Teacher Stern selects Tikit and Databarracks to overhaul backup solution

Tikit has joined forces with cloud backup and disaster recovery provider, Databarracks, to deliver Backup as a Service into commercial law firm Teacher Stern LLP. Established in 1967, Teacher Stern has grown steadily to employ over 100 people. IT manager, Christine Ardis, heads up the IT department, supported by Tikit’s Managing Consultant, Jonathan Walker.

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Cisco and Dimension Data to accelerate global Hybrid Cloud adoption

Cisco and Dimension Data have announced an expansion of their 23-year relationship with plans to accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally. Cisco will use Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to deliver a suite of mid-market centric cloud services to its customers and resellers. Dimension Data and Cisco will partner to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and software-as-a-services (SaaS)...

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IDC lowers IT spending forecasts

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book, worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%. According to the new report, IT spending has been volatile since the beginning of the year, with macroeconomic wild cards including the crisis in Ukraine and the slowdown in China adding to the general sense of uncertainty which continues to...

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Claranet wins ‘Managed Services Provider of the Year’ at Data Centre Solutions Awards 2014

Claranet was named Managed Services Provider of the Year at the DCS Awards 2014 last week. The award reinforces Claranet’s position as the leading independent MSP in the UK & Europe.

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Modernising Oracle with converged infrastructure

Customers who adopt Dell EMC VxBlock technology experienced 99% less planned and unplanned downtime according to a study by IDC.

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