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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.

To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs.

To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs.

To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs.

To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs.

Today's businesses need to drive innovation to seize new opportunity, but cloud complexities can slow the agility needed for that innovation. That doesn't have to be the case. In fact, over fifty percent of organizations now use a multi-cloud strategy to help determine their cloud needs, and if you don't have one, we can help. Citrix Workspaces helps reduce cloud complexity, minimize security risks, and deliver a better user experience. Download our e-book and find out how a secure digital workspace: • Centralizes workspace management • Secures your SaaS and web apps, data, and clouds • Makes it a lot easier to scale your cloud infrastructure as needed

IDC reports companies that modernize IT infrastructure for emerging technologies such as AI thrive and see results such as launching IT services faster and closing more deals. Access this comprehensive whitepaper from Dell and Intel® to learn more.

.As midmarket companies pursue business growth, they must deliver differentiated products and experiences without compromising business or customer data. Crucial to this is having the most up-to date IT infrastructure to support the scale and complexity of a changing application landscape. Midmarket businesses (MBs) must modernize their data centers refreshing server infrastructure and automating their IT management processes. Those that do will propel business innovation and deliver superior customer experiences with secure, fast, and reliable business technology. Download this paper, commissioned by Dell, to learn more.

All-flash storage is on a strong growth trajectory, but the industry is not swooning naively over the blazing fast I/O speeds. Most IT managers are talking a mature, step-by-step approach to all-flash adoption. Falling per-gigabyte prices are making the technology more commonplace. Solid state drives are no longer just for specialized, high-performing tasks. Before they leap, however, storage professionals want to understand the full business picture as they formulate a winning strategy for putting all-flash storage to use for more workloads. This paper offers insights for business success with all-flash storage based on IT Central Station reviews. Real users weigh in on what it takes to get the most out of the technology. It covers such aspects of flash storage as the need for simplicity and the importance of flexibility. The paper also looks at how to build a business case for all-flash and think through the implications of issues such as integration with existing infrastructure.

In our 27-criterion evaluation of global internetof-things (IoT) services for connected business operations providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Dimension Data, EY, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, KPMG, PwC, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals make the right choice.

Big Data and analytics workloads represent a new frontier for organizations. Data is being collected from sources that did not exist 10 years ago. Mobile phone data, machine-generated data, and website interaction data are all being collected and analyzed. In addition, as IT budgets are already under pressure, Big Data footprints are getting larger and posing a huge storage challenge. This paper provides information on the issues that Big Data applications pose for storage systems and how choosing the correct storage infrastructure can streamline and consolidate Big Data and analytics applications without breaking the bank.

Infinidat has developed a storage platform that provides unique simplicity, efficiency, reliability, and extensibility that enhances the business value of large-scale OpenStack environments. The InfiniBox® platform is a pre-integrated solution that scales to multiple petabytes of effective capacity in a single 42U rack. The platform’s innovative combination of DRAM, flash, and capacity-optimized disk, delivers tuning-free, high performance for consolidated mixed workloads, including object/Swift, file/Manila, and block/Cinder. These factors combine to cut direct and indirect costs associated with large-scale OpenStack infrastructures, even versus “build-it-yourself” solutions. InfiniBox delivers seven nines (99.99999%) of availability without resorting to expensive replicas or slow erasure codes for data protection. Operations teams appreciate our delivery model designed to easily drop into workflows at all levels of the stack, including native Cinder integration, Ansible automation pl

Data continues to grow at an astounding pace? As a result, data center space is becoming more scarce, as more arrays are acquired to store all of this data. Along with this data taking up space, it is also utilizing a great deal of power and cooling. In fact, the average data center in the U.S. uses approximately 34,000 kW of electricity each year, costing $180,000 in annual energy costs. As Infinidat set out to revolutionize the storage industry, one of our goals was to help consumers of storage build a more sustainable infrastructure that would be not only better for the environment, but also help them to save money as well. All of our patents come together to form InfiniBox, a storage solution that does just this.

Get the report to find out how smart organizations are using new strategies to simplify IT infrastructures and empower employees to do their best work: • Get advice from Google and Citrix on how to manage the cloud transition strategically • Avoid common cloud work side effects such as excessive application logins, siloed data searches, and channel switching • Capture a vision for how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are making work even more intuitive and personalized

Having real-time access to engagement information via a cloud-based, integrated, information infrastructure is critical in delivering high-value, on time engagements that always delight clients. So why do so many consulting firms fail in this area, that they constantly advise clients on? Enjoy a complimentary copy of ProjectManagement.com’s new white paper on how an effective information infrastructure will ensure client excellence. Author Andy Jordan, consulting firm owner and industry expert, reveals the 5 ways to exceed client expectations and how consulting firms can leverage technology to achieve client excellence. Download the white paper today!

Multinational companies (MNCs) are facing a unique combination of escalating customer, competitive and operational pressures which are forcing them to fundamentally change the way they do business and manage their IT infrastructures supporting network, security and mobility needs. Lack of IT resources, limited capex and more complex global implementations are driving an increasing proportion of MNCs to offload, or 'out-task', various aspects of their day-to-day management responsibilities to skilled third-parties that can help perform these functions well.

At a projected market of over $4B by 2010 (Goldman Sachs), virtualizationhas firmly established itself as one of the most importanttrends in Information Technology. Virtualization is expectedto have a broad influence on the way IT manages infrastructure.Major areas of impact include capital expenditure and ongoingcosts, application deployment, green computing, and storage.

Your call center tech stack is a mess, and it’s hard to figure out where you even start to unravel it all. This ebook covers the basics of consolidating technology, where to begin and what to consider as you develop your plan to streamline your infrastructure and tech. There are many things to consider including: Infrastructure, both aging and new Existing tech and limitations IT support Users, training and business needs This ebook provides an overview to get your wheels turning in preparation for a move to better technology. Read it now if your future holds new call center tech.

Colleges and universities are transforming to meet the demands of new students. Technology plays a critical role in making improvements to both physical and process infrastructure. As the world’s leading provider of education technology, Lenovo knows that steady technology leadership is critical to ensuring higher education institutions to stay responsive to these always-evolving, real-world challenges.

As organizations have improved service delivery, they have also turned their focus to presenting business value more positively. These organizations are beginning to develop true BSM systems in two ways: by understanding the metrics that successful businesses employ to determine the value of IT, and by linking these metrics and associated business services to IT infrastructure components.

Limited visibility has tethered CIOs' success in both IT and business. However, using federated CMDB technology, CIOs can view the complete IT infrastructure and the entire lifecycle of a business service.

Managing service delivery in todayís complex and dynamic business environments demands new and different approaches from IT. The explosive growth and the rate of change of information has brought particularly daunting challenges for IT that have contributed to incredibly complex underlying infrastructures. To get a true picture of all of the components necessary to support an IT or Business Service, you must access and bring together data that resides in disparate data silos throughout the enterprise.

ITIL provides a framework of customizable best practice initiatives that help organizations consistently deliver high-quality IT services. Effective ITIL implementation adds value to the IT infrastructure and improves business and service delivery.

Improved business productivity often requires more efficient IT and more efficient IT cannot be achieved without a better understanding of the way business services are run and delivered. Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have emerged as a central component for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and business service management (BSM).

Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.