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• September 10, 2012 10 Sep'12

  Circuit breakers could mitigate risk in automated trading

  Merchant banks that automate trading could use circuit-breaking technology to reduce problems caused by stock market volatility

• September 06, 2012 06 Sep'12

  Polycom teams with IBM for cloud video services

  The two firms will join forces to develop new solutions utilising the cloud for video applications and unified communications

• 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