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UK businesses struggle to match IT skills with cloud computing demand

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Almost half of UK businesses (48 per cent) are finding their cloud deployments hampered by a lack of cloud computing skills amongst IT professionals, according to a new report by Rackspace, the open cloud company.

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Research highlights need to calculate wider business benefits of cloud adoption.

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New NetScaler Insight Center brings network big data analytics to the data centre.

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Launch of OpenTouch™ Suite for Cloud provides an efficient, collaborative experience for today’s workers, with partners in three regions already signing up to be the first to deploy the technology.

IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

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Abiquo survey reveals alarming statistics on lack of cloud strategy and integration.

How to Turn Data into Business Value

Marc Chemin, Global Insights & Data Consulting Leader, shares his view on how our clients can exploit big data and analytics to enhance organizational revenues, customer satisfaction and business processes.

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Making the case for more effective data management

New research conducted by HFS Research in conjunction with Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, shows that while data is a clear focus area for the C-suite, there are still organizational disconnects in terms of execution.

Organisations still struggle with data quality

Businesses are challenged with the diversity, scale, and distributed nature of data, but 56% of data leaders are using analytics tools to improve tech and employee performance survey of almost 400 business decision-makers finds.

ThoughtSpot opens Frankfurt data centre

New data centre in Frankfurt provides cloud customers choice and flexibility to meet even the most rigorous regulatory and compliance requirements.

Accelerating AI adoption in the cloud

Teradata and H2O.ai, have announced the integration of H2O AI Hybrid Cloud, the company’s state-of-the-art AI platform, with Vantage, Teradata’s multi-cloud data platform. The integration enables Teradata and H2O.ai’s customers to quickly and easily make, deploy, and operate AI solutions that solve business problems and drive business value.

Pure Storage and Snowflake deliver increased data accessibility

The joint solution will combine the agility of FlashBlade’s Object Store with the Snowflake Data Cloud to give customers greater control of their data, in-cloud or on-premises.

Amazon Web Services introduces two database services

New Database Migration Service with Schema Conversion Tool makes it easy for customers to migrate production databases to AWS with almost no downtime.

Data Analytics

UK businesses struggle to match IT skills with cloud computing demand

Still too much siloed thinking from CIOs when calculating ROI benefits of cloud adoption

Citrix NetScaler delivers deep visibility for mobile and cloud services

Alcatel-Lucent unveils new cloud-based enterprise solutions