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SMBs suffer as councils fail to adopt digital procurement
Two years on from the National Procurement Strategy, three quarters of all local councils cannot identify savings from reviews, improvements or best practice. This has led to concern from IT SMBs that efforts to put more procurement on digital channels like G-Cloud have focused on central government rather than local government.
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Manchester to host big cloud industry event in July
Cloud UK Live will see some of the biggest names in IT converge in Manchester next month, with senior figures from Cisco, Microsoft, Dell and VMware among those attending. The event takes place on 6 July and is intended to be the first in a series of events.
Backup appliance market shows ‘healthy growth’
First quarter purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues grew 6.2 percent year-over-year to $762.2 million (£514.36m) worldwide, according to analysts at IDC. EMC and Veritas lead the way from HPE and IBM, but you can see more figures by clicking the link below.
MapR launches global big data reseller programme
Converged data platform provider MapR Technologies has detailed a new partner programme. The multi-tiered programme focuses on nurturing alliances with resellers and distributors, and MapR claims big data channel, system integration and technology companies are already partnering with the company
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