IDC lowers IT spending forecasts

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book, worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%. According to the new report, IT spending has...

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Confusion around convergence is causing business leaders to launch ill-judged initiatives and miss crucial opportunities

A lack of understanding around the pervasive spread and convergence of IT, communications and other digital technologies is causing business leaders to launch ill-judged initiatives and miss crucial opportunities. This is according to chief research officer for Ovum IT, Tim Jennings, who in his...

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Fujitsu appoints Michael Keegan as Head of UK & Ireland

Fujitsu has appointed Michael Keegan as Head of its £1.8bn business in the UK & Ireland. Keegan’s new role sees him take the reins from Duncan Tait, who was recently promoted to Head of EMEIA, Corporate Senior Vice President, Fujitsu Ltd.

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Keeping your dark data tapes in good standing requires a strategy beyond hope

Tape is not dead. The nearly 60-plus year old storage device is the media of choice for storing a...

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DCS Awards celebrate industry success stories

The DCS Awards have become a key date in the international data centre calendar and last Thursday...

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Unitrends 7.4 unveiled

Unitrends has announced general availability of Unitrends Release 7.4, a substantially evolved...

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Overstretched and constricted IT departments struggling with boardroom ‘demand disconnect’

ManageEngine has announced the results of a survey which found that almost half (40%) of IT...

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Bull and University of Warwick Join Forces on Big Data

New partnership to help organisations identify and act on big data opportunities.

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NetIQ unveils latest versions of NetIQ PlateSpin

New workload management and data protection tools help IT administrators better meet user demands...

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GroundWork Cloud brings performance monitoring to the compute, storage and networking components of OpenStack

GroundWork, Inc. has announced what it says is the first performance monitoring solution for the...

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Computacenter receives EMC Business Partner Program EMEA Solution Provider Partner of the Year Award

Computacenter Recognised for: • Computacenter is EMC’s largest Pan-EMEA reseller by...

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Caringo Swarm™, Unified Storage Software unveiled

Aggressively eliminates the complexity associated with legacy storage, radically simplifies access...

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Avnet Technology Solutions UK hosts latest HealthPath™ University

HealthPath™ University event to be held at BMA House in Tavistock Square, London.

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Videos

News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation 2024 event.
Arvind Parthiban, CEO and Co-founder of SuperOps, discusses the recent launch of Monica, an AI-powered SuperCompanion designed specifically for MSPs. Arvind explains that Monica is ‘not just another’ AI...
Barny Evans, Director of Sustainability and ESG at Turley, explains how the data centre industry can sustainably navigate the energy demands of the AI revolution, discussing innovative approaches to powering...
Alex Sharp, Chief Projects Officer, Data Centres at Nscale, outlines the scale of the AI data centre challenge – with average rack consuming 130 kilowatts of power, and as chips become more sophisticated, so...

Expert Opinions

By Anugraha Benjamin, Manager, Infrastructure at Progress.
By James JT Lewis, Director of Channel Sales for EMEA and APAC.
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist, Lead Journalist – Business and Technology, Trudy Darwin Communications.