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Rackspace has officially opened a new UK data centre in Crawley, West Sussex, claiming it to be the largest facility in the UK to use 'indirect outside air' cooling.The company announced plans for the data centre over a year ago, explaining that the UK was a prime...

Windows 10 is set to be released to the masses at the end of July, based on comments by the chief executive of AMD.Lisa Su was speaking on an earnings call to discuss AMD's first-quarter financials for 2015 and appeared accidentally to reveal the date in response...

Google has expanded its portfolio of network services, with the aim of ensuring that customers of its cloud infrastructure have responsive, low-latency websites.On Monday, the online ad-slinger announced general availability of Cloud DNS, its managed DNS service. For...

Reports have it that HP is leaving the public cloud business because of its frustrations with competing with Amazon, Google and the rest of the market.In an interview with the paper Bill Hilf, the head of HP's cloud business revealed that the firm has realised that it...

Microsoft has said it will no longer enable the “Do Not Track” (DNT) feature by default in Windows, two years after it angered advertisers by its approach to the feature in Internet Explorer 10. Microsoft had previously enabled DNT by default in the...

Google has announced plans to tighten the security of its Drive for Work cloud storage service with enhanced document sharing and tracking controls.Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google Drive, said in a Google for Work blog post that the...

Microsoft has added an extra model to its Surface line of Windows tablets, described as the thinnest and lightest Surface yet and coming in at a more affordable price than the existing Surface Pro 3.Available to pre-order now, the Surface 3 is based on an Intel Atom...

The headline item is the ability to "enable protection and disaster recovery for VMware virtual machines and physical servers to Azure." That's a shot across VMware's bow, as it does the same in its own vCloud Air cloud and preaches on-premises-to-cloud integration...

The use of cloud-hosted and off-the-shelf software, together with tablets, has helped Metro Bank become an almost paper-free business. The company has also shunned desk phone to use Lync to host phone calls.Metro Bank makes heavy use of cloud-based services provided...

The Microsoft Band wearable device will go on sale in the UK for £169.99 from the middle of April, the company has confirmed.It will be available from Amazon, Currys PC World, Dixons Travel, Harrods, and O2.Microsoft's device offers most of the standard fitness...