fibre
RSS fibre4,000 Indian jobs go as BT brings call centre work back to UK
News At the company's annual shareholder meeting yesterday, BT chairman Sir Michael Rake said the company is focusing on improving customer service, along with investing in fibre infrastructure to enable superfast broadband. [16 Jul 2009]
Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments
White Paper Overall, Forrester found a high number of virtual server deployments in production, mainly using preexisting Fibre Channel storage area networks. Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. [15 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Fibre. A year later and another exec told silicon.com the market wasn't ready to pay for fibre: "You have to be ready to pay for that investment. Yes indeed - it's the next generation of broadband... [14 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News She identified some short-term goals, calling again for the Telecoms Package to be passed into law - the bundle of reformed rules is being held up by the debate over a net neutrality clause - and for solid rules on... [09 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News BT has revealed the towns and cities which will get high-speed fibre broadband in the second stage of its £1.5bn rollout. The rollout of fibre - whose high speeds are expected to enable a new range of... [09 Jul 2009]
BT shelves Phorm rollout plans
News BT said it had decided to prioritise on its fibre provision and initiatives such as Project Canvas, which aims to provide a common standard for broadband TV. We've an awful lot [of resources] on fibre... [06 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of... [06 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from Cern (the... [03 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News BT reckons a government plan to put a 50p tax on copper lines in order to fund fibre broadband to the country's hard to get to places can only go so far - and will probably never reach the last fifth of the UK. [02 Jul 2009]
The Growing Need for Security in Storage Area Networks
White Paper This paper describes key aspects of Storage Area Network (SAN) security and how Brocade solutions help these organizations better secure their Fibre Channel SAN environments and the data stored within. [30 Jun 2009]
Oracle 10g Release 2 Performance and Tuning on an IBM System p Linux on POWER Platform
White Paper Recent Linux kernel enhancements such as huge page support, IBM POWER5+ 64 KB pages, libhugetlbfs, Fibre Channel and network adapter enhancements and other kernel processor tunings can be deployed to bring enterprise... [29 Jun 2009]
'Don't let European telecoms law get axed', says Ofcom
News These include the speeding up of number porting between operators, new guidelines on fibre access deployment and the use of radio spectrum, and the creation of a new pan-European regulatory body, called Berec. [26 Jun 2009]
Double the ROI of Your EVA With iSCSI
White Paper Traditionally, 1U and blade servers have not been attached to high end Fibre Channel storage due to the cost of adding those servers to the SAN. Since it uses iSCSI (running over standard Ethernet), this connectivity... [20 Jun 2009]
DellEMC AX100 Entry SAN Solution Addresses SME Demands
White Paper To address the data storage needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - to reduce cost and complexity - Dell and EMC have introduced a new entry SAN offering, the DellEMC AX100 Fibre Channel (FC) SAN solution. [18 Jun 2009]
Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g: Automatic Storage Management on Dell/EMC Storage
White Paper This paper reflects the cumulative storage design and tuning recommendations from Dell and Oracle teams on Oracle Database 10g solutions using Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage, and Oracle Automatic... [18 Jun 2009]
