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• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  TCG releases TPM 2 specification for improved security

  The Trusted Computing Group has published an updated specification for the Trusted Platform Module

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results

• March 07, 2014 07 Mar'14

  CIOs hold fire over datacentre decisions

  When it comes to devising datacentre strategies, are CIOs paralysed like rabbits in the headlights, or playing a calculated game of wait and see?

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era

  IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics

  New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Allianz deploys Rumba to provide secure mainframe administration

  Insurer Allianz UK has deployed Rumba terminal emulator software from MicroFocus to provide a mainframe-based policy admin system

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Virtualisation continues to drive European server purchases

  TechTarget survey finds 97.3% of large organisations plan to expand their deployments in 2014, with consolidation the main driver

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy

  Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform

  Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Modular datacentre cheaper than ‘bricks and mortar’ datacentre

  A modular datacentre may cost an enterprise 14% less than a traditional datacentre, according to a research by DCD Intelligence

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  Software licences drive Oracle revenue, but hardware takes a hit

  A drop in hardware sales dragged down Oracle’s revenue in its Q1 financial results, but software revenue increased

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 13, 2013 13 Sep'13

  After virtualising IT estate, Jaguar Land Rover now eyes cloud computing

  Jaguar Land Rover's IT team takes its newly virtualised infrastructure to the next stage of IT evolution by adopting cloud-based services

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Icahn wants judge to appraise Dell buyout offer

  Billionaire US investor Carl Icahn says he will go to court to get a better price for his stake in the computer manufacturer Dell

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?

  Dell has ditched its public cloud IaaS in favour of partner cloud programme. But will the strategy help secure its future in the cloud era?

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  IT rationalisation must be combined with layoffs for long-term savings

  Long-term IT cost reduction requires more than just server consolidation and cuts to software licences, says Gartner

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  EMC seals deal with Chinese server giant Lenovo for desktop NAS

  Storage giant EMC completes joint venture that will see it provide desktop NAS and SME rackmount storage hardware to Lenovo

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 business software articles of 2012

  The main thrust in enterprise software this year has been the introduction of a new Windows OS, programming model and user interface.

• November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12

  Why Cisco chooses acquisition over R&D

  As networking giant Cisco buys its ninth company in less than a year, Computer Weekly asks, why the focus on acquisitions?

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  Cisco profits jump 18% thanks to datacentre strategy

  Cisco reports an 18% rise in profits, hitting $2.1bn for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013, on the back of its integrated datacentre systems

• October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

  Intel sales and profits fall in third quarter

  Computer chip maker Intel has reported falls in both sales and profits in the third quarter due to the "tough economic environment”

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Tesco signs £65m datacentre deal to drive online expansion

  Tesco expects to cut several millions each year from its IT bill following a 15-year £65m datacentre deal with Sentrum

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Dell expects tough next quarter

  Dell expects third-quarter revenue to be down between 2% and 5% on second-quarter levels due to the “uncertain economic environment”

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Cambridge University turns to computer games to unlock secrets of the universe

  Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science

• June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12

  Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?

  Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.

• 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 12, 2012 12 Jun'12

  Cisco UCS blade servers integrate Fusion-io PCIe flash cards

  Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers

• June 06, 2012 06 Jun'12

  HP eyes EMC’s storage market

  HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system, which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour – three times faster than EMC’s recently launched Data Domain 990

• May 23, 2012 23 May'12

  Dell's quarterly profits take a dive

  Dell saw its profits dive 33% in its first financial quarter of 2013 as consumer and large enterprise sales fell 12% and 3% respectively

• 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 22, 2012 22 May'12

  Tucci: FusionIO ‘darn right foolish’ for Flash attitude

  EMC’s CEO hits back at FusionIO as the war of words continues between the two companies

• April 19, 2012 19 Apr'12

  Supercomputers will reach 'exascale' speeds within decade

  Supercomputers will be powerful enough to simulate the human brain within seven years, says founder of Top500 list.

• April 03, 2012 03 Apr'12

  STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM

  The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed a £30m deal with IBM to develop high performance computing (HPC)

• March 20, 2012 20 Mar'12

  Birkbeck College consolidates servers to cut PUE rating to 1.3

  Birkbeck College has consolidated four equipment rooms into one £700,000 datacentre with a PUE rating of just 1.3

• February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12

  Datacentres and mobile devices drive 7% server shipment rise in 2011

  Server shipments rose 7% in 2011 as businesses built datacentres and smartphones and tablets were increasingly used to access web content

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IT professionals prioritise Windows 7 upgrade, but cloud takes a back seat

  Windows 7 upgrade will drive virtualisation but businesses are slow to take up cloud computing

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  Case study: Cogenta migrates to Claranet VDC

  Cogenta is among the first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service, which launched last month.

• January 17, 2012 17 Jan'12

  Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers

  Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.

• January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12

  Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations

  Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer

  JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.

• 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?

• 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.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  The impact of the Olympics power drain on London-based datacentres

  Power shortages and costs are becoming an increasing concern for companies with datacentres in London as the Olympics approaches.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware

  Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  Service providers battle to reduce carbon footprint as datacentres expand

  IT service providers are united in their attempt to reduce carbon footprints on paper, with corporate targets to support them, but despite putting a lot of energy into the cause, their power consumption is rising, according to a major benchmarking ...