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Networking hardware

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Cisco leadership hits the ground running in strong fourth quarter

  New CEO Chuck Robbins closes out the fourth quarter on a high note and speaks of a renewed energy at the network supplier

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Gartner warns of IoT threat to corporate data stored in personal clouds

  Market watcher cautions IT managers to beware the risk IoT and virtual personal assistants pose to corporate data stored in 'personal clouds'

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Facebook to boost Internet.org with UK drone

  Facebook is ready to test a UK-developed drone that is designed to fly in a circle with a radius of about 1.8 miles and provide internet coverage for an area with a radius of 30 miles

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  World Trade Organisation strikes $1.3tn deal to wipe out IT trade tariffs

  World Trade Organisation's planned update to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement could see prices fall across a wide range of technology products

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Cisco quits set-top boxes and reshuffles IoT and cloud organisation

  Cisco sells off the set-top box business it acquired in 2005 and restructures its cloud and IoT businesses

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Facebook builds wind-powered datacentre in Texas

  Social networking giant Facebook adds momentum to green datacentre trend with plans to power a datacentre in Texas with a 17,000-acre wind farm

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  The internet of things could save the honeybee from extinction

  Gemalto’s M2M unit is developing an ambitious project with agricultural science firm Eltopia and the University of Minnesota. The objective: to save the honeybee from extinction

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  CIOs warned of IT overspending risks as US dollar strength grows

  The strengthening US dollar could result in enterprises overspending on IT, as suppliers sneak in under-the-radar price hikes, Gartner warns

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Alstom runs 4G LTE multi-services pilot for train operations

  Transport engineering company Alstom conducts the first live pilot test of 4G LTE multi-services on French railways

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Google scolds businesses for citing security as a reason not to use cloud

  Search giant reckons on-premise data is more likely to be breached than information stored in the cloud

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Goldman Sachs datacentre deal sees IO open first European site in Slough

  US datacentre provider IO has opened its first facility in the UK, with the help of global investment bank Goldman Sachs

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Swedish hardware hub pairs big businesses with IT startups

  Swedish hub pairs hardware-focused startups with businesses to tap into opportunities such as the internet of things

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Interview: Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE

  Six months on from becoming an EMC-owned company, VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju talks about how the move will benefit his firm

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Dell forms IoT unit and launches gateway products

  Dell has cut the ribbon on a new product division focused on creating internet of things systems

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  BBC tests 4G broadcasting at FA Cup final

  The BBC turns to EE to test out 4G-powered mobile broadcasting during the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  Internet of things and smart cities need UK-wide consensus

  At a TechUK event, delegates call for cross-body collaboration on IoT to ensure local authority CIOs get the best from the emerging technology

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  TfL kicks off network tower procurement

  TfL is to begin £400m network tower procurement exercise in June

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  HP CEO hails business split progress amid downbeat Q2 revenue slumps

  Despite chalking up revenue declines in several business units, Meg Whitman is more convinced than ever of the need to breakup HP

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Russian enterprises unconcerned by NSA network hack allegations

  Despite allegations the NSA hid spyware in the equipment of a number of suppliers, the market in Russia for western network hardware remains buoyant

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

  A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Fire services to keep Airwave Tetra radios until 2020

  The Department for Communities and Local Government approves a major extension of the fire services' Firelink Tetra network to the end of 2019

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  Cisco’s John Chambers: I’m pumped about new leadership

  Outgoing Cisco boss John Chambers shares his thoughts on the future of the business as he prepares to step down from the bridge

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  City of London Police crack counterfeit Cisco ring

  Detectives dismantle a criminal operation suspected of importing, exporting and selling fake Cisco hardware

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  Airbus Defence and Space embarks on networking R&D venture with Cisco

  Airbus Defence and Space partners with Cisco to develop networking systems around SDN, security, mobile, cloud and the internet of things

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  EMC uses big data to drive motorcycle racing safety improvements

  Storage giant has embarked on a big data project with Isle of Man TT race winner John McGuinness to improve track safety levels

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud

  EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Cisco CEO John Chambers to step down in July

  Cisco CEO John Chambers announces plans to step down from the post after 20 years

• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  Memset blasts BT over PSN Protected deployment delays at Surrey datacentre

  IaaS provider turns attention to closing down more public sector deals now PSN Protected network is finally in place

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Vodafone sends network in a backpack to Nepal earthquake zone

  Vodafone’s charitable arm, the Vodafone Foundation, deploys instant mini networks to help restore communications in quake-hit Nepal

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Cloud infrastructure spend set to hit $52bn in 2019

  IDC shares five-year view of how it expects worldwide spending on both private and public cloud infrastructure to grow

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent: a grand European networking alliance

  Nokia's €16bn acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent will bring big changes to the European networking landscape

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Broadband equipment market spikes as fibre subscribers boom

  Worldwide revenues from broadband customer premises equipment spiked in 2014 as subscriber numbers boomed and ISPs rolled out more fibre

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  BBC puts £230m network contract out to tender

  BBC puts out tender for £230m, seven-year connectivity services contract

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Government smart meter project should be "halted, altered or scrapped"

  The Institute of Directors has weighed in on the controversial smart meter rollout and called for the scheme to be halted, altered or scrapped in its current form

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Home devices threaten enterprise data security, warn researchers

  Poor or lacking security on ADSL routers and other devices used by teleworkers a threat to global enterprise information security

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Queens Park Rangers signs BT as official comms provider

  QPR football club inks a multi-year deal with BT Business to supply voice and networking services at Loftus Road

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Switch abstraction will be next wave of SDN, says Dell

  Dell submits a proposal for a switch abstraction interface to the Open Compute Project to advance software-defined networking

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Mobile World Congress: Huawei proposes green network methodology

  Huawei proposes a new methodology to maximise the energy efficiency of 3G and 4G networks

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Avaya sends SDN to the network edge for distributed environments

  Avaya introduces SDN architecture that extends the potential of software-defined to the edge of the network

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Software-defined network supplier Big Switch launches free online test environment

  Big Switch Networks launches online development and test environment to show how to set up and run a software-defined network (SDN)

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  HP to introduce open network switching technology

  HP partners with Accton Technology and Cumulus Networks to deploy open network switches for web-scale cloud datacentres

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Brocade sets up SDN and NFV research team in UK

  Brocade is to base a new SDN and NFV research and development team in the UK

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Cisco’s software-defined networking business booms

  Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure customer base doubles in three months as its software-defined networking model gains traction

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Airwave dropped from Emergency Services Network procurement

  Incumbent network operator Airwave will take no further part in the Emergency Services Network bid process, the Home Office has revealed

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Engineering firm Smiths Group to embark on landmark SDN project

  Engineering and technology firm Smiths Group renews AT&T contract ahead of major network refresh, and plans to put SDN at the heart of its project

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances

  EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  BT pledges ultrafast 500Mbps connections for all

  BT announces pilots of G.fast technology and promises universal ultrafast broadband within a decade

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Your digital projects are doomed to failure, warns Cisco

  At Cisco Live! In Milan, Cisco set out the challenges of going digital, with many projects doomed to fail unless businesses embrace ‘Fast IT’

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Property business enhances efficiency with Vodafone mobile… in 1985

  Property boom spurs a small business to enhance its workforce productivity with a mobile communications deployment – 30 years ago

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  Airwave tackles network traffic spike on New Year’s Eve

  Emergency services comms supplier Airwave records its most concentrated network usage ever in central London on New Year’s Eve

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  N3 network outage knocks NHS users off internet

  An internet gateway fault causes problems for users of the NHS N3 network

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  National roaming SIM to hit the market in weeks

  MVNO 24 Seven trials national roaming SIM in bid to pick up rural business customers

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 broadband stories of 2014

  Computer Weekly takes a look back at the biggest broadband stories of 2014

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Government chief scientific adviser: 'Don’t trivialise the internet of things'

  Government chief scientific adviser publishes report on the internet of things, making several policy recommendations

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  DECC publishes annual report on delayed smart meter scheme

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its annual report on the roll-out of smart electricity and gas meters

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Mobile devices first port of call for half of consumers by 2018

  By 2018, smartphones and tablets will be the first devices used for online activities, according to research firm Gartner

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  Alcatel-Lucent shores up cloud network pact with HP

  Alcatel-Lucent and HP expand their existing alliance to support the construction of network-enabled, distributed cloud systems

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP puts big data in the cloud and announces services enhancements

  On the opening day of HP Discover in Barcelona, HP has announced a major milestone in its big data strategy

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman

  At the HP Discover event in Barcelona, CEO Meg Whitman addressed the future for customers following HP's split into two businesses

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  Nottingham University Hospital embeds video in cystic fibrosis centre

  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust used Cisco video technology to enhance care quality at a dedicated facility for cystic fibrosis patients

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  National Trust for Scotland overcomes legacy network challenge

  The National Trust for Scotland has replaced a historical network infrastructure with a core service from Brocade

• November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

  Network Rail extends fibre network to rural broadband providers

  Network Rail Infrastructure asks Ofcom for more powers to build out its fibre network for the benefit of broadband and mobile suppliers

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  IT at Coca-Cola Enterprises attains low-energy accreditation

  The IT department at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has completed Stage 3 of the Low Energy Company accreditation

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Fujitsu touts 'human-centric innovation' model

  Fujitsu wants to take customers on a journey towards what it terms “human-centric” IT

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  City of London Corporation fed up with BT broadband

  City of London Corporation launches drive to improve superfast broadband for residents and SMEs after losing patience with BT’s roll-out

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Cisco CEO John Chambers attacks Barack Obama over net neutrality

  Just days after US president Barack Obama backed net neutrality, Cisco CEO John Chambers says it will hurt business

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  ASA rules in BT’s favour on fibre-to-the-cabinet complaints

  The ASA has not upheld complaints that BT misled consumers when it claimed its Infinity service was fibre-optic broadband

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Lack of in-house skills stymies IaaS migration, says report

  Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) supplier Reconnix says most businesses fear they lack the skills to move to the cloud

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Juniper CEO Kheradpir resigns over misconduct allegations

  Shaygan Kheradpir steps down from his role as CEO of Juniper Networks after less than a year in the post, after a customer negotiation went sour

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Vtesse loses appeal over state aid for broadband in Cornwall

  Court rejects Vtesse’ appeal against the European Commission’s decision that state aid for BT was legal

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  How networking brought innovation and automation to Heathrow Terminal 2

  Heathrow Airport has put automation and collaboration at the heart of a £34m network deployment in Terminal 2

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  ITN deploys wireless transmission technology for breaking news

  ITN introduces camera-mounted wireless transmission technology from BT to track breaking news stories around London

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  CityFibre takes gigabit network to West Yorkshire

  Fibre network operator CityFibre urges businesses in West Yorkshire to sign up to Kirklees Core network service

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots

  Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Government may force networks to accept national roaming

  The government plans to eliminate poor mobile coverage in the UK by making MNOs adopt national roaming

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  The View from The Shard to deploy Aruba mobile location services

  London’s highest viewing gallery, the View from the Shard, helps launch Aruba Network’s new Mobile Engagement service

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Wi-Fi forecast predicts one hotspot for every 20 people by 2018

  Worldwide audit for Wi-Fi network aggregator iPass reveals how public Wi-Fi might change in the next four years

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  MPs launch inquiry into rural broadband coverage for farmers

  Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee launches inquiry into rural broadband coverage and its impact on digital-only services

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  BT sees increasing fibre demand, but sales remain flat

  BT attracts new fibre customers but fails to translate growth to revenues in the second quarter of 2014

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework

  Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Six networks that changed the world forever

  The Science Museum opens its Information Age gallery, dedicated to the history of information and communications

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Government seeks suppliers for £2bn telecoms framework

  The government is seeking suppliers for a £2bn procurement framework to replace Whitehall’s telecommunications requirements

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Disney spreads the magic through wearable technology

  The Walt Disney Company is using wearable technology to improve customer experience and engage with visitors

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  National Museum of Wales tackles digital technology

  The National Museum of Wales is digitising and using modern technology in its seven exhibition campuses

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Intel bets on custom silicon as specialised workloads rule datacentres

  Intel is betting on workload-optimised silicon as datacentre workloads become sophisticated, dynamic and varied

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Intel sees revenue uplift from PCs, servers and internet of things

  Intel has seen revenues increase 8% year-on-year to $14.6 billion, thanks to shipments of PCs, servers and internet of things