News

Networking hardware

• April 29, 2008 29 Apr'08

  University of Liverpool improves email storage

  The University of Liverpool has chosen C2C's archiving system to improve email storage management.

• April 25, 2008 25 Apr'08

  Allied Carpets lays out network convergence with multi-million-pound deal

  Allied Carpets has signed a five-year, multi-million-pound contract with Azzurri Communications to improve its communications and cut costs through convergence.

• April 24, 2008 24 Apr'08

  Faster bank payments ready to roll

  From May, businesses will be able to have UK internet, telephone banking and standing order payments cleared in as little as 15 seconds instead of three days.

• April 23, 2008 23 Apr'08

  Enterprise data warehouses replace data marts

  Businesses are replacing departmental databases - known as data marts - with enterprise data warehouses designed to pool information across the company.

• April 23, 2008 23 Apr'08

  Hosted IP Centrex services continue steady growth

  Seats in service will reach 6.5 million in the US and 14.1 million worldwide by 2012

• April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08

  O2 launches mobile broadband service

  O2 has finally launched a mobile broadband service for its customers.

• April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08

  Nokia sees operating margins slump

  Nokia posted a big sales and net profit increase for the first quarter, but saw its operating margins fall.

• April 17, 2008 17 Apr'08

  Ofcom pushes for fibre broadband in new-build properties

  The communications regulator Ofcom has published proposals to promote next-generation fibre broadband networks for new housing and office developments.

• April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08

  NHS trust replaces Cisco network monitoring platform with Castle Rock SNMPc system

  Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust is now monitoring its IT network across 150 sites using a system supplied by Teneo, which replaces a CiscoWorks platform.

• April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08

  Business centre users get improved IP comms

  Occupants of United Business Centres (UBC) are to get the latest in IP communications services.

• April 15, 2008 15 Apr'08

  Bats trading exchange hires SAVVIS to support fast transaction platform in London

  The Bats trading exchange has hired infrastructure services firm SAVVIS to host its Bats electronic equities trading platform in London to support the European market.

• April 15, 2008 15 Apr'08

  Suppliers move towards cheaper 10Gbyte Ethernet optical networking

  The Ethernet Alliance has announced that members are working towards improved interoperability of products to deliver cheaper 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

• April 15, 2008 15 Apr'08

  EDITORIAL: It's time for a Net Neutrality debate

  Australia should sort out its position on Net Neutrality before the National Broadband Network is built, not afterwards, writes TechTarget ANZ Editor Simon Sharwood.

• April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08

  Johnston Press goes to THUS to support publishing systems

  Johnston Press has implemented a network to enable its transition from traditional to digital media, as well as supporting wider business objectives.

• April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08

  Gartner identifies seven ‘Grand Challenges for IT’

  "Seven grand challenges" facing IT over the next quarter of a century have been identified by analyst Gartner.

• April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08

  UK drops out of top ten networked economies

  The UK has dropped out of the top ten for the most networked economies in the world, according to the World Economic Forum.

• April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08

  BBC signs Siemens for digital content delivery

  The BBC has signed an IT deal worth an estimated £80.2 million with Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) to design and support a system to deliver digital audio and video content.

• April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08

  Queen Mary college deploys fibre network to widen e-learning

  Queen Mary, University of London has hired THUS for the provision of an open fibre network that will improve connectivity and support wider e-learning.

• April 04, 2008 04 Apr'08

  BT’s 21CN falls short on Welsh expectations

  BT's plan to move 350,000 customer lines in South Wales on to its 21st Century Network (21CN) by 2007 has fallen short of BTs expectations, it was claimed this week.

• April 04, 2008 04 Apr'08

  Nottingham NHS Trust to improve access to healthcare information

  The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying one of the UK's most advanced networks to improve access to healthcare information and speed up service delivery.

• April 02, 2008 02 Apr'08

  YO!Sushi aims to cut network costs with MPLS WAN

  Restaurant chain YO!Sushi has invested heavily in a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) wide area network (WAN) which it said will cut infrastructure costs during its expansion programme.

• April 01, 2008 01 Apr'08

  Videoconferencing gaining attraction among EU firms

  Organisations increasingly using videoconferencing as a tool of communication to reduce costs and travel time, according to Frost & Sullivan.

• March 31, 2008 31 Mar'08

  KPMG signs BT with £62m five-year outsourcing contract

  KPMG is to outsource a significant chunk of its IT management to BT in a deal worth £62m over five years. If successful the contract, in the UK and Germany, may be extended to other countries in which KPMG has offices.

• March 31, 2008 31 Mar'08

  How network managers deal with network slowdowns affecting application performance

  Over two-thirds of network managers spend at least 25 days per year determining the cause of network slowdowns affecting application performance.

• March 27, 2008 27 Mar'08

  Architect secures remote access

  Architect Scott Brownrigg has replaced its IPSEC virtual private network (VPN) with a secure remote access system from AppGate Network Security.

• March 27, 2008 27 Mar'08

  UK needs regional powers to fast-track broadband roll-outs

  Businsses could be offered with high-speed broadband more quickly if the rest of the UK followed Scotland's example of targeting broadband black spots, Scotland's enterprise minister said this week.

• March 25, 2008 25 Mar'08

  Security being ignored as VoIP deployments increase

  Businesses not taking steps to increase security of VoIP networks

• March 25, 2008 25 Mar'08

  Interflora stops queues with hosted network service

  Interflora, the flower delivery company, will deploy a hosted network software service to manage customer queueing at its call centre.

• March 14, 2008 14 Mar'08

  Eden Brown boosts communications with fibre network

  Recruitment firm Eden Brown has signed a contract with fibre network company Geo to supply a network to improve its communications and support business growth.

• March 13, 2008 13 Mar'08

  AOL to buy social network Bebo for £425m

  AOL is acquiring social networking site Bebo for about £425m to build an online community of 80 million users.

• March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08

  Internet owes its success to people as well as technology, says Berners-Lee

  The internet owes its success to people as much as technology, Tim Berners-Lee, father of the world wide web said today.

• March 10, 2008 10 Mar'08

  Network equipment energy efficiency key to competitive edge

  Power consumption and other so-called ‘green issues’ are fast becoming the information technology industry's biggest challenge.

• March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08

  BT becomes communications partner to London Olympics

  BT has become the latest Tier One Partner of the 2012 London Olympics, in a deal worth tens of millions of pounds.

• March 05, 2008 05 Mar'08

  Somerfield sets out stall for WiMAX access to network

  The supermarket chain will pilot the WiMAX solution at its Manchester sites as an alternative to a leased line

• March 05, 2008 05 Mar'08

  Broadband review faces April 2009 deadline for success

  The government review into how internet service providers (ISPs) can be encouraged to build super-fast broadband networks will only be worthwhile if policies follow and are put into place as policies before April 2009, according to a report from the...

• March 04, 2008 04 Mar'08

  Reuters to monitor data speeds

  Reuters has rolled out a service to monitor the performance of trading applications at investment companies to help them ensure they receive market data as fast as possible.

• February 28, 2008 28 Feb'08

  Cisco and Microsoft join forces to optimise branch apps

  Cisco and Microsoft will develop joint architectures that combine Windows Server...

• February 27, 2008 27 Feb'08

  Ofcom issues O2 with 3G deadline

  Ofcom today issued O2 with a deadline for meeting its 3G roll-out obligation and what steps it proposes to take should the mobile phone operator still not be in compliance.

• February 25, 2008 25 Feb'08

  Neterion clears logjams in virtualised datacentres with souped-up 10Gbps Ethernet adapter

  Neterion has unveiled a 10Gbps (gigabits per second) Ethernet adapter that helps clear traffic logjams in virtualised datacentres.

• February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08

  Government investigates path to next-generation broadband

  The government has launched a review into ways it can help the roll-out of super-fast broadband networks across the UK.

• February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08

  Glasgow school tackles anonymous proxies with new web filtering system

  The High School of Glasgow has installed a web filtering solution to combat the threat of anonymous proxies.

• February 21, 2008 21 Feb'08

  Communications Management Association annual conference preview

  If the UK goes into recession it could provide IT managers with reasons to offshore network services and re-think applications and connectivity management, delegates at the Communications Management Association's 2008 conference will hear next week.

• February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08

  Cable & Wireless goes for growth in India with NGN

  Cable & Wireless has announced that it has been awarded international long distance and national long distance licences by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. These licences enable Cable & Wireless to offer next generation ...

• February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08

  Specsavers to build £4.5m WAN

  UK optician Specsavers is to install a £4.5m global WAN to deliver complete end-to-end connectivity across its stores

• February 19, 2008 19 Feb'08

  Average UK broadband speed under 3mbps, report shows

  Broadband users all over the UK have been testing their speeds and as a result of the 18,558 tests carried out in January on broadband comparison site Broadband-Expert.co.uk, the average speed in the UK is 2.95mbps.

• February 19, 2008 19 Feb'08

  North-east councils deploy shared CRM system to cut costs

  Castle Morpeth and Alnwick councils in the north-east have begun using a shared customer relationship management system to cut costs.

• February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08

  UK broadband market to be de-regulated

  The European Comission has approved the proposal of the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom to de-regulate the wholesale broadband market in some parts of the UK, covering around 65% of all UK homes and businesses.

• February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08

  Gieves and Hawkes cuts comms costs with single hosted service

  Men's tailor Gieves and Hawkes has reduced data and voice communication costs by consolidating its voice and data infrastructure into a single hosted service.

• February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08

  Virtual call centre pays off for Scottish Power

  Scottish Power has gained 10 times the call centre capacity and reduced technology support and maintenance costs by 41% through virtualisation.

• February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08

  IT managers urge new broadband minister to push for equal access across UK

  IT managers have called on the government's new broadband minister to ensure all regions in the UK have equal access to fast connections.