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Rackspace appoints Brian Kelly as Chief Security Officer

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Rackspace® has announced the appointment of Brian Kelly as Chief Security Officer. Kelly will be responsible for overseeing physical and information security efforts for Rackspace and its customers globally and will report to Mark Roenigk, Chief Operating Officer.

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CloudBees, Inc. has announced the addition of 32 new partners to the CloudBees Partner Ecosystem – helping customers to further lower the barrier to adoption for continuous delivery powered by Jenkins in cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments. Now, nearly 100 partners strong, the CloudBees Ecosystem offers even greater value across a wide array of service offerings for CloudBees customers.

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83% of organisations still host business critical data on-premise.

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Watson Ecosystem Partners launch new business ventures in Financial Services, Healthcare, IT Services, Non-Profit, Retail, Security and Travel industries.

Gartner says in the Digital World CIOs need bimodal IT: rock solid IT with ability for fluidity

CIOs need a rock solid and efficient IT operation that frees up time and resources for innovation, and just as important in digital business, they need to be fluid, according to Gartner, Inc. In digital business, IT leaders must be part solid and part fluid to succeed.

Tight IT budgets to drive efficiency demands in 2015

Increasing efficiency will be the number one priority for IT departments in 2015, as organisations look to get more value out of their IT spend, according to research released today by Brocade. The research, taken from a survey of UK-based IT Decision-Makers (ITDMs), found that increasing efficiency is a top priority for 53 percent of IT leaders in 2015. Budget restrictions are the main driver behind this need for efficiency, with just 31 percent of organisations expecting their IT capital...

brightsolid adds Asigra Cloud Backup to Backup-as-a-Service portfolio

Joins Veeam CloudConnect in brightsolid’s Dundee and Aberdeen data centres.

Unitrends launches Boomerang Test Drive

Unitrends Boomerang AWS Test Drive gives VMware administrators a free opportunity to evaluate...

Lack of controls to manage privileged access

Fragmented priorities, total cost of ownership seen as inhibitors of enterprise adoption.

UK IT industry opinion divided on knowledge of software defined data centre

With analysts and vendors alike predicting that the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) is the next...

Innovation needs left unmet by half of UK managed services providers

The latest research from Claranet suggests that as many as half of British organisations that look...

Veritas simplifies data backup to the cloud

Introducing Veritas NetBackup Recovery Vault, a Veritas-managed cloud storage service.

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Security considerations for private Cloud

Cybersecurity today can feel complex, especially if you are moving to or managing cloud security. But it doesn’t have to be. Hear from Rackspace Principal Architect, Luke Huckaba, as he explains some of the major concerns around Private Cloud and Security, and how Rackspace is helping to solve these issues both internally and for customers.

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