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#Nutanix Triumphs at V3 Technology Awards 2013 for Best Virtualisation Product – #IaaS
This is great! A great product takes another award!!! đ
V3 Readers Award Nutanix with Prestigious Industry Recognition in Highly Competitive Category
Nutanix also won the Best of VMworld 2013 Gold Award for Private Cloud Computing!
LONDON, December 3, 2013 â Nutanix, the leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple datacentre infrastructure solutions, has been awarded for its continuing innovation in optimising datacentre infrastructure at the V3 Technology Awards 2013. During a ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel, the company was awarded Best Virtualisation product, beating a host of well respected and larger, more established organisations in the virtualisation market.
V3.co.uk is a leading source of news and analysis for technology professionals, written by a team of expert IT journalists in the UK and Silicon Valley. The awards were hotly contested this year, with more than 450 entries from 150 companies.
âItâs great to see a new company like Nutanix being recognised at the V3 Technology Awards, among the industry giants. It wasnât an easy task whittling down the hundreds of entries to create the shortlist, and then V3 readers voted in their thousands for their favourites, making this a significant achievement and a well-deserved win. Well done Nutanix!â said Madeline Bennett, Editor, V3 and The INQUIRER.
Alan Campbell, Regional Director of Western Europe at Nutanix, commented on the success: âNutanix is a company that is constantly innovating and striving to provide the best platform for its customers, so this recognition by a highly respected publication is a testament to the hard work of our team. Virtualisation is a rapidly evolving technology which we are proud to be at the forefront of and to receive an award in the UK, a key market for us, is an honour.
As the fastest growing enterprise…
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//Richard
Native vs HTML5 – Which option is best?? – #Mobility via @appcelerator and @r0bsterry
This was a really good presentation from Appcelerator Inc!!
Check it out!!
Fire Your CIO
Ok, yet another interesting article!
“The following post is by Mike Abramsky, principal of Red Team Global , which facilitates technology innovation via collaborative workshops and consulting.
Do you stifle productivity â or shoot the CIO?
Thatâs the dilemma increasingly faced by CEOs. With the rise of tablets, smartphones, social media, apps and personal clouds, we are in the midst of a profound computing shift, perhaps the greatest technology revolution in the enterprise since the invention of the PC. But the IT department with its risk-averse, slow-moving, heavy-handed culture threatens to torpedo hoped-for productivity.
This revolution is more than just technology; some CEOs recognize it as early days of Retooling the Enterprise. The ease of adoption of these new tools means non-technical staff can pursue faster, more flexible”
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//Richard
Is Innovation dead with outsourcing?
So what do you think? Do you think that outsourcing your IT service(s) to a service provider will improve your chances in getting a service that evolves over time of the contract and enables you to focus on business needs and adopt the service(s) accordingly along the way?
What was your main driver behind your sourcing strategy?
- Cost savings
- Cost restructuring
- Access to knowledge and operational expertise
- Scalability possibilities
- Quality improvements
Or there may be other reasons…
Hype cycles
Ok, this is very interesting and I must say that I really enjoyed reading this great post from Dinakaran Sankaranarayanan! And thank you Michael Keen for posting this one! Michael is an old colleague of mine from my HP-days and is a person I really suggest that you follow, he’s got great ideas and thoughts!
But back to the post content, here is the article/post I’d like to recommend;
Understanding the Technology Hype Cycle
I hope you like it too!
//Richard
The IT Melting Pot! 