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IBM has committed over $1.2 billion (£730 million) to increasing its data centre count and expanding its cloud offerings. Big Blue says it will build 15 new data centres across five continents, to attract more clients and penetrate fresh markets. This will see the company’s data centre count reach a total of 40 by the end of the year. The money will also double the storage capacity of SoftLayer, the cloud services firm that IBM purchased for $2 billion (£1.2 billion) last year. IBM claims that the subsidiary has brought…

HP Storage increases application performance by 80 percent in time for National Blood Donor Month HP today announced that Blood Systems, the second-largest blood bank in the United States, has selected HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage to maximize data capacity and improve performance of mission-critical applications. January marks a critical time of year for blood donations, recognized as National Blood Donor Month, and Blood Systems supports 10 percent of the nation’s blood supply through donation centers across 18 states. Every pint of blood the organization obtains is tracked by manufacturing and logistics software…

Neelie Kroes wants telcos and mobile operators to suggest how Ultra High Frequency spectrum can be used to deliver internet services. The European Commission has given the technology industry six months to suggest how the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) spectrum band could be used better to deliver internet services. Digital Commissioner Neelie Kroes has urged broadcasters, mobile operators, telcos and trade associations to propose ways for the UHF spectrum band to be used more efficiently. Kroes said a rethink about how member states use UHF is needed to meet the increasing demands of consumers for broadcast and internet services.…

Microsoft and hosting provider partner up to offer SaaS to smaller businesses. SMB-focused hosting provider GoDaddy has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft to offer Office 365 as a service to its clients. According to the companies, the move will allow GoDaddy to provide “seamless” access to professional email connected to their domain names, cloud storage and a full suite of Microsoft productivity offerings. Additionally, it will support GoDaddy’s push to branch out into more diversified offerings for SMBs. The organisations also claim that, as well as being more convenient…

Facebook has agreed a deal to share public data from its users with Yandex – Russia’s largest search engine. The deal will give Yandex full access to public data from users in Russia, Turkey and CIS countries including Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The data includes users’ posts and comments on them. Profiles or posts set to “private” will not be searchable. The move is expected to help Yandex improve search results and boost traffic on Facebook in Russia. “In the near future, Yandex’s search results will display not only Facebook…

YouTube’s move to alter its comments system last year proved to be unpopular YouTube has unveiled a new feature that lets users see, respond to and moderate comments all in one place. The move comes after changes that were announced in November last year to alter the way users could comment on clips proved to be unpopular among users. The changes took away a feature that had previously allowed users to manage comments from their YouTube Inbox. YouTube acknowledged that users of the site were unhappy with the change. “Many…