Co-location can serve as an opportunity for organisations to test the waters with various vendors and outsourcing strategies. Nigel Offley of CentriLogic outlines the benefits and risks associated with co-location, and identifies how co-locating IT infrastructure can serve as a strong first step towards virtualisation, cloud, and fully managed hosting as part of a strategic IT outsourcing plan.
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Read MoreIntel Corporation CEO Brian Krzanich kicked off Intel's annual technical conference with a broad set of computing initiatives and projects showing how the company is moving quickly to enable new market segments where everything is smart and connected. Krzanich and other executives announced new hardware and software developer tools, previewed upcoming Intel technologies and announced new products across several technology segments.
Read MoreThe market for OpenStack-related products and services will quadruple in size between the end of this year and 2018, according a new market sizing and forecasting service from 451 Research.
Read MoreBusiness leaders are taking major strategic decisions about the future of their businesses based on their gut instinct and experience in preference to the use of data and analytics, according to a new report published by PwC and written by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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