The Asia-Pacific (AP) public cloud services market will increase five fold over the next five years with revenues of US$12billion …
Path perfect
In the second part of the interview, Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare explains the path ahead for the company across …
Planning for growth
EMC, one of the largest IT firms with dealings in everything from storage to security, has big plans for the …
On the air
In an industry synonymous with information sharing, media and broadcasting organisations in the region are investing in technology to manage, …
MEA region strategic to growth: EMC
EMC describes itself as a “global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information …
Dell debuts cloud-ready system
Using OpenStack cloud software, Dell has created a package of hardware, software and services that organizations can use to deploy …
VMware unveils VMware vSphere5 and comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite
VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Gartner outlines contractual terms to reduce cloud risks
IT procurement or sourcing managers challenged with finding sourcing options that reduce costs at tolerable risks should examine nine contractual …
Riding the cloud
The Jumeirah Group has built a private cloud in a hybrid environment to connect disparate offices and improve efficiency. Home …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant disses Amazon cloud
Gartner's Magic Quadrant report has placed Amazon's cloud computing service in one of its lower tiers, saying that for all …
Clearing the clouds
Middle East enterprises are slowly warming to the promise of cloud computing and are beginning to implement services in specific …
Identity in the cloud
Novell has made its Cloud Security Service generally available. The company announced the service, which gives cloud providers the opportunity …
Infrastructure services users worry less about security
A recent Yankee Group survey about enterprise use of IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings found that once companies start using such services, …
RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary …
Cloud security: Try these techniques now
For Logiq³ Inc., the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a …
Cloud security: Try these techniques now
For Logiq³ Inc., the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a …
Cloud storage
Cloud storage may be creating a stir these days, but big enterprise users aren't buying in — at least not …
Enter the cloud
The economic and social motivation for the cloud is high, the business need for speed and agility is like never …