Data centre market to undergo ‘dramatic change’ by end of 2016

Four disruptive factors will force dramatic changes in the data centre (DC) market by year-end 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that highly disruptive competition, big cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism will occur with different intensities over different time frames. However, at least two of these factors will drive significant disruption within the next three years, and elements of all four will drive the opportunities and risks in the DC market during the...

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Nokia Networks and Red Hat extend collaboration to deliver OpenStack-powered telco cloud

Nokia Networks and Red Hat, Inc. have extended their collaboration to enable mobile operators to create a more efficient and flexible telco cloud infrastructure. The agreement bundles Nokia Networks’ carrier-grade virtualized core applications and cloud application management products with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

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Co-lo stepping stones to the cloud

Co-location can serve as an opportunity for organisations to test the waters with various vendors and outsourcing strategies. Nigel Offley of CentriLogic outlines the benefits and risks associated with co-location, and identifies how co-locating IT infrastructure can serve as a strong first step towards virtualisation, cloud, and fully managed hosting as part of a strategic IT outsourcing plan.

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Accreditation further strengthens DataCentred’s commitment to open source technologies.
New use cases for IT Operations leverage artificial intelligence to improve agility and efficiency.
Insurance enhancement protects businesses from income loss when cloud suffers physical damage.
SolarWinds MSP has released a new report on the health of managed services across North America and...
The IBM Ecosystem Unit of HCL will help clients leverage IBM Cloud capabilities to transform...
Vodafone Germany has selected BroadSoft's UC-One to power its new cloud-based UC services....
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