The global market for green datacentres will grow from $17.1bn (£10bn) in 2012 to $45.4bn (£28bn) by 2016, as rising energy costs, tighter carbon emission regulations and economic pressure force IT executives to make their ...
Tags: green datacentres, IT infrastructure, greenhouse gas emissions
Thomas Cook online has signed a seven-figure deal with SME cloud provider CatN to host its e-commerce site. The agreement comes on the back of recent work by CatN,initially brought in by Thomas Cook as a skunkworks operation,which ...
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Organisations are struggling to cope with increasing datacentre complexity according to a global survey of 2,453 IT professionals from Symantec. The vast majority(79%)of organisations globally said their datacentres were getting more ...
Tags: Cloud mobile computing and virtualisation, increasing complexity
Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
Tags: Tesco, Sentrum, IT Smartphones, in-store software
Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2012 to general availability with a strong message that the operating system will capitalise on the growing importance of cloud and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing. "This is one of the most ...
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HP has confirmed it is writing off about$8bn after the drop in value of EDS,as the result of internal decisions combined with the global economic climate. Earlier this month Hewlett-Packard(HP)warned that it would write off$8bn after the ...
Tags: EDS, HP, reduction in its latest financial results, business damaged
Warwickshire-based utility company Severn Trent Water has implemented a SAP business intelligence solution, and taken the opportunity to decommision a mainframe of a type it had been running since the 1980s. Severn Trent Water CTO William ...
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Rackspace is formally launching its OpenStack open-source infrastructure-as-a-service platform in the UK in mid-August. Further reading IT skills gap has led to a'talent war',says Rackspace CEO Rackspace CTO:Oracle and SAP are starting ...
Tags: Rackspace pencils, UK, OpenStack, infrastructure-as-a-service platform
New research from Computer Weekly and TechTarget has shown that attitudes towards server virtualisation within the European networking industry have changed. Last year's survey revealed the technology was viewed as a strain on networks ...
Tags: European network professionals, server virtualisation, networking team
NatWest has admitted the outage it suffered on Thursday 26 July was down caused by a hardware failure in one of its datacentres. The error hit customers around 3pm, leaving them with no access to online banking and unable to use debit ...
Tags: NatWest, hardware, datacentres, online banking, debit cards
An IDC study has found that businesses using Amazon's cloud services over the past five years have made considerable savings. The Amazon-commissioned survey was based on interviews with 11 large and mid-sized organisations,based in North ...
Tags: Amazon, savings on applications, AWS, Cloud computing
Google has reported a 10%increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012,reaching$2.79bn,compared to$2.51bn in the same period last year. Revenue from the UK was$1.18bn,representing 11%of Google sales.Total revenue was$12.21bn,up ...
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Cisco has bought security start-up Virtuata for an undisclosed sum to boost its cloud computing offerings. The Californian firm focuses on security for virtual machines,either within datacentres or as part of a cloud deployment. It ...
Tags: Cisco, cloud computing offerings, virtual machines, security
Engineering firm Alstom has outsourced its datacentre transformation to systems integrator CSC for an initial five years. CSC will use its private cloud service, BizCloud, and storage as a service infrastructure as part of a server and ...
Tags: Alstom, CSC, datacentre transformation, systems, cloud service
The business arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Riba Enterprises, has rolled out an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, which it estimates will save £100,000 over three years. The deal with managed services ...
Tags: IaaS platform, Riba, virtual machines, specification software