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IBM outlines storage trends in 2012

The pace of business growth and the requirement to store data for legal or analytical purposes means that smarter storage solutions will become necessary throughout 2012, according to IBM.

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Service Desk & IT Support Show unveils guest speakers

Two of the world's leading authority figures from the IT Service Management (ITSM) industry have been announced as keynote speakers at this year's Service Desk & IT Support Show.

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Service should be a key focus for CIOs

Chief information officers (CIOs) must have a focus on service if they are to speak their brand's "language" properly.

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Potential security boost from quantum computing

Research has found that a new type of technology called 'quantum computing' could help boost the security of cloud computing, according to Computeach.co.uk.

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Demand For SaaS Set To Dramatically Increase

The demand for SaaS (Software as a Service) is set to skyrocket in the next five years, according to Global Industry Analysts (GIA).

Representatives from GIA have predicted that the global economic downturn will lead to more businesses using SaaS as a way of lowering expenditures on important software.

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Universities Encouraged to use Cloud IT Systems

Academic institutions should push forward with cloud-based IT solutions, according to a roundtable discussion reported by The Guardian.

The debate involved key figures from universities, research organisations and government departments, with the general consensus being that such innovations could save people time as well as money.

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Interoperability Standards Proposed for Cloud Computing

Major players in the technology sector have suggested that the use of an open interoperability specification will make cloud computing services more portable between providers.

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Gartner predicts 3.7 per cent IT growth in 2012

A tech research firm has predicted the IT world will continue to spend hard-earned cash on IT services, estimating 3.7 per cent growth in the sector this year.

Gartner believes that tech firms would be spending even more if it wasn't for natural occurrences like the Thailand floods which affected the hard disc drive industry, alongside the Eurozone crisis and economic growth cites Computer World.

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Cloud Computing Adoption Will Become A Dominant Service Market Trend

A recent KPMG survey on trends in Outsourcing and IT Services markets highlighted some key findings from their research.

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Innovise is awarded 18th place in the Times Tech Track Top 100, 2011

Innovise has been ranked 18th place in the The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100, which positions Britain's 100 private technology companies with the fastest-growing sales.

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Clouds Are Green

Sustainability is increasingly being seen as a core strategic priority for business. A recent study commissioned by the Carbon Disclosure Project has confirmed that company executives are viewing cloud computing as a way to transition to a lower carbon business model while increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations.

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Innovise ESM Training See Exceptional Pass Rates for SAM Courses Continue!

Since releasing their SAM Foundation course in early 2009 Innovise ESM Training continue to achieve a 100% pass rate for delegates passing the ISEB Software Asset Management Foundations Certificate after attending their ISEB accredited course.

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Innovise ESM Training Achieves Cisco Business Acceleration Learning Partner Status

Innovise ESM Trainingis pleased to announce they have achieved Cisco Business Acceleration Learning Partner status.

This accomplishment reflects Innovise ESM Training's skill and expertise in delivering relevant training focused on sales, business and soft skills that will enable Cisco's channel partners and Cisco's internal sales force to better position and sell Cisco products, solutions and architectures.

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Why You Should Choose Closed Training Courses

Many organisations decide to go down the route of bespoke, closed training courses, but why is this?

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Innovise is ranked 29th in the UK in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Innovise plc has been ranked 29th place in the renowned Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, which comprises the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. This is the second consecutive year they have received this recognition.

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Cloud Investment to Sky Rocket

A new survey by KPMG and Forbes reveals that most organisations expect their investment next year in Cloud to 'Sky Rocket with some spending more than 20% of their IT budget on Cloud' in 2012.

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Innovise ESM Training are now an approved Kryterion Test Centre

Innovise ESM has just been awarded the status of approved Kryterion Test Centre. This means that as well as offering a range of ServiceNow training courses, Innovise is also able to offer the opportunity for ServiceNow certification exams to be taken at our premises.

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Cloud: More Talk Than Action

Although everyone is talking about Cloud it appears that few are actually implementing it according to a survey by Symantec.

5,300 organisations in 38 countries responded on how they were adopting Cloud computing, including SaaS and PaaS.

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Innovise is awarded 18th place in the Times Tech Track Top 100, 2011

Innovise has been ranked 18th place in the The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100, which positions Britain's 100 private technology companies with the fastest-growing sales.

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APM Group confirms no more version numbers for ITIL

Today APM Group confirmed that ITIL will no longer have version numbers but will just be referred to as 'ITIL'. As ITIL V2 was withdrawn at the end of June this year, there isn't really a need for a version number any more. Gradually people will stop talking about ITIL V3 and ITIL V3:2011 and just refer to ITIL.

29th July 2011 sees the launch of the latest version of ITIL.

29th July 2011 sees the launch of the latest version of ITIL. It has been stressed that this is not a new version (it's not v4 or even v3.1!). Its just an update and the publications will carry a '2011 Edition' flash to identify this new version.

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How the Cloud is Enabling Strategic Thinking

We have already discussed in the article 'IT Needs To Get Closer To The Business' how CFOs are taking an ever increasing role in shaping the IT in organisations and how CIOs needs to better understand the needs of the business to begin to regain some control. But there is now a school of thought that the adoption of cloud computing will finally allow IT to become more strategic.

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Gartner survey of CFOs says "IT needs to get closer to the business"

A recent Gartner survey suggests that most CFOs believe that IT aren't providing clear business benefits (70%) and are not seen as a strategic partner (68%). Given that 42% of CIOs report to the CFO, according to the survey, this is not a good reflection of the understanding between IT and Finance.

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Seven Security Considerations For Cloud Computing

One of the biggest barriers to adopting cloud computing has been concerns over security. At a recent Innovise ESM seminar, ServiceNow's Security Consultant gave this advice on what areas to focus on and how the risks can be reduced.

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Innovise ESM Training is awarded Authorised Training Partner Status by ServiceNow

Innovise ESM Training has been awarded Authorised Training Partner (ATP) status by ServiceNow for the provision of advanced and entry level education programmes. The accreditation of a select number of providers worldwide as training partners is a new initiative launched by ServiceNow in July due to growing demand for training and consultancy services.

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Innovise ESM launches a new Certification training programme for ServiceNow System Administrators

The dramatic growth in the popularity of the ServiceNow Service Management platform has led to an increasing demand for ServiceNow experts. To address this need ServiceNow have authorised a select number of training partners to provide a skills verification programme and associated certifications.

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Cisco selects Innovise ESM Training to springboard a new set of certifications for the Service Operations Market

Cisco have created a new stream of certifications to address the challenges faced within the Service Provider community. As a result of the growth in subscribers and rich media services the Service Provider industry are rapidly expanding and evolving their networks. This has created a requirement for Service Providers to adapt, evolve and expand their operations network expertise to transform and manage these IP Next Generation Networks.

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Cloud computing is crucial to new growth role for IT

Chief Information Officers across the world are making cloud computing and other internet-based services their top technology priorities for 2011 in order to release resources to fund innovation and growth.

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Service-now.com a finalist for the IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards

Service-now.com, the creator of software-as-a-service (SaaS) for IT service management (ITSM), today announced it is recognised as a Vendor of the Year finalist at the prestigious IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards.

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Benchmarking report on IT spend and budgets

A new survey recently published by Forrester compares benchmarks for IT spending across different industries. Benchmarks continue to be of significant interest to CIOs as they look to defend their budgets and help to determine where to make cuts.

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Reducing cost and improving IT productivity through Service Management

Research released in the last week by the IT Job Board provides an interesting insight for Operations Managers who are struggling to manage staff productivity and cost. The research found that IT Support now accounts for 50% of all advertised IT roles, while IT Management roles have halved to 32%.

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Cisco Security Training from Innovise ESM Training

Cisco believes that the demand for security skills will outstrip demand over the next five years, recommending that customers look to install "role redundancy" within the organisation. It is not enough to just have one person skilled up to look after an organisations security, as this doesn't allow for downtime of that role, annual leave and meetings. Instead multiple people, with the correct skill set, should be trained and experienced in the different facets that complete your organisations security solution (Wendell, 2011).

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Innovise creates new software unit following acquisition of Pivetal

AIM quoted Innovise plc, is pleased to announce today that it has acquired the intellectual property assets of Pivetal Limited, which was recently placed into liquidation. A new business unit is being formed within Innovise's existing Enterprise Service Management (ESM) division to develop and exploit the powerful intellectual property created by Pivetal.

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Innovise is ranked 58th in EMEA in the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA

Innovise plc has been ranked 58th place in the renowned Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme, an independent ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Is there a need to increase awareness of Cisco Data Centre Virtualisation Services among Account Managers, Sales Engineers and Field Engineers?

Innovise ESM Training has developed 2 x 1 day workshops aimed at technical and non-technical audiences requiring clarification, positioning and understanding of Cisco Systems support of Data Centre Edge Virtualization concepts and complementary technologies (Firewalling, Wan Acceleration).

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Innovise ESM Training schedule the new Cisco Sales Essentials (CSE) v5.0

The new Cisco Sales Essentials (CSE) v5.0 a two day, instructor-led course, provides an overview of Cisco Architectures and Solutions. The course takes a high-level view of Cisco's product portfolio and focuses on helping Account Managers and Sales Engineers to understand the scope of Cisco solutions, the types of needs these solutions address, and the key technologies that make these solutions possible.

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Innovise ESM Training announce the addition of the newly released IBM OMNIbus 7.3 courses to their portfolio

Innovise ESM Training are excited to announce the addition of the full range of the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 training courses to our training schedule to support IBM's release of version 7.3.

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Innovise is ranked 10th in the UK in the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Innovise plc has been ranked 10th place in the renowned Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, which comprises the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK.

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Innovise ESM announces changes to Cisco Certified Voice and Security career tracks

Innovise ESM Training is pleased to advise our customers of the certification changes announced yesterday, by Learning® Cisco, to the Associate Level Voice, Professional Level Voice and Security career certification tracks.

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IBM Software Comes To You 2010

Date: 13th October 2010
Venue: Turbine Hall, Newton, Johannesburg

Innovise ESM Training is pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the IBM Software Comes To You conference, in Johannesburg. The conference will be held on 13th October 2010 and this informative event will explain how smarter software can transform companies into high performing organisations.

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Innovise ESM Training is now offering Cisco Saturday Boot Camps

Innovise ESM Training is pleased to introduce Saturday Boot camps across a number of our Cisco courses. Innovise ESM Training has listened to our delegates and has learnt that many delegates whom wish to have training or retrain are unable to attend during the week due to work and financial pressures.

Through the Saturday boot camps Innovise ESM Training provide our customers with access to high-quality, Cisco authorised training taught by Cisco certified instructors with real-world experience, eliminating the need to take time away from work.

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Knowledge 10 EMEA 13th September - 15th September 2010 sponsored by Innovise ESM

Date: 13th - 15th September 2010
Venue: Hotel Riverbank Park Plaza, 18 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TJ

Innovise ESM is pleased to announce that they are sponsoring the Service-Now.com Knowledge 10 EMEA conference in London. The conference will be held over three days, 13th September - 15th September 2010 and will provide an insight into the latest thinking on IT Service Management, as well updates on the cutting edge technology from Service-Now.com. This informative, once a year event has been brought to London after growing customer demand and increasing user population in EMEA.

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Innovise ESM Training now offering Tandberg Courses

Innovise ESM Training has now broadened their Unified Communications Portfolio to include a number of Tandberg training courses and workshops.

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Innovise ESM Training announces the release of the Service-Now.com reporting course

Innovise ESM Training is pleased to announce the introduction of their one day Service-Now.com reporting course. The course has been developed by Innovise ESM consultants who have deployed a number of Sevice-Now.com solutions across EMEA.

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Innovise ESM Training adds even more Cisco courses to their Early Bird offers!

Following the success of the recent introduction of Early Bird offers, Innovise ESM Training is pleased to announce they are now offering even more Cisco courses on their Early Bird special offer. These exclusive and limited offers will allow businesses to meet their training needs at a fraction of the cost.

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Innovise ESM Training allows channel partners to offer more to their customers

Innovise ESM Training takes a unique approach to training which does not just focus on filling course seats. Innovise recognises that a consultative approach to training will add more value to the services they offer directly to the Channel Partners but also the services the Channel Partners offer to their customers.

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Innovise ESM Training See Exceptional Pass Rates for SAM Courses

Innovise ESM Training today released details of the pass rates for their newly refreshed ISEB Software Asset Management Foundation and Practitioner courses. Innovise ESM Training achieved a 100% pass rate for delegates attending the ISEB Software Asset Management Foundations course and 80% pass rate for the notoriously hard ISEB Software Asset Management Practitioners course.

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Harbrook Training announces its change of name to Innovise ESM Training

Harbrook Training has changed its name to Innovise ESM Training and launched a new training specific e-commerce website, as part of the acquisition by Innovise plc.

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Innovise ESM launch new training website

Innovise ESM is pleased to announce the launch of their new training website. The new training division see's the successful name change of Harbrook, acquired by Innovise plc in 2009, to Innovise ESM Training.

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Innovise ESM Training launches Early Bird training course offers

Innovise ESM Training has released a limited number of places on courses across its entire portfolio. This will allow organisations to plan ahead for their learning and development whilst experiencing great discounts that are typically reserved for late availability.

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Innovise ESM Training launches a LinkedIn group

Innovise ESM Training's LinkedIn group allows people the opportunity to discuss IT training issues and catch up on the latest thinking and technology across its portfolio.

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Innovise ESM Training delivers first virtual worldwide delivery of NCM to a large financial institution

Following Innovise ESM Training's development of the Cisco Authorised Network Compliance Manager (NCM), Innovise ESM has successfully delivered training through the virtual learning platform WebEx to students in five different worldwide locations.

Our expert training consultants all have extensive experience of deploying this technology in real-world situations. Delegates come away with the skills needed to deploy the knowledge and skills they have gained as soon as they return to the work place. Innovise ESM Training Solutions is dedicated to the delivery of real business benefits and return on investment to our clients.

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Innovise ESM Training is awarded a contract to develop and deliver a 2-day Metro Ethernet training course for a large overseas service provider

Innovise ESM Training, as a leader in Cisco Bespoke Course Development, has been selected to develop and deliver a 2-day Metro Ethernet training course for a large overseas service provider. The training will be designed to provide the skills required to operate, troubleshoot and effectively manage a Metro Ethernet solution and will be delivered to over 50 operational and support staff.

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Innovise ESM Training is authorised by Cisco as the only European partner for the delivery of Cisco Network Compliance Manager (NCM) training

Innovise ESM Training has been authorised by Cisco as the only European partner for the delivery of Cisco Network Compliance Manager (NCM) training. This emphasises the strength of our reputation within Cisco and enhances our current portfolio of specialist network management training. The training has recently been delivered to a large UK Cisco Gold Partner with further deliveries scheduled for a global financial institution.

Network Compliance Manager (NCM) tracks and regulates configuration and software changes throughout a multivendor network infrastructure. It provides superior visibility into network changes and can track compliance with a broad variety of regulatory, IT, corporate governance, and technology requirements. NCM helps IT staff identify and correct trends that could lead to problems such as network instability and service interruption.

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Harbrook, Abilitec and Infrasolve joins training forces to form Innovise ESM Training

Harbrook, Abilitec and Infrasolve has joined training forces to form Innovise ESM Training. Innovise ESM Training will deliver authorised training across key product areas including; Cisco, IBM, Software Asset Management, Service Now, Managed Objects and Tavve.

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Cisco Annonces New CCNP, CCDP, CCIP Courses

25th January 2010

Cisco has announced changes to the CCNP certification for network engineers. The revision focuses on the competencies that are needed to plan, implement, and troubleshoot the routed and switched networks of today and is designed to be more predictive of job readiness.

Innovise ESM Training is an authorised Cisco Learning Solutions partner and is approved by Cisco to deliver the latest CCNP curriculum. Please contact us for further advice on your certification training.

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