In October the University of Southampton switched on the most powerful University-based supercomputer in England and the third largest academic facility in the UK. Named Iridis4 the machine is designed to meet the demand for the use of supercomputing power for research purposes and it will allow more academics to work on a greater number …
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After adding more wholesale data centre space than any other company in 2012, Microsoft recently increased its investment in data centres across the globe to $15 billion, making it one of the major players. This is to support the growth in its Xbox Live gaming service and the switch of emphasis to its cloud platform …
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You may have read some years ago about a project that was able to utilise the spare computing power on your desktop or laptop computer to search for life amongst the stars. Well, with the number of number mobiles devices in the world now surpassing traditional PCs the emphasis has switched to being able to …
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You can tell when a technology is becoming increasingly important – when old adversaries suddenly start working together to exploit the opportunity. The old proverb “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” certainly came to mind when Oracle recently announced agreements with long-time protagonists Microsoft and Salesforce.com. Before you think the world has stopped turning, or …
Cisco recently announced a range of new joint technologies and integrated solutions for data centres that utilise Microsoft Cloud technologies. It combines Cisco Unified Data Center architecture with Microsoft Fast Track architecture solutions to help reduce complexity, improve IT productivity and enhance business agility. Architecture The Cisco Unified Data centre architecture platform combines compute, storage, …
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Like it or not BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is becoming increasingly important to mainframe sites. BYOD is the policy of allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices (laptops, tablets and Smartphones) into work and use them to access corporate applications and data. Research group Ovum has found that whereas 79% of employees in …
