Hardware

YouGov to save £100,000 a year after datacentre migration

The interior of a datacentre
Research firm uses Veeam to move from Berlin to London
21 Feb 2012

Accenture and Vodafone publish long-term usage report on tablet computers

Businessman using Avaya's Flare tablet
Great for reading and presenting but not ready to replace a laptop yet, study concludes
20 Feb 2012

Intel delays Ivy Bridge processor

intel-ivy-bridge-ultrabooks
Follows low take-up of current Sandy Bridge chip
16 Feb 2012

Imperial War Museum deploys archiving and disaster recovery solution

Installation is part of a £3m project that includes the deployment of high-end digital scanning equipment and digital asset management software
15 Feb 2012

HP aims to cut datacentre running costs with new Gen8 servers

Latest ProLiant servers boast 'self-service' support features
14 Feb 2012

Barclays rolls out tablets following successful trial

Retail arm of banking giant plans to deploy devices to all customer-facing staff
14 Feb 2012

South Lanarkshire Council seeks IT services worth £40m

The hardware and services deal will support more than 140 schools
13 Feb 2012

Full Office applications coming to ARM-based tablets this year, says Microsoft

Windows 8 on ARM aims to bring tablets to the masses
10 Feb 2012

Oracle to acquire SaaS vendor Taleo for £1.2bn

Deal mirrors recent acquisitions in the cloud space by rivals SAP and Salesforce
10 Feb 2012

Insurer saves time and energy with Citrix VDI

Groupama has replaced 350 desktops with new virtual desktop infrastructure
10 Feb 2012

Leicestershire and Nottingham councils award shared services deal to Velos-IT

The finance and HR deal is worth up to £20m
10 Feb 2012

Microsoft is mishandling Windows 8 embedded release, argues Intermec CTO

Arvin Danielson argues that enterprises could turn to Android as a result
09 Feb 2012

Wellcome Trust CIO extols the virtues of tablets

130 iPads put in circulation to help ease logistical problems with papers
07 Feb 2012

Government looks to set up £4bn hardware framework

The agreement will cover government departments, the BBC, the Royal Mail Group, the Met Office and NHS bodies
06 Feb 2012

John Lewis launches bring-your-own tablets policy for senior staff

Retailer's CIO is also looking to develop apps for customers, as well as John Lewis staff
06 Feb 2012

Department of Health signs £74m deal for desktop services

Atos has been awarded the contract for five years
30 Jan 2012

DWP’s Work Programme susceptible to fraud due to IT delays

Department has also massively exceeded the programme's original IT budget
26 Jan 2012

Amazon becomes enterprise cloud backup provider

Cloud firm unveils new storage gateway
26 Jan 2012

Government issues electronic storage tender worth up to £200m

Contract includes off- and on-site document storage, and scanning and retrieval
26 Jan 2012

Research in Motion co-chief executives step down in BlackBerry reshuffle

Chief operating officer Thorsten Heins replaces Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis
23 Jan 2012

Mobile technology that is ‘100 times faster than 3G’ given go-ahead

IMT-Advanced will make current smartphone connections seem like a dial-up internet connection
20 Jan 2012

Kodak files for bankruptcy protection

Late attempt to break into digital market appears to have failed
19 Jan 2012

Microsoft System Centre 2012 closes in on VMware vCentre

The release aims to help organisations manage their cloud portfolio
18 Jan 2012

IP switchover moves closer as World IPv6 Day announced

The internet is moving closer to widespread IPv6 availability as key players agree to enable the new protocol on their equipment this summer
18 Jan 2012