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Its only Monday but somehow there is already enough tech news to fill up your working day.

So to help you keep on top of things, Data Economy has listed the top five things you need to know today.

A recently published report predicts that the global data centresmarket will grow with a CAGR of 15.1% over the forecast period from 2019-2025,according to ReportLinker.

The study on data centres market covers the analysis of theleading geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and RoW for theperiod of 2017 to 2025.

This time last week, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slidesall briefly went down due to an unknown issue that affected the consumer andbusiness versions of Googles productivity apps.

The word processing app, which also hosts Googles spreadsheet service Sheets and submission host Forms among others, failed to load for users worldwide at around 6:30 p.m. GMT on Monday, with many complaining of error messages saying systems had detected unusual traffic.

Google Docs is utilised by millions of individuals andbusinesses worldwide, and an outage of this scale has undoubtedly led tofrustration for the students and workers whose service has been disrupted, TimDunton, MD, Nimbus Hosting.

In fact, in todays digital climate simple safe andstress-free websites must be considered a priority for organisations.

Therefore, all businesses must ensure they have efficientcyber security protocols in place, including a website and internal ITinfrastructure which is modern, secure and constantly kept up to date.

Amdocs has announced the availability of its cloud-nativeAmdocs Service & Network Automation solution to support all aspects ofservice design, inventory and orchestration across physical, logical andvirtual elements for all lines-of-business (LOBs), including enterprise/B2B,mobile, consumer broadband, as well as NFV and 5G-based services.

Amdocs also announced that a number of its customers areaccelerating their network transformation and NFV journey with the deploymentof Amdocs cloud-native operations automation suite including three integratedservices providers in EMEA, a provider of telecommunications services in theAPAC, and a MSO in North America.

Pulse Secure has announced that Alex Thurber is joining theexecutive team as Chief Revenue Officer, where he will be responsible forglobal sales strategy, management and team development.

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We are committed to providing the easiest, most effectivesolutions for enterprises to secure access to applications and data acrosstheir hybrid IT environments, said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO of Pulse Secure.

We are excited to have Alex join our team and spearhead ourforward momentum in the marketplace.

Alex has the experience to drive growth of ourindustry-leading Zero Trust solutions into an ever-evolving securitylandscape.

Edge computing firm Scale Computing reports it achievedrecord sales in Q4 driven by its OEM partnerships and edge-based deal activity,exiting 2019 at a growth rate of over 90% in total software revenue.

As a result, Scale Computing recorded its best year yet,extending worldwide sales as it added hundreds of new customers, includinggains in distributed enterprises, strategic partnerships, channel growth, andan expansion of its HC3 Edge product portfolio.

Across industries and segments, companies are looking todrive out complexity and maximize application uptime, said Jeff Ready, CEO andco-founder of Scale Computing.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in edge computing, wherehands-on IT personnel and on-site resources are limited.

Whether at the edge or in the data centre, customers wantto reduce the complexity and minimize the cost of their IT processes, and atScale Computing, we are delivering competitive solutions that solve the needsof our customers around the world, as evidenced by our ratings on Gartner PeerInsights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

In 2020, we anticipate even higher growth for Scale Computing as a leading player in the edge computing and hyperconverged space, and we look forward to the successes this year will bring.

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