UK SMEs still spending on IT, yet £6.89 billion is wasted

SolarWinds has revealed the results from SolarWinds Time and Budget Spent on IT Study, (“the study”), which looked into the priorities and challenges faced by 500 IT decision makers in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the UK and Germany in March 2013.

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IBM helps organizations benefit from Big Data

IBM has announced new technologies designed to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. New data acceleration innovation results in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics.

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Riverbed unveils Unified Application Performance Management Suite

Riverbed Technology has announced the availability of Riverbed® OPNET AppInternals Xpert® 8.5, a unified application performance management (APM) suite that provides deep visibility into the performance of complex, multi-tier applications. The new features in OPNET AppInternals Xpert 8.5...

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MapR Source Code now available on GitHub

Hadoop technology leader expands access to the packages and components for Apache Hadoop.

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Verne Global extends European presence into Germany

Verne Global, a UK-based developer of green energy-powered data centre campuses, has announced the...

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SAS survey signals big data disconnect; only 12 per cent on board

Despite industry hype, most organisations have yet to develop and implement a big data strategy....

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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have...

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Racktivity appoints Scott Roots as UK Sales Manager

Racktivity, pioneer in the development of next-generation power and energy management solutions,...

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Dataguise enhances DG for Hadoop

Dataguise has announced DG for Hadoop™ v4.3. Now the first and only solution of its kind to...

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Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator

Six Degrees Group (6DG has acquired BIS, an independent data centre operator that provides...

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Government of Catalonia Agency awards HP $40 million contract

HP to modernize Spanish community’s applications environment to support economic growth,...

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Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers added to 6SigmaDC DCIM Library

Fujitsu becomes first IT equipment manufacturer to supply detailed heat and airflow information for...

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Daisy chooses Virtus for new data hosting facility

Virtus Data Centres (“Virtus”) has signed a 15 year agreement with the Daisy Group plc;...

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Helping organisations capitalise on Big Data

HP has announced a complete next-generation data warehouse platform that enables businesses to...

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Videos

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...
News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation 2024 event.
Kenneth Tan, Executive Director at Sardina Systems, Philip Kaye, Co-Founder and Director at Vespertec and Kristófer Andri Kristinsson, Product Manager and Business Development Manager at Borealis Data Center,...
Ciarán Forde, VP, Strategic Accounts & Alliances, Electrical Sector Sales - EMEA, Eaton, discusses the collaboration between Eaton and data centre design and build company CTS Nordics, which has recently seen...

Expert Opinions

By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist, Lead Journalist – Business and Technology, Trudy Darwin Communications.
Rob Mackle, Managing Director, EMEA & APAC at Assured Data Protection, discusses the cost and complexity of starting an MSP business.