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Microsoft's Hyper-V Boosts Interest In Virtualisation
News Businesses will increasingly turn to virtualisation technologies to get more out of their IT assets, according to the National Computing Centre. Speaking about virtualisation at the launch of Microsoft's latest server OS, Andrew Hopkirk, head of...
[March 3, 2008, 8:25]
Enterprise Architects Launch Best-practice Drive
News The National Computing Centre has launched an initiative to promote professionalism in enterprise architecture and systems engineering. Michael Dean, group marketing manager for the National Computing Centre, said that a lack of common business...
[June 1, 2007, 16:39]
Government Trails Private Sector In IT Wages
News Government IT staff are still being paid less than their private-sector counterparts, according to research from the National Computing Centre. The findings are part of the National Computing Centre's (NCC's) latest Benchmark of Salaries and...
[February 12, 2008, 14:47]
ICT Suppliers Face National Accreditation
News The National Computing Centre is to accredit suppliers of ICT services, in an attempt to increase buying confidence among business customers. Accredit UK is being funded jointly by the National Computing Centre and the European Regional Development...
[November 23, 2006, 12:21]
UK E-science Centre Pushes Grid Computing
News The UK government on Thursday officially opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), devoting £5.5m over the next three years to boosting the UK's role in grid computing. The centre is part of an international effort to enable scientific...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
Photos: Big Blue Shows Its Green Side
News The company is using the facility to show off its expertise in data-centre computing, focusing on the two hot issues of the day: power saving and "green computing". IBM has set up a state-of-the-art data centre at its London headquarters on the...
[May 29, 2007, 17:29]
Burglars Plunder Verizon's London Data Centre
News Criminals posing as policemen conned their way into a data centre near London's King's Cross station, tying up staff and stealing computing equipment, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The men tied up five members of staff at the data centre...
[December 10, 2007, 12:12]
OASIS Enlarges Specification Tent
News Standards body OASIS will take on development of an existing utility computing specification for automating data centre operations. First published by data centre automation software company Opsware and EDS last year, the language is designed to...
[August 31, 2004, 10:00]
Photos: Centre Launched To Promote Open Source
News The National Open Centre (NOC), backed by the National Computing Centre, has won the support of the European Commission and members of parliament. The concept of the NOC was originally touted in October, when the National Computing Centre outlined...
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
Grid Computing 'overhyped'
News Mark Parsons, the commercial director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and the National e-Science Centre, said at an EPCC seminar in London on Wednesday that grid computing - where computing power and data storage capacity can be...
[May 19, 2005, 17:20]
Sun Wants To Open Up N1
News Sun Microsystems is working on a mechanism to connect its N1 utility computing software to existing systems management setups, in an early attempt to manage data centre gear from other providers. Creating a link between established systems...
[December 23, 2003, 11:10]
National Open Source Centre Comes To Birmingham
News Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which aims to build an IT future for a city with an industrial past.
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
Government Backs Grid Computing With £1m
News IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project between IT industry body Intellect and the National e-Science Centre. Parsons, of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, summed the problem up in may...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
PC Expo: Where Are The PCs?
News Despite the rise of new technologies, including wireless PDAs, Internet appliances and smart phones, the PC will remain, in the foreseeable future, at the centre of the computing universe. Networked computing appliances, which rely on the PC as an...
[June 30, 2000, 8:23]
Stanford, Tech Execs Unveil Science Centre
News The new centre, called the Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES), is an extension of Stanford's School of Earth Sciences and will house an interdisciplinary research programme and new computing facility, equipped with Sun...
[June 21, 2006, 11:00]
Academics Search For Clues After Supercomputer Attacks
News The far-flung supercomputing project, which only came online last month, has clusters of computers at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, the San Diego Supercomputing Centre, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill.and the...
[April 16, 2004, 10:20]
IBM And Cisco Forge Closer Alliance
News With the switch, BladeCenter will essentially become a multifunctional computing centre, capable of housing servers, storage devices and networking equipment, said Jeff Benck, vice president of the IBM eServer BladeCenter group.
[April 29, 2004, 8:40]
Sun To Unveil Stackable Data-centre Boxes
News On Tuesday, the company plans to unveil "Project Blackbox", which tucks several racks of computing gear, along with the necessary power and cooling equipment, into a standard shipping container 8ft wide, 8ft tall and 20ft long.
[October 17, 2006, 10:30]
Efficient Servers May Get 'Energy Star'
News The EPA's discussions with computing-equipment makers and data centre operators has shown "compelling evidence of the need for this specification", according to the letter from Andrew Fanara, an Energy Star programme manager.
[January 2, 2007, 7:41]
Grid Computing To Solve Big Bang Queries?
News The computing has been planned for years; we've been looking at distributed computing for a long time," said Gordon. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid, being constructed at CERN, near Geneva, will be the largest scientific instrument...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
