UK businesses struggle to match IT skills with cloud computing demand

Almost half of UK businesses (48 per cent) are finding their cloud deployments hampered by a lack of cloud computing skills amongst IT professionals, according to a new report by Rackspace, the open cloud company.

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Alcatel-Lucent unveils new cloud-based enterprise solutions

Launch of OpenTouch™ Suite for Cloud provides an efficient, collaborative experience for today’s workers, with partners in three regions already signing up to be the first to deploy the technology.

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CommScope acquires iTRACS

To further expand the solutions available for supporting enterprise customers with intelligence and infrastructure management, CommScope has acquired substantially all of the assets of iTRACS Corporation, a global leader in open, enterprise-class data center infrastructure management (DCIM).

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MapR Technologies closes $30 million in new funding

MapR Technologies, Inc has closed a new round of funding, securing $30 million in series C...

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Ethernet storage delivers up to 10x performance boost

Coraid® Inc has been selected by Siemens MR Magnet Technology, a leading designer and...

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Still too much siloed thinking from CIOs when calculating ROI benefits of cloud adoption

Research highlights need to calculate wider business benefits of cloud adoption.

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Norwegian plans announced

Speaking at a major Norwegian business conference, Byrne Murphy, chairman of DigiPlex Group...

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Upgrade to HEAT Service Management

FrontRange has announced a significant upgrade to its HEAT® Service Management solution that...

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ProfitBricks and MapR complete extensive benchmark testing for Hadoop within a virtualised data centre

Provides Organisations with cost effective performance without complexity for scalable Big Data...

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UK schools save time and money with Dell KACE Systems Management Solutions

Woodbridge High School saves £22,000 and 200 hours of IT management time with KACE Systems...

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Videos

Luca Simonelli, Senior Vice President Channel & Global Alliances at GCX, explains the move toward converging underlay and overlay models, and how this is shaping unified networking and security delivery. He...
Data Centre World 2026
Data Centre World 2026
Andy, Data & AI Director at Pax8, explores what the agentic inflection point means in practice and how AI is moving beyond experimentation into real-world application. He breaks down the 'empty box' approach...

Expert Opinions

By Chris Carreiro, Chief Technology Officer, Park Place Technologies.
Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre...
Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help...
In an exclusive conversation with Devang Mehta of Infrassist, the focus is on how MSPs can move beyond reactive firefighting and build for sustainable growth. Mehta explains how MSPs must rethink how they...