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Computacenter NCC Research Reveals Virtualisation Falling Flat For UK Organisations
Less than 10% achieve full ROI from server virtualisation projects
Research findings launched last month by National Computing Centre (NCC) and Computacenter, Europe’s leading IT Services company, reveal that organisations are missing out on the significant benefits of virtualisation deployments, with only 6% fully achieving ROI from server projects and 4% from virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Poor planning seems partly to blame, as 39% of IT decision makers have no virtualisation strategy in place, even though 90% consider it important to help improve IT cost effectiveness.
A summary report of the findings containing the views of the 130 IT decision makers surveyed across UK enterprises in a range of industries, including banking and finance, public sector, manufacturing, retail and legal complete with opinion articles by the NCC, Computacenter experts and Butler Group, is now available for download here.
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Computacenter opens Tier IV datacentre for managed services
Organisations will have access to a certified Tier IV datacentre in Europe for the first time. Tier IV is the highest level of datacentre classification awarded by the Uptime Institute – the body for datacentre certification – and signifies fault-tolerant design topology.
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Computacenter acquires leading German IBM systems provider
Computacenter plc, Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, announces the acquisition of becom Informationssysteme GmbH in Germany, a leading provider of large IBM systems, from USCF Holding GmbH.
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Journey to the cloud: Computacenter features in The Times Cloud Computing supplement
The Private Cloud is proving to be an important milestone on a complex but transformational trip for corporate IT as Jessica Twentyman reports. Terry Walby, Director of Datacentre Solutions, is interviewed for the “Cloud Computing” supplement in The Times newspaper.
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Computacenter wins Datacentre Operational Team of the Year at the third annual Datacenter Leaders' Awards
The Datacentre Leaders' Awards recognise sustainability, efficiency and true innovation across the industry.
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Acquisition extends Computacenter’s service offerings and client base
Computacenter will strengthen its range of mainframe and datacentre services, following the acquisition of Thesaurus Computer Services (TCS).
As a provider of datacentre services and infrastructure solutions, TCS is an ideal fit with Computacenter’s business and future strategy. Simon Walsh, Managing Director of Computacenter, commented: “Thesaurus Computer Services will extend our existing skills and datacentre services as well as bringing incremental clients that don’t currently trade with Computacenter. The acquisition will also strengthen our existing relationship with IBM, and enable us to provide customers with a wider range of services for IBM software, storage systems, servers and mainframes.”
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Computacenter to Beat Consensus
LONDON (Reuters) - IT company Computacenter said full-year profit would beat expectations, helped by cost cuts, customers continuing to outsource IT services and a boost from orders before the sales tax rose on January 1. Chief executive Mike Norris said adjusted pretax profit would be about 10 percent ahead of analysts' consensus of 48.4 million pounds ($79 million), and about 15 million ahead of expectations at the beginning of the year.
"The services side has been great, high single digit growth for the last two or three years, and that's not going to change because it's a cost savings exercise," he said in an interview on Tuesday. The group's services contract base grew 7 percent in 2009, he said, and was now worth more than 500 million pounds a year.
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