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Greater change in IT departments needed to support innovation

Majority of IT departments a long way off from Gartner’s era of digitalisation, Claranet research finds.

Variations in IT sourcing strategies

Apptio has released its first IT Economics Report profiling enterprise IT spending patterns. Every month, the world’s largest organisations use Apptio’s Cost Transparency application to calculate and analyse over $160 billion in annual combined IT spend. For the Apptio IT Economics Report, the company analysed the IT investments made by its customers last year and found three common resourcing strategies. These patterns, or archetypes, each represent...

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Mirantis has launched Mirantis Unlocked, a partner program that will help infrastructure and solution providers seamlessly deliver technology in the OpenStack ecosystem. Mirantis Unlocked encompasses Mirantis’ technology partnerships with market-leading companies such as Citrix, Juniper Networks, VMware, Brocade, and EMC; and innovative technologies from Nuage Networks, SolidFire, Maxta, Avi Networks, Metaswitch Networks, Cumulus Networks, BigSwitch, ActiveState, Midokura, and ScalR.

Published in BC/DR Cloud + MS Flash Infrastructure Management Security Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Maxta has introducedced MxInsight™ and MxCloudConnect™, simplifying hyper-converged IT management across virtualization technologies. MxInsight includes historical reporting, enhanced policy management, and comprehensive storage quality of service (QoS) management for all Maxta MxSP™ and MaxDeploy™ solutions. MxCloudConnect, a remote call home capability, delivers proactive maintenance and support notifications. These capabilities, along with Maxta’s...

Published in BC/DR Cloud + MS Flash Infrastructure Management Security Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

Key value drive technology combines large capacity HDD, high performance SSD, gigabit Ethernet and compute-for-storage in a single 3.5-inch form factor.

Published in Cloud + MS Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Identity/Access Management Infrastructure Security Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service Storage

Javvad Malik, Security Advocate at AlienVault, says results show a need for far greater support for employees and businesses when they fall victim to cyber attacks.

Parallels Office 365 APS package enables Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Providers

Cobweb Solutions the first Microsoft CSP to launch Office 365 using Parallels Automation.

Advanced 365 offers top tips for ensuring compliance with new EU data security legislation

UK businesses found guilty of breaking new data laws could face fines of up to £780,000.

Organisations struggling to align Hybrid Cloud deployments with business needs

Survey finds Hybrid Cloud adoption is high but mixed messages and disruptive technologies mean...

Threat detection and remediation to emerge as key market engine for Managed Security Services

With cyber threats growing in sophistication and number, more complex tools are required, says...

375 million customer data records compromised in 2014

Identity theft main reason for breaches and survey shows 40 per cent of consumers very unlikely to...

Optimising policies on HP’s CSA

Adaptive Computing’s Moab Cloud Opitmizer aims to make HP’s Cloud Service Automation...

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