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July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12
European network professionals focus on server virtualisation

The latest results from Computer Weekly and TechTarget’s purchasing intentions study shows server virtualisation is becoming part and parcel of the networking professional’s job
July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12
Networking the least understood element of IT, says HP's Nick Watson

HP’s European networking chief Nick Watson blames complexity for lack of understanding of networking in cloud computing
July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12
Juniper and Riverbed enter technology partnership

Juniper and Riverbed combine network and application capabilitites for wide area network (WAN) optimisation, application delivery and mobility
July 25, 2012 25 Jul'12
Orange offers connectivity under the English Channel

The Channel Tunnel will have 2G and 3G coverage from today, but UK customers will have to pay roaming charges for the privilege

July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
Forrester: Huawei must focus on growing enterprise business

Analyst Forrester says Huawei must focus on its enterprise business, even if at a loss, as carrier network revenues are no longer growing
July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
VMware looks to SDN with $1.05bn Nicira acquisition

Software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Nicira vows commitment to open standards as VMware proposes $1.05bn acquisition
July 20, 2012 20 Jul'12
Akamai set to stream Olympics coverage across Europe

Content delivery firm Akamai has signed deals with 15 European providers to stream live content and on-demand footage of the London 2012 Olympics
July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12
BT wins Welsh broadband contract

The telecoms giant is to work with the Welsh Government and BDUK to get 80Mbps connections to 96% of the country by 2015
July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12
Tech firm iCity wins datacentre bid for Olympics media centre

IT company iCity has been awarded the contract to turn the Olympics media centre into a datacentre, for which it will hire 4,600 staff
July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12
BT wins North Yorkshire rural broadband contract

Fujitsu has lost out again to a bid from BT, which will see the telecoms giant provide rural broadband across the UK’s largest county

July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12
Vodafone and 3 confirm Irish shared infrastructure partnership

Mobile operators Vodafone and 3 sign a deal to manage shared infrastructure in Ireland in a 50/50 joint venture
July 13, 2012 13 Jul'12
O2 claims mobile network is fully restored

O2 claims it has fixed network problems that left hundreds of thousands of customers without mobile voice and data connections for up to 24 hours
July 12, 2012 12 Jul'12
O2 outage puts Huawei in the frame

O2 is entering its second day of downtime blaming a fault with one of its network systems
July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12
Orange Business Services touts internet offload service

Orange Business Services (OBS) claims business applications can excel on VPNs by pushing non-critical applications onto local ISP networks
July 05, 2012 05 Jul'12
Ofcom proposes price caps for BT wholesale

The regulator announces the caps it will put in place to make sure BT charges fair prices for leasing its market dominating broadband and phone line infrastructure
July 04, 2012 04 Jul'12
Vodafone and 3 to enter 50/50 Ireland network deal

The two mobile networks are in the late stages of discussions to pool their network infrastructure, a source tells Computer Weekly
July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12
Arqiva buys Spectrum Interactive to boost Wi-Fi range

The £23.4m tie-up between Arqiva and Spectrum Interactive will create one of the UK’s largest business Wi-Fi hotspot providers
June 29, 2012 29 Jun'12
Universities deliver HPC for business via the cloud

The University of Cambridge and Imperial College are pooling their resources to create a high-performance computing (HPC) service that will offer some of the UK’s fastest computer resources to industry through the cloud
June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12
Wireless Broadband Alliance announces operators for Wi-Fi hotspot trials

BT, Sky, Everything Everywhere and TalkTalk will join the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) trial to improve access to Wi-Fi hotspots
June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12
F5 and Webroot partner for security in the network

F5 and Webroot bring together products from their portfolios to offer a single solution for application security
June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12
BT suffers broadband outages due to to ‘equipment failures’

London, Sheffield and Glasgow are among the cities to be hit by the BT broadband outage caused by separate hardware crashes in the network
June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12
Staffordshire County Council saves £1.5m with PSN deployment

Staffordshire County Council’s CIO claims £1.5m has been saved by sharing networking infrastructure with other public sector organisations
June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12
Dell says datacentre is ready for disruption

Dell’s head of networking Dario Zamarian tells Computer Weekly why the supplier is ready to stand on its own two feet in the networking space
June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12
US Sequoia machine takes title of fastest supercomputer

The US has overtaken Japan in the race for the world’s fastest supercomputer, with the Sequoia computer achieving 16.32 petaflop/s
June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers

Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
June 15, 2012 15 Jun'12
Western Digital moves into router market

Western Digital, known for its external hard drives, takes a step into networking with the launch of its My Net routers
June 06, 2012 06 Jun'12
IPv6 launch day raises awareness for web protocol

Numerous technology giants dub 6 June IPv6 launch day and switch to the internet protocol
June 01, 2012 01 Jun'12
Juniper Networks fail to protect Linx from outage

Linx reveals protections on its Juniper-based Lan didn’t kick into action during yesterday’s outage
May 31, 2012 31 May'12
London Internet Exchange hit by suspected DDoS attack

The internet exchange for the majority of the UK’s ISPs has suffered an outage, which customers report to be down to a distributed denial of service attack
May 23, 2012 23 May'12
Vblocks revenues on track to hit $3bn in 2013

The tie-up between Cisco, EMC and VMware is ramping up revenues from its datacentre-in-a-box product
May 21, 2012 21 May'12
HP battles to make its services business work

HP is planning major job cuts and consolidating datacentres in a bid to commoditise enterprise IT services
May 16, 2012 16 May'12
Interview: Avaya EMEA president Michael Bayer

We talk upcoming launches, acquisitions and R&D with the head of Europe for Avaya
May 14, 2012 14 May'12
IT suppliers losing race to build smart cities

Banks, developers and construction companies are taking over from the IT industry as the diving force behind smart cities
May 10, 2012 10 May'12
European economy dents Cisco forecast

The stormy outlook for the European economy leads the networking firm to predict a weak quarter
May 10, 2012 10 May'12
HP CEO Meg Whitman pushes hardware R&D strategy

HP CEO Meg Whitman has announced a three-year R&D programme in a bid to re-cast the company as a hardware business
May 04, 2012 04 May'12
Cisco snaps up analytics firm Truviso

Cisco has acquired real time data analytics firm Truviso for an undisclosed amount.
May 03, 2012 03 May'12
Nokia Siemens Networks offers ‘smooth migration to LTE’

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has launched its new Flexi Multiradio CDMA base station to help operators save costs in moving to Long Term Evolution (LTE)
April 23, 2012 23 Apr'12
Martha Lane Fox launches Go On UK

Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s digital champion, has launched Go On UK, the latest initiative to increase the number of people using the internet.
April 12, 2012 12 Apr'12
IBM rejoins the pre-integrated IT systems party

IBM is the latest mega-supplier to jump on the pre-integrated hardware and software IT system bandwagon.
March 09, 2012 09 Mar'12
Case Study: Dell SAN prepares law firm Stevens & Bolton for virtualisation

Law firm Stevens & Bolton has extended a Dell Compellent storage area network into the cloud, to take advantage of offsite business continuity.
February 22, 2012 22 Feb'12
Dell fails to impress despite record financial year

Dell has claimed its most successful financial year ever, but failed to impress investors by missing fourth quarter profit expectations.
February 09, 2012 09 Feb'12
Cisco back on acquisition trail after record quarter

Cisco Systems has reported record revenues of $11.5bn for the second fiscal quarter that ended 28 January 2012, up 11% on the year-ago quarter, and profits of $2.6bn or 47 cents a share, up 27%.
December 30, 2011 30 Dec'11
Top 10 hardware and datacentre stories of 2011

Cooling and power are still major concerns for businesses building datacentres. We look back at the highlights of 2011.
December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11
Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?
December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11
BT announces boost for UK broadband with upgrade to exchanges

BT will upgrade 178 telephone exchanges in a bid to ensure the government’s target of Europe’s best broadband network by 2015.
November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11
How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.
October 10, 2011 10 Oct'11
Ofcom further delays 4G spectrum auction for extended consultation

Regulatory body Ofcom will further delay the auction of 4G spectrum to late 2012 to allow for an extended consultation period.
October 07, 2011 07 Oct'11
BT cuts pole and duct costs, but variable pricing still unfair for rural broadband

Openreach has cut the price of pole and duct access in a move it claims will encourage ISPs to deliver broadband to rural areas.
October 06, 2011 06 Oct'11
Video is future of communication, claims Cisco CEO John Chambers

Video will be the future for all forms of communication, claims John Chambers, CEO of networking company Cisco.
October 05, 2011 05 Oct'11
Apple unveils iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and iCloud

Apple has launched its latest smartphone device, iPhone 4S, an updated version of its operating system (OS), iOS 5 and the new iCloud service.
October 05, 2011 05 Oct'11
BT readies 300Mbps downlink

BT Openreach is launching a 110Mbps fibre to the premises (FTTP) service, which it claims will provide downstream speeds of up to 300Mbps from 2012.
October 05, 2011 05 Oct'11
Retailers call for UK-wide 4G to boost m-commerce

The lack of capacity and bandwidth of public networks is limiting the opportunity to develop mobile commerce in the retail sector, according to industry experts.
October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11
Warwick University enters final phase of three-step IT transformation programme

Warwick University has started the last phase of its three-year IT transformation, introducing small, user-driven IT projects to transform its IT operation into one that offers services users need, rather than merely supporting technology.
October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11
Constant change puts the pressure on CIOs

A recent study by Forrester Consulting, carried out for consulting and services firm Dimension Data has confirmed what many CIOs know - the unholy trilogy of cost management, constant change and increased system diversity is a fact of life.
October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11
Power cut at Birmingham exchange pulls plug on BT Broadband across UK

BT has confirmed that power cuts at a major exchange caused internet outages on BT Broadband.
October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11
How far away is the government's vision of the Public Services Network?

The long-awaited Public Services Network to enable the delivery of government services from any provider or location is now underway. But how achievable is the vision of a national "network of networks"?
October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11
Government announces £195m investment in science and computing, £150m to expand mobile coverage

The government has announced £195m investment in science and computing, including high-performance computing and research.
September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11
Nokia and Siemens invest €1bn in joint network venture

Nokia and Siemens are each investing €500m into Nokia Siemens Networks in a bid to strengthen the joint venture's financial position.
September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11
Government deploys Wi-Fi for Olympics as mobile networks face capacity crunch

The government is planning to deploy free Wi-Fi around London during the Olympic Games in 2012 amid fears that mobile phone networks could run out of capacity.
September 27, 2011 27 Sep'11
Power protection for the data centre

All the servers in the world are useless without electricity. And securing the supply of power has become a key challenge for data centre managers. Swinburne University faced this challenge in the solution design for their data centres.
September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11
UK ranked fourth globally for fixed broadband speeds

The UK has been ranked fourth globally for fixed line broadband internet access speeds, out of a list of 38 countries.
September 22, 2011 22 Sep'11
BASF extends BT network contract

Chemical group BASF has signed a €200m deal with BT for networking 900 BASF sites in more than 80 countries. The contract includes the provision of IP telephony and local network services (managed LAN services) at 300 sites in North and South ...
September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11
The mainframe is not dead

Despite rumours to the contrary, the mainframe is alive and well even though its pervasiveness has shrunk.
September 20, 2011 20 Sep'11
How to justify the business case for virtual desktop infrastructure licensing

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology can cut energy bills, increase business agility and improve mobile working flexibility. But licensing cost and complexity can wipe off the financial savings of VDI deployment. Jenny Williams explores ...
September 15, 2011 15 Sep'11
Jeremy Hunt warns UK could fall behind other countries in superfast broadband roll-out

Jeremy Hunt, culture secretary, has warned that the UK could fall behind other countries in delivering superfast broadband. Hunt also criticised BT over its provision of broadband access, in a speech to the Royal Television Society.
September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11
Cisco halves sales forecast as CEO John Chambers eyes Huawei market share

Following Cisco Systems' warning it is to halve its sales forecast as it struggles with reduced demand and increased competition, CEO John Chambers said he intends to battle with Chinese network provider Huawei.
September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11
Openreach expands fibre to 114 more exchanges

BT Openreach has unveiled 114 exchanges that will be upgraded to deliver fibre broadband as part of its plan to deliver fibre to two-thirds of the UK by the end of 2015.
September 08, 2011 08 Sep'11
University challenge: using IT to improve services and reduce costs

Universities face a balancing act as they become increasingly expected to improve the experiences of more demanding students while making budgets go further, and IT is a critical tool in finding this balance.
September 08, 2011 08 Sep'11
Doctors use HD video conferencing in rapid remote treatment for stroke patients

Lancashire and Cumbria hospitals are to enable doctors to assess stroke victims who need rapid treatment using high-definition video conferencing.
September 06, 2011 06 Sep'11
Ofcom to further delay auction of 4G spectrum

Regulatory body Ofcom is to delay the auction of its 4G spectrum due to a number of technical and competition issues around the sale.
September 05, 2011 05 Sep'11
Everything Everywhere and Three boost mobile broadband with £100m Virgin deal

Customers of Everything Everywhere and Three will be given access to high-speed mobile broadband with Virgin Media Business. Virgin Media Business will build 14 regional aggregation networks across the UK for MBNL to support 3G functionality, from ...
September 01, 2011 01 Sep'11
Ofcom gives green light to use TV spectrum for rural broadband

Telecommunications regulator Ofcom has given the go-ahead for internet providers to use unused TV spectrum to deliver broadband to rural areas.
August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11
Government smart metering takes major step forward

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has called on IT suppliers to build the data and communications infrastructure that will enable data to be sent between smart meters in homes and businesses and the yet to be established Central ...
August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11
Three to give away mobile broadband to rural communities

Mobile operator Three is giving free 3G broadband to rural communities in the UK that are currently unable to access fixed line broadband.
August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11
VMworld: Brocade offers subscription-based pricing on network ports

Brocade is offering a global subscription model for its enterprise networking hardware, allowing businesses to upgrade network ports on demand.
August 24, 2011 24 Aug'11
Durham University upgrades communications infrastructure and adopts IP telephony

Durham University is to upgrade its communications infrastructure after signing a deal with Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEC) which will see the university adopt IP telephony.
August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11
Alcatel-Lucent offers low-cost finance for converged network asset management

Alcatel-Lucent Financial Services is offering businesses a finance deal to encourage them to upgrade their converged network systems.
August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11
Kent and Sussex lead UK’s worst broadband blackspot top 20, say researchers

Over half of Britain's top 20 broadband blackspots are in the south of England, according to research from Uswitch.com. Kent and Sussex have three towns each on the list.
August 18, 2011 18 Aug'11
East London NHS Trust signs superfast broadband deal with Virgin Media

East London NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five-year superfast broadband deal with Virgin Media to enable it use more online technologies in the future.
August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11
Will £530m be enough to deliver UK-wide superfast broadband?

Will the government's latest investment be enough to deliver next-generation broadband speeds in homes and businesses across the UK? We ask the experts.
August 16, 2011 16 Aug'11
Government announces £363m investment in broadband

The government has announced £363m in investment to improve broadband speeds in homes and businesses in England and Scotland.
August 12, 2011 12 Aug'11
Medical specialist BPL virtualises IT

Medical research and blood product supplier Bio Products Laboratory (BPL) has outsourced a project to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure to help it cut costs and energy consumption while actually providing more computing resources.
August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11
Cisco shares up 13% on better-than-expected financial results

Cisco Systems has reported fourth fiscal quarter sales of $11.2bn, net income of $2.2bn, and earnings per share of 40 cents, beating estimates and driving the share price up 13% in after-hours trading.
August 10, 2011 10 Aug'11
BT infrastructure forces Virgin Media to pull Westminster broadband and TV services

Virgin Media has pulled its broadband services to homes in Westminster because the BT infrastructure it uses means it cannot upgrade services. Virgin's broadband and analogue TV services will stop from January 2012.
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
Lightning takes down Amazon and Microsoft cloud services

Amazon and Microsoft European cloud services were down at the weekend after a lightning strike caused power failures at their datacentres in Dublin.
August 04, 2011 04 Aug'11
CIO interview: Peter Ransom, chief information officer, Oxfam

Oxfam works in 98 countries and as one of the world's leading development charities, demands for a better IT service are on the rise.
August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11
eBay boosts virtual servers with 100 terabytes of flash memory

Online auction site eBay has deployed more than 100 terabytes of flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The S-class flash storage from solid state disk provider Nimbus is believed to be among the world's largest consolidated...
July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11
BSkyB wins 174,000 new broadband subscribers

BSkyB has reported a surge in its broadband business in yearly results, taking its subscriber base to 711,000.
July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11
BT reports 38% profit rise as broadband customer base grows

BT's pre-tax profit rose 38% from £375m to £517m in its fiscal first quarter as 251,000 new customers were introduced to its broadband network.
July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11
Virgin Media sees small drop in business sales, and loses 18,000 broadband users

Cable telecoms supplier Virgin Media has reported a small drop in business revenue for its second quarter, while the firm also revealed it has lost 18,000 broadband users...
July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11
BT rolls out higher-speed broadband to additional 2.5 million premises

BT is to extend access to higher-speed 20Mbps copper-based broadband to an additional 2.5 million premises by spring 2013...
July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11
Broadband ads still misleading on speed, says Ofcom

Broadband advertising is still misleading on the actual speeds being delivered by ISPs, according to telecoms regulator Ofcom...
July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11
Ofcom urged to widen 4G mobile coverage in next year's spectrum auction

Ofcom has been urged to increase 4G mobile coverage in next year's radio spectrum auction. Industry watchdog the Communications Consumer Panel...
July 26, 2011 26 Jul'11
UK fails to make world’s top 10 high-speed broadband countries - but Ireland scrapes in

The UK has failed to make it into the top 10 countries with the highest average broadband speed, but neighbouring Ireland scrapes in...
July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11
Virgin Media trials 1.5Gbps broadband at London's Silicon Roundabout

Virgin Media has rolled out broadband speeds of up to 1.5Gbps as part of a trial for businesses in the "Silicon Roundabout" area of London...
July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11
TalkTalk scores lowest in Ofcom broadband satisfaction survey as Orange turns tables

Broadband connection speeds remain the biggest issue for UK broadband customers, according to the latest customer service satisfaction survey by telecoms regulator Ofcom.
July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11
Cass Business School centralises IT infrastructure to save £500,000

City University London's Cass Business School is moving its IT services and infrastructure to the university's centralised...
July 20, 2011 20 Jul'11
Eurostar outsources to build an IT infrastructure of its own

Rail firm Eurostar has outsourced its IT to enable it to build its own IT infrastructure in preparation for the rise in demand expected when London hosts the Olympics next year.
July 14, 2011 14 Jul'11
CEOs propose internet reforms to meet EC speed targets, but threaten net neutrality

European broadband speed targets will be missed unless authorities introduce cost-saving measures and allow revenue-generating business models, according to a report from three communications company CEOs.
July 12, 2011 12 Jul'11
Wales gets £57m in broadband funding

Wales is set to receive £56.9m to help provide superfast broadband to 90% of homes and businesses in the country and enable broadband access for everyone.