Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business users and IT departments, but big obstacles still remain for U.S. businesses according to new research. These challenges include a lack of confidence about service performance and availability, changing roles for IT professionals in organizations that adopt cloud apps and services, and continuing concerns about data security.

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Cloud computing ensures firms of all sizes can remain commercially competitive

Investment in IT and adoption of innovative cloud services is critical to staying competitive with new entrants to the market and increasing commercialisation, according to Richard Roebuck, managing director of specialist legal IT provider Accesspoint. A recent report compiled by legal IT specialists Accesspoint and secure cloud service provider Databarracks discusses how firms have begun to adopt business practices more typically seen in limited companies.

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CenturyLink launches new, globally available Private Cloud service in 57 data centres

Federation with CenturyLink public cloud dramatically simplifies hybrid deployments.

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Eagle Eye selects Rackspace DevOps Automation to help deploy applications faster

Rackspace win comes as 1 in 4 IT decision makers admit they don’t have the right DevOps expertise within their own organisation.

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Annual IT spending by Western European utilities to reach $13.5 billion by 2018

According to a new IT spending forecast report published by IDC Energy Insights, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to reach $13.5 billion by 2018, with an estimated 2013–2018 CAGR of 4.1%. Analyzing current IT spending, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $11.6 billion in 2014, with electricity companies accounting for the largest share of spending, at 67% or $7.7 billion of the total.

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SolarWinds introduces Deep Packet Inspection free tool

SolarWinds Response Time Viewer for Wireshark free tool automates the manual analysis process of packet capture data generated by Wireshark, helping IT Pros easily and quickly calculate application and network response time.

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