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Enterprises will shift from building IT to consuming IT over the next three years, according to McKinsey’s IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) Cloud and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure survey. It says organisations are planning to transition IT workloads to hybrid cloud, with off-premise seeing the greatest growth. While 77% of organisations used traditionally-built IT infrastructure as the primary environment for at least one workload...

Partners have welcomed a recent announcement by Microsoft to overhaul its partner business, in a move it claims will make it easier for its channel to do business with the firm. The reorganisation will see Microsoft combine its Enterprise Product Group (EPG) with its SMS&P (Small and Mid-market Solutions and Partners) group. The announcement was...

Webinar Plantronics Manager Pro 3.9 Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | 9:00 – 10:00 AM (GMT) REGISTER > Find out how Plantronics effortlessly provides IT and Contact Center Managers with intuitive Headset management and insightful reporting on audio device usage, quality of experience, and adoption. Never before have you had insight and management services to measure...

The latest State of IT report from the information network firm, Spiceworks, reveals that IT professionals planned to spend 21% of their 2016 hardware budgets on desktops. They will spend 19% on servers, 16% on laptops and 10% on networking. The report also identifies end-of life of a product (67%) as the top incentive to purchase, closely...

Most charging cabinets for laptops have been bulky (and somewhat expensive) as they needed a massive power pack on the back of the unit. For the same reason, they have also tended to be specific to a certain brand or brands. Now Kensington has come up with a simple but ingenuous solution; a charging case...

HP Inc has announced that a number of third party suppliers are working on development of plastics and other materials that can be used in its 3D printers. The company announced plans to launch the high-end commercial Jet Fusion 3D 3200 printer earlier this year.  Initially, the printer will use PA12 plastic but HP says that...

Samsung Electronics Singapore recently worked with SATS Ltd. (SATS), Asia’s leading provider of gateway services and food solutions, to provide Samsung Gear S3 smartwatches for use in technical ramp operations – a world first. With all 130 of SATS’ technical ramp-handling staff receiving a Gear S3 smartwatch, productivity and workplace safety have been enhanced via...

  In this video HP’s Business Development Manager Dan Barham explains how the underlying hardware specification of the HP Elite X3 enables unique benefits for business. At its core, the HP Elite X3 is a hugely powerful Windows 10 Mobile device, with a blazingly fast Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor, PC-like 4GB of RAM and 64GB...

Enterprises have rapidly incorporated cloud computing over the last decade, and that trend only seems to be accelerating. Private cloud infrastructure, including virtualisation and software-defined networking (SDN), is in the process of transforming on-premise data centres, which host the majority of enterprise server workloads around the world. Enterprises are also embracing public clouds at an...

In its Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, IDC estimates total shipments of smartwatches (which IDC categorises as wearables that can run apps) will reach 20.1 million units in 2016, up 3.9% on last year, but says volumes will grow to 54.6 million units with a total value of $17.8 billion dollars in 2020. The market...

Author: John Easton 2016 has shown that expert predictions don’t always play out in quite the ways people expect. If anything, the mantra of “expect the unexpected” seems to be the only one to follow right now. With this as a backdrop, I thought about what the world of cloud might expect to see as 2017...

Author: Kimberly Kelley It seems organisations who are shopping for technology solutions today are moving to cloud based solutions in droves. Is the move a smooth road or is it full of potholes, speed bumps, and twists and turns? In most cases, it’s probably a bit of both. Perhaps that’s why Microsoft developed a methodology for...