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UK’s CDDO seeks workforce strategy lead

The UK Cabinet Office is looking to hire a head of workforce strategy and transformation to work within its Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO). 

The CDDO leads the government’s digital and data function and exists to help state departments achieve digital transformation across their operations and services. 

The new head of workforce strategy and transformation will earn a base salary of between £64,700 (US$82,568) and £69,200 (US$88,324), and is expected to be stationed in Bristol or Manchester. The role represents what the government called “the primary interface between the…

WELLINGTON NORTH – Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy (WGDS) wants to hear from people who access, or would like to access, substance use and harm reduction services in Wellington County. 

WGDS is hosting community conversations in Mount Forest and Arthur on harm reduction to hear from those from Wellington County with lived experience. 

“Come hang and chat about your insights on harm reduction, experiences using services in the county and ideas on improvement,” an event posted said, adding there is no obligation to share and people are allowed to come “hang out.”

This is a drop-in event with no need to register and is considered an “informal conversation” that will help inform a larger community event on May 16. Pizza, snacks and a $10 Tim Horton’s gift card…

Rackspace Announces Open Source Datacenter Strategy

Rackspace to further the open cloud vision by extending it into its data center infrastructure solutions

SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Rackspace® Hosting (NYS: RAX) COO Mark Roenigk today unveiled plans by the San Antonio-based open cloud company to support and partner with Open Compute suppliers that provide open source datacenter solutions.

Rackspace launched the industry’s first OpenStack powered cloud platform of compute, storage and networking in 2012.

“Rackspace will support those companies and organizations that share our vision for an open cloud,” said Roenigk. “Rackspace is committed to supporting like-minded companies who are dedicated to open standards and breaking down the engineering barriers that lock users into…

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A multi-cloud strategy is a formal business approach that acknowledges that a company’s needs are best served by using multiple clouds for its range of operational and technology functions. Cloud services can be engaged to provide more computing power and storage, to scale capacity while only paying for resources you use, as part of a disaster recovery and failover plan, or simply to avoid vendor lock-in with a single cloud provider. Whatever the reason, businesses need a formal strategy for managing their operations in a multi-cloud environment. This article explains how to create such a strategy and looks at the…