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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.

Tech M&A deals stay up in volume; big buyers are selective

Selective recovery is already under way in the tech M&A market. But the targets are tending to be...

Businesses turning to IT services providers as skills shortages continue to deepen

36 per cent of third party IT deployments driven by a shortage of in-house skills, finds Claranet.

Majority of CIOs in the dark over cloud

IT interdependencies and the need to re-architect certain applications is slowing organisations’...

Hitachi Vantara delivers new and enhanced as-a-service offerings

Customers now can achieve secure, cloudlike solutions behind their firewall, with end-to-end,...

Will we still be talking about DevOps in five years?

52% of ‘second wave’ DevOps adopters will outsource to DevOps consultants.

85% of enterprises say cloud has lived up to the hype

More compute and storage in the cloud than on-premises by 2024 reveals Tata Communications’...

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