2013: The year the business case for Desktop-as-a-Service is realised

For many years IT departments have talked about the potential benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), but until now adoption has been marginal. However, NaviSite, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting and managed cloud services, is seeing significant growth in this area. Sean McAvan, managing director of NaviSite Europe explains why the industry may now finally be ready to adopt the virtualised desktop.

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Cloud spending will address specific issues

Although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is still a small part of overall IT spending, according Gartner, Inc. A recent Gartner survey on the future of IT services found that only 38 per cent of all organisations surveyed indicate cloud services use today. However, 80 per cent of organisations said they intend to use cloud services in some form within 12 months, including 55 per cent of the organisations not doing so today.

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Tarkan Maner joins Nexenta as Chairman and CEO

Nexenta has announced the appointment of Tarkan Maner as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. An accomplished entrepreneur, executive leader, investor, advisor and philanthropist, Maner brings over 20 years of experience working with disruptive and revolutionary technology solutions that lead to better living in a better world. Maner succeeds Mark Lockareff who has served as Nexenta’s interim CEO since February 2013.

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Retelit deploys high performance network in Italy

Creates scalable, flexible 100G and OTN powered network to meet customer needs for high-capacity, low-latency services.

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Employer-backed Cyber Academy launches to boost UK’s information security skills

As part of its National Skills Academy for IT, e-skills UK has today launched the Cyber Academy. This employer-led programme of work will help the nation develop the cyber security skills it needs to manage future threats and stay at the forefront of this rapidly evolving and expanding field.

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Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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