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• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  BT moves to strip Huawei kit from EE’s network

  Telco will remove Huawei’s networking equipment from the core of EE’s 4G mobile network

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  As commercial 5G nears, small cells generate interest

  Interest in small cells as an element of commercial 5G mobile networks is growing, particularly in countries with supportive regulatory environments. Meanwhile, a UK trial of wholesale small cell infrastructure has kicked off in London

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”

  Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  HPE shows off first fruits of $4bn edge computing investment

  Tech supplier has beefed up its Edgeline portfolio with new hardware and software offerings to make it easier to manage edge devices, applications and data

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

  Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to ...

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  AWS cloud network architecture could put users at heightened risk of disruption, study claims

  A comparison study of AWS, Google and Microsoft's network architectures reveals stark differences in how they process user traffic, ThousandEyes report shows

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Robots deliver savings for Dutch postal service PostNL

  Dutch delivery company PostNL is reaping huge efficiency savings by using robotic technology to automate time-consuming administrative tasks

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  NGA secures £22m for Bristol-Newport fibre link

  Ultrafast wholesale network builder Nextgenaccess has been awarded funding from the National Digital Infrastructure Fund to improve connectivity in South Wales

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions

  With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Access to full-fibre broadband continues to expand under Vodafone-CityFibre partnership

  Customers in three more towns and cities will soon be able to access ultrafast fibre-to-the-premises broadband service

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud and Intel team up on IoT

  The Joint Edge Computing Platform lets enterprises train AI models at the edge of a network to support real-time decision-making

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Rural areas will be among the first to get Vodafone 5G

  Parts of Cornwall and Cumbria will be among the first locations to get access to Vodafone’s 5G mobile network when it launches in 2019

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  HPE pins hopes on intelligent edge as hybrid strategy flattens

  HPE sees hybrid as the future of enterprise IT, but revenue has been affected by currency fluctuations and its intelligent edge business is growing quickly

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Brussels loans Nokia €500m to fund European 5G research

  European Investment Bank is loaning Nokia half a billion euros to accelerate 5G mobile network R&D

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  O2 tests Li-Fi transmission technology to enhance home networks

  Mobile operator O2 is testing the application of Li-Fi technology, using LED light bulbs to transmit data packets, to enhance consumer wireless networks

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Industry bets on fixed wireless access for first 5G deployments

  Separate tests in Romania and the UK have been demonstrating the potential of fixed wireless access as a component of 5G

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Advanced network supports new learning model at Northampton Uni

  The University of Northampton is preparing to open a new campus at a cost of £330m, and has turned to Cisco to supply an intelligent, secure network to support its innovative learning model

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Qualcomm and Facebook working on FWA broadband

  Qualcomm is to integrate a number of its chipsets with Facebook’s Terragraph technology to build fixed wireless access broadband solutions for urban areas

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Next generation of SCADA industrial controls will protect against cyber attack

  Oil, energy and chemical companies are rethinking how to control big manufacturing plants, replacing expensive control technology with cheaper, more secure systems, taking their cue from biology

• April 22, 2018 22 Apr'18

  Thales to open ‘digital factory’ in Asia

  India and Australia are potential candidates for Thales’s new coding centre that will support digital transformation efforts

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Huawei invests in 5G mobile networks, but eases back on the hype

  Telecoms supplier Huawei has been updating the industry on its 5G vision at its annual Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China, but shied away from making bold predictions

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Train leasing firm demos mobile edge computing for smart trains

  Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains is demonstrating edge computing over a wireless mesh network to make life easier for its customers’ on-board staff

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Boom expected in processor attacks

  Sonicwall's latest research shows worrying signs that the processor flaws revealed at the start of 2018 are set to dominate IT security

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Russian augmented reality startups break into enterprise space

  Augmented, virtual and mixed reality technologies edge closer to enterprise adoption in Russia as a strong local developer network grows

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: 5G collaboration dominates agenda at annual mobile fair

  At Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, 5G mobile networks were the talk of the show, and a number of operators announced new collaborations around the emerging network standard with their technology partners

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Project Flame launches 5G testbed in Barcelona

  The European H2020 Project Flame has launched the first urban-scaled 5G testbed for open media internet trials, using an InterDigital platform

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Data, not connectivity, now core to IoT, says Cisco Jasper

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco Jasper has been exploring the growing criticality of data management to the internet of things, and unveiled new NB-IoT customers in Asia

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Samsung Galaxy S9 launch kicks off annual mobile festival

  Samsung has raised the curtain on Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona with the launch of a new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone device

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  Dell EMC’s IoT revenue in APAC surpasses $1bn

  The milestone in Dell EMC’s internet of things revenue underscores the APAC region’s rapid uptake of sensors and other IoT devices in industries and smart city projects

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Dell EMC: Time for hyper-converged, but not for mission critical

  Hyper-converged vs converged infrastructure: Dell EMC says hyper-converged isn’t ready for mission-critical applications, but may be by the end of the year

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  HPE opens APAC innovation lab to tap IoT market

  Facility in Singapore will rope in partners across the internet of things ecosystem to test new applications powered by HPE’s edge computing capabilities

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Giving machines a voice: what’s next for unified communications?

  As Mitel closes its acquisition of ShoreTel, creating a new unified communications and collaboration powerhouse, CEO Rich McBee reveals what’s coming next in the sector

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  Meg Whitman steps down as HPE CEO

  Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is to step down after six years in charge

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  How to protect your Wi-Fi network from a Krack attack

  The discovery of a vulnerability affecting the WPA2 Wi-Fi security standard has people in a spin. But how serious is it really, and what basic steps can you take to keep your network safe from a Krack attack?

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  Qualcomm successfully achieves first 5G data connection

  Mobile chipset supplier Qualcomm claims it has achieved a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chipset for mobile devices

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Encryption flaw leaves every Wi-Fi network in the world wide open

  A Belgian researcher has uncovered a major weakness in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol that is thought to leave every Wi-Fi network in the world open to attack

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Stamford Bridge to offer stadium connectivity in partnership with Ericsson

  Ericsson has begun its partnership with Chelsea to offer home fans a “seamless” connected experience

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Mobile operators must act soon as 5G business models emerge

  Full deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network is still at least two years away, but new business models are already beginning to crystallise around the technology, and operators would be wise to start preparations soon, a new report claims

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  IDC: On-premise infrastructure spend will continue to fall in 2017 as cloud demand soars

  IDC's latest quarterly cloud infrastructure spending forecast shines a light on how the dwindling demand for on-premise technologies is shaking up IT investments

• May 12, 2017 12 May'17

  Why smart cities need to become smarter about technology

  Cities are experimenting with smarter ways to use technologies to improve the life of citizens, but their projects are fragmented. Is there a better approach?

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  CIO interview: Bernie Burdett, head of IT, Dogs Trust

  The animal charity is revamping its IT to provide better customer service, protect itself from cyber attacks and ensure GDPR compliance

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Dell joins HPE and Cisco at top of cloud infrastructure leader board

  Cloud infrastructure is looking like a three-horse race between the big US suppliers, but the contract manufacturers are also in the running

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  Microsoft PCs get Brexit-fuelled price increase

  Microsoft has raised the price of its Surface PCs by as much as 15% in the UK because of the falling value of the pound since the country voted to leave the EU

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  MWC 2017: 4G still has plenty of mileage, say mobile analysts

  5G is likely to be a hot topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which kicks off at the end of February, but operators should be paying more attention to getting more out of their 4G networks

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  South African children’s hospital uses video to train cardiologists

  The Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town is using remote video learning to teach paediatric cardiology surgery to medical students

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  Manufacturers collaborate to secure process control systems

  Nearly 100 companies are working together to develop open standards for process control systems that will bring prices down and improve their resilience to cyber attacks

• January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17

  Expanding Doddle picks Cradlepoint to ease pressure on host networks

  Click-and-collect service Doddle has implemented a cloud-based all-in-one network model to support its expansion, and be a better neighbour to its host organisations

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  Private and public cloud fuelled Emea infrastructure sales in Q3, shows IDC data

  Demand for traditional IT hardware slumps, as sales of private and public cloud-enabling technologies soar, shows IDC data

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Hyperscale datacentre growth sees demand for OEM hardware soar, research shows

  Synergy Research Group lifts the lid on how the growth of hyperscale datacentre operators is developing around the world, as well as the impact this is having on demand for hardware from legacy IT suppliers

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  Mirai botnet hits Post Office Broadband and Kcom customers

  Broadband providers Post Office Broadband and Kcom are among a number of operators to have been hit by a hack targeting Zyxel routing hardware

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Global enterprise in midst of major network refresh, says report

  Businesses are upgrading their networks to embrace workplace mobility, IoT and SDN strategies, but are neglecting security, says Dimension Data

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Nutanix puts software-defined networking in hyper-converged boxes

  Hyper-converged appliance pioneer Nutanix puts software-defined networking features in its combined server/storage products to give better networking manageability

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  Birmingham Uni beefs up network automation, virtualisation to support research

  The University of Birmingham has deployed a Brocade switching infrastructure and network virtualisation to support the needs of its research teams

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Bulk surveillance review is ‘fiction’, claims former NSA technical director

  Former NSA technical director Bill Binney talks about the Investigatory Powers Bill and the UK government's independent review of bulk surveillance powers

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit

  Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  London Capital Group improves service deployment with SDN

  Online trading firm has revitalised its service delivery after switching a legacy physical network for VMware NSX SDN

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  How HomeServe Labs plans to use the IoT to shake up the insurance business

  Home maintenance services provider HomeServe grows its internet of things startup internally, and is now targeting the insurance industry with a leak detection system

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  Intel sees 5G networks as opportunity to sell more server chips

  Intel focuses on the back-end infrastructure behind upcoming 5G networks as it sees an opportunity for its processors and other datacentre technology

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  BT and Nokia to work together on 5G research

  BT and Nokia plan to work together on customer use cases, proof of concept trials, technology standards and equipment to support 5G

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Cisco confirms 5,500 lay-offs amid restructuring

  Networking giant has confirmed it will cut more than 5,500 jobs in an effort to trim the fat in low-growth business areas and enhance its performance elsewhere

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  Disaster Tech Lab brings emergency internet to refugee camps

  Voluntary organisation Disaster Test Lab deploys ruggedised Cradlepoint technology to provide mobile connectivity to 18 refugee camps in Greece

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Svitzer Marine tracks tugboats with 4G ship-to-shore Wi-Fi

  Maersk-owned tugboat operator Svitzer Marine has deployed Cradlepoint rugged networking solutions to support its fleet operations in ports around the world

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Ofcom and BT set out separate plans to increase Openreach independence

  BT Group’s plans to give Openreach greater independence share some common ground with Ofcom’s recommendations, but will this be enough to ease its rivals’ anti-competitive concerns?

• July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16

  Facebook completes first flight of UK internet drone

  Facebook has completed the first test flight in a year-long programme for its UK-developed Aquila drone designed to enable internet connections in remote areas, using high-speed laser communications

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  BT accused of under-investing in Openreach, prompting renewed calls for business split

  The Culture, Media and Sport Committee calls for operation and investment overhaul for Openreach, and claims failure to deliver on this should prompt Ofcom to order breakaway from BT

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Cisco UK and Ireland CEO Phil Smith steps down after 22 years

  Phil Smith announces he is stepping down from the day-to-day running of Cisco’s UK and Ireland business to take up the role of chairman

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Bluetooth 5 standard brings range, speed and capacity boost for IoT

  The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced the forthcoming Bluetooth 5 standard, promising significant improvements to support an accessible and interoperable internet of things

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Builders kill Virgin broadband service to thousands of Londoners

  Builders working in Brixton, south London, have severed a crucial link in Virgin Media’s trunk network, cutting broadband and cable TV services to thousands

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  BDUK finds more cash for rural broadband

  BDUK has uncovered and hopes to recover £150m of underspend from Phase 1 of the rural broadband roll-out project

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Openreach CEO Selley emphasises broadband delivery technology

  Joe Garner’s replacement at Openreach, technologist and engineer Clive Selley, discusses VDSL, G.fast and pure fibre as elements of the future for UK broadband

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Government claims Electronic Communications Code reforms will boost UK network coverage

  Government plans to cut costs associated with letting mobile operators build infrastructure on private land could lead to lower mobile costs for consumers, it is claimed

• May 10, 2016 10 May'16

  Nokia plunges to €513m loss after Alcatel-Lucent acquisition

  Costs mount up at network equipment supplier Nokia following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  ViaSat connects satellite development programme for European Space Agency

  ESA initiative aims to kick-start the development process for high-capacity satellite products, apps and services

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  Wi-Fi aggregator iPass offers SDK to simplify network access

  iPass launches a software development kit to let enterprises, operators and suppliers integrate its technology and services into devices and apps

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  Action for Children mobilises staff on Claranet’s managed network

  Action for Children, the charity behind Byte Night, moves onto Claranet’s MPLS core network to support the wholesale revitalisation of its ICT

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  EE open sources rural network coverage problem

  Mobile operator EE enlists Lime Micro and Ubuntu founder Canonical to help develop open source network capabilities and services for rural areas

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  Brighton and Hove gets free city centre Wi-Fi service

  Brighton and Hove City Council enables a free city centre Wi-Fi network, comprising 40 Wi-Fi hotspots – thirty of which are already live – with support from BT

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  Mitel and Polycom merge to form $2.5bn cloud unified communications firm

  Communications and collaboration suppliers Mitel and Polycom pool their resources to form a $2.5bn unified communications (UC) powerhouse

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  BBC turns micro:bit computers into IoT devices

  The BBC and Nominet demonstrate a new use case for the micro:bit computer and hope to turn Britain’s schoolchildren into internet of things pioneers

• April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

  EE, Qualcomm bring freestyle drone racing to Wembley Stadium

  Spectator sports status beckons as the European Rotor Sports Association live streams over the EE 4G network

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Maynooth University modernises network to meet growth challenges

  Maynooth University in Ireland has installed a Juniper-based campus network to support its future growth plans

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Private mobile network powers Ocado’s robotic warehouse

  Online supermarket Ocado rethinks 4G mobile technology to power a network of 1,000 robot workers operating in the grocer's 'hive' warehouse

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

  MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  451 Research warns of software-defined infrastructure skills gaps

  Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Virgin supplies Ethernet connectivity to Met Office supercomputer

  The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Cisco sees slowdown in large network deals as stock markets wobble

  Erstwhile customers are putting large networking deals on hold in an uncertain financial climate, claims Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Cisco recalls Ethernet switches over fault risk

  A potential fault on a number of IE-5000 switches could give users a nasty shock, says supplier

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Dell SDN’s OS10 promises new levels of network flexibility

  Dell expands its SDN product with a new operating system designed to maximise customer choice and capability

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Sigfox brings the internet of things to Antarctica

  Connectivity provider teams up with GPS supplier Sensolus and Belgian government to use the IoT to support climate change researchers

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent celebrate honeymoon

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent officially complete their merger and celebrate their first day of combined operations

• December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15

  Top 10 internet of things stories of 2015

  2015 was the year the internet of things began to move from theory to widespread practice, and the fledgling industry shook off the millstone of connected kitchen appliances

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Building regulations will drive IoT in offices

  Gartner predicts 1.6 billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2016, an increase of 39% from 2015

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Orange enhances internet of things strategy with additional services

  Orange has beefed up its internet of things strategy and announced the deployment of a long-range network to support IoT projects in 17 urban areas in France

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Michael Dell confirms there will be no EMC sell-off

  In spite of product overlaps and VMware’s partnerships with rivals, Dell will be keeping EMC intact

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Businesses struggling to transition to digital era

  Businesses are struggling to understand new technologies and the exponential process improvements they can enable, according to Ernst & Young partner Christoph Kilger

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage

  Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows

  A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates