I recently arrived at the tail end of a presentation about backups. Rebecca Fitzhugh, Principal Technologist at Rubrik was wrapping up a small group discussion and Q&A about Rubrik technology and for me the final take-away message was simply, the practice of backing up should be boring. 

Nutanix today announced the healthcare industry findings of its Enterprise Cloud Index Report, measuring healthcare companies’ plans for adopting private, hybrid and public clouds. The report revealed the healthcare industry is increasingly leaning toward adopting hybrid clouds that combine private and public cloud services, and their respective benefits — with healthcare ranking third in the number of hybrid cloud deployments currently running, by industry. According to respondents, in just two years, healthcare providers’ hybrid cloud deployment will jump from 19% penetration to 37%.

Sydney, Australia – January 16, 2019 – Dell Boomi™ (Boomi) has announced that global packaging producer, Amcor, has fortified its supply chain by leveraging the Boomi Platform to integrate and align its applications and data with third party logistics (3PL) partner, AirRoad.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 15, 2018 – Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced the findings of its first annual global Enterprise Cloud Index, measuring enterprise plans for adopting private, hybrid and public clouds.* The new report found enterprises plan to increase hybrid cloud usage, with 91% stating hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model, but only 18% stating they have that model today. The findings also revealed that application mobility across any cloud is a top priority for 97% of respondents – with 88% of respondents saying it would “solve a lot of my problems.” Additionally, the report found public cloud is not a panacea; IT decision makers ranked matching applications to the right cloud environment as a critical capability, and 35% of organisations using public clouds overspent their annual budget. When asked to rank the primary benefits of hybrid cloud, interoperability between cloud types (23%) and the ability to move applications back and forth between clouds (16%) outranked cost (6%) and security (5%) as the primary benefits. 

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – November 5, 2018 –Suncorp New Zealand today announced it is using technology to create a more flexible and collaborative working environment for its global workforce. This includes leveraging Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) Enterprise Cloud OS software to support Suncorp’s Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) delivering 700 virtual desktops, enabling staff to work remotely in any space. 

Enterprise cloud computing company Nutanix announced last month that it has been named as a leader in Forrester’s Research recent ‘Hyperconverged Infrastructure’ report which evaluated 11 vendors across strategy, market presence and current offering.

According to Forrester, Nutanix hasmaintainedits position atop the hyperconvergedinfrastructure(HCI) market throughinnovation,R&D investment, strong sales momentum, partnerships, and the acquisition of new customers.

Sydney, 30 October 2018 - Competition in Australia’s multi-billion-dollar education sector is driving institutions to embrace data analytics and cloud-based solutions and to invest in collaborative and interactive learning technologies, edu-tech experts say.

Higher education institutions spend an estimated $1.9 billion on an array of ICT initiatives and this figure is growing at a healthy five per cent, year on year.

Leading provider of unified platforms Dell Boomi announced last month that Charles Sturt University (CSU) has chosen the Boomi integration platform to enhance student and staff experience as part of a five-year IT transformation.

Sydney, 17 September 2018 - 8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT), a leading provider of cloud phone, meeting, collaboration and contact centre solutions, today announced that Osana, a new provider of primary healthcare in Australia, has selected the 8x8 Virtual Office cloud-based communications solution to provide the organisation with robust telephony for patient engagement.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  – June 4, 2018 – Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud data integration, and Snowflake Computing, the data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced the availability of new, high-performance bulk loading and native, Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) push-down capabilities that make it fast and efficient to move massive data volumes and varieties from on-premises to Snowflake for cost-effective and scalable analytics.