IDC lowers IT spending forecasts

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book, worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%. According to the new report, IT spending has...

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Confusion around convergence is causing business leaders to launch ill-judged initiatives and miss crucial opportunities

A lack of understanding around the pervasive spread and convergence of IT, communications and other digital technologies is causing business leaders to launch ill-judged initiatives and miss crucial opportunities. This is according to chief research officer for Ovum IT, Tim Jennings, who in his...

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Fujitsu appoints Michael Keegan as Head of UK & Ireland

Fujitsu has appointed Michael Keegan as Head of its £1.8bn business in the UK & Ireland. Keegan’s new role sees him take the reins from Duncan Tait, who was recently promoted to Head of EMEIA, Corporate Senior Vice President, Fujitsu Ltd.

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Keeping your dark data tapes in good standing requires a strategy beyond hope

Tape is not dead. The nearly 60-plus year old storage device is the media of choice for storing a...

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DCS Awards celebrate industry success stories

The DCS Awards have become a key date in the international data centre calendar and last Thursday...

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Unitrends 7.4 unveiled

Unitrends has announced general availability of Unitrends Release 7.4, a substantially evolved...

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Overstretched and constricted IT departments struggling with boardroom ‘demand disconnect’

ManageEngine has announced the results of a survey which found that almost half (40%) of IT...

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Bull and University of Warwick Join Forces on Big Data

New partnership to help organisations identify and act on big data opportunities.

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NetIQ unveils latest versions of NetIQ PlateSpin

New workload management and data protection tools help IT administrators better meet user demands...

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GroundWork Cloud brings performance monitoring to the compute, storage and networking components of OpenStack

GroundWork, Inc. has announced what it says is the first performance monitoring solution for the...

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Half of businesses are plagued by hourly, daily and weekly IT performance and availability issues

52 per cent state multiple infrastructure apps and multiple monitoring tools have an adverse impact...

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Avnet Technology Solutions UK hosts latest HealthPath™ University

HealthPath™ University event to be held at BMA House in Tavistock Square, London.

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Caringo Swarm™, Unified Storage Software unveiled

Aggressively eliminates the complexity associated with legacy storage, radically simplifies access...

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By Lorri Janssen-Anessi, Director of External Cyber Assessments at BlueVoyant.