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Nearly a quarter of businesses are losing more than £100,000 a year to IT skills shortage

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:38:06 +0000

Nearly a quarter of IT decision-makers (22%) estimate IT skills shortages are costing their business more than £100,000 a year in recruitment fees, temporary staffing, increased salaries and investment in lower-level employees to bring them up to speed over time. As the skills shortage worsens, over three-quarters of respondents polled (77%) say their organisation’s IT... Read more »

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Hackathon bridges data gaps on climate change and migration

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:06:57 +0000

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has hosted the first hackathon on ‘Bridging Climate Change and Human Mobility’, in collaboration with the data cloud company Snowflake, to provide insights on the intersection of environmental factors with migration management and policymaking in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA). The two-part hackathon brought together participants in... Read more »

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40%+ of firms lose revenue from technology downtime and cloud complexity

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:50:19 +0000

55% of enterprises are struggling to derive meaningful insights from their data, highlighting an industry-wide need to deliver technology faster, more reliably and in more places, according to a survey by Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi. The survey revealed ongoing challenges related to security, inflexible systems, isolated... Read more »

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Global cloud comms revenue to grow at 18.3% CAGR over 2022-2027

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:30:08 +0000

Cloud communications is expected to witness a substantial growth over the next five years, as businesses are switching from legacy PBX solutions to cloud communications and opting for a pay-as-you-go model to optimise expenses and avoiding upfront investments. Against this backdrop, the cloud communications market size is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth... Read more »

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Cloud infrastructure spending ticks over thanks to complex workloads and AI

James Bourne — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:44:08 +0000

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments went up almost 8% year on year for the second quarter of 2023 to $24.6 billion (£20.36bn), according to IDC. The biggest winner among the categories was shared cloud infrastructure, for which spending grew 13.7% year on year to $17.9bn in the quarter, and has... Read more »

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2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report reveals tech strategies in era of data and AI

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:05:29 +0000

Benchling has launched its inaugural 2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report, which has shed light on the obstacles that biopharma encounter when striving to fully implement and embrace these technologies. The report surveyed 300 R&D and IT experts from biopharma companies large and small to do a first-ever investigation into biopharma’s use of an... Read more »

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Friction between finance and tech leaders prevents companies from controlling cloud spend

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:27:22 +0000

Vertice, an optimisation platform for SaaS and cloud spend, has unveiled the results of its global survey, ‘The State of Cloud Cost Optimisation’, which reveals that organisations are being held back from controlling their cloud spending and gaining ROI because of a lack of alignment between finance and tech leaders. Amidst cloud costs rising by... Read more »

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Mainframe modernisation driving $12bn+ cost savings for businesses

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:23:25 +0000

Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, has unveiled the findings of its inaugural global survey and analysis of the current and future state of mainframe modernisation for businesses. The survey among 500 business and IT leaders finds that most organisations are taking a hybrid approach to mainframe modernisation and collectively achieve $12.5B in cost savings. In today´s competitive and fast-changing business environment, enterprises are looking... Read more »

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Only 24% of enterprises know where cloud apps are and who has access

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 06:19:41 +0000

Identity orchestration company Strata Identity has announced the findings of its third annual State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report, conducted by Osterman Research. The study surveyed 308 IT leaders and decision makers at North American organisations with annual revenues of US$100 million or more on their challenges and priorities for identity management in multi-cloud environments. According... Read more »

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Businesses facing multi-cloud challenges ‘must consolidate to a single provider’

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 06:53:13 +0000

Businesses choosing to spread their operations across multiple cloud platforms are currently running into issues when it comes to efficiently extracting data and insights across their operations. With 70% of businesses using different analytics platforms per cloud, operators are finding it more and more time-consuming when it comes to receiving insights due to the mass... Read more »

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