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A US hi-tech investment bank with $20bn in assets has opened its first UK branch offering banking and loan services to the technology industry

Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers

Cloud computing has huge potential for SMEs, but they need to look before they leap, says IT consortium the Open Group

Business consultancy Deloitte is using cloud-based IT service management to support 13,000 employees in the UK and Switzerland

Mobile solution enables RSPCA officers to act faster on reports of animal cruelty from the public

South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation.

Online shopping giant Shop Direct has deployed software to automate business processes without eating into the IT department’s busy timetable

BAE Maritime Systems is assessing new tools from Serena Software to support mission-critical software development

The internet organisation names the companies bidding for 1,930 new domains for websites

Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs into mainstream business, says Amazon

Cumbria County Council turns down bids from BT and Fujitsu, claiming they don’t fulfil the full requirements for superfast broadband in the area

The National Audit Office states Vodafone’s £1.25bn settlement with HMRC was "reasonable" and "good" for the public purse

IT pros’ definition of cloud computing ranges from “a multi-tenant IT solution” to “virtualisation of virtualisation”. Here are a few from the Cloud Computing World Forum 2012.