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, …
At home in the cloud: The emerging opportunity for telecom operators
Residential consumers are demanding more and more cloud computing services and storage, and the volume of data they want to store in the cloud is substantial.
Cloud will create more jobs than internet did: study
Cloud computing has a greater potential for employment growth than the internet did in its early years, according to a …
Injazat opens two-day data and cloud event
Injazat today opened a two-day international data centre and cloud computing technology conference in collaboration with New York University Abu …
Talent pool too small for skyrocketing cloud job demand
The number of job postings in the cloud computing industry is growing so rapidly that there aren’t enough qualified workers …
Cloud economics improving for users in wake of price cuts
Cloud computing price cuts by Google, Amazon and now Microsoft may indicate that businesses are discovering that moving to the …
IETF explores new working group on identity management in the cloud
Proponents of a common scheme for managing user identity in cloud-based applications will pitch their idea to the Internet’s premier standards-setting body …
Optimus inks pact with Cloud Security Alliance
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the global thought-leader in cloud …
Google and Amazon cut prices of cloud services
Both Google and Amazon have reduced the prices of their respective cloud-based services. Google has cut the price of its Cloud …
Cloud will create 14 million jobs by 2014: Study
Implementation of cloud services will create 14 million jobs internationally by 2014, with the greatest increases occurring in emerging markets, …