Digitalisation World

Cloud demand soars, but beware the contract!

Published in Colocation/Hosting Digital Business Infrastructure Platform Security Storage

A surprisingly large number of cloud sales deals break down at contract negotiation stage.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting

Hosted Desktop UK Limited is a major provider of virtual hosted desktop solutions and managed IT services to the professional sector, including chartered accountants, financial services, recruitment companies and legal firms. Launched in 2010, this Exeter-based business has experienced rapid growth and today boasts over 5000 users across the globe.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

CenturyLink adds 14MW of new capacity in eight facilities and several Uptime Institute certifications for operational excellence.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting

OVH has received the Global VMware Partner Innovation Award in the Service Provider category. OVH received the award during the VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2016, held March 6-9 in Scottsdale, Arizona (USA).

NEWS

IBM acquires Optevia

Published in Cloud + MS Platform

IBM as acquired Optevia, a privately owned Software as a service, (SaaS), systems integrator specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions for public sector organizations. Optevia will join IBM Global Business Services and help meet the increasing client demand for CRM SaaS solutions within the public sector.

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure Platform

ZTE has launched its “hybrid cloud” solution at CeBIT 2016, based on its unified smart performance optimisation deployment (uSmartPOD), which can effectively solve the challenges of high costs and information security concerns when an enterprise migrates its IT to the cloud. This solution is part of ZTE’s strategic plan in helping global enterprises towards industry 4.0 in terms of their infrastructure.