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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.

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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...

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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.

Number of victims of targeted attacks more than doubles in 2014

Kaspersky Lab has undertaken a master review of the key events that defined the threat landscape in...

Checking software licences for free

Express Metrix has decided to give away a sawn-off version of its enterprise SAM solution, aimed at...

Proact to offer managed infrastructure to Telema

Proact will provide leading Baltic EDI and e-invoicing services provider, Telema, with...

Public IT Cloud Services spending to reach $127 billion in 2018

Public IT cloud services spending will reach $56.6 billion in 2014 and grow to more than $127...

Getting DR in the cloud

VMworld 2013: Here is an early contender in the race to launch new products at VMworld....

Rackspace opens data centre and expands existing flagship data centre in Australia

Managed cloud leader expands data centre capacity in Sydney and opens new data centre to help...

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