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Poor IT to blame for lost days

New research shows poor IT results in stress, missed deadlines and hundreds of wasted hours.

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Over 50 per cent of UK businesses experienced outages of their information management systems in the last 12 months, with some suffering up to ten outages in the period. The main cause, at 73 per cent of respondents, was a systems or hardware failure, a survey by City Lifeline, the London data centre, reveals.

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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced new private cloud services and portfolio enhancements that will help organisations transform their businesses and enable IT to get more from private cloud. HDS gives customers faster access to applications, better control over their data and cost-effective flexibility with its more virtualised, open and secure approach to private cloud. With HDS, companies effectively transform into efficient, agile services-defined IT organisations.

Cloud traffic to dominate data centres

In the third annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2012 – 2017), Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data centre traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold – a 35 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) – from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. Overall global data centre traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017.

Top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2014 and beyond

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2014 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions for 2014 combine several disruptive topics — Digital Industrial Revolution, Digital Business, Smart Machines and the Internet of Things — that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function.

Technology CEOs should consider nine disruptive forces that are impacting businesses

New series outlines suggestions for Technology CEOs to tackle looming megatrends and thrive in new digital reality.

Fujitsu boosts performance of PRIMEFLEX vShape

PRIMEFLEX vShape reference architecture now 20% t more powerful with inclusion of PRIMERGY M2...

Only 27% of retailers say IT infrastructure is able to support customer experience improvements

Zynstra research reveals challenges in distributed store IT environments.

VMware unveils EVO: RAIL

VMware, Inc. has introduced VMware EVO: RAIL™, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance...

Insight reinvigorates Rotork’s IT department and supports its growing business

Insight overhauls Rotork’s IT infrastructure and licensing contracts to drive business efficiency...

Lenovo and Intel power computational research at the Flatiron Institute

Lenovo and Intel enable researchers at the Flatiron Institute to analyse massive datasets derived...

HP makes enterprise architecture of the future a reality

Innovative converged infrastructure solutions and services deliver simplicity, efficiency and...

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