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Global organisations continue to grapple with multi-cloud opportunities

F5 2023 State of Application Strategy Report (SOAS): most CIOs to oversee hybrid app architectures and multi-generation apps distributed across hybrid environments for foreseeable future.

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Organisations want a single hybrid multicloud platform

Nutanix has published the findings of its fifth global Enterprise Cloud Index (here) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption.

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OVHcloud launches first data centre in India

OVHcloud continues to expand in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of a data centre designed to meet the region’s needs for trusted and sustainable cloud solutions.

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Global data centre capex grew 15 percent to $241 billion in 2022

According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, global data center capex grew 15 percent to $241 billion in 2022. However, we project cloud and enterprise data center spending to decelerate to single-digit growth in 2023.

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Rackspace Technology supports Ohio National Chile IT migration to the Cloud

Rackspace Technology says that supporting Ohio National Chile’s cloud transformation has resulted in accelerated creation of new products, cybersecurity, and cost reduction for the financial services firm. The Chile division of this financial services firm moved its entire core business to the cloud and instantly gained flexibility and the ability to create Virtual Machines (VMs).

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NTT DATA UK&I helps transform Three’s employee and customer experience

NTT DATA helped support Three with cloud optimisation, ensuring its ecosystem was simplified, and allowing Three to better assist its customers and employees.

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Multi-tenant cloud solution from Aptum

Available in US, UK and Canada, new private cloud service solution helps organisations address compliance and data sovereignty needs.

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Data Centre momentum continues in EMEA

2022 saw total capacity across key markets increase by 1020MW.

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Rackspace works with Moody's Analytics

Rackspace Technology is partnering with global financial intelligence services company, Moody's Analytics. The partnership aimed to help Moody's Analytics manage datasets involving 400 million firms to empower the financial firm to improve their existing risk profile offering and bring new competitive services to their clients.

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Schneider Electric brings the data centres of the future to life at DCW 2023!

Energy security, infrastructure resiliency and sustainability have all become focal points for the data centre sector, and at Data Centre World 2023, Schneider Electric will showcase its award-winning EcoStruxure for Data Centers™ solutions portfolio, combining connected products, apps, and analytics, to deliver a new vision for the data centres of the future.

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98.6% of organisations have misconfigurations in their cloud environments

According to the 2022 Cloud (In)Security Report 68% of the organisations have external users with admin permissions to the cloud environment, which can lead to governance challenges and an increased risk of data exfiltration and exploits.

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EUDCA publishes whole life carbon assessment white paper

The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has published a new white paper entitled “Whole Life Carbon Assessments for Data Centres”, immediately available for download from the organisation’s website.

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Rackspace Technology helps JobTarget

Recruitment Technology Company joined forces with Rackspace to help manage rapid growth with new public cloud infrastructure.

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Digital Realty to provide Ashburn Campus new AWS Direct Connect location

PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty’s global data center platform, now offers customers at its Ashburn campus cross connect access to AWS Direct Connect.

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Videos

Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Max Schulze, CEO and Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the importance of local and regional clouds as an alternative approach to the hyperscale model, suggesting that, in a world apparently obsessed with issues such as data sovereignty, time would be better spent understanding the importance of infrastructure ‘independence’.
Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.
Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

Expert Opinions

The 8th March marked International Women’s Day, which presents an annual opportunity to celebrate women's accomplishments, but also serves as a reminder that there is still much to be done to eliminate gender inequality.
Josip Rozman, AI consultant at Plextek examines if we should be using AI to write our content.
By Naveen Thomas, Director – Technology Consulting, EY.