Analysts forecast that over the next three to five years the market for cloud-based contact centre solutions will grow at …

Avaya unveils “Collaborative Cloud” strategy and solutions
Avaya has unveiled the Collaborative Cloud, a strategic framework for delivering communications and collaboration applications and services to businesses through …

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, …

World's first cloud-based WAN optimisation solution coming to Middle East in Q3
A company that touts itself as the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimisation solution will bring its “game changing” service to …

Avaya unveils collaborative cloud
Avaya today has unveiled the Collaborative Cloud, a strategic framework for delivering communications and collaboration applications and services to businesses …

Public cloud saved FarmVille, but private cloud saved us money, says Zynga CTO
Allan Leinwand, CTO of infrastructure at social gaming giant Zynga, has revealed how the company’s deployment of public cloud saved the …

AWS teams with Aryaka for unified infrastructure to access global cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced in partnership with Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimisation and application acceleration solution, …

Intel-McAfee developing cloud-security strategy
Intel, which last year acquired McAfee for its security expertise, has described work it is doing to provide enterprises with a way …

Integrating public cloud storage into your storage vision
As IT organisations build their storage plans and create a vision for the future, cloud storage and the paradigm on …

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 …

Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform
Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner …

LG to launch cloud for sharing content across smartphones, TVs and PCs
LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service today, that will allow users to access content across …

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 …

Google Drive problem is a public cloud problem, says privacy expert
The explosion of outrage from privacy advocates over Google Drive’s terms of service appears to have subsided somewhat, after a …

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 …

How cloud computing will impact the channel
The channel and reseller community will need to enhance existing skillsets and service offerings to master the cloud