Analyst group,Quocirca,explains the importance of a holistic approach between a data centre facility and datacentre equipment and assesses the benefits of external data centre services. For many organisations,'IT'is split between two ...
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Juniper Networks and Riverbed Technologies are partnering to utilise their network and application capabilities. The two firms announced the tie-up claiming the application and the network were converging. They said there was a need for ...
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Chip maker Intel warned of a slowdown over the next quarter as it announced its sales and profit for its latest three-month financial period. Intel made sales worth $13.5bn and a profit of $2.8bn in its second quarter, which ended June ...
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Cisco today unveiled its latest ASR 5500 appliance to ease the impact of mobile devices on corporate networks. The platform is designed to deploy in the network as a packet core solution to help not only with current data traffic, but ...
The roll-out of the cloud and virtualisation across the BBC is an urgent priority to cut costs and maintain daily technology operations, a BBC technology head has said. Roger Crothers, head of technology at BBC Wales, said his ...
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Payments made by Nationwide customers were taken twice after human error at the bank duplicated the payment process. Some payments made by current account holders on Tuesday 24 July were duplicated the next day. According to reports, 2 ...
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Converged storage and server maker Nutanix has announced upgraded hardware and a new operating system (OS) version with support for Red Hat's KVM hypervisor in addition to existing VMware support. Nutanix debuted in 2011 with its ...
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Slough Borough Council has outsourced its datacentre for a monthly cost of£30,000. The council co-located its datacentre to hosting company Savvis following the decision to sell the previous site as part of its cost-cutting agenda. ...
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The regular rant heard from mobile operators is how much "over the top" service providers are stealing their revenue. The likes of Skype and WhatsApp operate on their handsets, but allow users to circumvent the core voice, text and data ...
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Colin Rees,IT Director at Domino's Pizza explains how a project to move the company data centre into the cloud,has transformed its online business. This presentation,given to Computer Weekly's 500 Club for IT leaders in May 2012,covers ...
Facebook opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US. The London hub, launched by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, will focus on building Facebook mobile and platform products. "There are 7,000 ...
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It's arguable that two key things have driven developments in storage this year; server/desktop virtualisation and the relentless expansion of data. The first of these has led to real changes, namely the growth of flash in the datacentre. ...
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The benefits of server virtualisation are indeed quite impressive for today's server and datacentre administrators, but what about you – the storage manager? While everyone else is reaping the rewards of their newly virtualised ...
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Amazon Web Services, the biggest public cloud service provider, has hit out at private cloud providers, claiming private cloud users are not achieving all the benefits of cloud computing at its first user conference AWS re: Invent. Andy ...
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Market dominating suppliers have been forced to get onboard with software defined networking (SDN) or face losing their customers as the trend takes off. This was the claim made by Shaun Walsh, vice-president of marketing at Emulex, who ...
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