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Networking hardware
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
BT launches cloud voice service for businesses
BT to deliver flexible cloud-based VoIP services to SME customers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres
HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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