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Cloud investments top of IT priority list

Rackspace Technology® says that, despite the rise of inflationary pressures and a global economic slowdown, few organizations are scaling back on IT investment and most are committed to spending more, according to a new survey Managing IT in Challenging Economic Times, a survey of 1,420 IT decision-makers across manufacturing, retail, hospitality/travel, healthcare/pharma/biomedical, government and financial services sectors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

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UK enterprises overspending on public cloud

Veritas Technologies research reveals that UK businesses are going over their allocated cloud budgets by an average of 33% with unplanned data backup and recovery as the leading cause.

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Teradata and Vcinity join forces

The combined solution provides increased speed, performance, and deployment flexibility across distances, lowering costs by reducing data management expenses and increasing efficiency.

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Accenture launches Velocity

Accenture has launched Velocity, a jointly funded and co-developed platform with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), that optimizes business outcomes up to 50% faster by removing the complexity associated with building and operating enterprise-scale applications and estates in the cloud.

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Kingfisher chooses Google Cloud

Google Cloud will support Kingfisher’s digital ambitions with a range of solutions, from infrastructure to data analytics.

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Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud

Streamlines the operation of its annual Christmas campaign to support the homeless.

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Data centre investment and Covid-19 - catalysts for accelerated cloud adoption in Africa

Console Connect has launched the second edition of its Africa Interconnection Report, researched by analyst firm Balancing Act, to understand the drivers and barriers to cloud adoption in the region.

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virtualDCS appoints new channel account executive

IT backup, recovery and data management expert, Jeniya Klimova, who has spent the past five years working at global software company, Veeam, has joined the team at cloud computing and disaster recovery specialists, virtualDCS, as a channel account executive.

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Old Mutual selects Pluralsight

Old Mutual, a premium pan-African financial services group headquartered in South Africa, has selected A Cloud Guru, a Pluralsight company, to support its cloud-computing skills development program. With A Cloud Guru, Old Mutual has accelerated its efforts to be fully migrated to the cloud, ensuring the company has the underlying technology needed to provide a superior customer experience for advisors and customers.

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Taxi fares well in the cloud

In the highly competitive world of the private hire business, innovative IT support services can make a significant difference. Cloud infrastructure and data specialist PeaSoup has partnered with Virtual Rank, a cloud platform, to deliver the secure infrastructure that is powering the spectacular expansion of one taxi firm - which has seen turnover grow six-fold.

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SaaS pricing inflation is growing 4x faster than market inflation

The rapid increase in SaaS prices has meant that customers are spending 53% more on licensing than they were five years prior.

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Redis extends strategic collaboration agreement with AWS

Redis to collaborate with AWS on go-to-market activities for Redis Enterprise Cloud on AWS, which is designed to accelerate cloud migration and application development.

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Scality ships RING9, software for unbreakable hybrid-cloud data storage

Latest release leverages flash, cloud-native monitoring, easy Veeam and vCloud integration for increased performance, efficiency and adaptability.

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Alteryx brings scalability and accessibility to Cloud Analytics

New browser-based experience and support for cloud data platforms make it easier to enable every analyst to deliver insights from cloud data.

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Embracing the hybrid cloud tops the list of IBM mainframe customers’ modernisation strategies

83% of mainframe customers plan to modernise, 46% will do so using hybrid cloud.

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Videos

Elizabeth Green, EMEA Advisory and Cyber Lead, at Dell Technologies, discusses the ever-shifting cybersecurity landscape, where cyber resilience is very much the focus.
Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.
Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities of the organisation as it works on many initiatives to promote environmental best practice across the data centre and wider IT sectors, optimistic that the scale of the challenge is not beyond the reach of a combination of technology and business innovation.
DCS talks to Jake Green from Scolmore at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.

Expert Opinions

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By Hugo Bergmann, Lyve Cloud and Data Services Lead, EMEA, Seagate Technology.
By Peter Greiff, Data Architect Leader EMEA, DataStax.