UK retailer uses Cloud Services to scale TV and Social Media campaigns

December is the most important month of the year for UK retailer Marks and Spencer, and its advertising campaigns are the cornerstone of its holiday strategy. When its 2013 primetime Christmas TV ad campaign encouraged people to visit a dedicated website, it was vital it could cope with the spike...

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Customer satisfaction rises overall

Customer satisfaction drops as customer service agents more frequently use apologetic or polite vocabulary in a conversation, while customers benefit by being polite themselves, according to findings of the quarterly Zendesk Benchmark report released recently.

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Unisys wins contract worth up to 28 million dollars

Defense Information Systems Agency selects Unisys to continue supporting the department's enterprise resource planning, systems management and other activities.

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VMware veterans launch 100% Cloud Managed Platform for Docker, KVM and VMware vSphere

Platform9 has emerged from stealth and unveiled its SaaS platform that transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud within minutes. The platform significantly reduces the operational complexity for IT and offers single pane of glass management...

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Scalr introduces Cloud Cost Analytics

Scalr has announced the release of Scalr Cost Analytics. Scalr Cost Analytics will enable a broad...

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Rackspace announces enhanced DevOps Automation Service

Rackspace has announced new features to its DevOps Automation Service including Windows Support and...

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Citygate expands to new sites in partnership with Node4

New and used car dealer Citygate has been able to reduce costs, simplify IT management and increase...

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Only one in a 100 Cloud providers meet proposed EU Data Protection requirements

The EU General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be passed this year and take effect in...

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New IBM SyNAPSE chip could open era of vast neural networks

New chip with brain-inspired non-von Neumann computer architecture has one million neurons and 256...

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IT budgets set to increase according to a third (37%) of financial services organisations

Survey of UK & Ireland financial services sector reveals companies are set to spend as...

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Reflexis chooses IBM Cloud infrastructure

Reflexis, a leader in integrated real-time execution and workforce management solutions, has...

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Qsan is 1st Easy first choice

Qsan Technology, Inc. has been picked by cloud hosting expert 1st Easy as favourite to provide the...

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South Korea’s improving economic conditions boost ICT expenditure

Due to the improving economy and enhanced financial prospects in South Korea, enterprises embrace...

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Worldwide IT market showing tentative signs of improvement

According to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Doc...

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Firehost appoints EMEA VP

FireHost, the secure cloud provider, has appointed Eleri Gibbon as Vice President of EMEA. In this...

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Videos

Dor Eisner, CEO and Co-Founder of Guardz. Discusses the launch of the company’s new, free Community Shield plan for MSPs. The offering is designed to help MSPs secure and insure their internal operations,...
Ben Pritchard, CEO of AVK, a fast-growing supplier of innovative and sustainable power solutions for data centres and energy-intensive organisations both here and in Europe, discusses how the data centre...
Daniel Thorpe, Associate Director of Data Centre Research at JLL, explains the reasons behind the edge data centre market’s predicted doubling by 2026 – with data regulation, low latency demand and IoT...
Ben Rogers, Sales Manager, CloudBilling, explains the ways in which the company helps MSPs to overcome multiple billing challenges by providing automation, standardisation and reducing complexity. CloudBilling...

Expert Opinions

By Michelle Would, Director of Customer Experience at Agilitas IT Solutions.
By Tamar Brooks, Managing Director, UK&I, Broadcom.
As data centres evolve to meet the demands of high-speed data transmission, the role of optical devices becomes increasingly critical. The efficient conversion of electrical and optical signals necessitates...
By Yiannis Antoniou, Head of Data, AI, and Analytics at Lab49.