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Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

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Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business users and IT departments, but big obstacles still remain for U.S. businesses according to new research. These challenges include a lack of confidence about service performance and availability, changing roles for IT professionals in organizations that adopt cloud apps and services, and continuing concerns about data security.

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Investment in IT and adoption of innovative cloud services is critical to staying competitive with new entrants to the market and increasing commercialisation, according to Richard Roebuck, managing director of specialist legal IT provider Accesspoint. A recent report compiled by legal IT specialists Accesspoint and secure cloud service provider Databarracks discusses how firms have begun to adopt business practices more typically seen in limited companies.

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With plans for roll-out of unified communications and business intelligence.

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Enhanced Enterprise Cloud Services portal and mobile app enable teams to easily monitor and control their cloud costs and resources on the go.

UK workforce is ‘doing IT’ for themselves

IT leaders see the value of end user computing strategies but risk and compliance issues prohibit progressive implementation.

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With analysts and vendors alike predicting that the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) is the next big step for the IT industry , Adapt has announced results from a survey that illustrates the UK cloud industry is still very divided in its opinion of the software defined concept, its potential and benefits.

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