The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees IBM making a flash storage push, a G-Cloud supplier express concerns and NHS contract win
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Report: ARM Targets Supercomputers With New Chip Design
New chip design to extend ARM's ambitions from the data centre and into supercomputer territory
Nvidia Prospers As Games, Data Centre Drives Growth
Strong demand for GPUs in gaming PCs and the data centre has driven hugely impressive growth
Salesforce Enhances Shield Security With BYOK for Regulated Industries
The update to Salesforce Shield provides a set of integrated security services that lets companies use their own encryption keys with Shield.
British Software Vendors Could Lose AWS Business After Brexit
AWS Marketplace is now accepting software sellers based in the EU, but AWS doesn’t know how Brexit will affect UK companies
Brexit Won’t Stop Amazon Building Its AWS UK Data Centres
AWS still won't give official launch date, but it is understood UK data centres will open between November and February
Oracle Told To Pay HPE £2.3bn For Itanium Damages
Another legal setback for Oracle after Californian jury orders it to pay hefty damages for Itanium cancellation
SoftIron Launches CentOS Edition Overdrive 1000 Server
SoftIron’s new 64-bit ARM systems now comes ready to go for CentOS developers at less than £500
British Airways IT Glitch ‘Was Exaggerated’
Customers faced hours of queues as Heathrow and Gatwick BA check-in desks grind to a halt
Microsoft’s Cloud to Track Legalized Marijuana Sales
Microsoft teams with Kind Financial to help government agencies track the legalized cannabis industry in their jurisdictions.
HPE And Docker Forge Data Centre Container Partnership
HPE servers will be shipped ready with Docker's container tech
HPE Leads Contracting Server Market As Cloud Popularity Grows
Revenues fall but shipments rise, says Gartner, as SMBs look to the cloud to satisfy growing needs
CoreOS Launches Torus Project for Cloud-Native Storage
While there are already multiple distributed storage systems, Torus aims to be cloud-native and integrate closely with Kubernetes.
Competition Watchdog Slams British Cloud Providers
Several major cloud providers accused of breaking consumer law by altering contract terms without notice
Lenovo Boosts Data Centre Power With New Cooling Technology
Work with University of Birmingham could reduce cooling energy by up to 83 percent compared to using air cooling alone
Office 365 Security Risks Rise As Corporate Adoption Increases
Nearly three quarters of enterprise Microsoft Office 365 users have a compromised account each month and more than 200 files called 'password'
Why VCs Have Invested More Than $200M in Container Tech
ANALYSIS: Last week alone, investors—aiming to profit from the new approach to building, deploying and managing apps—poured $63M into container vendors.
IBM’s Quantum Computing Is For ‘Anyone’, But Is It For Everyone?
ANALYSIS: IBM goes public with its quantum computing experiment to enlist the help of scientists and researchers around the world, but how does it work?
EMC World – Tech Bundle Launched For Modern Data Centres
EMC unveils EMC Unity Family, Virtustream Storage Cloud, EMC MyService360 Service Dashboard, EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management and ViPR Controller 3.0
Poll: Does It Matter To You If Your Data Is Stored In The EU?
Cloud vendors are bringing customer data closer, but does being covered by European data protection laws matter to you?
Microsoft Targets Hybrid Cloud With New Management Tools
New Microsoft tools arrive to tame management of hybrid clouds and data centre resources
Dropbox’s Ease Of Use Is ‘Essential’ To Attracting More UK Businesses
Dropbox pins hopes on usability to expand European business, arguing it will make companies more secure and productive if employees actually want to use it
Dropbox Project Infinite Gives Terabytes Of Data With Gigabytes Of Storage
Project Infinite will give businesses control over files without the need to download them to desktop, Dropbox tells European customers
G-Cloud 8 Open For Applications Next Month As GDS Hints At G-Cloud 9 Shakeup
G-Cloud 6 suppliers will have to reapply, but G-Cloud 7 partners don't in most cases
Microsoft Is ‘Rapidly Growing’ Its Enterprise SaaS Revenue
Still a long way behind market leader Salesforce, but Microsoft is playing hard to catch up
Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale
IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product, not hardware
Security Concerns ‘Prevent’ Mainstream Container Adoption
Cloud experts believe security concerns will stop containers superseding VMs for now but, in 18 months, it could be a different story
Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres
Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and performance
IBM And SAP To Build On Cloud, Big Data Partnership With Cognitive Capabilities
IBM and SAP will work together on creating new services and boosting HANA with IBM cognitive capabilities
DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services
DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud