Condo Protego CEO Andrew Calthorpe urges VARs not to get spooked by the cloud as it moves from buzzword to …

Oracle acquires private cloud firm Nimbula
Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent …
Reaching for the cloud
Despite a very challenging political and economic milieu in the region, the home networking major D-Link has grown at a …

IBM: OpenStack will be central to future cloud strategy
Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be …

Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year, says Gartner
The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm …

Many private clouds ‘not clouds at all’
The line between virtualisation and a private cloud can be a fuzzy one, and according to a new report by Forrester Research, …

Ericsson and SAP collaborate on cloud-based M2M solutions
Ericsson and SAP have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based M2M solutions and services to enterprises via …

EU issues cloud warning
The growth in cloud computing is a double-edged sword, Europe’s top cyber security agency warned on Thursday. The European Network …

Cloud World Forum quickly attracts delegates
Over 200 delegates have already signed up to join global cloud experts at the third annual Cloud World Forum MENA, …

Cloud World Forum attracts 40-plus keynote speakers
The third annual Cloud World Forum MENA will attract over 40 keynote speakers from the region’s top organsations, such as …

Firewalls in the cloud era
Wieland Alge, Vice-President and General Manager EMEA, Barracuda Networks, explains how firewalls improve the cloud while the cloud improves them. …

HP launches new cloud unit
HP has created a new unit to oversee the company’s cloud services and software products, in apparent recognition of the …

Cloud, mobile and BI skills to lead technology hiring in 2013
IT hiring in 2013 will focus on jobs involving cloud computing, mobile technology and business intelligence, said staffing professionals. But …

Cloud service partnerships to boom in 2013
Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report …

Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud
Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track …

Enterprises to ‘get real’ about cloud in 2013: Forrester
IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according …

Survey: 1 in 3 ‘mission-critical’ applications now in cloud
About 1 in 3 “mission-critical” applications are currently in the cloud, and this is expected to increase to 1 in 2 by …

Cloud creates channel opportunities, says Brocade survey
New research from Brocade surveying 500 channel organisations worldwide shows that professional services in the area of cloud computing is …
Schneider Electric anticipates major cloud adoption in region
Schneider Electric has announced it has registered stable growth of four percent over the last quarter, as well as nine …

What does the cloud mean to you?
The world of computing is always changing; corporate mainframe computers were replaced by desktops; desktops became laptops; phones became mobile …