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Poor IT to blame for lost days

New research shows poor IT results in stress, missed deadlines and hundreds of wasted hours.

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Over 50 per cent of UK businesses experienced outages of their information management systems in the last 12 months, with some suffering up to ten outages in the period. The main cause, at 73 per cent of respondents, was a systems or hardware failure, a survey by City Lifeline, the London data centre, reveals.

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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced new private cloud services and portfolio enhancements that will help organisations transform their businesses and enable IT to get more from private cloud. HDS gives customers faster access to applications, better control over their data and cost-effective flexibility with its more virtualised, open and secure approach to private cloud. With HDS, companies effectively transform into efficient, agile services-defined IT organisations.

Cloud traffic to dominate data centres

In the third annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2012 – 2017), Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data centre traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold – a 35 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) – from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. Overall global data centre traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017.

Top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2014 and beyond

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2014 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions for 2014 combine several disruptive topics — Digital Industrial Revolution, Digital Business, Smart Machines and the Internet of Things — that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function.

Technology CEOs should consider nine disruptive forces that are impacting businesses

New series outlines suggestions for Technology CEOs to tackle looming megatrends and thrive in new digital reality.

Optimising 4K video production and streaming

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Data Dynamics launches StorageX Administrator Training Program

Data Dynamics, Inc. has announced a new StorageX Administrator training program designed to...

Supermicro expands SAP and VMware solutions

Super Micro Computer has introduced new SAP HANA® servers certified by SAP for VMware HCI. With...

Riverbed renames products

Riverbed Technology has introduced new product names that better describe what each product does...

IT leaders wrestling with hyperconverged infrastructure security

Only 15% of IT Decision Makers (ITDM) report having HCI as part of their infrastructure, citing...

Worldwide IT spending forecast to grow 1.4 per cent in 2017

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.5 trillion in 2017, a 1.4 per cent increase from...

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