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The partnership combines ITRS’ market-leading IT monitoring solution and Microsystems’ strong customer base and market knowledge.ITRS Group (ITRS), the leading provider of estate monitoring, capacity planning, IT analytics and load testing to cross-industry enterprise clients, has today announced a partnership with Korea Microsystem Inc (Microsystem). The partnership is ITRS’s first reseller partnership in South Korea and allows ITRS access to a key market in the country. 

ITRS Group (“ITRS”), the leading provider of estate monitoring, capacity planning, IT analytics and load testing to cross-industry enterprise clients, has today announced a renewed partnership with Refinitiv. The collaboration will ensure the health of critical market data feeds for the global financial services industry.

In this short session Guy Warren discusses:

Improvements we’ve made based on your feedback At ITRS Group we are always striving to wear our customer's shoes. So much so that it’s one of our 6 values as a business. With that said, our survey process is central to company direction. Below I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the changes we’ve made as a result of the survey, over the last few years, and provide a reminder that we have a new survey coming up.  

BackgroundAB Svenska Spel (‘Swedish Games’) is a state-owned corporation operating in the regulated gambling market in Sweden, covering everything from casino to sports betting and beyond. With casinos in four locations, 5,100 retailers and partners and 4,300 Vegas video lottery terminals throughout Sweden, in addition to online games and sport betting, they are the leading gambling operator in terms of market share. Challenge

While Covid-19 is forcing many firms to make massive cutbacks to staff and resources, the majority are unknowingly wasting approximately 35% of cloud spend at any one time thanks to a lack of oversight over their increasingly complex cloud estates. This equates to $80 billion of total global cloud spend down the drain every year.

ITRS Group customers; and CloudOur customers are continuing to move workloads from traditional on-premise data centres to cloud platforms, orchestrated container environments (e.g. Kubernetes or Openshift) or both.  In our previous newsletter we talked about work we have done to support these environments – running in the cloud, getting data from cloud platforms, running in orchestrated environments, and capturing data from inside applications.In this newsletter we are focussed on one additional aspect of these environments: cost.

The popularity of cloud technology has risen rapidly, surging from a small back-office concern to an integral part of business strategy. This demand is showing no signs of stopping with the public cloud market set to exceed $330bn in 2022. And while companies continue to rush towards this technology, few have worked out how to use it efficiently, as 35% of cloud spend remains unused and wasted, the equivalent of $80bn.