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Network software

• 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