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Deliver on employee expectations or face threat from Shadow IT

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Data leakage, compliance breaches, business inefficiency and hidden costs are just some of the risks organisations are leaving themselves open to by not meeting the IT demands of their workforce, Telstra’s Tom Homer has warned.

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Cisco and Microsoft extend partnership

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Cisco partners with Microsoft to accelerate service delivery for cloud providers via integrated cloud platform.

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Application-first approach taking hold in Europe

Expertise in applications most important when choosing an IT services provider, research commissioned by Claranet finds.

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IT drives the business

‘IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT’ explores the current state of significant new technology adoption, barriers to adoption and needs of IT pros tasked with delivering business impact.

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SimpliVity has raised $175 million in series D funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion – a record achievement just 23 months after general availability of OmniCube, its flagship product. Waypoint Capital, the business enterprise for the Bertarelli family’s investments and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, led the round. Prior investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Meritech Capital Partners also...

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Intermedia research reveals worrying personal cloud storage habits in the workplace

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Intermedia reveals that many IT departments still condone employees storing work-related data using personal cloud storage, leaving their organisation vulnerable to data theft. According to new research by Intermedia, a one-stop shop for cloud business applications, 68 per cent of employees favour using personal cloud storage at work and 52 per cent of those employees report to using multiple personal services - as many as six services in some cases.