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Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?

News Providers use virtualisation extensively and grid computing software. Forrester Research on Monday released a report written by James Staten, an IT operations and infrastructure analyst, saying that... [11 Mar 2008]

Luton gears up with high speed network

News The borough's schoolchildren will all have access to the Luton Learning Grid via the network with a bandwidth of up to 10Mbps. Transformation cannot happen without a solid and sound foundation/platform on which to build... [26 Oct 2006]

A new software age is dawning, says Sun

News Naturally, Sun believes it has the answer - buying processing power from the company's standardised computing grid. But in San Francisco at an annual Sun meeting with analysts, Papadopoulos laid out his reasoning for why... [03 Feb 2006]

Physicists put huge computing grid through its paces

News The UK is currently the biggest single contributor to the LCG infrastructure, with more than a fifth of the grid's processing power at its 16 sites. UK particle physicists have started the next phase of... [21 Sep 2005]

Gates: The "software as a service" age is here

News And Sun Microsystems is focusing its Sun Grid offering on infrastructure services, such as computing power and storage, although it intends to work through partners to offer software. In an interview at... [14 Sep 2005]

Moneybookers chooses The Bunker for data security

News The Kent-based hosting company claims its IT infrastructure was designed by cryptologists and it has its own connection to the national grid. Electronic payments service Moneybookers has... [05 Aug 2005]

EDS wins £15m outsourcing deal at Cheshire council

News We want to look at consolidating our server farm and maybe look at going to grid computing in the medium term over the next couple of years," he said. EDS has won a £15m outsourcing deal to manage the desktop... [08 Mar 2005]

What does WEEE mean to IT?

News The WEEE Directive could bring on more charitable donations as well as reuse of hardware within an organisation, especially at the server level, where a powerful system could be retired to a less resource-intensive job such as in a... [17 Feb 2005]

Sun shines on utility computing

News Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month. In some ways it's a distant vision, particularly for customers reluctant to entrust their data and computing... [01 Feb 2005]

15 bids for NTL towers

News National Grid Transco is expected to stay out of the running because of regulatory and timing issues; it recently purchased the Crown Castle towers. Bidders include private equity firms and... [12 Oct 2004]

Sun rises on pay-as-you-go grid computing

News It plans to launch another service, called Sun Utility Computing for Grid, that will cost more but provide more elaborate services from Sun and partners with expertise in particular fields. The program,... [21 Sep 2004]

CSC picks up £266m National Grid Transco contract

News Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has won a £266m seven-year contract to look after much of the IT infrastructure of National Grid Transco (NTG). Known for its electricity transmission and distribution... [18 Dec 2003]

IBM in £6.5bn 'on-demand' computing push

News Also on the menu is a revamp of IBM's WebSphere business software to allow it to be controlled by Big Blue's "grid" software, which was originally developed to unite groups of computers into a supercomputer. [01 May 2003]

CIOs and utility computing - getting closer

News Almost half were interested in creating what IDC referred to as an "in-house private utility", in which technologies such as virtualisation and grid computing were installed on the company's own systems. [14 Feb 2003]

Grid computing and web services to save IT - eventually...

News However, Butler said a boom in web services and grid computing will eventually come to the rescue, prompting a $140bn spending bubble in the latter half of the decade. Infrastructure companies and the... [10 Jul 2002]

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