UK companies slow to embrace digital transformation

New Digital Effectiveness Index reveals companies with successful digital transformation strategies benefit from double the revenue growth compared to mainstream organisations.

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NetSuite opens data centres in the Netherlands and Ireland

NetSuite, provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced the opening of two major data centre deployments in Europe, one in Amsterdam, Netherlands and the other in Dublin, Ireland.

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Dyn evolves Internet Performance space with launch of Internet Intelligence

Internet Intelligence product gives unprecedented control and risk mitigation while operating within the cloud.

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Sumerian research reveals UK businesses exposed to significant risk of critical outages

Eighty-five percent of business have experienced critical outages in the past 12 months with three in every ten due to capacity issues.

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Mitratech enhances security operations

 Mitratech’s security initiatives increase the value delivered to corporate legal departments facing increasing data privacy and security concerns.

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TelecityGroup to add Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365

TelecityGroup customers to benefit from direct connectivity to Office 365.

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Improving hosed application performance

ACS Solutions GmbH (ACS) is using ExtraHop to deliver critical insight around the performance of their hosted applications, including Microsoft NAV and Microsoft CRM which together account for more than half of ACS’ annual revenue.

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'Revolutionising' mainframe DevOps

Compuware Corporation has delivered the year’s fourth major release of Topaz—an innovative solution suite that uniquely empowers enterprise customers to tap the full potential business value of their IBM z Systems environments.

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Application development platform enhancements

Application development platform leader delivers on mission-critical business needs with enhanced data security and multi-platform/multi-device development and deployment options.

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Videos

Dr. J Metz, Chair SNIA Board of Directors and Scott Shadley, Chair SNIA Communications Steering Committee, discuss the association’s plans for the coming year, which include work on SDXI, computational storage, DNA data storage, SNIA Swordfish™, SNIA Emerald™ and sustainability. They also provide some fascinating insight into how they see the industry developing over time.
Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace. Episode 28 Marion Stewart, Chief Operating Officer at Red Helix
Max Schulze, CEO and Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the importance of local and regional clouds as an alternative approach to the hyperscale model, suggesting that, in a world apparently obsessed with issues such as data sovereignty, time would be better spent understanding the importance of infrastructure ‘independence’.
Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

Expert Opinions

By Naveen Thomas, Director – Technology Consulting, EY.
By Hugo Bergmann, Lyve Cloud and Data Services Lead, EMEA, Seagate Technology.
By Claire Thomas, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Hitachi Vantara.
By Ed Ansett, Founder and Chairman, i3 Solutions Group.