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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SUSE Cloud 4 now available, featuring Ceph distributed storage

Latest SUSE Cloud also includes advanced VMware capabilities plus enhanced scalability, automation and availability to ease enterprise OpenStack adoption and reduce costs.

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New hospital data centre project

Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust awards Secure I.T. Environments.

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Survey reveals importance of hosting outsourced data locally

80% of IT decision makers agree that backing up their organisation’s vital information near their offices gives them peace of mind.

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VMware veterans launch 100% Cloud Managed Platform for Docker, KVM and VMware vSphere

Platform9 has emerged from stealth and unveiled its SaaS platform that transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud within minutes. The platform significantly reduces the operational complexity for IT and offers single pane of glass management of Docker, KVM and VMware vSphere. Platform9 is currently in beta with a dozen mid-to-large sized organizations.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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