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Friday, September 03, 2010
Hitachi and GDS to open green data centre in the Netherlands
Hitachi Europe and Green Data Systems (GDS) have announced the opening of a highly energy efficient data centre in Deventer, The Netherlands. It will be opened on 23 September this year.
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Dell throws in the towel; HP acquires 3PAR
It seems analyst were right as to who would win the bidding war over global provider of utility storage 3PAR. But with $115bn annual revenue –compared with Dell's $53bn - this should come as no surprise.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
UK: Buying Solutions awards IT outsourcing contract to Bull IT
Buying Solutions, the public sector procurement agency awarded Bull IT a framework agreement for IT Managed Services.
Under the agreement, Bull’s IT managed services will be made available to all UK public sector organisations which are seeking to contract a supplier who can design, implement and manage end-to-end, cost effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services.
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Capgemini acquires stake in Brazilian IT services player
IT and outsourcing consultancy Capgemini has acquired a 55% stake in Brazilian IT services company CPM Braxis.
Capgemini has an option to buy the remainder of CPM Braxis’ capital (45%), and the existing shareholders have an option to sell their remaining shares. These options can only be exercised between the 3rd and the 5th anniversary of the closing date (on the basis of an estimated price based on fair market value at the time of the exercise of these options).
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
CBI awards 5 year contract to Wipro
Central Bank of India (CBI), one of the largest public sector banks in India has awarded IT solutions supplier Wipro a five-year total outsourcing agreement to provide state-of-the-art, technology-driven, core banking solution for seven sponsored Regional Rural banks (RRBs).
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Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, a mobile software and applications development tools vendor.
The OpenPlug toolset will be incorporated into Alcatel-Lucent’s Developer Platform and external linkOpen API Service, thus broadening the functionality available to service providers, enterprises and developers for the exposure of network assets and the rapid introduction of new services across mobile and Web domains.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
NMC awards £5.2m contract to BSG
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the nursing and midwifery regulator for over 660,000 registered nurses and midwives in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Islands, has signed a five year contract worth up to £5.2m with Business Systems Group (BSG).
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Equinix to build $63m data centre in Hong Kong
Global data centre provider Equinix is to build its second international business exchange™ data centre, HK2, in Hong Kong. The new $63 million HK2 IBX data centre will provide total capacity for more than 1,450 cabinet equivalents.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Sunoco awards application support services deal to IBM
Sunoco has awarded IBM a deal that will see the manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products outsource its managed business process services and application support services.
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HP raises the bidding bar; can Dell keep up?
Earlier this week Dell trumped Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) $24 a share offer, but that was yesterday’s news. The bidding war between HP and Dell is getting more interesting as HP raised its offer from $27 a share (announced mid-week and which was later matched by Dell) to $30 a share earlier on 27 August.
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