New appliance for the mid-market is billed as a 'game changer'
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Cloud pricing for enterprises falls by two-thirds says TCL
AWS still leads the market with its lower pricing and feature set but others are catching up and market pricing is now 'stabilising'
Juniper Networks revamps partner programme
Data centre specialisation, cloud business and engineer training the focus
Key enterprise infrastructure market reaches $80bn
Cisco is ahead of the rest according to the industry figures
Avon comes calling for HPE global infrastructure
Hybrid IT infrastructure is the future says Hewlett Packard Enterprise
IT workers in ‘high demand’ at year’s end says KPMG
Demand for IT security specialists was particularly high according to the monthly figures
Cloud sales up almost 30% annually shows research
Public IaaS/PaaS services had the highest growth at 51 percent, followed by private and hybrid cloud infrastructure services
IT workers prefer more pay than workplace perks
But most still like perks such as early finishes and free food
HEAT extends UEM distribution deal with e92plus
HEAT was formed last year when FrontRange and Lumension got together
Capita books cloud library deal with North Yorkshire council
County council to use new library management and mobile access system from outsourcer
Microsoft to warn users about personal online government hacks
The move could put the company in conflict with the UK government over its latest surveillance efforts
Wage growth expected to be pinned back at 2% says CIPD
This is despite another 500,000 jobs expected to be created in 2016
Big increase in hiring of temporary workers as all pay goes up too
Overall UK employment went up 500,000 year on year
Sky joins EU Code of Conduct for data centre energy efficiency
Scotland data centre is seen as a good example for the industry
Genesys acquires SpeechStorm to bolster self-service offering
Embracing the challenge of personalising the customer experience and managing customer journeys
Insight becomes AirVM’s first EMEA cloud aggregator partner
AirVM helps make a VMware cloud platform easier to manage
Hack attacks on mobiles will be widespread in 2016 says Panda
JavaScript and Powershell attacks will also see a big spike says security software vendor
Truphone buys Internet of Things platform from startup CoSwitched
The technology will allow international companies to use a single IoT management platform to connect devices
UK tech sector grows a third since 2010 says KPMG
Rotherham, North Lanarks and North Tyneside among those areas showing big growth in the number of tech companies
Kualo solves hosting scalability problems with StorPool SDS
Software Defined Storage solves speed, bottleneck and outage problems
Children’s charity deploys Advanced Exchequer in ‘paperless’ drive
The accounting system will streamline reporting and enable electronic PO processing
US resellers twice as happy with vendors than UK resellers
CompTIA research shows two to one gap in satisfaction stakes
Blue Medora launches VMware partner programme
Resellers' vSphere and vRealize business could grow as much as 40 percent as a result, claims supplier
Cisco takes stake in Intersec
Analytics, location-based services, customer base management and contextual marketing is what Cisco wants
Smartpipe opens data monetisation R&D centre in Wales
Welsh government puts in £1m to help create over 40 high-skilled IT jobs as firm expands into international markets
EBC offers Swyx unified communications via its own data centres
UC service to be hosted in Birmingham data centre and backed up in another says Gold Partner
Manchester’s Avecto gets $49m in venture capital
The endpoint security firm serves 600 enterprise clients and is expanding its channel
IBM expands alliances to deliver hybrid cloud connectivity
Deals with Verizon, Equinix and Digital Realty to promote Direct Link services
Rural Essex gets 1,000mbps broadband with Gigaclear
Gigaclear is investing £5.5 million in the Superfast Essex Rural Challenge Project
Most UK CIOs are struggling to deploy the right cloud services
Trustmarque research reveals complexity of existing IT infrastructure and services is a barrier to moving to the cloud
