Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
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Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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The European Commission(EC)and datacentre industry consortium The Green Grid are collaborating on policies to improve efficiency in datacentres. Non-profit industry lobby group The Green Grid includes datacentre users,policy ...
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The Datacentre Maturity Model(DCMM)tool can help businesses improve datacentre energy efficiency,hence their Power Usage Effectiveness(PUE),according to not-for-profit organisation The Green Grid. The free DCMM tool allows datacentre ...
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IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre's energy efficiency and power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make meaningful changes and ensure IT facilities are truly sustainable. As businesses come under ...
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Mike Gibbons,CIO of building materials company Aggregate Industries,talks to Computer Weekly about why regulatory intervention made the company realise the importance of its data assets,and the reason investment in IT is more important now ...
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A taste of Cisco's acquisitions The threat from software-defined networking(SDN)Cisco diversifies portfolio Acquisitions more cost-effective than R&D Extending customer base and innovation There is nothing unusual about an industry ...
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Network equipment supplier Cisco is buying US cloud networking firm Meraki in a$1.2bn deal. Cisco,which is keen to raise its profile in cloud computing,said the acquisition will help accelerate its evolution to software-centric offerings ...
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Cisco has bought software company Cloupia for $125m, making it the networking giant's eighth acquisition of 2012. The Santa Clara-based software firm specialises in automating datacentre hardware, giving businesses an overview of their ...
Cisco has bought software company Cloupia for$125m,making it the networking giant's eighth acquisition of 2012. The Santa Clara-based software firm specialises in automating datacentre hardware,giving businesses an overview of their ...
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Chairman and CEO, Netgear, talks about market competition and partner strategy in the India market. CW: Over the years, what has redefined the networking market, which was more about switches and routers? Lo: Presently, the network is ...
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Cisco has reported an 18% year-on-year rise in profits, hitting $2.1bn for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013. Cisco's sales for the quarter came in at $11.9bn – equating to a more modest growth of 5.5% compared with 2011 ...
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NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
Tags: FlexPod storage stack sales, 176 FlexPod units, storage hardware
Icann, the organisation that manages internet protocol numbers and the domain name system root, is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid online technology. ...
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