Analysts forecast that over the next three to five years the market for cloud-based contact centre solutions will grow at …
EMEA firms splash a third of IT budget on the cloud
European enterprises plan to spend almost one-third of their annual IT budget on cloud computing over the next 18 months, …
VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service offering …
Opening up the cloud opportunity for channel partners
George DeBono, GM, Middle East and Africa at Red Hat outlines some of the ways in which the open source …
Huawei: Touch-free smartphones and infinite cloud storage are on the way
Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its …
Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds
Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described …
Salesforce.com hypes social enterprise at cloud conference
Salesforce.com is touting social enterprise as the next major evolution in business computing and focussed on its emergence at its …
CommVault collaborates with Microsoft to offer cloud storage capability
CommVault today announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to offer a cloud storage capability that combines Simpana software with the …
From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by …
VMware: Cloud Foundry is like Linux for the cloud
EMC VMware has likened its Cloud Foundry PaaS (platform as a service) to Linux for the cloud, serving as an application portability …
Cisco, NetApp tout entry-level FlexPod cloud architecture
Cisco and NetApp have announced plans to sell a new FlexPod cloud architecture, this time as an entry-level model designed …
Do you have a cloud career plan?
The explosive growth of cloud technologies is shaking up IT departments everywhere. This technology shift is creating a new professional …
Cloud helps solve resourcing, collaboration problems: Intergence CEO
Using cloud services benefits mobile workers and those operating virtual offices that traditionally have to rely on high speed broadband …
EMC expands cloud portfolio
EMC yesterday announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimisation and management of …
Cloud to create 14 million jobs globally, 9.62 million in Asia-Pac: Microsoft research
Cloud computing will create 14 million jobs globally by 2015 and 9.62 million in Asia Pacific alone, according to IDC …
Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative
As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximise the business benefits …
Terremark launches private cloud offering
Terremark is offering enterprises a new private cloud service that includes the option to burst onto a public cloud. The …
Citrix takes CloudStack to Apache, abandons OpenStack
Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has …
Public sectors reluctant to embrace cloud: IDC survey
Over half of public sector organisations have no budget assigned specifically to cloud computing, according to an IDC survey. The …
We are entering the era of ‘pervasive computing’ says Cisco’s Charney
In his keynote at Cisco Expo UAE 2012, which took place last week at the Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, …