Report says company is half-way there, storing 500 terabytes-plus in AWS, Azure, NTT cloud Read More. Shared MORE

Forrester has just published its annual Canadian tech market forecast for 2017-2018 (see “The Canadian Tech Market Outlook For 2017 To 2018”). in 2018 for Canadian business and government spending on tech goods and services. We are forecasting growth of 3.9% in 2017 and 3.7% These rates constitute an upward revision from our January forecast, [… MORE

German telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom is eyeing partnerships to help the company double its cloud revenue with business customers by 2018. Read More. Shared MORE

Forrester’s European tech market forecast for 2017 and 2018 has just been published (see “European Tech Market Outlook For 2017 To 2018”). in 2018. […]. We project that growth in purchases of technology software, hardware, and services by European businesses and government measured in Euros will hold steady at 1.6% in 2017, and increase to 2.2% Europe tech market outlook MORE

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in 2018 measured in constant currencies. With the US dollar strengthening against most currencies in 2017 but likely to lose ground in 2018, global tech market growth in US dollars will be 2.8% in 2018. in 2018. MORE

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Acquisition may help reach DT's goal of doubling size of cloud business by 2018 Read More. Shared MORE

Forrester has just published our updated forecast for the US tech market for 2017-2018 (see " US Tech Market Outlook For 2017 And 2018: Mostly Sunny, With Clouds And Chance Of Rain "). in 2018 for US business and government spending on tech goods, services, and staff. vs. 5.1%) for US budget growth in 2017, with our new 2018 forecast pointing to a modest improvement next year. MORE

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Atos is on course to hit its target of having all core Olympic IT systems in the cloud by next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea MORE

The post GDPR goes into effect May 25 2018 Are You Ready? If your initial response is that you are not in Europe and do not need to be concerned about GDPR you might want to step back and review that thought. While it is possible that some organizations may not be affected by GDPR in Europe directly, there might be indirect considerations. For example, GDPR, while focused on Europe, has ties to other initiatives in place or being planned for elsewhere in the world. MORE

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According to Gartner, employees will have four personal computing devices that they could use for work by 2018, over and above any corporate IT assets that might be provisioned for them. Read More. Industry Perspectives MORE

By 2018, all federal government data centers must achieve higher, specified levels of efficiency. One way to achieve this is to bring server utilization rates up to 65 percent, from the current 5 percent utilization rate. Read More. DCIM News Industry Perspectives MORE

Better economies in 2018 will push growth closer to 6%. Forrester just released our forecast for the Asia Pacific market for business and government purchases of technology goods and services. CIOs in the Asia Pacific (AP) region will continue to face a business environment of high uncertainty and modest economic growth in 2017, with 3% growth in tech spending. Customers in the region will grow and exert more power, creating challenges that require CIOs to do more -- and do it faster. MORE

Social network contributes one-fifth of DuPont Fabros’s total rent income and some of its leases are up in 2018. Read More. Colocation Dupont Fabros Facebook MORE

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018. Chiara Rustici, an Independent GDPR analyst, discusses the implications MORE

Company has pledged to reach $20B in corporate cloud revenue by the fiscal year that ends in June 2018. Read More. Cloud Computing Investing Microsoft MORE

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The 1MW facility could potentially generate enough heat for 2,500 residential apartments in Stockholm when completed in 2018 MORE

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Cloud market reportedly growing six times faster than the overall IT market. Read More. Shared MORE

Some 24% of companies polled in the UK and US expect to miss the GDPR compliance deadline of 25 May 2018 MORE

zettabytes of traffic annually by 2018, according to the latest Cloud Index. Cloud growth and more Internet penetration will bring 8.6 Read More. Cisco Cloud Computing MORE

Agency may be only one to comply with FITARA's 2018 deadline Read More. Enterprise MORE

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The General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force on 25 May 2018, could have a big impact on any company in the world that deals with the personal data of EU citizens MORE

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