71 per cent of businesses expect to reach digital maturity by 2019 – but are they as ready as they think?

The majority (71 per cent) of business leaders are confident they can transition from a state of digital transformation to digital maturity within just five years, according to the latest research from Coleman Parkes, commissioned by Ricoh Europe. The findings reveal that digital maturity – where an organisation uses sophisticated tools to drive performance and demonstrates an on-going commitment to technology, technology-led initiatives and digitally managed processes – is now a...

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Data centre market to undergo ‘dramatic change’ by end of 2016

Four disruptive factors will force dramatic changes in the data centre (DC) market by year-end 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that highly disruptive competition, big cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism will occur with different intensities over different time frames. However, at least two of these factors will drive significant disruption within the next three years, and elements of all four will drive the opportunities and risks in the DC market during the...

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Nokia Networks and Red Hat extend collaboration to deliver OpenStack-powered telco cloud

Nokia Networks and Red Hat, Inc. have extended their collaboration to enable mobile operators to create a more efficient and flexible telco cloud infrastructure. The agreement bundles Nokia Networks’ carrier-grade virtualized core applications and cloud application management products with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

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Co-lo stepping stones to the cloud

Co-location can serve as an opportunity for organisations to test the waters with various vendors and outsourcing strategies. Nigel Offley of CentriLogic outlines the benefits and risks associated with co-location, and identifies how co-locating IT infrastructure can serve as a strong first step towards virtualisation, cloud, and fully managed hosting as part of a strategic IT outsourcing plan.

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