Cloud + MS

Harrow Council announces Sopra Steria as New IT Partner

A £37 million contract with Sopra Steria has been signed by Harrow Council to provide IT services for the council. The new supplier will be upgrading the IT systems across the council to ensure staff and residents can take advantage of new technology and can access more digital, on-line services.

Managed Security additions to Akamai's Kona family

Most IT decision makers expect to move majority of IT infrastructure to the cloud by 2017

59% of IT decision makers believe that more than half of their IT infrastructure will be cloud-based by 2017, according to survey data released by Adapt. Asked how much of their IT infrastructure would be ‘in the cloud’ in two years time, 40% of decision makers still plan to largely provision IT through a non-cloud environment.

Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent to combine

Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent intend to combine to create an innovation leader in next generation technology and services for an IP connected world.

AWS leads in IaaS market

According to the latest 451 Research Vendor Window, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the leader in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) adoption among enterprise IT buyers. These findings are based on responses from over 1,500 global IT professionals, including 1,000 unique vendor evaluations. The 451 Research Vendor Window assessment is based on both overall enterprise adoption rates and customer ratings of vendor performance.  

Widening gap between perimeter security perception and reality

While 87% of IT decision-makers feel their organisation’s perimeter security is effective at keeping out security threats, 30% of IT decision-makers admit their company has fallen victim to a data breach.