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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
October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14
Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service

The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations

October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14
Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts
October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14
Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies

Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle
October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14
CIO interview: Ben Hine, technology director, UKTV

UKTV director Ben Hine says every piece of the company's technology has been replaced over the last four years
October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14
Sunborn puts network in the cloud at Docklands’ first floating hotel

Hospitality firm Sunborn picks Mitel 3300 IP Communications platform for London's first floating hotel
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
BT launches cloud voice service for businesses

BT to deliver flexible cloud-based VoIP services to SME customers
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
CIO interview: Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO, University of Oxford

Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO at the University of Oxford, discusses plans to replace current IT systems with managed services
September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14
Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking

Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently
September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14
Huawei ploughs $4bn into fixed broadband research

Huawei announces major R&D investment in ‘ultra-broadband’ research over the next three years as interest in new networking standards grows
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
Conventional datacentre skills and tools to limit business growth

IT skills including capacity planning and performance management are no longer sufficient for business growth
September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14
Google to build giant '40-football pitch' datacentre in the Netherlands

Google will invest €600m to build a giant, 120-megawatt datacentre in the Netherlands
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Dell bets on its end-to-end datacentre infrastructure strategy

Michael Dell has outlined the company’s datacentre and cloud strategies
September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14
Software-defined infrastructure challenges legacy IT culture, warns Gartner

Software-defined infrastructures are rapidly emerging and could disrupt conventional IT control, responsibility and support
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to create open-source telco cloud

Nokia Networks and OpenStack provider Red Hat join forces so mobile broadband operators can create a telco cloud infrastructure
August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14
Veg supplier freshens up data recovery times with WAN optimisation

Network congestion limited vegetable wholesaler Product World’s ability to create and move VMs until it deployed WAN optimisation
August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14
Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
Brocade and Telefónica establish NFV benchmark

Networking suppliers claim test results will alleviate customer concerns around performance barriers to adoption
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
Kent County Council hands six-year PSN contract to Daisy Updata

Daisy Updata Communications to manage Kent’s public services network (PSN) deployment across more than 1,300 sites
August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Cisco cuts jobs as profits fall

Cisco is to cut 6,000 jobs, or 8% of its workforce, after another quarter of shrinking profits
August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14
Facebook optimises software infrastructure for datacentre power efficiency

Facebook has developed a system called Autoscale to optimise its software infrastructure and make its datacentre more energy efficient
August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14
Interxion invests €45m in Marseille datacentre as profits climb

European cloud and colocation datacentre provider Interxion buys facilities in France to provide 5,700 square metres of space and 6MW of power
August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14
Openreach CEO Joe Garner sets out broadband game plan

Joe Garner, the new CEO at Openreach, talks about his plans to make the organisation more open, visible and responsive
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal

CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal
July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog

Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Yorkshire councils upgrade networks for Tour de France

IP telephony and Wi-Fi upgrades help North Yorkshire and Leeds City Councils meet the demands of the Tour de France
July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14
Huawei reports 19% increase in revenue

Huawei has reported revenues of $21.9bn for the first six months of the year, up 19% compared with the same period in 2013
July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14
BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Shropshire primary school claims first all-802.11ac Wi-Fi network

Windmill Primary School in Telford is the site of the first 802.11ac Wi-Fi network in a UK primary school as it prepares for a major mobile device deployment
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Microsoft and Cisco work together on cloud and datacentre

Cisco has entered a three-year sales collaboration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise cloud and datacentre services
July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14
The SDN state of play: first steps for the enterprise

Software-defined networking experts say telcos will be first to push SDN ahead of enterprises and suggest how CIOs can prepare
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Government invites tenders for Emergency Services Network

Incumbent Airwave Solutions among several businesses invited to tender on the four lots of the new Emergency Services Network
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.
July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14
Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager

Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat

Tromso-based university uses liquid-cooled HPC systems to keep students warm by recycling excess datacentre heat, saving €1.7m
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers

IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Intel's new lab in Swindon to fuel IoT projects

Intel has opened an IoT Ignition Lab in Swindon to allow UK enterprises to develop projects in retail and more
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Azzurri pushes enterprise contact centres into the cloud

Networking provider launches hosted cloud contact centre offering as part of its ICON services package
June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14
CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup

Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres

HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price

Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs

As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
Cisco launches workspace collaboration devices and cloud service

Cisco has launched a range of collaboration devices, including the 24in touchscreen DX80 device, which features a built-in Android computer
April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14
Dell skips smartphones to focus on convergence

With the smartphone industry grinding to a halt,Dell has chosen to take the software avenue rather than trying to push into the smartphone space.
April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14
Ericsson picks OpenStack for its $30m datacentre and cloud infrastructure

Ericsson has picked open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack for its $30m datacentre, cloud and telecommunications infrastructure update
March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14
Does Gigaclear’s broadband win show new direction for BDUK?

Why Gigaclear's rural broadband contract win could signal a change of direction for the future of the BDUK project
March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14
Android tablets sell more than iOS tablets

Sales of Android powered tablet devices grew 127% in 2013, taking the leading position in the tablet operating system market for last year, according to research by analyst firm Gartner.
February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14
The big themes of Mobile World Congress 2014

This week saw the world’s largest mobile conference hit Barcelona. Computer Weekly takes a look at the big themes of Mobile World Congress 2014
February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14
BT criticises Ofcom over unbundling prices

BT claims Ofcom regulations give Sky and TalkTalk an unfair advantage over smaller ISPs and calls for change
February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14
Virgin Media boosts broadband speeds

Virgin Media promises a top speed of 152Mbps for customers across the UK, as well as boosting its entry-level connection from 30Mbps to 50Mbps
February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14
Telefónica to embrace SDN and NFV with UNICA network initiative

The mobile operator plans to revamp its network infrastructure to embrace more virtualisation technologies and bring more efficiency to its backhaul.
February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14
Newcastle to go digital with £9m government fund

The North Eastern city will benefit from superfast broadband, free Wi-Fi and a cloud computing centre
February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14
Hyperoptic targets three more UK cities for 1Gbps broadband

The fibre to the home provider is extending its reach outside of London to bring 1Gbps connections to Bristol, Cardiff and Reading
February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14
Latvia’s Lattelecom: 1Gbps will be standard by 2018

Latvian telecoms firm will make 1Gbps its standard connection to homes by 2018, with the internet of things and customer demand necessitating the rise
February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14
NHS Scotland awards SWAN contract to Capita

Capita wins the £110m contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network project, while BT continues to seek damages for losing out
February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14
Birmingham City University revamps IT backhaul

The University works with Logicalis to overhaul its IT infrastructure, from designing two new datacentres to rolling out new wired and wireless networks
February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14
Cisco profits plummet for second quarter

A one-off charge for faulty memory chips sees profits for the networking firm tumble by almost 55%, while revenues decline 8% year on year
February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14
Analysis: Dell’s open embrace of SDN

Dell's recent announcement shows it is betting big on software-defined networking, but will it win out?
February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14
Glasgow City Council signs BT for free Wi-Fi before Commonwealth Games

Glasgow City Council signs BT to provide free Wi-Fi across the city in time for the Common Wealth Games in summer 2014
February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14
Three signs 4G backhaul deal with Virgin Media Business

Three's five-year, multi-million pound deal will see Virgin Media Business soup up the mobile operator’s backhaul to prepare it for its 4G future
February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14
EE and Three sign ‘passive’ network share deal for rural UK

The two providers will not be sharing spectrum or antennae as in previous deals, but will work together on the backhaul to bring 4G services to rural areas
February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14
BT criticised for ‘knocking out competition’ in Wiltshire

BT and Wiltshire County Council have been accused of using public funds to build out broadband in areas set to be served by alternative providers
January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14
Is Cisco’s ‘SDN plus’ the best software-defined networking?

The networking giant has been accused of not embracing software-defined networking, but Cisco claims it offers better SDN than its competitors.
January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14
Cisco engineers – an innovative future?

Will network engineers be given more chances to innovate post-economic crash? We ask those at Cisco Live 2014
January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14
Internet of Things could be held up by physical flaws

Cisco’s managing director of IoT warns physical issues with sensors and batteries could hamper the effectiveness of connected cities
January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14
IT departments need to address complexity, says ZK Research founder

The founder of ZK Research says if IT departments fail to address their complexity then they are set to fall behind the times when it comes to technology
January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14
BT pledges extra £50m to commercial broadband roll-out

The telecoms giant promises to bring a further 400,000 premises onto its fibre network across 30 cities
January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14
Samsung profits fall in Q4 2013

Electronics firm Samsung sees profits fall 11% quarter on quarter – the first decline it has seen in two years
January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14
Nokia ends 2013 in decline

All of Nokia's divisions see falls in sales and profits, but its CEO remains positive the remaining businesses will flourish in the future
January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14
BT and Alcatel Lucent test 1.4Tbps broadband

The two firms ran the trial over existing infrastructure and claim it is the fastest speed to have ever been achieved over commercial grade hardware
January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14
Huawei exec named chair at Open Networking Foundation

In a boost to his company’s reputation, Dr Serge Manning is named the chair of the wireless and mobile working group for the ONF.
January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14
EE routers vulnerable to ‘incredibly easy’ hack

A blogger claims to have found a flaw in EE’s BrightBox broadband routers that could leave sensitive information accessible to hackers
January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14
QLogic buys Brocade’s converged network adapter business

Brocade sells converged network adapter division to QLogic, as the two firms announce SAN partnership
January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14
IT mobility trend continues in 2014

More than half of enterprises plan to issue employees with mobile devices in 2014, a Computer Weekly survey has found
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
Case study: Berkshire NHS adopts 4G for home visits

The Foundation Trust enables its nurses to access and update patient records on the move with 4G mobile Wi-Fi from EE
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
Olympics executive named new BDUK chief

Chris Townsend will lead the government’s rural broadband project, including pilot schemes of alternative technologies for areas that are hardest to reach
January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14
Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon
January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14
Free Wi-Fi coming to Edinburgh buses and trams

Today sees the tender close for a government-funded project to bring free Wi-Fi to Edinburgh’s public transport network.
January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14
SDN still failing to spark interest in Europe

Research shows just 9% of companies across Europe are planning to implement software-defined networking in the next 12 months
January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14
Eurotunnel signs deal with EE and Vodafone

EE and Vodafone have signed a 10-year contract with Eurotunnel to enable customers to use their mobiles in the Channel Tunnel
January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14
Oracle enters SDN game with Corente buy

The software giant buys New Jersey-based startup Corente to take advantage of its software-defined networking technology
December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13
Top 10 mobile networking stories of 2013

Computer Weekly takes a look back over the past 12 months at the biggest headlines in the mobile networking industry
December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13
BlackBerry posts huge losses as CEO promises enterprise focus

BlackBerry posts more disappointing results for its third fiscal quarter, but CEO remains optimistic for the firm’s future in the enterprise market
December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13
Fujitsu set to lose three government outsourcing deals

A number of outsourced contracts with Fujitsu will not be renewed by government over the coming year
December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13
Met Police IT strategy expected 9 months late

A new Metropolitan Police IT strategy is to be released in January nine months later than recommended by a critical report into the force’s IT
December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13
Ofcom threatens BT with fines over repairs

Telecoms regulator Ofcom tells BT Openreach to fix faults with telephone and broadband services in two days or it could face fines
December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13
Evelina London Children's Hospital uses real-time video to aid heart treatment

The London hospital saves time, money and stress through Polycom’s video-conferencing solution within their theatres
December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13
GCHQ told to tighten reins on Huawei security centre

A report commissioned by David Cameron has called for tighter controls on Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Centre amid fears around the company’s ties with the Chinese government