Logicalis Euro honcho Spirlet quits for exec role at Cisco

Logicalis European head honcho Arnaud Spirlet is to exit the business before fully implementing the turnaround strategy he drafted. Spirlet, who was made head of Europe in October 2014 when he succeeded Ian Cook, is to take the keys to the top exec suite at Cisco’s Belgium and Luxembourg operation. Company insiders at Cisco …

Paul Kunert, 06 Apr 12:49

Hyper-converged prospects? Thanks to firm-gobbling habit and OEM deal, Dell has 3

EMC-Dell deal Dell has three horses in the hyper-converged system race: VMware’s VSAN colt, EMC’s ScaleIO mustang and OEM’d Nutanix’s filly. Come 2017, VMware and EMC should be inside Dell and eyes will look quizzically at the Dell Nutanix OEM deal. Specifically, Dell says it has the broadest hyper-converged stable offering available from …

Chris Mellor, 05 Apr 13:27

3D printers set for lift off? Yes, yes, yes... at some point in the future

If only hardware makers could print more customers

Paul Kunert, 05 Apr 14:35

Intel restructures financial reporting to 'provide visibility'

Not drowning under-performing products, waving happily about the whole business. Really.

Richard Chirgwin, 06 Apr 06:27

AWS to crack $10bn annual sales this year says Jeff Bezos

Says all other tech companies care only about following competitors

Simon Sharwood, 06 Apr 07:39

Logicalis Euro honcho Spirlet quits for exec role at Cisco

Turn around – every now and then I get a little bit nervous...

Paul Kunert, 06 Apr 12:49

SimpliVity slips Hyper-V into its hyper-converged party

Ready and waiting for you, sir, please do come in...

Chris Mellor, 06 Apr 08:27

AWS to crack $10bn annual sales this year says Jeff Bezos

Says all other tech companies care only about following competitors

Simon Sharwood, 06 Apr 07:39

Intel restructures financial reporting to 'provide visibility'

Not drowning under-performing products, waving happily about the whole business. Really.

Richard Chirgwin, 06 Apr 06:27

3D printers set for lift off? Yes, yes, yes... at some point in the future

If only hardware makers could print more customers

Paul Kunert, 05 Apr 14:35

The BBC flashes £560m ICT deal at hungry tech suppliers

Auntie dishes out latest slice of £2bn Atos pie

Kat Hall, 05 Apr 14:03

Hyper-converged prospects? Thanks to firm-gobbling habit and OEM deal, Dell has 3

Salesforce acquires AI startup MetaMind

Salesforce.com has confirmed it has acquired AI startup MetaMind on undisclosed terms.

Windows 7's grip on the enterprise desktop is loosening

And so is Microsoft's as PC sales fall, making strong growth for Windows 10 unlikely

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Nutanix cracks its first $100m quarter

Revised SEC filings suggest IPO ambitions are un-dimmed, as losses mount

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SoftLayer reveals per-CPU VMware pricing

SoftLayer's pricing for VMware-as-a-service has emerged and the IBM outfit has scored a deal for per-CPU licences.

A cute cat in a jumper waves goodbye.... Pic via Shutterstock

Intel executive shake-up coming, with three big-name departures

Intel's lost more Cs from its C-suite, with reports emerging that two senior executives have left and another is on the way out the door.

Brocade stirs up a Ruckus, swallows wireless kit maker for $1.5bn

Storage and Ethernet networker rides on enterprise horse

Chris Mellor, 04 Apr 14:40

Sanctions-slapped Chinese telecoms vendor ZTE swaps execs

Preps to file delayed results after US lifts restrictions on alleged Iran trade rule shirk

Kat Hall, 04 Apr 11:35

Carving up the IT contract behind £500bn of annual tax collection is a very risky move

Analysis Why is HMRC breaking up Aspire

Kat Hall, 04 Apr 11:01

EMC's virtue is its VCE, but Cisco and NetApp's Flexpods slightly floppy

It's all about converged and hyper-converged now, says IDC

Chris Mellor, 04 Apr 09:57

Microsoft lures top Linux exec from Oracle to Redmond

Wim Coekaerts' hire another sign of open source push

Iain Thomson, 01 Apr 21:58

Apple Fools: Times the House of Jobs went horribly awry

Apple at 40 Plenty of bumps in the 40-year road for Mac makers

Shaun Nichols, 01 Apr 20:34

BlackBerry's still losing millions – but hit its revenue target, finally

Android isn't exactly pulling up any trees, though

Andrew Orlowski, 01 Apr 15:56

NetApp ain't all that: Flashy figures show HPE left 'em for dust

A truer picture emerges thanks to Gartner numbers

Chris Mellor, 01 Apr 15:32

Huawei on bumper results: We owe growth to ginormous ICT market

Worldwide roll-out of 4G didn't hurt, either

Kat Hall, 01 Apr 13:27

IBM snaps up small Bluewolf for reported $200m

CRM-as-service-acquisition strategy plays out

Alexander J Martin, 01 Apr 12:01

Micron turns $900m profits into a $97m loss. Only took 12 months

Fifth straight quarterly revenue decline reverses 11 profitable quarters' trend

Chris Mellor, 01 Apr 10:36

Michael Dell takes $11m pay hit

Just need to find some more cash to make up that $67bn EMC acquisition

Kat Hall, 31 Mar 14:58

Brexit: Time to make your plans, UK IT biz

Analysis Legal Armageddon? Maybe, maybe not – but we'd better get moving

Frank Jennings, 31 Mar 14:02

EE most 'reliable' mobile provider for cities – Ofcom

Also releases postcode-checker for folk to confirm coverage crapness

Kat Hall, 31 Mar 13:19

HPE adds power-fail-protected NVDIMM tech to servers

Cloudera's valuation slashed by Fidelity amid IPO fail fears

Gartner: RIP double-digit smartphone growth. 2016 has killed you

Kelway founder and CEO Phil Doye steps out of role

Microsoft announces Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming this summer

Microsoft's Brad Smith on encryption: Let the politicians decide

Nexenta wins Lenovo as server partner

HMRC dangles £10bn in outsourcing meat before hungry SME hounds

Pure Storage's coming high-end array: We have the details

Legal right to 10Mbps broadband is 'not enough', thunders KCOM chief

Zombie SCO rises from the grave again

NetApp dropped the ball by letting EMC gobble Data Domain

R&D white coats at HP Inc will make corporate ID into wearable tech

Load DynamiX ties knot with Virtual Instruments

Thin client market gets even thinner, down seven per cent in a year

Oracle v Google: Big Red wants $9.3bn in Java copyright damages

$3bn for an IT services outfit? Bloody Dell!

One pane of glass to rule them all? Vanity – thy name is cloud management

Is it possible to achieve a single view of the cloud? The more cloud services that a company uses, the more complex it would seem to get. Maybe you use a bit of AWS here, some Azure there, and some Rackspace somewhere else. That might be complex enough, but add in your own on-premise cloud solutions and it gets even muddier.