CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. That’s ...
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A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in computing, has been announced by scientists in Cambridge. The research, reported in Nature ...
Schneider Electric says it has acquired Barcelona, Spain-based AST Modular, which offers a portfolio of "prefabricated data centre modules, services, manufacturing expertise and project engineering support". "Schneider Electric's global ...
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Voltage optimisation has been delivering energy savings and cutting carbon emissions for a decade now.It is a proven and reliable technology,and one of only three technologies applicable for a new batch of carbon reduction funding,having ...
A resilient system for data centre power protection and security is critical to business continuity and resilience. That's a given. Although there are various elements to a full turnkey standby power solution including; UPS systems, battery ...
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Google said its data centres in Taiwan and Singapore have gone online to cater to the growing number of Internet users in Asia. The Internet giant said in 2011 that it planned its first Asian data centres in Hong Kong, Taiwan and ...
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Dell has announced new enterprise technology to 'help customers architect new data centres and modernise campus networks'. The new solutions include the the EqualLogic storage solutions to date and higher-speed wireless and simplified ...
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A Russian-speaking group is advertising "bulletproof" hosting for cybercriminals from data centres in Syria and Lebanon, an apparent effort to place new services in locales where Western law enforcement has little influence. The ...
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Tomorrow's data centre will be mobile, flexible, highly efficient and secure, says?David Cappuccio, Managing Vice President and Chief of Research for Gartner's infrastructure teams. Over the next five years, the data centre will continue ...
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The growing popularity of 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet in data centres helped the Middle East Ethernet switch market record the highest third quarter increase, according to IDC.? In the MEA region switch sales increased by almost 23 ...
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Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft said Monday ...
Microsoft is to invest €170m (£141m) to expand its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) data centre in Dublin, Ireland. The expansion is scheduled to be completed by spring 2014, and will create 380 construction jobs and 20 ...
Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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Microsoft is planning end-to-end encryption of its internet traffic following concerns that the company had its network security breached as part of the National Security Agency's (NSA) internet surveillance programme. The revelation, ...
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Schneider Electric representatives used the company's Power To The Cloud event to underline the importance of smart cities, and its own Next-Generation Mission Critical IT infrastructure policy. The policy's aim is to use smart city ...