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IT professionals lack confidence to manage governance, risk and compliance

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Dell Software survey shows nearly 100 percent of respondents in finance, retail and healthcare industries are worried about capability to meet compliance objectives.

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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 of Docker, KVM and VMware vSphere. Platform9 is currently in beta with a dozen mid-to-large sized organizations.

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Scalr has announced the release of Scalr Cost Analytics. Scalr Cost Analytics will enable a broad group of stakeholders within an enterprise to understand and analyze the costs associated with using cloud computing resources. This set of features addresses a growing need for IT operations and development to work with financial managers to proactively understand spend, optimize usage and in turn enforce budgetary decisions and controls on cloud infrastructure.

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The EU General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be passed this year and take effect in 2015 but new research from cloud visibility and enablement company, Skyhigh Networks, suggests that only 1 in 100 cloud providers meets these requirements to date.

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 million synapses.

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 cost-cutting moves down the agenda and customers become priority.

Cloud Industry Forum individual membership scheme designed to address the growing skills shortage

Membership programme is designed to up-skill and re-skill those wanting a career in delivering...

Secrets kept by cloud providers are threatening business

100 percent of companies surveyed suffered financial or operational impacts due to missing or...

The Bunker makes PCI v3.0 compliance black and white

One of the UK’s few VISA-approved Managed Services Hosting Provider removes guidance grey...

Arrow Electronics launches new cloud enablement programme

Global technology provider Arrow Electronics has announced the launch of its new Arrow Cloud...

Cobweb Solutions hires Ash Patel to boost aggressive growth strategy

New role as director of business transformation aiding Cobweb’s expanding solution set

Cybersecurity hub promises single standards database

The hub will be the first of its kind, enabling companies to quickly scope, define and maintain all...

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