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Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Even BT has cast doubt on whether the 50p tax on phone lines proposed under the Digital Britain plan will be enough to pay for fibre links needed to bring the UK into the era of superfast broadband. So why are rural... [04 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News BT was also making the headlines last month on two fronts: revealing the next lot of towns and cities to get fibre broadband and announcing it's cutting its call centre workforce in India by 4,000 and bringing some of... [03 Aug 2009]
VMware vSphere 4 QuickStart Series Part 1: Install and Configure ESXi
White Paper The presenter focuses on deployment architecture of VMware vSphere 4 Installing and configuring ESXi and configuring networking and iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel shared storage. The presenter of this webcast teaches... [01 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox
Comment They are rolling out fibre everywhere and the target is 1Gbps to every home and office over the next few years. This didn't stack up - optical fibre to the hotel but only 1Mbps to my room? Compiled at my... [30 Jul 2009]
4,000 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... [30 Jun 2009]
