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The European General Data Protection Regulation – a major opportunity for cloud providers

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New AIIM whitepaper highlights the potential to deliver EU-wide services under a single operations model, but also the risk if organisations do not comply. The forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) offers a single law for organisations to follow, but increases fines up to 100 million Euros if found guilty of a ‘negligent breach’ of privacy or loss of data.

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U.K. research released by Juniper Networks reveals that nearly one quarter of respondents (21.8 percent) said they don’t use cloud technology or don’t know what it is, yet the same respondents spend large amounts of time using digital, cloud-based applications such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify. The findings highlight a large disparity between consumers’ digital behaviour and their understanding of the technology that powers it.

New benchmarking studies reveal how users can get up to 60 per cent more performance from any existing infrastructure

Bare metal cloud provider Bigstep debunks a number of infrastructure myths, such as more CPUs equal more performance and that OS choice has only minimal impact on performance.

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Unisys to modernise, support and maintain mission-critical applications for Spain’s air traffic control services provider.

Survey shows the role of IT is changing

KPMG LLP and ServiceNow have announced the results of a joint survey, shedding light on how IT professionals see their role changing across the enterprise as well as how they can improve organisational efficiency by shifting how work gets done.

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Commitment to providing MSPs with a comprehensive set of solutions expected by clients drives continued growth and service adoption.

Hornbill appointed as supplier of SaaS Services in G-Cloud 4

myservicedesk.com SaaS solution will offer best-practice IT service management suited to individual...

LawWare certifies against the CIF Code of Practice

CSP becomes the first practice management software provider to lawyers to achieve certification.

Communication skills more important than technical ones

Nine in ten IT professionals say effectively communicating policy and change will be one of the...

Oracle expands investment in global Cloud infrastructure

As cloud growth continues, Oracle is expanding the number of Oracle Cloud data centers to continue...

Lee Cauchie appointed at Next Generation Data

Colocation data centre is focused on becoming UK’s premier destination for Saas, Iaas, web...

London expansion for LDeX

Manchester-based data centre and colocation provider LDeX Group recorded its best quarter ever in...

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