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Co-lo stepping stones to the cloud

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Co-location can serve as an opportunity for organisations to test the waters with various vendors and outsourcing strategies. Nigel Offley of CentriLogic outlines the benefits and risks associated with co-location, and identifies how co-locating IT infrastructure can serve as a strong first step towards virtualisation, cloud, and fully managed hosting as part of a strategic IT outsourcing plan.

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Security, budget and a shortage of skilled professionals to implement and run big data are the top challenges for organizations.

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A survey by International Data Corporation (IDC) has discovered that European IT departments still need to make significant improvements before they have fully embraced cloud architectures and transformed themselves into internal (cloud) service providers.

Intel unveils new developer tools for future technologies

Intel Corporation CEO Brian Krzanich kicked off Intel's annual technical conference with a broad set of computing initiatives and projects showing how the company is moving quickly to enable new market segments where everything is smart and connected. Krzanich and other executives announced new hardware and software developer tools, previewed upcoming Intel technologies and announced new products across several technology segments.

OpenStack revenue expected to hit $3.3 billion by 2018

The market for OpenStack-related products and services will quadruple in size between the end of this year and 2018, according a new market sizing and forecasting service from 451 Research.

Big business decisions driven by gut instinct as well as gigabytes

Business leaders are taking major strategic decisions about the future of their businesses based on their gut instinct and experience in preference to the use of data and analytics, according to a new report published by PwC and written by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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Boosting cloud adoption could pay economic dividends for Europe

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Interxion expands in Zurich

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