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Record numbers for the Master ’ s Degree in Data Centre Leadership and Management
The fourth intake for the world ’ s first and only Master ’ s degree in Data Centre Leadership and Management is underway with record numbers .
More data centre professionals are taking the opportunity to turn their data centre experience into the Master ’ s degree and September 2016 saw the highest enrolment numbers on record so far , making the course more popular than ever .
Run in collaboration with CNet Training and Anglia Ruskin University , the Master ’ s degree in Data Centre Leadership and Management launched in February 2015 . The online distance learning course is three years in duration and is fully supported by a team of academic and industry experts , who are available online or via telephone throughout the course . Those who are successful in completing gain a level seven qualification which provides an impressive MA post nominal title .
The first students to successfully complete will graduate in 2018 to become the world ’ s first to hold the MA Data Centre Leadership and Management title and by doing so will also create the elite group of data centre professionals throughout the world .
There are two intakes a year for the Master ’ s degree in Data Centre Leadership and Management . The next intake will be 30th January 2017 .
NETWORKS GETTING YOUNGER AS ORGANISATIONS START TO EMBRACE WORKPLACE MOBILITY , IOT , AND SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING STRATEGIES
Enterprises across the globe are refreshing their network equipment earlier in its lifecycle in a move to embrace workplace mobility , Internet of Things and software defined networking strategies . In addition , their equipment refresh is more strategic , with architectural vision in mind . But despite the higher refresh rate , networks are getting less secure , largely due to neglected patching . These are some of the highlights in the annual Network Barometer Report by Dimension Data .
First published in 2009 , the 2016 Network Barometer Report was compiled from data gathered from 300,000 service incidents logged for client networks that Dimension Data supports . Dimension Data also carried out 320 technology lifecycle management assessments covering 97,000 network devices in organisations of all sizes and all industry sectors across 28 countries . Andre van Schalkwyk , senior practice manager , network consulting , Dimension
Hybrid cloud storage use to more than double in next 12 months
Data , said , ‘ Since 2010 , networks had been ageing . This year ’ s Report reverses that trend , and for the first time in five years we ’ re seeing networks age more slowly .’
According to the Report , in Europe , Asia-Pacific , and Australia enterprises ’ network age reduced in line with the global average , while in the Americas , the number of ageing and obsolete devices decreased much faster , from 60 per cent in the 2015 Report to 29 per cent in the 2016 Report . This can be attributed to the release of pentup spend following four years of financial constraint . Van Schalkwyk said clients in the Americas appear to be refreshing networks with the new generation of programmable infrastructure . In Asia-Pacific and Australia , equipment refresh occurred as part of data centre network redesigns .
In contrast to the global trend , in Middle East and Africa , the network age increased , possibly the result of economic uncertainty , particularly in South Africa .
The use of hybrid cloud storage will accelerate rapidly over the next 12 months , according to research published by Cloudian .
Across 400 organisations surveyed in the UK and USA , 28 per cent already use hybrid cloud storage , with a further 40 per cent planning to implement within the next year . Only 19 per cent have no plans to adopt .
Organisations are looking to hybrid cloud storage to support a variety of workloads . Data back up is the most popular use case , with 64 per cent of respondents reporting deployment or plans to deploy . Web infrastructure ( 52 per cent ), application dev / test ( 48 per cent ) and technical applications ( 43 per cent ) are also driving the adoption of hybrid cloud storage products and services . The research reveals that larger organisations ( 2,500 employees or more ) are adopting the approach most rapidly , with 82 per cent planning to deploy in the next 12 months .
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