Managed services sector experiencing growing pains as it matures

Managed Services is now a mature business sector, although by its nature, it will continue to evolve, attract new entrants, stimulate innovations and grow as it takes over from the traditional IT industry. Further changes in the industry are required though, especially in sales approach and the way it addresses and engages with customers if it is to achieve its full potential. These were some of the conclusions from a very successful Managed Services and Hosting Summit held in London on 17...

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SCC wins 10-year IT infrastructure contract with Oxford City Council  

SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT services business, has won a 10-year IT infrastructure contract with Oxford City Council.

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Consumers think online outages are caused by poorly built and designed websites

Rackspace is warning retailers to get their websites ready for predicted traffic spikes after 83 per cent of UK consumers claim a consistently slow or unavailable websites negatively affect their brand loyalty. According to a survey of over 2,000 consumers in the UK[1], over half of consumers (56 per cent) buy something online at least once a week and 59 per cent of shoppers will browse online during big shopping events such a Black Friday.

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Loving what’s inside the box

Introducing EMC ScaleIO Node.

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SolarWinds extends multi-vendor array support with EMC, Hitachi, HP and IBM arrays

SolarWinds has extended multi-vendor support in SolarWinds(R) Storage Resource Monitor, which provides IT with the necessary insight into storage resources and the potential performance impact on virtual machines and applications that are dependent on storage elements. 

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SDS and Cloud improvements

Advanced scale-out technology innovation and integration; tighter collaboration with the Linux Foundation, Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Three benefits of a converged infrastructure

ISG looked at the benefits of converged infrastructures, which combine data center components into centrally managed systems. NFLEX is a pre-configured converged infrastructure solution by NetApp and Fujitsu supporting all three ISG requirements.

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