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Infinera introduces Cloud Xpress

Infinera introduces Cloud Xpress, designed to meet the high-capacity, lower power consumption requirements of an expanding metro cloud.

Cisco to acquire Metacloud

Acquisition of private OpenStack cloud service company accelerates Cisco's Intercloud strategy.

A guide to domain parking and cyber-squatting for brands

Danielle Middleton from Claranet SOHO looks at the introduction of the new gTLDs and finds brands must be aware of the importance of protecting their domain name.

Watson Analytics brings Big Data to businesses

IBM has announced the launch of Watson Analytics, a natural language-based service that provides powerful, predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses.

Episode 1: Piratism, Cloud, Big Data and Microsoft Needs Love

The Jolly Green Giant

As the virtual world grows and consumer demand rises the demand for electricity is increasing. Now the cloud needs to prove its green credentials.

Microsoft acquires Minecraft

The rumours over the weekend have proved true. Microsoft has acquired Minecraft for $2.5 billion.

HP Eucalyptus and AWS kissing in a tree

What does HP’s recent acquisition of Eucalyptus mean?

The cloud as a revenue generator

Agiliron's Stan Roach asks, is cloud the next generation growth catalyst for businesses?

CWCS provides cloud hosting for Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society’s performance registration system, "Edfringeware" is implemented with the help of CWCS’s Cloud Server.

Apple Pay takes on shopping

Apple launches new iPhones and the Apple Watch but it is the payments system, Apple Pay, that should interest the cloud marketplace.

Juniper Networks expands Spotlight Secure to stop malware

Juniper Networks expands the Spotlight Secure threat intelligence platform linking it with firewall policies in SRX Series Services Gateways.

Naked celebrity hack highlights digital vulnerability

The latest celebrity hacking scandal dominating the news is yet another reminder that locking down digital data is a must.

BSkyB and the digital village

BSkyB turned to Salesforce.com to find a single platform for sharing with different teams, divisions and geographies.

Node4 launches sync and share solution for SMEs

Node4 launches cloud-based File Sync and Share to give SMEs a secure alternative to consumer applications.

What if Zombies attack?

A disaster is an event that removes the use of your IT infrastructure, Steve Denby asks what if Zombies attack?

Data Centre Trends

Digital Realty's 2014 survey of data centre trends has revealed that the top drivers are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation.

Egenera Cloud Suite wins excellence award

Egenera Cloud Suite has been named the 2014 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner by Cloud Computing Magazine.

Could Amazon's stranglehold be under threat?

With 83% of the cloud market could Amazon's stranglehold on the cloud be under threat?

vArmour raises $36 million in funding

vArmour raises $36 million to protect the data defined perimeter.

CenturyLink launches new Private Cloud

CenturyLink launches new, globally available Private Cloud service in 57 data centres

Is the phone in decline?

With VoIP and cloud services the landline telephone is no longer as important as it used to be.

Cost of security breaches rises

Egress' market survey has shown that the cost of security breaches has nearly doubled in the last 12 months.

BYOD and the IT Crowd

With summer about to end IT managers are considering how to manage staff - can hosted desktops be the missing magic?

A new class of cloud

Economic and job market trends impact student appetites for learning but the cloud has the potential to transform education.

Productivity Wars

The battle for supremacy in the document-sharing/ office productivity space opened up another front in the war.

Citygate upgrades with Node4

Citygate simplifies IT management with a centrally managed cloud-based system from Node4.

How cloud computing is changing education

Cloud computing can provide a boost to companies both large and small but it has benefits for education as well.

CWCS launches next-gen cloud

CWCS Managed Hosting upgrades to its cloud infrastructure with the launch of Supreme Cloud.

Corintech launches FilesThruTheAir

Corintech launches FilesThruTheAir - WiFi sensor solution makes data logging universally accessible.