Public cloud spending predicted to double by 2019 with storage booming
Written by Business Cloud News The boom in public cloud service spending will propel AWS and Microsoft into the top five of the world’s biggest storage vendors, according to analysts. Separate reports from IDC and the 451 Group suggest that the public cloud will growth overshadow the rest of IT and change the power balance. […]
5 things that top CSO candidates need on a resume
By David Weldon If all the recent IT hiring surveys are to be believed, chief security officers can expect a pretty sweet year in 2016. Job demand is up. Salaries are way up. And neither trend is expected to slow anytime soon. Despite the growing demand for IT security leaders, IT recruiters confirm that organizations […]
Microsoft’s Digital Partner of Record Process Now Recognizes non-DPOR Partners
by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor There’s no “I” in “team,” but there’s a “U” in “unappreciated”, “unrecognized”, and “undervalued”, all of which can happen when multiple Microsoft partners cooperate on a single cloud-based solution. In response to partner feedback, Microsoft is optimizing its Digital Partner of Record (DPOR) process and introducing different ways to […]
How to win the war for IT talent
The battle to hire IT professionals is only going to get more brutal in 2016. Even IT heavyweights are struggling to find IT talent and are exploring unorthodox methods for sourcing and screening. By Sharon Florentine The global war for IT talent is only going to intensify in 2016.Even IT heavyweights like Adobe and Facebook […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: AX supply chain solution; New Dynamics practice hire; EMEA Partner Program member; E-signature ISV growth
by Linda Rosencrance I.B.I.S Rolls Out Next-Gen Advanced Supply Chain Software I.B.I.S. Inc., a Sonata Software company, has a new release of Advanced Supply Chain Software for Microsoft Dynamics AX. The new release adds three new modules to Advanced Supply Chain Software: Advanced Sales and Operations Planning, Advanced Procurement Management and Advanced Demand Planning, according […]
Global spending on cloud infrastructure up 23% says IDC
Written by Business Cloud News Companies across the world are still furiously modernising their IT infrastructure to support cloud services, according to analyst IDC, which reports ‘healthy’ growth in this sector continues. It notes that vendors of servers, storage and Ethernet switches are all experiencing declining revenues in traditional IT environments. The figures also indicate […]
AWS, Azure and Google intensify cloud price war
Written by Business Cloud News As price competition intensifies among the top three cloud service providers, one analyst has warned that cloud buyers should not get drawn into a race to the bottom. Following price cuts by AWS and Google, last week Microsoft lowered the price bar further with cuts to its Azure service. Though […]
Infor invests $25 million in cloud-based retail analyst Predictix
Written by Business Cloud News Cloud app provider Infor has invested $25 million in data scientist Predictix with a brief to use its powers of analysis to solve the problems troubling modern retailers. Infor will become a reseller of Predictix, incorporating its applications in the Infor cloud and its CloudSuite offering aimed at the Retail […]
Tackling the resource gap in the transition to hybrid IT
Written by Jonathan Barrett Is hybrid IT inevitable? That’s a question we ask customers a lot. From our discussions with CIOs and CEOs there is one overriding response and that is the need for change. It is very clear that across all sectors, CEOs are challenging their IT departments to innovate – to come up […]
Oracle creating 1,400 new cloud jobs in EMEA
Written by Business Cloud News Oracle has announced aggressive expansion plans with a recruitment drive for junior and senior sales staff to be based in six cities across EMEA. The cloud software giant is now actively headhunting for 1,400 new cloud sales staff to work out of sales HQs in Amsterdam, Cairo, Dubai, Dublin, Malaga and […]