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SCC wins 10-year IT infrastructure contract with Oxford City Council

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SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT services business, has won a 10-year IT infrastructure contract with Oxford City Council.

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First solution launched as part of the Dimension Data and EMC Catalyst Alliance.

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Huawei and TBR jointly release “Operator Cloud Transformation” whitepaper

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Huawei and TBR, a leading global technology research and advisory firm, have jointly released an Operator Cloud Transformation whitepaper at the 2015 Huawei Global Service Forum. The paper highlights that the data center is becoming the foundation of operator ICT transformation, and that operators should choose an integrator having both CT and IT experience as transformation partner.

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Consumers think online outages are caused by poorly built and designed websites

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Rackspace is warning retailers to get their websites ready for predicted traffic spikes after 83 per cent of UK consumers claim a consistently slow or unavailable websites negatively affect their brand loyalty. According to a survey of over 2,000 consumers in the UK[1], over half of consumers (56 per cent) buy something online at least once a week and 59 per cent of shoppers will browse online during big shopping events such a Black Friday.

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Brocade has introduced the Brocade SDN Controller 2.0, a commercial distribution of the OpenDaylight (ODL) controller based on the Lithium ODL release, and two new software-defined networking (SDN) applications—Brocade Topology Manager and Brocade Flow Manager. These new solutions reinforce Brocade’s leadership in open source SDN, providing greater innovation, interoperability and choice while eliminating vendor lock-in for customers.

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Ooredoo Kuwait and Huawei have signed a “Future Mode of Operation (FMO)” IT and Network Managed Services contract at the 2015 Huawei Global Service Forum. Under the terms of the contract, Huawei will provide managed IT and network operations, network performance management and service quality improvement for Ooredoo Kuwait. Huawei will provide an ICT Converged Operation solution to manage IT and telecom equipment through converged operation processes, resources and tools. The aim is...