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As the industrys executives move, Data Economy follows! So with that being said, here is what you need to know to get you up to speed today.

Colt Technology Services has appointed Annette Geuther as its Vice President (VP) of New Business Development, reporting to Keri Gilder, Colts Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

Geuther joins Colt from ADVA, where she most recently servedas its Senior Vice President Sales Emerging Markets.

Im delighted to be welcoming Annette into the team. AtColt, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront when it comes to new andemerging technologies, and Ive no doubt that Annettes vast knowledge andexperience will help us to continue to innovate and challenge the industrystatus quo, said Keri Gilder, CCO, Colt.

CNet Training appointed two new team members at the companysHQ in Suffolk, UK. New Instructor Andrew Reeves is set to join the team of CNetInstructors who deliver data centre and network infrastructure programs acrossthe globe.

Andy Brisbane has also joined the CNet team as MarketResearcher, and will work alongside the sales and marketing teams to provideinsight into opportunities and to support the company in achieving on-goinggrowth opportunities.

Former VP strategic portfolio manager for Deutsche Telekom AxelClauberg has left the company to join Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS appointed Clauberg as a Solutions Architects Leader.Prior to T-Systems International, Clauberg worked at Cisco Systems for 13 yearswhere he held various roles including Director, Systems Engineeringm Solutions& Architectures, as well as Director, Systems Engineering, Advanced Technologies.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Singapore has appointedPriscilla Chong as the organisations Managing Director for Singapore.

She started her career at HP as an account manager and waspromoted to various leadership roles. Before joining HP, she was a CreditManager at HSBC Capital, and was responsible for credit and businessdevelopment.

Priscilla is uniquely suited to lead the Singapore team aswe continue to evolve into an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service provider,said Narinder Kapoor, APAC Managing Director, HPE.

I look forward to working with her as we continue to growand develop the business in Singapore further.

A recent report by cloud computing firm Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) revealed that the majority of enterprises continue to view hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model, with this approach most firmly established in the UK where hybrid cloud was found to be already in use across 24% of the companies surveyed, compared to an average global uptake of 13%.

Like other countries, the UK figures also showed anunexpected blip in the move away from legacy data centres.

In the UK, hybrid cloud growth continued, showing an 8% rise over the year. There are more hybrid cloud deployments in the UK than any other country except Italy and Brazil.

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