Digitalisation World

Gartner survey of more than 2,800 CIOs reveals that CIOs must "flip" their leadership styles to grasp the digital opportunity

As the technologies and trends that power digitalization move to center stage, CIOs are being presented with a unique opportunity to become digital leaders according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc. The survey showed that CIOs are fully aware that they will need to change in order to succeed in digital business, with 75 percent of respondents saying that they need to adapt their leadership style in the next three years.

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83% of organisations still host business critical data on-premise.

Gartner says in the Digital World CIOs need bimodal IT: rock solid IT with ability for fluidity

CIOs need a rock solid and efficient IT operation that frees up time and resources for innovation, and just as important in digital business, they need to be fluid, according to Gartner, Inc. In digital business, IT leaders must be part solid and part fluid to succeed.

Tight IT budgets to drive efficiency demands in 2015

Increasing efficiency will be the number one priority for IT departments in 2015, as organisations look to get more value out of their IT spend, according to research released today by Brocade. The research, taken from a survey of UK-based IT Decision-Makers (ITDMs), found that increasing efficiency is a top priority for 53 percent of IT leaders in 2015. Budget restrictions are the main driver behind this need for efficiency, with just 31 percent of organisations expecting their IT capital...

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The cloud server provider has also announced global availability for its new auto-scaling, pay-for-use Elastic Containers.

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UKBackup, a Farnborough, England-based backup solutions provider, has joined the Asigra partner ecosystem to deliver backup and recovery services based on the Asigra Cloud Backup™software platform. Advantages of the new service include affordable recovery-based pricing and end-to-end protection of customer data across physical, virtual, cloud and mobile computing platforms.

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Ascent acquires European data engineering powerhouse, BiLD Analytics

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