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BYOD drives demand for UC and collaboration spending
Unified comms and collaboration has edged past cloud and virtualisation as the technology most in demand from IT directors as the bring your own device (BYOD) trend starts to have serious implications on infrastructure. The shifting patterns in dema... News | 20 Feb 2012
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Six Degrees snaps up Ultraspeed
Mid-market data service provider Six Degrees has been quick to start delivering on its buy-and-build acquisition drive just months after outlining its intentions to grow. Last November the firm hired former Vodafone board director Peter Bamford as ... News | 20 Feb 2012
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Avaya IPO date tabled for April, losses narrow
After a series of delays Avaya's impending IPO, first announced last summer, now looks set to take place in April, according to sources close to the firm. The networking and unified comms specialist is hoping to raise $1bn through the sale of common ... News | 17 Feb 2012
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Peer 1 migrates to greener pastures
Peer 1Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider has completed migration of over 1,600 devices and over 120TB of SAN data from its Fleet location to its new 5,372 square metregreen datacentre in Portsmouth, writes Linda Endersby. "Our team d... News | 17 Feb 2012
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Woolhead completes ZyXEL channel line-up
Broadband networking vendor ZyXEL has appointed former Cisco SMB channel man Andrew Woolhead as its new channel account manager, completing a four strong channel-focused line-up. Woolhead spent three years in Cisco's clutches and brings over a decade... News | 16 Feb 2012
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Apple and Samsung slug it out at top of smartphone market
Apple and Samsung are locked in an epic battle for domination of the smartphone market, shipping 34.4 and 34 million units respectively in the last quarter of 2011, according to Gartner. The two rivals consolidated their position at the top of the pi... News | 15 Feb 2012
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Nimans VARs get the Lync effect
Comms distie Nimans is attempting to boost channel expertise around Microsoft's Lync unified comms portfolio, and has teamed up with SaaS provider SIPCOM to run a series of training events as part of a "spring offensive". The distributor he... News | 13 Feb 2012
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Vodafone ponders Cable & Wireless bid
Vodafone has confirmed that it is in talks with Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) with a view to acquiring the beleaguered comms firm for an as yet undisclosed sum. The firm has struggled to perform since its March 2010 inception, but according to... News | 13 Feb 2012
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Logicalis added to Janet cloud and datacentre framework
Education and research network Janet has added Logicalis to a list of approved datacentre and cloud services providerswhich already includes education services provider Eduserv and BPO outfit Liberata,as well as HP and Dell. Under the terms of the fr... News | 10 Feb 2012
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ZyXEL gets Eclipse hardware deal
Broadband networking specialist ZyXEL has won a major deal with business ISP Eclipse Internet to supply routers for customers buying its ADSL and FTTC products. Eclipse senior technical support analyst Tom Ward-Scammell said the decision to refresh t... News | 10 Feb 2012