UK businesses believe hybrid working is here to stay

Hybrid working may have become trendy during the pandemic, but it seems to be more than just a passing fad, a new report from a recruitment firm Robert Half suggests.  According to the report, most businesses in the UK (89 percent) expect the hybrid working model to remain in place in the long term. Most hybrid working roles advertised from …

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Hybrid working is changing the lives of many UK workers

The hybrid working model, whereby employees split their time between their home and office, is changing how many UK workers live. According to a new report from Microsoft, while most employees are living somewhat happier lives thanks to remote working, they are also working longer hours and finding themselves stressed at work more frequently. The company recently polled 4,000 UK …

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Nearly all UK firms see hybrid cloud as critical to pandemic recovery

Almost all businesses in the UK agree that hybrid cloud will play a central role in helping firms to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a new report from technology services company NTT. The company polled 950 decision-makers in 13 countries around the world, including 115 respondents from the UK and Ireland, and found that approximately 95 percent …

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Google is having second thoughts about the hybrid working revolution

Google has mixed feelings about the prospect of hybrid working, whereby employees divide their time between home and the office, the firm’s latest 10-K report suggests. The new report explains the company is still experimenting with the model and that it expects its competitiveness and “corporate culture” to take a hit as a result. “As we prepare to return our …

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Hybrid cloud era sees demand for open source skills skyrocket

Cloud developer skills related to open source software are in greater demand than knowledge of proprietary platforms, a new report from IBM and O’Reilly claims. Polling 3,400 developers and technology managers, the two companies found that 94 percent of respondents prioritize open source skills, while almost three quarters (70 percent) prefer to use a cloud provider that’s based on open …

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Financial services sector pushing hybrid cloud usage more than ever

The financial services sector is pushing hybrid cloud usage more than ever, a new report from Nutanix states. The company’s third annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report claims that financial services firms expect hybrid cloud to be the only IT model to show positive growth within half a decade. It is expected to grow by 39 percent during that time. Furthermore, …

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Building a DevOps culture for the hybrid cloud

The tumult of 2020 has seen many companies accelerate their transition to the cloud. Along with the usual challenges that accompany a cloud migration, many organizations have found that the reality of their cloud journey has markedly differed from their original vision. In particular, many organizations have found that a pure-play public cloud does not solve all their infrastructural challenges …

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Cloud native versus hybrid infrastructure

Businesses were forced to react quickly and adapt to both working practices and infrastructure in the wake of government enforced lockdowns, restricted travel and market uncertainties. The dramatic shift to mass remote working was a change some companies found harder than others. In fact, according to some recent research from Riverbed, 69 percent of business decision makers were not completely …

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Almost all workers call for hybrid approach to remote working

Now that the initial euphoria surrounding remote working has subsided, employees are seeing that the practice is far from ideal in the long term. According to a new report from Microsoft Ireland, employees are more interested in a hybrid approach, in which they get to choose when to go to the office and when to work from home. Covid-19 forced …

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IBM is making it easier to run AI workloads in hybrid clouds

Artificial intelligence hardware accelerators are an extremely potent tool for scientific discovery, but they are also highly inefficient from an energy perspective. However, IBM Research, the company’s R&D arm, claims to have identified new ways of tackling this problem. During the IEEE CAS/EDS AI Compute Symposium, held earlier today, IBM Research introduced new technology and partnerships that will allow businesses …

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