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A report by Synergy Research Group showed that in the year to September 2015, revenues generated by operators and vendors were up 28% to $110 billion. Public IaaS/PaaS services had the highest growth rate at 51%, followed by private and hybrid cloud infrastructure services at 45%. The firm said that spending on infrastructure hardware and...

Microsoft plans to donate $1 billion-worth of cloud computing resources to non-profit organisations and university researchers over the next three years. In a blog post, the firm said its goal is to support 70,000 NGOs during that time. It will offer access to Office 365, Azure, EMS and CRN Online via its new Microsoft Philanthropies arm.

The researching body Gartner has predicted that more than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020. Despite this, Gartner predicts there will be no purely ‘IoT applications’, but many that use the IoT in some aspect and a need for implementation expertise. Gartner has...

A recent report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the market for EMEA Big Data-related data centre infrastructure spending to triple in size over the next three years. A recent report suggests 16% of all server shipments will be Big Data-related by 2019, up from 6% 2015. Values of these shipments are expected to grow...

NetApp’s strategy to address the Internet of Things (IoT) is Data Fabric. Matt Watts, NetApp’s Director of Technology and Strategy for EMEA, writes about how Data Fabric forms part of a ‘Layer Cake’ approach for the IoT… “As the reality of the Internet of Things edges closer, organisations will need to move past strategic and...

Veritas Technologies has announced a new research initiative focussed on uncovering the truth behind the data that organisations store. The Veritas Data Genomics Index 2016 is a first-of-its-kind benchmark analysis of data stored within a typical enterprise environment. It reveals insights into data growth, age, size and type, thereby providing organisations with the comparison standard...

SCC has been named IBM’s Top Business Partner in Europe after being awarded the prestigious Choice Award at IBM’s 2016 Beacon Awards. Presented during IBM’s PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida, the award represents the latest milestone in an enduring and successful history between SCC and IBM. As IBM’s longest standing channel partner and number...

With the NHS planning to go ‘paperless’ within the next few years and the UK’s Courts also aiming to adopt processes that will dramatically reduce the amount of paper they generate and require to function, sales of document scanners to the public sector are expected to surge over the coming months. Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s...

A new report from 451 Research analyses AppSense’s innovative and rapidly growing next generation endpoint security solution. AppSense is the global leader of secure user environment management (UEM) and its continued success in delivering next generation endpoint security solutions is the topic of the report, entitled ‘Knocking Some (App)Sense into Endpoint Security.’ Released earlier this...

AppSense have announced record results for the first half of its fiscal year 2016 as demand for its endpoint security solution soars. The leading provider of user environment management (UEM) solutions for the secure endpoint saw new orders in the six months ended 31st December 2015 grow 20% year-over-year, marking a record for them both...

Organisations are being warned to patch their Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) products immediately after it was found they are vulnerable to a remote code execution bug. Cisco have released software updates to address this vulnerability and have instructed customers not to wait, but to follow the advisory available at this link. The vulnerability has...

Gartner is honing in on unstructured data in their latest report. Organisations will need to tackle three challenges if they are to curb unstructured data glut and neglect. Increased data growth, propelled by the Nexus of Forces, has created an unstructured data nightmare, something which Veritas knows only too well after carrying out extensive research...