The Cloud Industry Forum's view that hybrid IT is the prevailing deployment model for the foreseeable future has been endorsed by vendors.
Most organisations are already operating a hybrid IT estate in one form or another, and according to the CIF this trend will continue for the foreseeable future.
Softcat is partnering with Websense in its first inclusion on the recently updated G-Cloud 4 framework. Softcat's public sector network security team, headed by Grant Davey, will be the sole provider of Websense security software to public sector G-Cloud customers seeking to update or upgrade their existing IT infrastructures.
UK organisations are lacking cloud-specific competencies and training according to new research which found that 43 per cent of UK IT professionals rate their current competence in cloud implementation and management as either poor or very poor, with only seven per cent rating it as excellent (despite the fact that 64 per cent of organisations questioned are currently using at least one cloud base
Britain is lagging behind Europe in training women IT professionals as only 7% of professional engineers in the UK are female and companies must take the lead in redressing the balance according to Scott Fletcher, Chairman and founder of UK cloud infrastructure specialists ANS Group.
Social messaging players will challenge the status quo of mobile social networking and media by creating a paradigm shift in social media that will impact several OTT giants, claims Ovum.
Extreme Networks has named Westcon Group EMEA Top Distributor of the Year for high revenue growth across the region. The vendor's Global Partner Conference, staged in the Eden Roc Hotel on Miami beac, was the first public event introducing the 'New Extreme', marking the beginning of its integration with Enterasys.
TDAzlan has extended its TDCloud services portfolio through a strategic partnership with Box, the provider of secure file sharing and document collaboration services.
HP shares rose after PC sales only fell 2% yr/yr in FQ4 and its enterprise group sales bounced back. EMEA fourth-quarter revenue of $10.3bn was down 4% year-over-year, or down 5% in constant currency. The Q4 EMEA environment remained tough, it says, although sales declined less year over year than in Q3 and it saw growth in Germany and other pockets of Western Europe.
Security firm Accumuli has bagged Bracknell-based EQALIS, a Big Data analytics specialist, for £1.9m.
The EQALIS product portfolio complements Accumuli's security incident and event management (SIEM) solutions and will strengthen the company's big data monitoring and analytics capabilities, it says.
"Customers require more from a UC distributor than simply product stocking and shipping. They want a distributor that helps to drive innovation as a technology enabler."
Extreme Networks has named Westcon Group EMEA Top Distributor of the Year for high revenue growth across the region. The vendor's Global Partner Conference, staged in the Eden Roc Hotel on Miami beac, was the first public event introducing the 'New Extreme', marking the beginning of its integration with Enterasys.