New research revealed by EMC exposes a concern among CIOs that their current IT infrastructure and the skills of their IT professionals may not be enough to meet long-term needs as technology becomes embedded across the business.
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70% of executives have started Digital Supply Chain Transformation
Apr 06, 2016
Executives see a large gap between the current state of Digital Transformation across their extended global supply chains and what they expect to see just five years from now.
Retail mobile apps could save 900,000 jobs over next 10 years
Apr 06, 2016
Investing in mobile apps will bring customers back into retail stores, and help avoid the estimated loss of 900,000 jobs and thousands of stores in the next decade – according to UK mobile app developer, Apadmi.
Pros and cons of moving from physical to virtual servers
Mar 31, 2016
By Chris Sigley, General Manager of Redstor.
Have you virtualised yet? Is your business soaring on cloud nine or do you buy a whole new server every time you run out of disk space? Either way, keeping things physical has its benefits and while clunky, is no reason to fix something that doesn't need to be fixed.
Cyber security budgets on the rise but not in line with increasing threats, says IISP
Mar 23, 2016
The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) has announced the findings from its 2016 member survey.
Object storage has become vital to data-hungry business operations
Mar 16, 2016
The pressing relevance of adopting dedicated storage technologies to organise unstructured data has been demonstrated by IBM's recent launch of Cloud Object Storage, following last year's acquisition of object storage provider Cleversafe.
The future of retail engagement lies in biometrics
Mar 16, 2016
By Chris Jones, Managing Director of Icon UK Ltd.
The Retail Business Technology Expo 2016 closed last week after another successful show. Over the two days of the show, retail industry leaders and suppliers debated the future of the industry and how best to tackle their most challenging issues.
88% of Britons believe cybercrime is now as big a threat as offline crime
Mar 16, 2016
The results of new research in the UK have revealed that 88% of Britons see cybercrime as now being as big a threat as offline crime, whilst 76% of people believe governments and large organisations are not doing enough to combat hackers and cybercrime.
Internet of Things will place greater pressure on companies to modernise
Mar 16, 2016
One of the hottest trends in tech right now is the Internet of Things, or IoT. Morgan Stanley projects that within the next five years, as many as 75 billion smart connected devices will be communicating with each other via IoT.
50 Shades of PaaS and why it remains at an early stage of adoption
Mar 09, 2016
The dividing lines between Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) are blurring. But according to Phil Brindley, CTO, The Bunker, the dominance of the latter belies the importance of the former in the Cloud Computing arena and there are several reasons why both will remain as distinct layers and product sets.
