Digitalisation World

IT has growing opportunity to become a strategic provider to the business

IT departments must free themselves from the pressures of tactical necessities before they can be seen as key contributors to business strategy and operational excellence.

Published in Storage + Servers Virtualisation

By David Parkinson, strategic development manager, UK & Ireland, for Wick Hill.

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Hardware Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Two companies collaborate to provide enterprise-grade solution for private clouds powered by Mirantis OpenStack distribution.

Published in Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Tintri Inc. has announced the appointment of Andrew Lee as Executive Vice President, Alliances. In this role, Lee will lead strategic alliances and support business development and corporate strategy.

Cloud hardware spending breaks $4 billion mark

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures and vendors' strategies. The overall investment in hardware for cloud environments in EMEA is expected to exceed $4 billion in terms of user value by the end of 2014, with a strong 19% YoY growth. 15% of the infrastructure spend in EMEA will be...

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Infrastructure Platform Storage + Servers Virtualisation

The business communications services market is going through one of its most challenging periods at the moment as CSPs struggle to come to terms with the demand for faster, more reliable and feature-rich services from their customers, whilst also dealing with increased competition and the inevitable pressure this puts on prices. Although this is a typical and predictable scenario in what is a rapidly maturing tech-based market, it means that service providers cannot afford to assume that their...