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Big business decisions driven by gut instinct as well as gigabytes

Business 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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Acronis® has appointed Alex Fuerst as the new Vice President and General Manager Europe. Prior to this position, Alex Fuerst worked as Country Manager DACH and Eastern Europe at Acronis and was responsible for the regional management of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe.

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Managed services provider (MSP) DataServ Corp is using Zetta.net to deliver enterprise-grade cloud backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions to its customers. After evaluating more than 10 cloud backup and recovery providers to replace its use of the discontinued Symantec Backup Exec.cloud, DataServ selected Zetta.net for its affordability, ease of use, and ability to scale from small companies backing up hundreds of gigabytes of data, to several hundred-person firms backing up multiple...

HP helps organizations realize Open Source Cloud benefits with HP Helion OpenStack® Professional Services

HP’s unmatched OpenStack technology experience enables customers to deploy OpenStack-based clouds.

Cisco and Red Hat deliver integrated infrastructure for OpenStack

Cisco and Red Hat have announced a new integrated infrastructure solution for OpenStack-based cloud deployments. In addition, the companies announced an expansion of their relationship, accelerating collaboration around OpenStack, Application Centric Infrastructure and Intercloud.

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Phoenix IT Group announces the appointment of Alistair Blaxill as head of its Partner Business unit which provides services to large IT outsourcers and integrators. Alistair joins Phoenix from Northgate Arinso (NGA), a leading provider of global human resources, software, services and outsourced solutions, where he was Regional President for the UK, Ireland and Africa. At NGA he reshaped the business to focus on its key customers; developed a new range of service propositions; and took the...

Mobility benefits put at risk by companies' inattention to work-life balance and security issues

The proliferation of mobile devices is driving an array of positive changes in workplace culture...

Commvault appoints Christian Lang as Vice President Sales for EMEA

Industry veteran brings 26 years experience in technology solutions to Commvault to drive...

Skills gap emerges

The ever-increasing IT skills gap is highlighted again today with the release of research results...

Red Hat to acquire Inktank

Open source leaders unite to accelerate adoption of open software-defined storage for enterprises...

Uncertainty over ransomware recovery

Study shows organisations are managing more than ten times the amount of data than they did five...

Tegile Systems, Cisco and VMware join

Tegile Systems has launched a new reference architecture with Cisco Systems and VMware that...

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