Is hybrid cloud really the best of both?

2014 has seen the emergence of the hybrid cloud as the victor in the race to own the hearts and minds of the enterprise. Here Stefan Haase, Product Director at Redcentric looks at what enterprises need to consider when moving to a hybrid model and discusses where the Cloud is heading as we head into the later part of the year.

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LeaseWeb introduces Flat Fee CloudStack-powered Private Cloud in Germany

LeaseWeb has announced another international expansion of its plug-and-play private cloud hosting platform, LeaseWeb Private Cloud, powered by Apache CloudStack®. The new solution, launched by LeaseWeb Germany and located in their data center in Frankfurt, offers flat fee user access to dedicated pools of cloud resources.

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ObjectRocket by Rackspace adds Redis Data Store

Rackspace has announced the addition of Redis to ObjectRocket,™ its managed data service. ObjectRocket for Redis simplifies application development by providing instant-on, high performance, highly available Redis instances.

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UK retailer uses Cloud Services to scale TV and Social Media campaigns

December is the most important month of the year for UK retailer Marks and Spencer, and its advertising campaigns are the cornerstone of its holiday strategy. When its 2013 primetime Christmas TV ad campaign encouraged people to visit a dedicated website, it was vital it could cope with the spike in traffic. The retailer created a website using Microsoft Azure as it knew it would cope with the potentially high traffic in addition to saving on the expense of physical servers and internal IT...

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Customer satisfaction rises overall

Customer satisfaction drops as customer service agents more frequently use apologetic or polite vocabulary in a conversation, while customers benefit by being polite themselves, according to findings of the quarterly Zendesk Benchmark report released recently.

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IT professionals lack confidence to manage governance, risk and compliance

Dell Software survey shows nearly 100 percent of respondents in finance, retail and healthcare industries are worried about capability to meet compliance objectives.

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Cloud Industry Forum research finds that COVID put the Cloud to test and it passed with flying...
Datto has appointed Tim Weller as its new Chief Executive Officer. Weller succeeds Founder Austin...
The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.5 per cent in 2019 to total...
The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 18 per cent in 2017 to total...
Cloud migration remains a ‘critical’ or ‘high priority’ business initiative for most...
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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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