Cisco and Fusion-io have announced a partnership to incorporate Fusion-io’s flash technology into Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The deal will make Fusion-io an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner of the ...
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Working out how to make infrastructure on demand work for your company is a challenge. In this 10-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at assessing the needs of your business, assess how a lack of standards is hindering progress, and ...
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Mobile network operator O2 claims it has fixed network problems that left hundreds of thousands of customers without voice and data connections for up to 24 hours. The firm has issued a string of apologies, but has not yet made any ...
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Solid state drive (SSD) hardware supplier Fusion-io has entered the networked flash appliance arena with the launch of its ION Data Accelerator software. Positioning itself in the networked flash acceleration market to compete with the ...
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A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) today confirmed it will axe a significant number of jobs across the company to cut $1bn operating costs. The announcement came just days after the Financial Times revealed the ex-chief executives of the BlackBerry ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest customers are still facing technical issues as an IT failure continues to cause havoc for the banking group. Bank customers first found their RBS and NatWest services were unavailable at lunchtime ...
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The Post Office has launched an external review into the Horizon computer system at the centre of its legal dispute with sub-postmasters. Some sub-postmasters blame the Horizon system for what they claim are false accusations made against ...
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Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is set to lose its stranglehold on the government mobile market, as momentum to broaden the number of smartphone suppliers in Whitehall gathers pace. Currently, Blackberry is the only smartphone ...
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Businesses will face tough penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation. Companies could face fines of up to 2% of their turnover for breaching a proposed EU data protection law. “It is ...
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Juniper Networks failed to protect the London Internet Exchange (Linx) from an outage yesterday, a spokesman has confirmed. At approximately 4pm, traffic transported over Linx’s two local area networks (Lans) – which route the ...
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Moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent an increasing amount of irony to the company’s name, following the departure of founder Mike Lynch and the expansion of its key tools to become add-ons across a much broader range of ...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will have access to cloud-based supercomputers to run complex engineering simulations, under a euro 16m project backed by the European Commission (EC). The project, part of the EC’s Factory ...
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Phil Shoesmith, head of IT for the Alzheimer's Society charity, has called on Salesforce to keep its promise to build a datacentre in the European Union (EU). The Alzheimer's Society helps 100,000 suffers of dementia in England, Wales and ...
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“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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