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• CISCO PARTNER SUMMIT 2012: Partners cite strong relationship but challenging learning curve

  By Leo King | 20 April, 2012 03:55

  Cisco's partners globally have told Techworld they are positive about their relationship with the vendor compared to its competitors, but said there was a continued learning curve between them with some bumps along the way.

• Cisco CEO Chambers vows channel commitment

  By Leo King | 18 April, 2012 22:35

  John Chambers, chief executive at networking giant Cisco, has insisted that the reseller and pure services channels dominate the company's business and will continue to do so.

• Brennan IT selects Equinix’s Sydney datacentre

  By Patrick Budmar | 29 March, 2012 17:25

  Brennan IT has selected Equinix as its newest strategic datacentre partner to expand its datacentre services.

• Public sector demand for Cloud computing rises ahead of G-Cloud launch

  By Sophie Curtis | 16 February, 2012 01:33

  The public sector is coming under increasing pressure to move its operations to the Cloud, with a new survey revealing that 61 percent of public sector organisations would prefer to access all their software for work through the Cloud.

• Logica says cloud is 'railway of 21st Century'

  By Sophie Curtis | 29 January, 2012 07:56

  Logica has described Cloud computing as "the railway of the 21st century", claiming that the community Clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies.

• Extreme Networks prepares to ship 'world's fastest Ethernet switch'

  By Sophie Curtis | 08 January, 2012 02:27

  Extreme Networks' latest switch, the BlackDiamond X8, billed as the "fastest Ethernet switch in the world", went on general release this week with shipments expected to go out during the first half of February.

• Logicalis picks CA Technologies for private cloud services

  By Sophie Curtis | 14 December, 2011 01:47

  CA Technologies has been selected by Logicalis UK, part of the international ICT solutions integrator, to help provide private cloud services for a number of its FTSE 250 and public sector customers.

• Virgin broadband downed after rats chew through cables

  By John E Dunn | 18 October, 2011 00:56

  The great BlackBerry blackout has been blamed on a 'core switch failure' but Virgin Media offered a more arresting excuse for a loss of broadband services that hit Scottish subscribers this week - rats chewed through cables.

• Stealth startup invents 'do-it-all' analytics database

  By John E Dunn | 28 May, 2011 04:07

  A highly-touted Anglo-US startup has emerged from stealth mode this month with a new type of database design it believes can transform the way this class of software is used by many large companies.

• Veeam adds backup support for Microsoft Hyper-V

  By Leo King | 17 May, 2011 00:54

  Virtual infrastructure management firm Veeam Software has added Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Hyper-V, in an important move in the virtualisation market.

• Open source web firewall launched by Qualys

  By John E Dunn | 17 February, 2011 06:05

  Today's web application firewalls are not up to the challenge of securing cloud systems according to security company Qualys which has set out its alternative vision based on building a new generation using open source development.

• Standards body sets out cloud guidelines

  By Maxwell Cooter | 05 February, 2011 01:43

  The US government is setting out to address concerns about security in the cloud. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft document looking at issues such as privacy and security within cloud environments.

• NetApp buys Akorri to boost analytics

  By Maxwell Cooter | 15 January, 2011 02:06

  Storage management company NetApp has bought data centre analytics specialist Akorri in an attempt to improve customers' ability to identify capacity bottlenecks and plan for capacity.

• NSA breaks ground on Utah 'spy center' data center

  By Tim Greene | 11 January, 2011 04:31

  The National Security Agency is building one of the largest and most expensive data centers as a place to gather and analyze intelligence data.

• Amazon launches new cloud services

  By Maxwell Cooter | 11 January, 2011 02:00

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced two new pricing plans for its cloud service and has reduced the prices for its existing offerings.