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Timico agrees sale and leaseback on Newark Data Centre

29 Feb 2012

DTZ, part of UGL Services, has successfully completed a sale and leaseback deal on a multi-million pound Data Centre in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire on behalf ofcommunications service provider, Timico.

Boston Limited unveils top secret server at Data Centre World

29 Feb 2012

Boston Limited, now in its 18^th year as distribution partner for Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), has announced that it is to reveal a top secret new server at Data Centre World 2012 in London’s Olympia.

BlackBerry still the corporate device of choice, but for how long?

28 Feb 2012

Latest Reality Checker from The Corporate IT Forum reveals that BlackBerry is still king in the corporate world

The tablet and the smartphone have now become a common sight in UK corporate businesses and the latest Reality Checker from the Corporate IT Forum, which surveyed heads of IT at some of the UK’s largest organisations, has found that BlackBerry is still the corporate device of choice, but Apple is hot on its heels and the favourite on a personal basis.   

PEER 1 Hosting simplifies the web for SMB’s

28 Feb 2012

Web management and server administration tools unveiled

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing the launch of two managed hosting products aimed at simplifying the web for small to medium sized businesses. The upgraded portfolio includes cPanel/WHM and Fulcrum, and is designed to make it easy and quick for SMB’s to manage their servers and configure their websites and email accounts.

Infinity Adds ‘Stockley Park’ Site to UK Data Centre Portfolio

28 Feb 2012

On the eve of Data Centre World at London’s Olympia, Infinity today announced the addition of a new premium West London facility to its growing portfolio of data centre locations. The new ‘Stockley Park’ data centre will be operational in Autumn 2012.

Aspect again named #1 global workforce management solution vendor

28 Feb 2012

Retains top spot in both North American and Global rankings

Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions, has announced that the company has been named the leading global workforce management vendor in the 2011 World Contact Centre Workforce Management Systems Market report by Pelorus Associates, an independent market research and consulting company. Globally, Aspect owns 29.7 percent of the workforce management market, and it leads the North American market with 37.7 percent share. Pelorus has tracked the global market for contact centre workforce management systems since 2006 and Aspect has consistently ranked number one in global and North American market share.

iomart Hosting takes UK digital media agency into the cloud

28 Feb 2012

New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform

iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform to support the work of UK digital media agency New Brand Vision Group.

Venafi announces availability of Venafi Assessor

28 Feb 2012

Venafi Inc., the inventor of and leader in enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, today announced the availability of Venafi Assessor.^™Assessor is a downloadable, easy-to-install, free software solution that scans an organisation ’s network to locate and analyse deployed digital certificates and the associated encryption keys. Assessor produces a series of reports that detail the security, operational and compliance risks derived from the data it collects. Additionally, Assessor provides remediation recommendations based on industry best practices and the aggregate experience of Venafi customers.

SMBs find new user experience and more productivity with Alcatel-Lucent solution

28 Feb 2012

16 million SMB users already count on Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and new mobility features further their communications network investment 

Today's successful small and medium-sized businesses recognise the value of technology and collaboration. To attract a new generation of workers, businesses offering seamless business applications and tools with flexibility across devices, are discovering an increase in productivity as a result of employee engagement, and those employees deliver an increase in customer satisfaction that drives new business.

NaviSite Introduces Enterprise-Class Desktop-as-a-Service

28 Feb 2012

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today introduced an enterprise-class, cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS) offering that enables IT organisations to deliver virtual desktop services to local and remote users from the cloud with an increased level of security and management and the same functionality as traditional desktops.

Polatis 192x192 Low Loss Optical Switch to be Launched at OFC/NFOEC 2012

28 Feb 2012

New Series 6000 delivers the highest performance all-optical matrix switch in a compact form factor

Polatis, Inc. the performance leader in all-optical switch technology, today announced its new Series 6000 Optical Matrix Switch - a fully non-blocking, all-optical singlemode fiber cross-connect for up to 192x192 fiber ports with less than 1dB typical optical loss. The Series 6000 doubles the maximum matrix size previously available from Polatis and is based on Polatis' patented DirectLight® optical switch technology, featuring leading-edge optical performance with enhanced energy efficiency and port density. The new product line will be demonstrated at the OFC/NFOEC show in Los Angeles next week. Production shipments commence in the second quarter of 2012.

High-Performance Computing Customers Gain Greater Capabilities to Address Big Data Requirements Through NetApp’s Collaboration with OpenSFS and EOFS Communities

28 Feb 2012

Cooperative Efforts with Industry Leaders Underscore NetApp’s Commitment to Support Growth and Expansion of Lustre

Government organisations, universities, and labs worldwide that rely on high-performance computing (HPC) face increasing challenges in managing and processing growing data volumes to advance scientific research and design next-generation products. These organisations have turned to solutions based on the Lustre file system to improve the speed and accuracy of scientific discovery and obtain insights faster into areas such as geonomics, bioinformatics, defense, and climate simulation modeling research.

Micro Focus Advises how to Future-proof IT Systems, Making 2012 the Year of Re-Use

28 Feb 2012

Industry leader Micro Focus urges global corporations to avoid costly failures by modernizing existing IT assets

Standish Group^[i] has recently issued a report describing the risk of failure of major IT projects, citing the dangers of rewriting core business applications or replacing them with generic packages. In 2011, there were well-documented ERP and other software project horror stories, including the RIM and Amazon outages, highlighting the challenges and business-critical nature of having the right IT infrastructure in place.

CBI calls to abolish CRC - nlyte Software co-founder comments

27 Feb 2012

Last week, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called on the chancellor George Osborne to scrap the much-hyped Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), due to its inability to ‘deliver an effective and proportionate mix of financial, reputational and reporting drivers’. 

Lack of understanding acting as main barrier to cloud adoption

27 Feb 2012

Perceived risks are causing delays to adoption, whilst fears over data sovereignty still reign

Perceived risks over service control and fears over data sovereignty are the key issues that are restricting UK organisations from implementing cloud services, according to recent research from Claranet, the managed services provider.

Rackspace Addresses UK Cloud Skills Market With Recruitment Drive

27 Feb 2012

Rackspace launches major recruitment drive Mission 350 to support the continued growth of cloud computing in the UK

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has announced the start of a positive training and recruitment initiative Mission 350 designed to encourage skills development among university-level technology students and address job needs at its UK office locations in Hayes and Slough.

A hiding place for software piracy?

27 Feb 2012

Federation Against Software Theft – ‘ruling is unhelpful’

The Federation Against Software Theft has expressed concern at the ruling from the European Union General Court that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install filters to halt the illegal trading of copyrighted material.

Golfbreaks.com’s customer service hits a hole–in-one thanks to Aspect

27 Feb 2012

Contact centre specialist selected to implement full multi-media contact centre infrastructure as more people tee off than ever each year

With a worldwide market of $17 billion¹, golf tourism is growing in popularity amongst people of all nationalities and ages, causing it to become a competitive playground for tour operators. Europe’s largest golf travel company, Golfbreaks.com, has selected Aspect to transform its customer service operation to meet increasing demand and improve the booking process for customers - without increasing personnel resources. Aspect is the market leader in software-based next generation customer contact.

The Cannon Technologies T4 Events Series Helps To Build Better Data Centres

27 Feb 2012

Because the data centre is at the heart of business operations, the roll call of stakeholders has grown, and now regularly includes C-level executives and Business Managers. To help organisations seeking to create, replace or improve their data centre infrastructure, Cannon Technologies is launching the Cannon T4 Event series at Data Centre World 2012. The series is firmly targeted at the growing diversity of disciplines involved in making critical data centre decisions, concerning amongst other things, cooling, power and security.

Imperva Analyzes High-Profile ‘Anonymous’ Attack

27 Feb 2012

Report reveals details on methods employed by hacktivist group to attack high-profile organizations

Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, released today a report that reveals details on an attack by hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ against a high-profile unnamed target during a 25-day period in 2011.

iomart Hosting provides cloud storage and backup for new branding network "What Is My Brand" launches in UK

27 Feb 2012

iomart Hosting, one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services,  is providing cloud storage and backup for a new personal branding network that’s just launched in the UK.

IX Reach and Telx join forces to improve Transatlantic connectivity and peering

27 Feb 2012

Channel Partnership provides Telx’s New York customers and IX Reach’s European customers improved, fast, reliable and direct access to markets through Telx Internet Exchange

IX Reach and Telx today announced that they have entered a non-exclusive channel partnership providing Telx customers with even more connectivity and colocation choice for access to the European markets, and also providing European networks direct, secure access to colocation and connectivity options at Telx’s C³ Cloud Connection Center in New York City. Under the terms of the channel partnership agreement, Telx customers at the 111 8^th Ave. New York City C³ data center can leverage IX Reach for cost-effective connectivity to the key European markets of London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris; while IX Reach’s European customers can tap the Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) for seamless network peering, establishing a cost-effective traffic route to New York City.

UKFast is Only Hosting Provider in Sunday Times Top 100

27 Feb 2012

Team Focus Puts Employees on Cloud Nine

Manchester hosting firm UKFast is celebrating its place as the only hosting company in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.

New Telecom Business Models on Horizon, Urgent Need for Change, Reveals Openet, STL Partners Research

27 Feb 2012

Global Survey Reveals Two-Sided Business Model Innovation with Third-Parties Obstructed by Risk Averse Culture Among Telecom Operators 

Openet, a leading provider of Service Optimization Software (SOS) to tier one communications service providers, today announces the results of a groundbreaking survey gauging the potential for communication service providers (CSPs) to collaborate with Over-the-Top (OTT) application and content providers in order to create compelling new services. The survey reveals that operators intend to leverage their existing assets to enable these two-sided business models, but their execution is misaligned with their goals.

RMD Power and Cooling to exhibit at Data Centre World Expo

27 Feb 2012

RMD Power & Cooling will be exhibiting at this year’s Data Centre World Conference and Expo at London’s Olympia.

Datacenters 2012 Masterclass by Christian Belady of Microsoft Announced

27 Feb 2012

Datacentres 2012, ( http://www.datacentres2012.com/ ) Europe's leading content driven event for end users, telcos, datacenter operators, cloud players, energy specialists and companies engaged in the sector, has announced that Christian Belady, General Manager, Data Center Services, Global Foundation Services at Microsoft will provide a Masterclass at the event. 

Fibrecomm Enhances Capacity and Flexibility of Malaysian Network with Ciena 40G Deployment

27 Feb 2012

Network carrier is region’s first to deploy OTN switching, directionless ROADM technology

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced thatFibrecomm Network (M) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia’s leading network carrier, is expanding its network infrastructure using an intelligent Ciena solution featuring advanced optical technologies that include 40G, OTN switching and directionless ROADMs. Deployment began in December and already includes several live network segments.

Avere Improves Cloud Performance for Digital Domain by 25,000 Percent

27 Feb 2012

Company's NAS optimization solution slashes WAN latency for leading digital production house

Avere Systems today announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company that has delivered innovative visuals for more than 80 movies including Titanic, TRON: Legacy and Real Steel, with work that has earned multiple Academy Awards, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure to ensure quick access to massive amounts of computer-generated imagery data.

Varonis announces Partnership with McAfee for Data Loss Prevention

27 Feb 2012

Varonis extends their Metadata Framework™ technology and enterprise context awareness for data loss prevention to McAfee customers

Varonis Systems Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, announced it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program in order to better address the challenges organizations face as they manage growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Classification Framework and McAfee® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will allow customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, NAS devices and SharePoint sites, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn't have access, who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification solutions.

Avecto Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform Consolidates Endpoint Security and Privilege Management

27 Feb 2012

Avecto – a leader in Windows privilege management, today released further details of the integration of McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) software with Avecto Privilege Guard 3.0. The joint offering provides a complete privilege management solution for securing and protecting endpoints, from a single console, without having to compromise on end user productivity. Privilege Guard’s seamless integration with McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator management platform allows all joint customers to adopt least privilege – an essential part of a desktop security strategy.

HP Helps Organizations Manage and Prioritize Risk with Expanded Enterprise Security Platform

27 Feb 2012

New solutions deliver enterprise visibility with context to reduce business risk across traditional, mobile and cloud environments

HP today announced an integrated platform of risk-driven security solutions that provides enterprises clear visibility across traditional, mobile and cloud environments, and enables them to apply adaptive security defenses based on specific organizational risks.

Password amnesia takes a grip on the UK

23 Feb 2012

60% of nation need to remember more than three different passwords daily ~

61% admit they have to write down their passwords

Third party research commissioned by Ping Identity^®, the Cloud Identity Security leader™, has revealed the use of multiple passwords is posing a security risk to individuals and businesses alike.

TechnologyOne launches Cloud, reveals future vision

23 Feb 2012

TechnologyOne (ASX: TNE) today unveiled its first Cloud products and vision for the future, which according to founder and executive chairman Adrian Di Marco, will transform how enterprises select, try, buy, implement and use software.

Imation announces unified security solutions for secure mobile data, identity and workspaces

23 Feb 2012

Unified product set offers encrypted USB storage, strong user authentication, and secure identity management and mobile workspaces through a simple end-user device plug-in to secure and empower the mobile workforce

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a global scalable storage and data security company, has announced its unified Secure Data, Identity and Mobile Workspace product set, to be  showcased at the 2012 RSA Conference, booth #839.

Cloud Computing; user expectations maturing as security remains number one concern

22 Feb 2012

Cloud computing has now grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. The prospect of drastically boosting infrastructure resources at a lower cost is appealing, but security and control over the infrastructure remain significant concerns. Games developer Zynga, for example, has announced a move away from Amazon Web Services towards a Private Cloud in order to maximise the reliability and performance of its network.

SkyDox Awarded Accredited Vendor Status for Government G-Cloud Procurement Service

22 Feb 2012

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, file storage, and collaboration tools, announced today that it has successfully completed the Government Procurement Service vendor tender process of the G-Cloud initiative and has been awarded a “Framework Agreement for the Provision of G-Cloud Services.”

WhipTail co-founder leads growth strategy in EMEA

22 Feb 2012

Brian Feller appointed to VP and General Manager EMEA as solid-state storage sees exciting future

After seeing tremendous growth in its sales in North America, WhipTail is aggressively expanding within Europe. Leading marketing and channel sales in the US for the last two years, WhipTail’s co-founder Brian Feller is relocating to London to take the helm in the territory as VP and General Manager. WhipTail is the maker of the world’s first and most widely deployed all-flash enterprise class storage array.

Bradford Networks develops easy-to-use BYOD Mobile Security Suite with HP

22 Feb 2012

Unique workflow wizard simplifies safe onboarding of personal mobile devices to corporate networks

Bradford Networks has announced it has developed a Mobile Security Suite with HP.   The integrated solution combines Bradford’s heterogeneous network access control (NAC) with HP Enterprise Mobility Solutions to create an easy-to-use workflow wizard that simplifies the deployment of both Bradford and HP products.  Benefits include securely allowing personal mobile devices onto corporate networks quickly and a decreased total cost of ownership. 

Racktivity launches new version of its innovative Data Center Performance Management system at Data Centre World London

22 Feb 2012

Stand demonstration shows how Racktivity’s software solution can manage hundreds or thousands of PDUs as a single system.

Racktivity is demonstrating how its Datacenter Performance Management system manages hundreds or thousands of PDUs as a single system to help IT professionals and facility managers reduce energy costs while maximizing uptime.  The live showcase of the full range of innovative energy management products will take place during the Data Centre World conference from 29^th February to 1^st March at Olympia in London.

BYOD signals need for renewed awareness on software licensing

22 Feb 2012

Do companies have enforceable policies in place to ensure software compliance and manage the software lifecycle in the BYOD world?

The Federation Against Software Theft is calling on organisations to be aware of the compliance challenges and not get caught out as working practices shift with the growth in BYOD – Bring Your Own Device.

SGH Martineau Puts Clients at Heart of Communications Infrastructure With ShoreTel

22 Feb 2012

Unified Communications ensures availability, cost savings and flexibility for law firm

ShoreTel^® (Nasdaq: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced that SGH Martineau, a significant UK law firm with offices in Birmingham, London and Brussels, has selected a ShoreTel UC system with ShoreTel Mobility to improve ease of access to fee-earners for clients, without sacrificing security or billable time capture.

Teradata-Hortonworks Partnership to Accelerate Business Value from Big Data Technologies

22 Feb 2012

Joint development, support, and marketing partnership to deliver integrated enterprise architectures that tackle all aspects of big data processing

Teradata, the leading analytic data solutions company, and Hortonworks, the leading commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, today announced the signing of a partnership agreement.

Sprint chooses TelecityGroup’s new Manchester facility to meet growing business connectivity demands

22 Feb 2012

First US provider to have Point of Presence in new state-of-the-art Manchester facility

TelecityGroup has today announced that Sprint (NYSE: S) will have a presence in Joule House its new state-of-the-art Manchester data centre from launch. The expansion is expected to  help meet the added connectivity demands in Europe driven by the continued uptake of cloud services by enterprise clients, and enable TelecityGroup’s customers to enjoy the widest connectivity and peering options from the facility.

Ipanema Technologies named finalist in World Vendor Awards for three consecutive years

21 Feb 2012

Newly launched nano|engine product shortlisted in the ‘Best Specialist Vendor’ category for 2012

Ipanema Technologies, the industry leading provider of WAN Governance solutions and application centric VPN services, announced today that it has been nominated as a finalist for the World Vendor Awards (WVAs) for its recently launched low cost, ultra compact devices tailored for branch offices, the nano|engine family. Ipanema Technologies won the ‘Best Specialist Vendor’ category in the WVAs 2011. In 2010, Ipanema Technologies was ‘Highly Commended’ in the ‘Best Specialist Vendor’ category. 

Flexible and remote working to be highlights at UC Expo 2012 ahead of Olympic Games

21 Feb 2012

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to address the issues surrounding flexible and remote working 
UC Expo Stand 604, 6-7th March – Olympia Exhibition Centre, London

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise will demonstrate its award-winning OpenTouch™ suite of multimedia communications platforms at this year's UC Expo. OpenTouch, recognised by Frost and Sullivan as the Most Innovative European Communications Product of 2011, enables any workforce to engage with each other on any device and media from any location at any time. With less than six months to go until the Olympic Games – and as the UK Transport Minister urges businesses to work flexibly during the Olympics – companies need to look at implementing new ways of working. UC Expo this year will offer a chance to see the benefits of OpenTouch and understand exactly how it can assist in seamless flexible working.

Tike farms data with Talend

21 Feb 2012

Advisors to Finnish Ministry of Agriculture select open source data integration tool to meet data demands

Tike, the Information Centre of the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, has turned to Talend to meet the demand of its continually growing data warehouse by implementing its open source data integration tool.

EdgeCast selects Geo Networks to deploy new London content delivery infrastructure

21 Feb 2012

Second substantial CDN customer win sees Geo excel in the media and broadcast sector

Geo Networks (Geo), a provider of high-performance fibre networks, today announced that EdgeCast Networks, the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network (CDN), has chosen Geo’s dark fibre to deploy a new London infrastructure for transferring media files and applications to its ISP customers. The win marks significant expansion in the media and broadcast sector for Geo.

Daxten brings together the physical power distribution of the Data Centre with wireless power management, metering and monitoring

21 Feb 2012

Daxten, a leading supplier of Data Centre power solutions has announced the introduction of a wireless power management, metering and monitoring system as part of its extensive product portfolio.

Silver Peak opens up WANop to all with Virtual Marketplace

21 Feb 2012

Self-service website offers quick and easy access to Silver Peak free product and trials, including the industry’s only 1 Gbps Virtual WAN Optimiser

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class Wide Area Network (WAN) optimisation, today continues to revolutionise how WAN optimisation is packaged, priced and delivered with the introduction of the Virtual WAN Optimisation Marketplace.  This is the industry’s first and only self-service marketplace for WAN optimisation, where anyone can instantly access Silver Peak’s entire portfolio of virtual WAN optimisation appliances, as well as step-by-step instruction for quick and easy deployment anywhere in the network and on all common hypervisors.

Mid-size businesses lead the way in cloud adoption

20 Feb 2012

Industry survey details mid-market adoption of cloud prevails in the UK

The mid-market is leading the charge towards the adoption of cloud computing, according to the latest research from managed services provider Claranet.

Skyscape Cloud Services awarded G-Cloud Framework Agreement

20 Feb 2012

Providing Assured Cloud Services to the UK Public Sector

Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has been awarded the G-Cloud Framework from the Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office.

Rackspace Eyes Government G-Cloud Contracts

20 Feb 2012

Rackspace advocates pay-as-you-go model for UK Government G-Cloud

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been selected as a vendor to the government’s £60m G-Cloud framework. Rackspace can now supply Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and higher level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies to UK Government departments. 

SANS Institute March SME Webcast helps to manage Network-related Risks

20 Feb 2012

Free webcast series offers practical steps towards protecting against cyber attack

"A network firewall is only the starting point not the end point for network security. There are many additional steps an SME (Small Medium Enterprise) can take to secure their network," says Jim Herbeck, an instructor for the SANS Institute and presenter of an ongoing monthly webcast series helping SME’s better protect themselves from information security threats.

4G delay “is blessing in disguise”, says Brocade

20 Feb 2012

Investment urgently needed to get networks up to speed for next-gen mobile Internet

The delay in implementing 4G mobile services in the UK is a “blessing in disguise” because more time is needed to upgrade Britain’s unprepared network infrastructure, says Brocade’s Marcus Jewell.

Leading IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, announced as specialist cloud services supplier of G-Cloud

20 Feb 2012

Leading IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, a business focused on people and performance in IT infrastructure, has been announced as one of the suppliers of the UK Government’s cloud computing procurement initiative, G-Cloud.

CohesiveFT Selected for inclusion is UK Government’s G-Cloud ‘CloudStore’

20 Feb 2012

CohesiveFT, leader in enterprise cloud control, is awarded a Framework Agreement to supply Specialist Cloud Services to the UK Government via it’s G-Cloud programme. The G-Cloud initiative intends to drive down IT costs, engage more with the SME tech suppliers, and increase the flexibility of procurement contracts. G-Cloud lists CohesiveFT's Cloud Container products and services for migration, networking, and orchestration on the ‘CloudStore.’

Large System Integrators Losing Their Hold On Government Contracts As G-Cloud Partners Are Announced

20 Feb 2012

SMEs like Memset Lined Up To Bring Benefits Of Cloud To Public Sector

Award-winning British Cloud provider, Mesmet, has awarded a Framework Agreement for the provision of G-Cloud Services, says large system integrators are starting to loose their hold on government contracts as the G-Cloud partners are announced. 

Experts say long-running Chinese hack of Nortel is a wake-up call

17 Feb 2012

AlienVault say long-running Chinese hack of Nortel is a wake-up call on telecoms security

Commenting on reports that a long-term hack of Nortel Network’s systems could result in security issues for users of the firm’s telecom hardware, AlienVault says the businesses have traditionally tended to ignore the telecoms security issue in favour of their Internet security.

Clarks selects Getronics to provide in-store IT support throughout its 633 UK retail outlets

17 Feb 2012

Getronics to manage IT help desk, break-fix services, a printer refresh and new EPOS systems as the footwear specialist prepares for future growth

Clarks, the leading footwear specialist, today announces it has chosen Getronics in a multi-million euro deal to provide IT hardware support and maintenance across its 633 UK branches. The five-year contract is a continuation of the two firms' existing relationship and will see Getronics responsible for ongoing support, maintenance and break-fix services for hardware, such as store EPOS systems and Clarks’ iconic 3D foot gauge. As part of the new deal, Getronics will also manage a store-wide printer refresh and provide extended IT support services into Europe as Clarks embarks on its plans for international expansion.

PEER 1 Hosting smoothly migrates over 1,600 servers to new Portsmouth data centre

17 Feb 2012

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, has today revealed the successful migration of over 1,600 devices and over 120TB of SAN data, to its recently opened green data centre in Portsmouth.

New ISACA Venice Chapter Kicks Off With Conference Featuring Global Information Technology Experts

17 Feb 2012

Information technology (IT) professionals in Venice, Italy, have formed a new chapter of ISACA, a nonprofit IT audit, security and governance association serving more than 95,000 professionals in 160 countries. ISACA now has 195 chapters worldwide.

Rackspace Acquires SharePoint911 to Provide Industry Leading SharePoint Expertise

17 Feb 2012

Rackspace takes Fanatical Support into the application layer with world-class SharePoint experts

Rackspace^® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, today announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver unparalleled SharePoint hosting solutions along with expert services to the enterprise market.

SUSE Studio helps thousands easily deploy workloads into private and public clouds: SUSE unveils latest SUSE Studio user data

17 Feb 2012

Number of SUSE Studio users doubles in one year; number of cloud-ready application images in SUSE Gallery surpasses one million

SUSE today announced that the number of registered users building cloud-ready application images with SUSE Studio has more than doubled in one year to 233,500. Additionally, the number of cloud-ready application images built and maintained in SUSE Gallery surpassed one million. More and more customers worldwide are realising the convenience and time-to-market advantages of the industry's only solution available today that streamlines the configuration, deployment and management of cloud-ready application images. 

JDSU Introduces PacketPortal™

17 Feb 2012

Breakthrough Software Platform Enables Service Providers to Profitably Scale to Billions of Connected Devices and Unpredictable Bandwidth Demand

JDSU has introduced PacketPortal™, a Smart Network Application   Platform (SNAP), that allows communications service providers to profitably scale to unprecedented bandwidth demand while providing the highest quality subscriber experience.   PacketPortal uses microprobe technology to cost-effectively gather intelligence anywhere in the network for use with a suite of customer care, marketing and other applications.  These applications give service providers a new way to drive revenue, build strong brands and command subscriber loyalty.

45% of European IT Decision Makers View Security and SLAs as Leading Barriers to Cloud, According to New Cloud Computing Survey from Interxion

17 Feb 2012

Insight into cloud trends reveals tremendous opportunity for Service Providers and System Integrators to support companies’ transition to cloud

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of its cloud computing survey, which found that 45% of European IT decision makers view a lack of security and service level agreements (SLAs) as  top concerns for  moving to the cloud. Created with service providers (SPs) and system integrators (SIs) in mind – two of the key groups supporting companies’ transition to the cloud – the survey results aim to provide a clear understanding of how organisations are using the cloud today and plan to be using the cloud tomorrow.

UNET Selects Ciena and Telindus-ISIT for Carrier Ethernet Upgrade

17 Feb 2012

Expansion of Dutch network enables transport-class service provider services; provides reliable communications alternative for local businesses

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, has announced that the Dutch information and communications services provider UNET has selected Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions (CES) for the expansion and upgrade of its metro and access network.

OnApp Expands U.S. Presence With New Office, Strategic Hires

17 Feb 2012

North American growth in cloud computing market is key driver for expansion

OnApp, the leading innovator in cloud and CDN software, announced today that it is expanding its U.S. presence to support its rapidly growing North American business. The expansion includes a new office in Utah and key strategic hires across the States. OnApp also plans to grow its U.S. support staff by 50% in 2012.

Accellion Named Finalist for SC Magazine Best Content Security Award

17 Feb 2012

Innovator Becomes Only Secure File Sharing Solution to Make Judges’ Shortlist

Accellion, Inc. has announced its selection as a finalist for the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2012 within the category of Best Content Security product.

SPIELO International takes a sure bet on NextiraOne’s Data Centre Solution

17 Feb 2012

Virtualised Dynamic Data Centre for gaming company

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been appointed by SPIELO International, a global supplier of games, gaming equipment and system solutions based in Unterpremstätten/Graz, to create a virtualised dynamic data centre (VDDC). This will provide an efficient and reliable IT infrastructure as the foundation for the future success of the company. The contract followed a comprehensive consultation process.

What’s Missing from DLP? Context.

16 Feb 2012

On March 7, 2012 Varonis and an Independent Research Firm will present a new approach to DLP that leverages enterprise context awareness.

Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software has identified a critical missing component to traditional DLP processes - enterprise context awareness – i.e., knowledge of who owns the data, who uses the data, and who should and shouldn’t have access to the data. Traditional DLP solutions that focus on endpoint and network protections commonly fail to fully protect critical data because they focus on symptomatic, perimeter-level solutions instead of addressing a much deeper problem — the fact that users have inappropriate or excessive rights to sensitive information. “For DLP technology to be successful, you must inventory and classify all of your sensitive data and understand your information flows,” advises Forrester. “This is hard to do if you have hundreds, possibly thousands, of terabytes of unstructured data[1].

Quest Software Announces Executive Changes

16 Feb 2012

Vinny Smith to Return as CEO and Doug Garn to Become Vice Chairman

Quest Software’s Board of Directors announced today that Doug Garn is stepping down from his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and the Board has named Vinny Smith, previously Quest’s Executive Chairman, as the company’s new CEO.  Garn has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board and Smith will remain as Chairman, effective immediately.

Xirrus’ wireless network enables BYOD scheme and M2M communication at New College Swindon

16 Feb 2012

New 802.11n network creates the UK’s first purpose-built wireless annexe

Xirrus®, the leader in high-performance wireless networks, has announced that it has deployed an 802.11n wireless network at New College Swindon, one of the largest campuses in the UK for A Level and GCSE students. The new high performance network has created the UK’s first wireless-only annexe, and allows the school to run a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scheme. This enables students and staff to connect to the campus network from anywhere, at any time, using their own devices. The reliable, scalable solution also supports extensive Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M), and has resulted in substantial cost savings and improved efficiency, amongst other benefits.

ActivIdentity’s CMS Appliance Adds Smart Card Alliance’s New CIV Credential to Long List of Capabilities

16 Feb 2012

First-ever CMS Appliance Integrates with Crescendo Smart Cards from Its Parent Company HID Global

ActivIdentity®, part of HID Global,trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today announced that its ActivID™Credential Management System (CMS) Appliance now offers the industry’s newly defined Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) credential and fully integrates with HID Global’s new Crescendo C800 smart card.

Netplan’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

16 Feb 2012

Netplan Internet Solutions Ltd has announced that its VMware public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud  services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Netplan provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

SolarWinds Launches Industry’s­­ First Affordably-Priced Product to Monitor Web Transactions from Cloud-Based Locations

16 Feb 2012

SolarWinds Releases Synthetic End User Monitor at Competitive Price

SolarWinds® continues to deliver powerful IT management software products at competitive prices with the release of SolarWinds Synthetic End User Monitor (SeUM) v. 1.5. SeUM allows system administrators and application support staff to monitor response time proactively for multi-step web transactions. 

Hitachi NAS Platform reduces operational costs and offers greater centralised management of VDI deployments

15 Feb 2012

VDI-IOmark testing shows high performance and scalability capabilities for VDI environments to help organisations achieve greater return on storage assets

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, has achieved exceptional benchmark results from VDI-IOmark testing based on the delivery of high-performance, scalable and file-based tools essential for managing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Hitachi NAS Platform has a superior ability to offload critical VDI functionality and delivers massive scalability and clustering capabilities. This is vital for organisations to drive operational efficiencies that further extend their investments in virtual environments, to reduce operational costs and to improve centralised management of enterprise virtual desktop implementations.

Barracuda Networks Integrates Next Generation Firewall and Cloud Web Security

15 Feb 2012

Unique Solution Provides Maximum Protection Both On- and Off-network, Offloads Intensive Security and Reporting Functions to the Cloud

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, has announced the integration of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex. This integrated offering marks the first solution to combine powerful cloud-based Web filtering technology with next-generation firewall capabilities, providing maximum protection both on- and off-network, while offloading intensive security and reporting functions to the cloud.

Scality RING Organic Storage: Rethinking Storage for the Cloud Era

15 Feb 2012

Storage at Scale pioneer demonstrates start-up success, big commercial deals, strong partnerships and widespread industry recognition

Storage at scale pioneer Scality's success in 2011 secured its position as a trailblazer for truly scalable, high performing, yet cost effective object based storage. 2011 was a landmark year for the San Francisco-based storage start-up that has invigorated the cloud storage space with the new concept of organic storage. The year's highlights started with a new multimillion dollar round of funding to fuel global expansion, a great deal of industry recognition, and ended with a raft of new customers and partners less than two years after the company's inception.

UC4 Software Redefines the Application Release Automation Market with Acquisition of Ventum

14 Feb 2012

UC4 challenges the “Big 4” IT Process Automation Vision

UC4, the leader in IT Process Automation, is redefining application release automation by combining planning, control and automation through the acquisition of Ventum Solutions, a software provider specialising in enterprise release management. Application release automation is a key capability for organisations struggling with DevOps, IT as a Service, Cloud and Big Data initiatives.

CloudBees Announces AnyCloud™ for Hybrid Deployment Flexibility and European Deployment Options

14 Feb 2012

AnyCloud Architecture Delivers Flexibility in Deploying Applications Across Hosted and On-Premise Cloud Environments, Brings Support to European Markets Immediately via AWS in Ireland, OVH in France

CloudBees, Inc. the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced the availability of AnyCloud™ for the hybrid deployment of production applications. AnyCloud provides CloudBees customers the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a variety of data centre environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), other managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, hosted data centre providers as well as on-premise, in enterprise data centres. Additionally, with the introduction of AnyCloud, CloudBees can now support customer deployments directed to specific geographies, including for the first time Europe.

AlgoSec Automates Management of Next-Generation Security Infrastructure

14 Feb 2012

AlgoSec Security Management Suite introduces support for next-generation firewalls and secure web gateways; automatically generates topology maps and ensures baseline configuration compliance

AlgoSec, the market leader for Network Security Policy Management, today announced version 6.2 of its award-winning Security Management Suite. The new release introduces the most comprehensive automation for managing policies of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) and is the first solution of its kind to support secure Web gateways (SWGs).

Nimble Leads Small Businesses into the New Social CRM Age with Nimble 2.0

14 Feb 2012

Now with social discovery, dynamic engagement and marketing integration

Nimble, the award-winning Social Business Platform, today announced that it has launched Nimble 2.0, the most social CRM platform on the market today. Nimble was designed entirely with social engagement in mind and is the first social business platform that empowers companies to get closer to their customers through listening and engagement, helping them turn their social communities into customers for life.

HIRO Media announces deal to supply Viewster with Video Ad Server and ad management tools

14 Feb 2012

HIRO Media, leading video ad management and serving platform for content owners, publishers and media agencies, has signed a deal to become Viewster’s video ad serving and management partner.

Host Europe Virtualises Gaming Databases in the Cloud with Fusion-io

14 Feb 2012

Online Gaming Cloud Services Provider Achieves Up to 5x More Workloads per Server, Virtualises Multiple Databases, and Reduces Hardware by 30 Percent with ioMemory

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that Host Europe GmbH, a leading European managed cloud service provider and part of the Host Europe Group, has deployed Fusion ioMemory technology in its data centres to dramatically reduce infrastructure and costs while increasing virtualised database performance capabilities and extending savings to customers.

Adaptive Federation from Ping Identity Extends Enterprise Identity Security Policies to the Cloud

14 Feb 2012

New PingFederate 6.6 enables custom user authentication methods and distributed attributes for a personalised, protected and compliant cloud

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced new adaptive federation capabilities in its PingFederate cloud identity management software that allow businesses to easily extend their existing security policies to the cloud.

ALTIMATE UK clinches Stonesoft distributorship

14 Feb 2012

Stonesoft, an innovative provider of network security and business continuity solutions, today announces a new distribution agreement with Altimate UK, one of the country’s leading value-added distributors. The partnership will enable Stonesoft to sell its products to Altimate’s portfolio of resellers across the UK and Ireland. 

Avecto says modern security needs to go beyond the world of anti-virus

14 Feb 2012

Commenting on a report from Trustwave claiming that antivirus (AV) software is powerless to stop data breaches, Avecto says the study’s conclusion is similar to that of a Best Buy Guide to Chocolate Fireguards - the end result is always going to be a negative one.

City Lifeline enables iMarket Communications to extend its network to the UK

14 Feb 2012

Housing its network operations centre (NOC) in Lifeline House offers the UK financial, banking and energy customers a reliable and cost-effective telecoms service

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, today announced that iMarket Communications has purchased space within its data centre to support the company’s strategic move into the UK market. By housing its trader voice and data solutions within Lifeline House, iMarket will now offer the UK financial, banking and energy industries ahigh-performance telecom service in Central London.

Private Mobile Network Solves Communications Issues at Remote Sites

14 Feb 2012

South West Water deploys private GSM to solve patchy mobile coverage

Private Mobile Networks Ltd, the UK provider of private GSM network technology, today announced a successful deployment for South West Water.

Logicalis becomes data centre and cloud provider to Janet community

13 Feb 2012

Logicalis UK Selected under Janet Data Centre and Cloud Services Framework

Logicalis UK has announced that it has been selected as one of a small number of data centre hosting and cloud services providers to the UK education community under a new Janet framework.  Eight providers of data centre and cloud services have been selected, enabling higher, further and other educational institutions to procure data centre hosting, hosted and private cloud services.

DDoS Attack Report Highlights need for Enhanced Security Education

13 Feb 2012

Infosecurity Europe show organisers say Arbor Networks report highlights need for enhanced security education to defend against the IP-borne threats

Commenting on the just-released 7^th annual Infrastructure Security Report from Arbor Networks, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that the need for education on the latest security defences has never been stronger.

Hitachi Data Systems eliminates downtime and lowers cost of virtual storage migration

13 Feb 2012

New nondisruptive migration service enables simplified management and reduce effort by 90% when migrating to Hitachi VSP

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today introduced a nondisruptive migration service capability that migrates from Hitachi enterprise storage to Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and is the industry’s first storage migration solution that eliminates host and application downtime. Nondisruptive migration by Hitachi allows organisations to significantly reduce risk, eliminate business disruption, and more efficiently manage migration processes across multivendor storage systems, resulting in 90 percent less effort compared to industry averages.

Media Management at Switch SuperNAP Just Got Easier with Nativ's MioEverywhere

13 Feb 2012

Private cloud solution offers flexible access for Studios and content owners

Nativ, a media technology company specializing in media management and workflow automation is providing a new way for North American content owners and creators to buy technology by giving them access to a content management solution that combines world-class security and connectivity with the flexibility of the cloud, on a transactional ‘on-demand’ basis.

Aspect and 2e2 collaborate to target Microsoft Unified Communications & Collaboration market

13 Feb 2012

Together, customer contact expert and managed service provider meet growing demand for UC capability

A new joint venture designed to support organisations to consol multiple communications channels across the business has been announced. The partnership between Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions and ICT Lifecycle services provider 2e2 will target mid-market enterprises and combines Aspect’s and Microsoft’s suites of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) applications and 2e2’s project management, technology and support services.

ABB to embed nlyte Software DCIM Suite into its new Decathlon offering to Deliver Data Center Enterprise Management

13 Feb 2012

nlyte Software the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data center professionals for data center professionals, and ABB (NYSE: ABB), a global leader in power and automation technologies, announced today that ABB will embed nlyte Software’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) suite as part of the ABB Decathlon™ Data Center Enterprise Management (DCEM) product offering.

Virgin Media Enables Flexible Working with Cisco Quad Collaboration Software

13 Feb 2012

Cisco Collaboration Solutions Foster Engagement and Anytime, Anywhere Productivity

Cisco today announced that Virgin Media, the UK's leading entertainment and digital communications company, is deploying Cisco Quad™, Cisco WebEx® and Cisco Unified Communications to its people. The solutions are being rolled out as part of Virgin Media's Flexible Working Initiative and will enable thousands of employees to collaborate and work remotely with video calls and shared documents, all easily accessible via PCs, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.

Janet signs framework with Liberata to provide Data Centre and Cloud services to Higher Education and Research sector

13 Feb 2012

Janet, one of the world's leading research and education networks, has today announced its framework agreement with Liberata IT Solutions to supply Data Centre and Cloud Services to the Higher Education and research community.

Mimecast continues rapid growth with 50% revenue increase

13 Feb 2012

Leading cloud-based email specialist secures millionth user and is set to close this record fiscal year with $50m in recurring revenue and 5,000 customers

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced record revenues for the nine months to December 31^st 2011, up almost 50 percent on the previous year. With revenues up to $36m (£22m) for the nine months ended December 31, 2011, Mimecast expects to achieve approximately $50m (£31m) in revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31^st 2012.

Data Centre awards nominations open for 2012 Gala Ceremony

13 Feb 2012

Categories for the annual Datacentre Awards for UK, Europe and CEE (www.datacentreawards.com) have been announced by the Judges Panel for the 2012 gala ceremony, which takes place in June in London.

EMC crowns MTI ‘Partner of the Year’ for the UK

13 Feb 2012

MTI’s managed services and cloud offering shine

MTI the specialist cloud infrastructure consultancy, was crowned ‘EMC UK Partner of the Year 2011’ at a recent London event. The award recognises MTI’s expertise in providing managed services and cloud technologies to UK companies, from global enterprises to local specialist businesses.

Hybrid cloud attracting interest in a climate of budget and resource constraints

13 Feb 2012

• Budget constraints are seen as the biggest issue facing IT professionals, followed by lack of in-house resources and efficiency, according to survey by Vision Solutions and Frontier Technology
• Hybrid cloud singled out as preferred approach for those organisations looking at cloud computing

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets, has announced that hybrid models are the most popular choice for companies looking at how they can make the most of cloud computing for their business needs. 46 per cent of those who thought they could use cloud computing opted for the hybrid model where both public and private cloud resources are used. This was followed by 41 per cent who would opt for private cloud on its own, and 13 per cent that would use public cloud platforms.

Quest Helps Spark Collaboration at PZ Cussons

13 Feb 2012

PZ Cussons Saves Weeks of Development Time and Fuels Innovation with Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

Quest Software, Inc.  has announced that it is enhancing global ideas generation and collaborative working at PZ Cussons, a leading FTSE 250-listed products group in Europe, Asia and Africa.

SecurEnvoy Secures Patents, Protecting its IP

13 Feb 2012

Tokenless® two factor authentication is officially a business grade service

SecurEnvoy is delighted today to confirm that it has successfully patented its ‘preload’ technology for SecurAccess and SecurMail. This sanction ensures other organisations cannot ‘copy’ its pioneering solution for reliable, business grade, Tokenless® two factor authentication (2FA).

LeanTaaS Embeds Talend Enterprise Data Integration to Enhance its SaaS Solutions

13 Feb 2012

Cloud-based lean analytic tools provider OEMs Talend’s integration solution into its SaaS platform

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that LeanTaaS, a provider of lean analytic tools running in the Cloud, has embedded Talend Enterprise Data Integration (formerly Talend Integration Suite) into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application platform that helps its customers accelerate and sustain improvements in operational performance through a suite of customised analytics, flexible data integration and an intuitive collaboration capability.

Shoden Data Systems

13 Feb 2012

Acquisition to drive company’s expansion in fast-growing African market

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Shoden Data Systems, a leading provider of data centre technology solutions in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa.

Google Wallet PIN crack has potential security consequences for MasterCard and Visa cardholders

10 Feb 2012

Commenting on a report that the security of the Google Wallet system has been compromised, AlienVault says that this is a warning to smartphone users of the risks they run by storing access to their credit and debit card credentials on handsets for use `on the go.’

Colt to expand Pan-European network reach into Iceland

10 Feb 2012

Colt to provide Icelandic gateway to Europe for customers by connecting world's first dual-sourced 100 per cent renewably powered  data centre

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, has announced plans to extend its European network into Iceland with a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) located in Verne Global’s new dual-sourced 100 per cent renewably powered data centre campus in Keflavik. The new PoP will connect Colt’s extensive pan-European access and backbone network with the Verne’s data centre site, providing a gateway connection from mainland Europe into Iceland. 

iomart Hosting carries out group wide virtualisation for office2office

10 Feb 2012

UK Government supplier migrates to iomart Hosting’s London data centre

Cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has announced that it has carried out a group-wide virtualisation for office2office (o2o), the sole provider of offices supplies and Closed Loop document recycling services for the UK government

Verne Global Selects Veteran Systems Integrator Opin Kerfi as its IT Service Partner in Iceland

10 Feb 2012

Leading HP, Microsoft and Cisco System Integrator to provide remote and on-site support to Verne Global’s colocation and wholesale data centre customers

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that Opin Kerfi has been selected as its preferred systems integrator for its dual sourced, 100% renewable-powered wholesale data centre campus in Keflavik, Iceland. Opin Kerfi has been a key part of the IT industry in Iceland and currently has over 115 trained IT professionals on staff and revenues of $40 million.  Since 1985, Opin Kerfi has served as the IT partner for leading Icelandic companies, financial institutions, governmental agencies, the healthcare and the educational industries. In addition to the professional services agreement, Opin Kerfi is also taking space in the data centre for its own hosting requirements to support its growing managed services programmes.

GreenQloud Selects Verne Global's Data Centre Campus for Commercial Roll-out of its Truly Green Public Compute Cloud

10 Feb 2012

Verne Global to Serve as Primary Host for Compute Qloud™ and Storage Qloud™ Services

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that GreenQloud®, the world’s first truly green public compute cloud, is basing its hosting service from the Verne Global data centre campus in Iceland.  GreenQloud, established in 2010, offers hosting and storage for the European and North American markets and can act a single hub for both markets.

Long-term Price Visibility Helps CCP Games Select Verne Global's Icelandic Campus for Corporate Hosting

10 Feb 2012

Long-term Price Visibility Helps CCP Games Select Verne Global’s Icelandic Campus for Corporate Hosting

Producer of EVE Online, Dust514 and World of Darkness goes green with hosting programme at world’s only dual sourced, 100% renewable powered data centre

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that CCP Games (CCP), one of the world’s leading independent game developers and the creator of EVE Online, is moving some of its corporate hosting to its data centre campus in Iceland.  After a careful study of alternatives to its primary hosting facility in London, CCP identified Verne Global as a very attractive hosting option; based on the site’s 100% dual sourced renewable power grid, long-term power price visibility and strategic location between its two primary markets.

Jaguar Land Rover Selects EMC Isilon to Drive its Simulation Operations

10 Feb 2012

Leading luxury car maker simplifies IT, increases production capabilities and improves environmental efficiency with “no compromise” scale-out NAS

EMC Corporation has announced that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the U.K.'s largest manufacturer of premium vehicles, has deployed EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS to simplify storage for its Big Data capacity and performance. The demand for new products in shorter timeframes whilst reducing dependency on physical testing had put pressure on JLR engineers to improve and streamline virtual simulation processes and deliver actionable analysis to the manufacturing teams.  

Raritan enhances its leadership position in DCIM with dcTrack 2.6

07 Feb 2012

Intelligent capacity, change and asset management solution helps reduce data center capital and operational expenditures; dcTrack helps premier healthcare provider manage data centers and gain 50 percent in asset tracking efficiency.

Raritan today introduced dcTrack^® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently.  With better visibility of end-to-end connections of data center infrastructure resources, untapped capacity can be discovered and used -- reducing capital and operational expenditures. 

Daxten offers 2 new “ServerLifters” for transporting and lifting heavy IT equipment in the Data Centre

07 Feb 2012

Leading Data Centre supplier extends its ServerLIFT portfolio with new automatic and manual lifting solutions 

Moving IT equipment with a weight of up to a quarter of a ton in the data centre and being able to lift it to the upper parts of racks is certainly “no walk in the park”. It is also not an isolated task as in today’s, dynamic server room and data centre environment, IT equipment has to be changed, supplemented, relocated and reconfigured ever more frequently. This procedure always represents a high risk of injury for the data centre and facility management staff as well as a potential danger of damaging sensitive and valuable IT equipment – IT staff were constantly lifting and risking injury to themselves as well as equipment damage until Daxten introduced the automated lifting solution for heavy IT equipment named ServerLIFT at the end of 2011. Now, the NEW battery operated ServerLIFT SL-500X and the manual ServerLIFT SL-350X complete the serverlifter solution portfolio. The new systems will be shown at Data Centre World being held at Olympia National Hall, London on the 29^th February and 1^st March. (Daxten Stand E60)

Emerson Network Power Delivers the Next Generation of Data Center Management Capabilities with Avocent Data Center Planner

07 Feb 2012

New software functionality significantly reduces data center planning and management costs, improves energy efficiency and supports global deployments.

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced the next generation of Avocent Data Center Planner, an award-winning software solution that enables data center managers to make informed decisions for the planning and effective management of their data center assets and physical infrastructure. The latest release of the Avocent Data Center Planner is a component of Emerson Network Power’s extensive portfolio of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) capabilities.

Compare the Cloud Names Suresh Mandava and Dave Rokita of Hexagrid as Thought Leaders in Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing

07 Feb 2012

Hexagrid, a leading developer of Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing solutions, announced today that Compare the Cloud, a leading independent cloud comparison provider, named Suresh Mandava and Dave Rokita as premier thought leaders in the worldwide Infrastructure as a Service field.  Compare the Cloud made this announcement with the launch of a new cloud computing comparison website which brings together information and evaluation resources about trusted cloud vendors to ensure that customers find the right cloud solutions for the right price.

Actian Releases Vectorwise Workgroup Edition, Claims Best in Affordable Big Data Analytics to Mid-Market

06 Feb 2012

New Product with the Groundbreaking Analytic Firepower of Vectorwise Meets the Business Needs of Mid-size Companies and Workgroups

Actian Corporation (formerly Ingres Corp.), today announced that Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is available for download and purchase. Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is specifically packaged to address the growing technology needs of mid-sized businesses as well as Workgroups within larger organisations by providing them with the power and speed of Vectorwise, the industry’s fastest data analytics engine, at an affordable cost.

e|net Selects Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions to Advance Ireland’s Network Infrastructure

06 Feb 2012

Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet advanced demarcation platforms to support sophisticated QoS and SLAs

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that e|net, the private company that manages the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) programme on behalf of the Irish Government, has selected Ciena’s 3916 and 3930 Service Delivery Switches to improve its regional network infrastructure. The advanced demarcation platforms’ low-touch provisioning and embedded service benchmarking capabilities enable a simple deployment model and speedy set-up of new customer connections, allowing e|net to easily expand its Carrier Ethernet network and offer its service provider customers sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) capabilities.

Innovation and optimisation is top priority for corporate IT departments in 2012

06 Feb 2012

Corporate IT Forum strategy survey shows CIO and departmental differences and a more positive outlook as focus shifts from cost cutting 

2012 will be a year of change and smarter working, with IT departments focused on improving processes and finding ‘new ways of doing things’, according to the latest annual Strategy Survey from The Corporate IT Forum.  Whilst cost cutting was the key goal across all business sectors in 2011, ‘doing more with less’ through optimisation and innovation is the mantra for 2012 and a significant percentage (42.5%) of CIOs are expecting IT expenditure to increase this year.  For respondents from businesses the CIO focus is primarily on supporting organisational strategies for organic growth through new markets and products and the retail sector intends to lead the way in innovation with projects focused on consumerisation.  Budgets across all sectors as a whole will be concentrated on key business applications, alignment of IT and the business and Risk Management.  There is also substantial planned focus on infrastructure investment with the added twist of ‘working smarter’.

Avecto Launch Privilege Guard 3.0 with Enterprise Reporting

06 Feb 2012

The Windows Privilege Management Solution of Choice for the Enterprise

Avecto – the leader in Windows privilege management, has now unveiled the latest version of its award-winning Privilege Guard technology.  Developed to enable organizations to give all users the privileges they need to remain productive, Privilege Guard empowers them to perform their role without impacting the security posture of systems and networks. Privilege Guard 3.0 now combines application elevation, application control, end user messaging and a complete auditing and reporting framework for all your Windows based systems.

Cogenta builds virtual data centre with a couple of clicks

06 Feb 2012

Price intelligence firm is among first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre service

Market intelligence firm Cogenta has migrated key elements of its IT infrastructure into a virtual data centre that it provisioned itself – with only a few clicks of a mouse.

UKFast Reveals 7th Hacker Profile

06 Feb 2012

Security-aware bosses might think they’ve protected themselves from the six commonly accepted kinds of hacker but they are unaware of the seventh and most dangerous cyber criminal that could take down their business in a matter of minutes.

Solarflare Launches Next-Generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet Networking Products for Compute-Intensive Environments

02 Feb 2012

New ultra-low latency 10GbE dual-port server adapter delivers breakthrough application performance

Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, has announced the next-generation of its family of branded 10GbE products. Solarflare’s SFN6122F dual-port 10GbE server adapter delivers significantly lower latency and higher message rates compared to both prior Solarflare versions and competitive products, making it ideal for handling mission-critical, compute-intensive tasks in high performance, cloud computing and big data environments. The new server adapter features the industry’s first and only field-hardened, full-featured user-level TCP/UDP stack.

Key alliance shakes up ecommerce mid-market

02 Feb 2012

PEER 1 Hosting partners with e2x enabling world class, ATG based, online stores to be live in 14 weeks

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing its partnership with e2x, one of the most experienced Oracle ATG partners in Europe, having successfully delivered international e-commerce solutions for over a decade. The partnership will offer businesses expanding their global online presence a cost effective, all-in-one e-commerce solution, including world-wide hosting services.

Cloud and SaaS increases security challenges for developers says exper

02 Feb 2012

Cloud Security Best practice, Tokenisations and encryption need to become more prevalent

The rise in popularity of hosted, cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is making life more difficult for developers to secure critical applications. “One of the challenges is exercising controls over the remote infrastructure, especially in multi tenant environments,” explains Dr. Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. “Each development environment will place restrictions on how data is stored and handled by the applications and developers need to educate themselves on the platform before committing to projects.”

Riverbed Releases New Granite Product Family; Introduces New Architectural Approach to Achieve Complete IT Consolidation

02 Feb 2012

Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure Extends the Boundaries of the DataCenter to the Edge of the Enterprise

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced a new architectural approach called edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI) that does for edge servers what virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) did for desktops:  it allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. But unlike VDI, edge-VSI does this while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership (TCO).  Riverbed® Granite^TM is the revolutionary new product that enables edge-VSI. With Granite, global enterprises can achieve complete consolidation of edge applications,servers and storage to the data center, while delivering services to the edge of the enterprise as if they were local. Edge-VSI is complementary to wide area network (WAN) optimization, accelerating performance for applications and use cases not addressed by any WAN optimization approach today.

IT experts agree ICS research highlights the need for easier security technology

02 Feb 2012

Commenting on research from the ICS – the Irish Computer Society – which found that almost 58 per cent of the data breaches were caused by staff, SecurEnvoy says that the human element is the most overlooked aspect of many organisation’s security defences.

Boston Limited Names IT Journalist Veteran Technical Marketing Manager

02 Feb 2012

Former Custom PC and Bit-tech Editor James Gorbold Brought Onboard To Shape And Expand Boston's Technical Product Marketing

Boston Limited, now in its 19th year as a distribution partner for Super Micro Computer®, Inc., today announced the appointment of former Custom PC and Bit-tech Editor, James Gorbold, as Technical Product Marketing Manager. James has worked as an IT journalist for 15 years, working as a senior part of the team at Dennis Publishing for over 12 years.

ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Pioneer M5 Networks

02 Feb 2012

Acquisition Advances ShoreTel’s Cloud Strategy

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks (“M5”), a recognized leader in hosted Unified Communications. As a result of the acquisition, ShoreTel will be uniquely positioned to provide customers a choice between on-premise and hosted UC solutions.

Boox chooses The Bunker to provide secure cloud solution

02 Feb 2012

The Bunker, provider of  Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Boox, an entrepreneurial web-based accountancy solution provider for independent freelancers and contractors, has chosen The Bunker to provide an ultra secure cloud service.

Talend Selected by Leading Analyst Firm in “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality” Report

02 Feb 2012

Talend, a global open-source software leader, has announced that it has been recognised by Gartner, Inc. for data quality in their recent “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality (2012 Update)”[1] report.

Cisco Propels Switching Portfolio Into Next Frontier of Networking Speed and Simplicity

02 Feb 2012

Cisco Leads Switching Market Innovation with 40 GbE Capabilities for Catalyst Switches and 40/100 GbE Capabilities for Nexus Switches; Enhances Network Virtualization with Simplicity and Scale

According to the Cisco Cloud Index, more than 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers will  be cloud-based by 2014, and global cloud traffic will grow more than 12 times by 2015 to 1.6 zettabytes per year —the equivalent of over four days of business-class video for every person on Earth.  Based on these trends, Cisco announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) capabilities, the next speed limits for networking.  These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments, and give customers a significant advantage while addressing emerging trends like cloud, video, mobility, and the proliferation of 10GbE.

Emerson Network Power UPS Systems to Protect LDeX Colocation Clients

02 Feb 2012

London Data Exchange (LDeX), providers of network independent data centres, have today announced that they will be using Emerson Network Power’s Chloride 80-NET UPS systems to help guarantee power availability to their colocation clients at the LDeX1 data centre in North London.

Interxion welcomes the European Commission's Cloud Partnership initiative

02 Feb 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, welcomes and supports the invitation from Neelie Kroes at the World Economic Forum in Davos to create a European Cloud Partnership.

Security B-Sides London, the UK’s first community-driven infosecurity event is back!

02 Feb 2012

Un-conference aims to bridge the technical and business divide

Security B-Sides, the first and only community-driven event built by and for information security community members, today announces the return of Security B-Sides London , which will take place on April 25th at The Barbican. Currently confirmed platinum and gold sponsors for this year’s un-conference include MWR InfoSecurity and Qualys.

Respected Manufacturer becomes first Doyenz UK rCloud customer

02 Feb 2012

Himag Solutions selects innovative cloud-based disaster recovery solution to protect critical systems accessed by users on three continents

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has announced that Himag Solutions has become the first UK client to use its recently launched rCloud service from its new London data centre.

Ipanema technologies positioned as a visionary in leading analyst firm’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation

02 Feb 2012

Ipanema Technologies, the industry leader of WAN Governance solutions for enterprise’s networks and application centric VPN services, today announced it has been positioned in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Gartner 2012 “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers.” (Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, Joe Skorupa, Severine Real, January 24, 2012).

Telstra International Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of the Leading Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers

02 Feb 2012

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Telstra International, a leading provider of managed network services and international data, voice and satellite services, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Challengers quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers.*

CentraStage announces 300% revenue growth

02 Feb 2012

2012 begins with 300% Revenue Growth & 150% Customer Increase

CentraStage, the leading IT management software provider, confirms it’s ‘Little British Battler’ nomination by announcing revenue growth of over 300% in the past twelve months as the company’s customer base has grown by almost 150%.

NetIQ simplifies application and system management

01 Feb 2012

NetIQ AppManager 8 delivers monitoring fidelity to meet IT service commitments

To reduce the burden facing today’s overworked IT operations staff as they work to keep monitoring current for the applications and systems underpinning IT services, NetIQ today announced the availability of NetIQ^® AppManager^® 8.

Data centre provider Node4 is the company to watch in 2012

01 Feb 2012

Ambitious plans and growing trends in cloud computing position Node4 as a company that will lead the pack this year

By 2014 more than 50% of global workloads will take place in the cloud, rising to 57% by 2015, predicts Cisco’s Global Cloud Index. For 2010, that number was just 21%. By 2015, one-third of data centre traffic will be cloud traffic. Cloud computing, and “meeting the big data challenge” are two of Gartner’s Top Ten strategic technology trends for 2012.