtual cloud computing is not a panacea

  Get our expert's thoughts on why the type of cloud you choose and its location are important.

• April 16, 2010 16 Apr'10

  Community cloud computing benefits and drawbacks

  Non-competing companies sharing cloud computing infrastructures sounds like a great idea for saving money, so why is the public sector proceeding with caution?

• April 01, 2010 01 Apr'10

  Fujitsu rethinks data centre cooling with cloud rack design

  Fujitsu unveils its new Cool-Central architecture to save on floor space and eliminate hot and cold aisle setups.

• December 15, 2009 15 Dec'09

  Government to create and sell giant business service providers

  The government is planning to create service providers that will support government departments with IT and other services.

  According to reports former...

• December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09

  Cloud providers service: Cloud Industry Forum aims to stop cowboys

  As the cloud provider service market grows, so does the need to implement standards for hosting provider services. A FASTIiS exec discusses the Cloud Industry Forum, which aims to develop ethical standards for cloud computing providers.

• December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09

  EU Code of Conduct adoption slow in U.K: News roundup

  A survey shows 12% of U.K. companies have adopted EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency; Sun releases VirtualBox 3.1; and other news.

• November 27, 2009 27 Nov'09

  How to find an honest data centre hosting provider

  When choosing a data centre hosting provider, make sure you ask the right questions and investigate thoroughly. A U.K hosting provider shares the info you need to know and what can happen if don't do the proper research.

• November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

  Can cloud computing survive an economic upturn?

  Cloud computing's recent popularity is due in part to the economic downturn and pressure to cut IT costs. But will the benefits of cloud computing and hosted service providers be enough to sustain the technology post-recession?

• November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09

  Astrazeneca trust pays off

  Offshoring business critical work was once a no-go area for big businesses. But a deal signed by pharmaceuticals company Astrazeneca shows that businesses...

• November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09

  Colocation data centre ensures data recovery for sports agency

  By implementing a colocation data centre as part of its disaster recovery strategy, sports marketing agency Fast Track has ensured business continuity and protected itself against data loss and downtime.

• October 20, 2009 20 Oct'09

  TDM Group builds virtual infrastructure from scratch for Symbian Foundation

  The Symbian Foundation has saved on hardware, storage and licensing since implementing a VMware virtual infrastructure with the help of services provider TDM Group.

• October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09

  CSC seeks new $2.bn deal with Zurich Financial Services

  Zurich Financial Services Group has entered exclusive negotiations with IT outsourcer CSC 10-year contract valued at $2.4bn.

• September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09

  CIOs are followers, not leaders

  Fujitsu Technology Solutions has warned that excessive caution amongst CIOs and IT directors could be hampering innovation as research showed that just one...

• September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09

  Logistics firm adds disaster recovery in the cloud

  U.K. logistics firm Bibby Distribution signs a three-year contract with Getronics for disaster recovery management, adding an alternative route into cloud.

• September 24, 2009 24 Sep'09

  Cloud Infrastructure as a Service worth the higher costs, experts say

  Cloud Infrastructure as a Service may be more expensive than an in-house data centre infrastructure, but industry players agree that the advantages of freeing up an IT department's time outweigh the larger bill.

• August 27, 2009 27 Aug'09

  Amazon connects EC2 into corporate networks

  Amazon has extended its Elastic Cloud Computing service (EC2) to enable IT departments to link their own datacentres with virtual servers running in the...

• August 04, 2009 04 Aug'09

  2020Media offers 'green' hosting-- including servers

  Hosting provider 2020Media promises customers green data centre options -- low-power servers, Hyper-V virtual servers and colocation -- at low cost.

• July 24, 2009 24 Jul'09

  Give me e-shelter for datacentres

  Despite everything demand exists for the creation of enlarged datacentre premises in the UK.

• March 09, 2009 09 Mar'09

  Straw scraps data sharing clauses in Bill

  The Justice ministry confirmed today that Jack Straw has asked cabinet colleagues to scrap controversial clauses in a bill that permitted wholesale sharing of personal data between government departments

• March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09

  Lockerbie could have Europe's biggest datacentre

  Lockerbie in Scotland could get Europe's biggest datacentre.

• January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09

  Satyam close to sealing funding

  Satyam will have enough money to pay staff and suppliers at least until the end of March.

  The Indian IT service provider is finalising...

• September 08, 2008 08 Sep'08

  Nearly half of UK firms ignoring key criteria for datacentre purchase

  Geography figuring highly with UK firms as they assess datacentre options

• November 15, 2007 15 Nov'07

  IBM unveils web-like datacentre initiative

  IBM has unveiled plans for "Blue Cloud," a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate datacentres to operate more like the internet.

• August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07

  Lack of reliable information increasing datacentre outage risk

  A survey by the Aperture Research Institute has revealed that almost half of organisations (49%) are not able to track changes across physical aspects of their datacentre.