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IoT to have massive impact, but few companies have a plan in place

More than 40 percent of organizations expect the Internet of Things (IoT) to transform their business or offer significant new revenue or cost-savings opportunities in the short term (over the next three years), rising to 60 percent in the long term (more than five years), according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. However, those surveyed said that many of their organizations have not established clear business or technical leadership for their IoT efforts.

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More and more servers bound for Cloud data centres

Published in Cloud + MS DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Security Storage

According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group server unit shipments are expected to continue to grow, albeit at a low single digit CAGR for the 2014-2019 period.

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The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is a collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organization that is developing new treatments for Neglected Patients. As part of DNDi’s IST strategy to align systems to a drug regulatory compliant environment a due diligence was undertaken to find the ideal IT hosting partner for the Geneva based drug research data.

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Dealing with web traffic spikes

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure Security Storage

Rackspace is providing free Rackspace Managed Cloud Services in support of ‘It’s Our World’ arts project, so that its website can handle thousands of submissions from schools across the UK which is expected to create big traffic spikes.

Published in Cloud + MS DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure Infrastructure + Hardware Management Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Unisys Corporation has announced the third generation of the Forward! by Unisys enterprise computing platform. This latest version of the platform features new automation and virtualisation capabilities that make it easier and less expensive for organisations to provision mission-critical and tactical application workloads across hybrid IT environments comprising private and public clouds as well as conventional data centres.