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TransCityRail North once again brings together the leaders responsible for delivering the Northern Powerhouse Rail for a lively and engaging conference and networking dinner which focuses on ‘Supply Chain Engagement’. The event has been developed in partnership with Network Rail and Transport for the North (TfN) to engage with suppliers early on about the significant contracts which will become available for the region. During the daytime conference TfN will outline its rail transport strategy for the North of England, and senior managers from Network Rail will be presenting their strategy for procurement and supply chain engagement. Network Rail’s National Supply Chain are using this conference to explain to suppliers how contracts with the infrastructure owner are going to become more accessible, and what’s expected in a post-Brexit world. For more information on the conference download the agenda here or contact the team 0161 833 6320.

Accelerate Digital Transformation. Make data center infrastructure cloud-ready. Optimize storage across clouds and data centers.

Managing infrastructure has always brought frustration, headaches, and wasted time. That’s because IT professionals have to spend their days, nights, and weekends dealing with problems and manually tuning their infrastructure. Traditional monitoring and support are too far removed from infrastructure, resulting in an endless cycle of break-fix-tune-repeat. Infrastructure powered by artificial intelligence, however, can overcome the limitations of humans and traditional tools. This white paper explores how HPE InfoSight with its recommendation engine paves the path for an autonomous data center your Hybrid Cloud World.

The bar for success is rising in higher education.  University leaders and IT administrators are aware of the compelling benefits of digital transformation overall—and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular. AI can amplify human capabilities by using machine learning, or deep learning, to convert the fast-growing and plentiful sources of data about all aspects of a university into actionable insights that drive better decisions. But when planning a transformational strategy, these leaders must prioritize operational continuity. It’s critical to protect the everyday activities of learning, research, and administration that rely on the IT infrastructure to consistently deliver data to its applications.

Powerful IT doesn’t have to be complicated. Hyperconvergence puts your entire virtualized infrastructure and advanced data services into one integrated powerhouse. Deploy HCI on an intelligent fabric that can scale with your business and you can hyperconverge the entire IT stack. This guide will help you: Understand the basic tenets of hyperconvergence and the software-defined data center; Solve for common virtualization roadblocks; Identify 3 things modern organizations want from IT; Apply 7 hyperconverged tactics to your existing infrastructure now.

"IT needs to reach beyond the traditional data center and the public cloud to form and manage a hybrid connected system stretching from the edge to the cloud, wherever the cloud may be. We believe this is leading to a new period of disruption and development that will require organizations to rethink and modernize their infrastructure more comprehensively than they have in the past. Hybrid cloud and hybrid cloud management will be the key pillars of this next wave of digital transformation – which is on its way much sooner than many have so far predicted. They have an important role to play as part of a deliberate and proactive cloud strategy, and are essential if the full benefits of moving over to a cloud model are to be fully realized."

With the maturing of the all-flash array (AFA) market, the established market leaders in this space are turning their attention to other ways to differentiate themselves from their competition besides just product functionality. Consciously designing and driving a better customer experience (CX) is a strategy being pursued by many of these vendors.This white paper defines cloud-based predictive analytics and discusses evolving storage requirements that are driving their use and takes a look at how these platforms are being used to drive incremental value for public sector organizations in the areas of performance, availability, management, recovery, and information technology (IT) infrastructure planning.

Accelerate Digital Transformation. Make data center infrastructure cloud-ready. Optimize storage across clouds and data centers.

To compete in today’s world, business leaders are placing increased demands on IT. Unfortunately, many IT departments are not able to deliver future innovation with their current infrastructure, applications and processes. To meet these demands, IT must digitally transform the enterprise through the adoption of cloud native practices, allowing them to both optimize and transform their existing infrastructure and applications. Recent Avanade research supports this thinking, finding that 88% of senior IT decision-makers believe that IT modernization is crucial to addressing the emerging requirements of the digital business1 . On the upside, those surveyed also indicated that by modernizing their IT infrastructures they expect to deliver real business results, such as boosting annual revenue by 14%, while at the same time reducing business operating costs by 13%1 . For many, this sounds like a winning strategy but what does it mean to adopt cloud native approaches, and how does it impact

Rackspace Quick Start for Google Cloud Platform helps enterprises expedite their migration to Google Cloud using proven design, automation, and migration methodologies—all executed by Rackspace experts who have deployed more than a million applications into the cloud. By partnering with your company’s cross-functional leaders, our professional adoption team will fast-track your journey to the cloud—typically moving your first application(s) to the cloud within the first few weeks of the program. This annual review includes an assistance with a disaster recovery (DR) simulation, audit of patch levels, and upl eveling the deployment tools to ensure they align with the infrastructure that may have evolved since deployment.

For Japan’s largest medical equipment wholesaler, Mutoh, ensuring its 300,000 products reach hospitals, clinics and health-centres on time is an imperative. Someone’s life depends on it. Without IT that wouldn’t be possible. But Mutoh’s IT infrastructure was unable to keep pace with the demands of the business. Every time an order came in, Mutoh had to pull data from different systems across multiple servers which was time-consuming. It needed an IT infrastructure that was fast, high-performing, reliable, stable, and flexible. Mutoh turned to Lenovo’s hyperconverged infrastructure that helped the company achieve: • The ability to seamlessly extract data from different systems across multiple physical servers helped Mutoh respond to customer orders as quickly as possible, thereby saving lives • A modular hyperconverged solution allowed Mutoh to invest on a need basis, improving ROI and addressing spikes in customer demand

For Japan’s largest medical equipment wholesaler, Mutoh, ensuring its 300,000 products reach hospitals, clinics and health-centres on time is an imperative. Someone’s life depends on it. Without IT that wouldn’t be possible. But Mutoh’s IT infrastructure was unable to keep pace with the demands of the business. Every time an order came in, Mutoh had to pull data from different systems across multiple servers which was time-consuming. It needed an IT infrastructure that was fast, high-performing, reliable, stable, and flexible. Mutoh turned to Lenovo’s hyperconverged infrastructure that helped the company achieve: • The ability to seamlessly extract data from different systems across multiple physical servers helped Mutoh respond to customer orders as quickly as possible, thereby saving lives • A modular hyperconverged solution allowed Mutoh to invest on a need basis, improving ROI and addressing spikes in customer demand

For Japan’s largest medical equipment wholesaler, Mutoh, ensuring its 300,000 products reach hospitals, clinics and health-centres on time is an imperative. Someone’s life depends on it. Without IT that wouldn’t be possible. But Mutoh’s IT infrastructure was unable to keep pace with the demands of the business. Every time an order came in, Mutoh had to pull data from different systems across multiple servers which was time-consuming. It needed an IT infrastructure that was fast, high-performing, reliable, stable, and flexible. Mutoh turned to Lenovo’s hyperconverged infrastructure that helped the company achieve: • The ability to seamlessly extract data from different systems across multiple physical servers helped Mutoh respond to customer orders as quickly as possible, thereby saving lives • A modular hyperconverged solution allowed Mutoh to invest on a need basis, improving ROI and addressing spikes in customer demand

For Japan’s largest medical equipment wholesaler, Mutoh, ensuring its 300,000 products reach hospitals, clinics and health-centres on time is an imperative. Someone’s life depends on it. Without IT that wouldn’t be possible. But Mutoh’s IT infrastructure was unable to keep pace with the demands of the business. Every time an order came in, Mutoh had to pull data from different systems across multiple servers which was time-consuming. It needed an IT infrastructure that was fast, high-performing, reliable, stable, and flexible. Mutoh turned to Lenovo’s hyperconverged infrastructure that helped the company achieve: • The ability to seamlessly extract data from different systems across multiple physical servers helped Mutoh respond to customer orders as quickly as possible, thereby saving lives • A modular hyperconverged solution allowed Mutoh to invest on a need basis, improving ROI and addressing spikes in customer demand

Australian businesses have long been recognised as leaders in the adoption of cloud services and the migration of core infrastructure to cloud platforms. Yet as ambitious ‘cloud-first’ programs are executed, performance and complexity issues have led many organisations to embrace the middle ground – a hybrid IT solution combining public cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Fast-growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms are increasingly being recognised as an ideal enabler for this strategy, with a software-based design that combines robust computing infrastructure with a high degree of centralisation, integration, flexibility, and analytics-based monitoring and manageability. Read how companies such as Beam Suntory have redefined enterprise architecture and learn more about the way an integrated hyperconverged infrastructure can help you build the right infrastructure for the future.

Asian ICT infrastructure investment is exploding as businesses review and modernise their data-centre architectures to keep up with the service demands of a growing and increasingly sophisticated population. Demand for cloud services, particularly to support big-data analytics initiatives, is driving this trend. Frost & Sullivan, for example, believes the Asia-Pacific cloud computing market will grow at 28.4 percent annually through 2022. Despite this growth, many businesses are also rapidly realising that public cloud is not the best solution for every need as theydo not always offer the same level of visibility, performance, and control as on-premises infrastructure.This reality is pushing many companies towards the middle ground of hybrid IT, in which applications and infrastructure are distributed across public cloud and self-managed data centre infrastructure. Read about Medical company Mutoh and how it took advantage of the latest technology.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure is clearly the future of the data centre - enabling enterprises to drive IT modernisation to help manufacturing companies continuously innovate in an ever-changing, rapidly evolving, technology-led environment. The combination of reliable data centre hardware from Lenovo and powerful platform from Nutanix creates a compelling offering for enterprises to intelligently transform their IT infrastructure. Read how hyperconverged Infrastructure can help drive Intelligent transformation in manufacturing in this story by Mashable India.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure eBook Guide for the Enterprise Abstract. Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering. Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure. What if your IT teams can take workloads off the traditional IT infrastructure and migrate it to a purpose-built solution that integrates compute, memory, storage, and virtualization? This is what Hyperconverged Infrastructure is all about. HCI appliances deliver extreme reliability, dependable security, extensive and predictable scalability, simplified management, and faster time-to-value. Download this premium guide to understand

Hyperconverged Infrastructure eBook Guide for the Enterprise Abstract. Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering. Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure. What if your IT teams can take workloads off the traditional IT infrastructure and migrate it to a purpose-built solution that integrates compute, memory, storage, and virtualization? This is what Hyperconverged Infrastructure is all about. HCI appliances deliver extreme reliability, dependable security, extensive and predictable scalability, simplified management, and faster time-to-value. Download this premium guide to understand

Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering. Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure. What if your IT teams can take workloads off the traditional IT infrastructure and migrate it to a purpose-built solution that integrates compute, memory, storage, and virtualization? This is what Hyperconverged Infrastructure is all about. HCI appliances deliver extreme reliability, dependable security, extensive and predictable scalability, simplified management, and faster time-to-value. Download this premium guide to understand how HCI can • Provide the resilience, scalability and performance to

Asian ICT infrastructure investment is exploding as businesses review and modernise their data-centre architectures to keep up with the service demands of a growing and increasingly sophisticated population. Demand for cloud services, particularly to support big-data analytics initiatives, is driving this trend. Frost & Sullivan, for example, believes the Asia-Pacific cloud computing market will grow at 28.4 percent annually through 2022. Despite this growth, many businesses are also rapidly realising that public cloud is not the best solution for every need as theydo not always offer the same level of visibility, performance, and control as on-premises infrastructure.This reality is pushing many companies towards the middle ground of hybrid IT, in which applications and infrastructure are distributed across public cloud and self-managed data centre infrastructure. Read about Medical company Mutoh and how it took advantage of the latest technology.

As data science becomes a critical capability for companies, IT leaders are finding themselves responsible for enabling data science teams with infrastructure and tooling. But data science is much more like an experimental research organization than the engineering and business teams that IT organizations support today. Compounding the challenge, data science teams are growing fast, often by 100% a year. This guide will quickly help you understand what data science teams do to build their predictive models and how to best support them. Learn how to modernize IT’s approach to ensure your company’s data science teams perform their best, and maximize impact to the business. Some highlights include: Why data science should not be treated like engineering. How to go beyond simple infrastructure allocation and give data science teams capabilities to manage their workflows and model lifecycle. Why agility and special hardware to support burst computing are so important to data science break

Customers today expect their customer service to be as connected as they are. If you can’t deliver a seamless omnichannel customer experience or easily add digital channels such as mobile, social media and web, you risk being left behind. Some companies try to deliver omnichannel with dated technology, a tangle of point solutions, bolted together with duct tape. But you don’t have to. Read this ebook and see: Why force-fitting more channels into an aging infrastructure is not the right approach How to create a future-ready customer experience How an integrated approach improves your metrics and reduces operating costs

Le marché nord américain des centres de contacts « as-a-Service » (CCaaS) explose. Les solutions de centres de contacts dans le cloud (ou solutions CCaaS) offrent des fonctionnalités semblables à celles des infrastructures de centres de contacts et d’appels sur site. Seule différence notoire : elles sont fournies sous forme de service et reposent sur un modèle de paiement mensuel. Au sommaire de ce rapport : Forces et faiblesses à intégrer dans votre évaluation des fournisseurs de solutions de centres de contacts dans le cloud Classement des 10 grands fournisseurs de centres de contacts cloud dans les quatre catégories du Gartner MQ : leaders, challengers, visionnaires et acteurs niche Pourquoi Interactive Intelligence, une entreprise Genesys, s’est classée parmi les leaders 2 années consécutives

Avant d’appeler votre centre de contacts, la plupart des clients actuels auront déjà ou seront en train de visiter votre site web. Et pour eux, l’agent d’assistance devra le savoir au moment de prendre l’appel et ainsi leur offrir une expérience personnalisée. En d’autres termes, l’agent devra disposer d’un historique complet de leurs interactions. Or, de nombreuses entreprises peinent à relier tous ces points de contact. De fait, elles se retrouvent incapables d’offrir une expérience homogène sur tous les canaux, possible uniquement lorsque les agents disposent d’une visibilité complète sur les parcours des clients. Posez-vous deux questions. Votre infrastructure est-elle assez flexible pour prendre en charge de nouveaux canaux d’engagement client ? Intégrez-vous facilement de nouveaux canaux (vidéo, réseaux sociaux, SMS) à cette infrastructure ? Cet eBook explique comment résoudre ces problématiques et poser les bases d’une infrastructure capable de relever les défis de demain