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August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12
Regulation and government policy drive utilities IT spend

Utility companies in Western Europe will spend $10.5bn on IT this year, of which over 62% will be invested in IT services.
August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12
Cisco boosts sales and income in 2012

The networking giant announces a 7% rise in sales for the year, along with income of $8bn
August 15, 2012 15 Aug'12
HP touts software for moving virtual machines

The network virtualisation solution named EVI claims to speed up the process of moving virtual machines and data sets in cloud environments
August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12
The IT behind Mars Science Laboratory's landing of the Curiosity rover

IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week.

August 01, 2012 01 Aug'12
Colchester Hospital tracks equipment with Wi-Fi

Colchester Hospital is using Ekahau’s real-time location tracking to locate important medical equipment across its campus over its Wi-Fi network
July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12
Oracle acquires Xsigo

Silicon Valley giant Oracle buys into software-defined networking with the purchase of Xsigo
July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12
European network professionals focus on server virtualisation

The latest results from Computer Weekly and TechTarget’s purchasing intentions study shows server virtualisation is becoming part and parcel of the networking professional’s job
July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12
Networking the least understood element of IT, says HP's Nick Watson

HP’s European networking chief Nick Watson blames complexity for lack of understanding of networking in cloud computing
July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12
Juniper and Riverbed enter technology partnership

Juniper and Riverbed combine network and application capabilitites for wide area network (WAN) optimisation, application delivery and mobility
July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
VMware looks to SDN with $1.05bn Nicira acquisition

Software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Nicira vows commitment to open standards as VMware proposes $1.05bn acquisition

July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
Virgin Media Q2 revenues grow 4.2% to £1.03bn

Virgin Media posted an increase in second quarter sales on Q2 2011, as revenues grew 4.2% to £1.03bn and business sales rose 9.8% to £166m
July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
Cisco loses 1,300 jobs in another round of cost-cutting

Cisco Systems is to cut around 1,300 jobs – or 2% of its workforce – in continued efforts to cut costs and streamline decision making
July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12
Tech firm iCity wins datacentre bid for Olympics media centre

IT company iCity has been awarded the contract to turn the Olympics media centre into a datacentre, for which it will hire 4,600 staff
July 13, 2012 13 Jul'12
O2 claims mobile network is fully restored

O2 claims it has fixed network problems that left hundreds of thousands of customers without mobile voice and data connections for up to 24 hours
July 05, 2012 05 Jul'12
Are shared private broadband connections the future of Wi-Fi on the go?

We look at whether the growing trend of software opening up home routers for public Wi-Fi consumption is the future
July 05, 2012 05 Jul'12
Anyfi Networks targets existing Wi-Fi for public use

Software supplier Anyfi Networks claims to offer a secure means to move between residential Wi-Fi connections starting from your front door
June 18, 2012 18 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
June 05, 2012 05 Jun'12
Cisco updates ASR 5500 series for 4G networks

Cisco's updated ASR 5500 series aims to help businesses with increasing mobile traffic moving across networks as 4G looms
June 01, 2012 01 Jun'12
Cambridgeshire launches PSN to cut £1m per year

Cambridgeshire County Council will save £1m per year with the launch of its public services network (PSN)
May 15, 2012 15 May'12
Emulex targets HPC with Ethernet partnership

Networking firm Emulex teams with Myricom to boost Ethernet performance for high-performance computing and cloud environments
May 14, 2012 14 May'12
Lincolnshire County Council to save £2.5m a year with PSN

Lincolnshire County Council expects to save £2.5m a year in its network costs by joining the East Midlands Public Services Network.
May 04, 2012 04 May'12
Cisco snaps up analytics firm Truviso

Cisco has acquired real time data analytics firm Truviso for an undisclosed amount.
May 01, 2012 01 May'12
Cisco and IDA to invest €26m into R&D jobs

Cisco has announced the expansion of its research and development centre in Galway, thanks to funding from the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) in Ireland.
May 01, 2012 01 May'12
Network company Enterasys offers BYOD network management

Network company Enterasys is to provide network management for bring your own device (BYOD) deployments
April 23, 2012 23 Apr'12
John Lewis pilots virtual fashion mirrors

John Lewis is using augmented reality to enable customers to try clothes on virtually, as part of its multichannel offering.
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Biggest upgrade to PAYE system to go live in April

The biggest upgrade to the UK's PAYE system since the 1950s goes live within two weeks.
March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12
Cabinet Office names 12 PSN suppliers

The Cabinet Office has named 12 suppliers for the government’s Public Services Network framework (PSN), which will be worth between £500m and £3bn over two years
March 16, 2012 16 Mar'12
Cisco buys UK video company NDS for $5bn

Cisco is paying $5bn for NDS, a UK company which specialises in securing subscription TV services
March 15, 2012 15 Mar'12
Smart meter sales set to accelerate this year

Sales of smart meters across the globe are set to rise dramatically this year, with annual sales of the intelligent metering devices totalling about 140 million units every year by 2016
March 15, 2012 15 Mar'12
NATO signs £39m BT deal

NATO has signed a €47m (£39m) deal with BT for a communications network
March 01, 2012 01 Mar'12
MoJ is first department to sign up to PSN

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has become the first government department to sign up for a public services network (PSN), in a deal with BT that is expected to save £8m per year by 2015
February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12
Does the PSN need to happen before the cloud?

The deployment of public services networks (PSN) will need to happen before widespread uptake of CloudStore services occur, IT heads said at a roundtable meeting.
February 16, 2012 16 Feb'12
Cisco wants EU to reconsider Microsoft Skype deal

Cisco is calling on European Union authorities to reconsider the unconditional approval of Microsoft’s $8.5bn acquisition of Skype.
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%.
February 08, 2012 08 Feb'12
First reports of IPV6 DDoS attacks raise security fears

Ahead of the official launch day on 6 June 2012, network service providers are reporting the first IPV6 distributed denial-of-service attacks.
February 02, 2012 02 Feb'12
Cisco launches BIG Awards to seek out best UK tech innovation

Cisco launches BIG Awards offering cash injections to UK start-ups with the most innovative technology-based ideas.
February 02, 2012 02 Feb'12
Cisco unveils product consolidation plan

Cisco has unveiled details of the product line consolidation it hopes will turn around the company after its struggles with poor financial performance.
February 01, 2012 01 Feb'12
Cisco to leave Olympic legacy in 25 London Network Academies

Cisco is unveiling 25 London-based Network Academies to train the community, after it has completed its Olympic Games 2012 contract.
January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12
Data protection tops UK security investments in 2012

Data protection will be the top security initiative for most UK organisations in 2012, reveals a survey of IT professionals.
January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12
Ministry of Defence to provide spectrum during Olympics

The Ministry of Defence is to provide spectrum for the Olympic Games to take the strain off networks in July and August.
January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12
Buyer's Guide: The future of virtualisation

As businesses virtualise datacentre infrastructure, they experience the limitation of their existing hardware, IT administration tools, procurement and licensing models.
January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12
Network Rail selects O2 to roll out Cisco LAN and WAN upgrade

Network Rail is to refresh its entire current Cisco switch and router estate across 450 sites, including four data centres in the UK
January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12
Stratfor hacking puts UK, US, Nato officials at risk

A breach of web servers at US-based global intelligence firm Stratfor over Christmas has put hundreds of UK, US and NATO officials at risk, a cyber-security expert has revealed.
January 06, 2012 06 Jan'12
London boroughs roll out free O2 Wi-Fi for Olympics

Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea councils have signed a deal with 02 to provide a free Wi-Fi zone for the visitors and residents in time for the Olympic games.
January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12
Gartner: Enterprise software spending to rise by 6.4% in 2012

For 2012, Gartner expects telecommunications equipment and enterprise software to see the biggest growth in spite of the looming recession.
January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12
What’s in store for IT in 2012?

The global economy is creating an atmosphere of uncertainty in the IT sector, but what can we expect in 2012?
January 03, 2012 03 Jan'12
Hacktivists plan to use satellites to by-pass internet censorship

Hacker activists plan to launch communication satellites to overcome the threat of internet censorship.
December 30, 2011 30 Dec'11
Top 10 mobile and networking stories of 2011

Mobile technology has truly taken off in 2011. We look back at some of the key developments in mobile and networking over the past year.
December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11
CIOs must trade off innovation and maintenance in 2012

CIOs face major challenges in trading off stretched budgets between innovative projects and keeping the business running as usual in 2012.
December 14, 2011 14 Dec'11
Salford University finalises IT revamp

Salford University is finalising a transformational IT project which includes a network link with the BBC’s Media City.