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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.

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency" "Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery plat

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

Today’s digital businesses are managed using critical business analyses that provide far greater insight into the business and how to maximize results. However, these high-value applications that use the latest software tools demand far more from IT infrastructure, as they utilize an order of magnitude more data and demand more compute resources than legacy applications. Legacy systems are no longer capable of meeting the present and future needs of the organization. Forward-thinking IT organizations are developing new infrastructure strategies to better support high-value analytics workloads with Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor.

Transforming IT to meet the emerging requirements of a rapidly advancing digital economy is a priority for most companies today. Market economies and quickly evolving digital interactions are driving new and increasing demands on IT infrastructure for organizations of all kinds – from small businesses to enterprises to public institutions. IT requirements to support a variety of digital use paradigms (personal devices, IoT, VMs, VDI) are changing quickly, and organizations need to respond in order to be competitive in this evolving digital world. The latest generation of PowerEdge servers powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processors can deliver differentiated business agility over older-generation infrastructure. IDC asserted that updating servers can help businesses deploy applications up to 22 percent faster and improve application performance up to 29 percent over outdated infrastructure. Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

This paper provides an overview of the changing dynamics in the business world that demand a new approach to IT infrastructure. It provides a perspective for business managers and executives who are looking for a way to align business and IT by facing the challenges of disruption for better business outcomes. We will discuss the Kinetic Infrastructure from Dell EMC powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor, which is designed to support IT flexibility and business agility. In addition, we will describe the first implementation of kinetic infrastructure on the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX system. The paper will explain how Dell EMC is helping businesses to rethink their data center architecture and accelerate their path towards more agility.

Digital technology is so intrinsic to our personal lives that we barely think about the fitness trackers and smartphones that are as much a part of us as the clothing we wear. For organizations, the shift to digital is more disruptive and the stakes far higher. Digital transformation has been high on the executive agenda for a few years and, for many, harnessing data has become a significant force for value and revenue creation. Agility has emerged as an organizational superpower as businesses grapple with change and uncertainty in their own customer bases and in the global political and economic landscape. IT has been thrust into the spotlight as the unwitting hero of the story – tasked with delivering on the digital vision, implementing all manner of applications and building firm infrastructure foundations to support the latest digital initiatives. In an increasingly on-demand world, it is this final point that often gets overlooked in the rush for the next shiny new technologies. E

The journey towards upgrading IT infrastructure is fraught with buzzwords and misinformation. In this special report, Gartner identifies the key challenges faced by infrastructure and operations leaders and provides strong recommendations for optimizing IT costs and investments. Submit the form to access the report and discover the ‘seven deadly sins’ I&O leaders must avoid in order to capture efficiency gains and produce strategic, outcome-driven results.

With the benefits quickly stacking up, it’s easy to understand why Gartner stated HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) as one of the hottest trends in data centre infrastructure. HCI is intended to reduce infrastructure complexity and cost, whilst enhancing scalability, agility and operational efficiency. This consolidated infrastructure enables organizations to leverage the software layer by using low cost commodity hardware, while reducing concerns around vendor lock-in, to form a seamless software- defined IT infrastructure environment well suited to today’s IT challenges. Simple to use and manage, without specialists and more cost-effective than most traditional solutions, it’s easy to understand why more organisations are making the move from traditional architecture to Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. Submit the form to view the infograph to discover the benefits and whether this solution is right for you.

With nearly 20% of midmarket firms using Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) and another 46% actively investigating and planning to adopt HCI solutions over the next 12-18 months, there has never been a more critical time to get ahead of your competition. Midsize businesses face the same need to modernize IT and embrace digital transformation as much as their larger competitors, but are typically restricted by resource and money. HCI enables midsize organizations to address these challenges with a solution that can grow as the business grows, without the financial burden or requiring to choose between on premise or public cloud solutions. The investments you make in IT technology and selecting the right HCI platform will impact your ability to evolve, grow and compete effectively in the future. Submit the form to read our latest whitepaper and discover how you can modernize IT and improve your midsize business operational efficiencies with vSAN.

The hybrid cloud has been heralded as a promising IT operational model enabling enterprises to maintain security and control over the infrastructure on which their applications run. At the same time, it promises to maximize ROI from their local data center and leverage public cloud infrastructure for an occasional demand spike. Public clouds are relatively new in the IT landscape and their adoption has accelerated over the last few years with multiple vendors now offering solutions as well as improved on-ramps for workloads to ease the adoption of a hybrid cloud model. With these advances and the ability to choose between a local data center and multiple public cloud offerings, one fundamental question must still be answered: What, when and where to run workloads to assure performance while maximizing efficiency? In this whitepaper, we explore some of the players in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and hybrid cloud, the challenges surrounding effective implementation, and how to iden

More than half the world’s population now lives in towns and cities, putting pressure on current infrastructures. As a fast-growing city, Chicago wanted to harness enormous advances in technology to improve quality of life. It created City Tech Collaborative/City Digital. HERE joined the collaborative in October 2017 and this case study takes a brief look at the solutions it has already worked on, including easing congestion on Chicago Cubs games nights. HERE is one of the largest tech companies in Chicago, with more than 1,100 employees invested in it. They are committed to improving quality of life for themselves, their neighbors and future generations of Chicagoans.

In this book, we are going to look at the key trends driving the modernization of data infrastructure. We’ll see how organizations are adapting and flourishing in a data-driven world. For some time, headlines have been around the internet of things (IoT), big data and data analytics. While these developments are important, the reality is that you cannot take full advantage of them without modernization. We’re going to look at these trends and priorities in detail, then look at the three key drivers of modernization: governance, mobilization and analytics. We’ll also consider the technologies that make up modern data infrastructure including artificial intelligence (AI), flash storage, converged and hyperconverged platforms and software-defined infrastructures. By making sense of data, we make sense of the world. With more data than ever before, we have the tools to turn all that information into intelligent innovation and change the way the world works.

In this infographic, we are going to show you the possibilities with modernized, optimized data infrastructure. In doing so, we aim to bring you ideas about how you can bring your own data-driven business vision to life, focusing on the outcomes that matter most to you. In essence, we will be discussing five main industries and the possibilities for modernized data infrastructure. We will be displaying how Banking and Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Retail can use data, analytics and automation to optimize their business, therefore bringing about a competitive edge which previously appeared unimaginable. Using data correctly, most importantly building proper data infrastructures, can be the driving force behind obtaining a competitive edge. Data is your story. And it’s our story, too.

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. Download this premium guide to understand how HCI can • Provide the resilience, scalability and performance to run all your applications without compromise. • Design the data center as a fluid resource that can immediately adapt to the evolving needs of the business. • Enable agility with scale-out architecture that eliminates the need to rip and replace for seamless growth and scale.

Lenovo’s VMware vSAN-based hyperconverged solution reduces TCO by 40% within the datacenter. VMware-based hyperconverged solutions from Lenovo come with a set of certified components that can be deployed to create platforms that support a broad array of workloads, performance, and budgetary requirements. With VMware vSAN pre-installed, pre-configured, and pre-tested, Lenovo’s VMware-based hyperconverged solutions help improve productivity, and cut complexity quickly and easily. VMware-based hyperconverged solutions from Lenovo represent proven solutions that are enterprise-class and are already being leveraged within mission-critical environments around the world. Download IDC’s Infobrief on “The Real-World Value of Hyperconverged Infrastructure” and learn how you can: • Cut the cost of scaling infrastructure • Reduce time spent on infrastructure provisioning • Improve application performance • Eliminate complexity and cost related to refreshing traditional infrastructure

In the last few years, businesses have changed the way they protect data. Studies show they’re abandoning traditional backup and recovery in favor of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).1 With DRaaS, businesses enjoy the luxury of keeping a replica of their data hosted at a remote site that they can fail over to in an emergency—without bearing any of the infrastructure costs or maintenance responsibilities. All infrastructure and maintenance is the responsibility of the provider. Gartner predicts that global DRaaS revenue will reach $3.4 billion by 2019. The firm cited several reasons for the shift:

These days, a lot of organizations are looking to the cloud to help them protect their data. They wish to take advantage of the appealing economics and operational agility that are two of the biggest attributes of a cloud-based IT infrastructure. Leveraging the cloud can be a smart choice for any organization interested in gaining more control over costs (i.e., almost all organizations). According to ESG research, reducing costs was the second most commonly reported business driver affecting IT spending in 2016

As the number and variety of threats mushroom, an Ovum survey has found that security teams have become physically unable to respond in an appropriate way to the ones that actually matter, with 42.3% of respondents in ASEAN countries saying they deal with more than 50 alerts each day. Shockingly, for 7% of organizations, that figure rises to between 100 and 1,000 threats a day. The Solution? Ovum believes that security decision-makers should invest in centralized management capabilities, enabling them to control the disparate security tools in their infrastructure, and address the challenge of prioritizing the volumes of daily alerts they receive. Download the Report to find out what else Ovum has discovered about security practices in ASEAN.

As the number and variety of threats mushroom, an Ovum survey has found that security teams have become physically unable to respond in an appropriate way to the ones that actually matter, with 50% of respondents in India saying they deal with more than 50 alerts each day. Shockingly, for 6% of organizations, that figure rises to between 100 and 1,000 threats a day. The Solution? Ovum believes that security decision-makers should invest in centralized management capabilities, enabling them to control the disparate security tools in their infrastructure, and address the challenge of prioritizing the volumes of daily alerts they receive. Download the Report to find out what else Ovum has discovered about security practices in India.

Cloud implementation, integration and delivery once again topped the National State Chief Information Officer’s list of priorities facing state CIOs in 2018. The same is true on the local government side of the equation, with organizations pursuing infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models. However, now that those deployments are being realized, governments are looking for more opportunities to reap the cost-savings, flexibility and scalability of cloud environments.

Interested in learning how the right physical and network infrastructure approach in your colocation data center facility can help you stabilize costs, provide better security, and help promote growth for you and your tenants? Download the Panduit white paper Optimizing Colocation Infrastructure Strategies to learn how to overcome the challenges of aging colocation data center infrastructure and onboard new tenants quickly.