Asia’s cloud computing industry group recently unveiled two initiatives that can help guide organisations in the region as they consider …
Dell opens cloud centre in China
Dell opened a data centre in Shanghai this week to host public and private clouds and to provide customers with …
Intel outlines cloud vision
The year 2015 is going to be a watershed year for IT in many ways. Analysts predict that by …
Cloud will be main operating channel: Colt
The majority of CIOs across Europe believe the cloud will provide their main IT operating channel by 2014, according to …
Cloud top priority for Asian CIOs: Gartner
Chief information officers (CIOs) in Asia are continuing to search for innovative cloud technologies to support business growth, according to …
Enterprise Java upgrade geared to PaaS clouds
The next version of enterprise Java will be fitted with capabilities for PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud computing, an Oracle official said …
OBS, Sita to build a global cloud infrastructure
SITA, the air transport industry IT specialist, and Orange Business Services (OBS), the leading global integrated communications service provider for …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
IBM unveils SmartCloud for DR
IBM today announced new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes …
IBM rolls out smart cloud for DR
IBM has unveiled new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes …
VMware to buy Digital Fuel to simplify cloud economics
VMware is to acquire Digital Fuel Technologies, a vendor of IT financial management software that helps companies determine the cost …
Cloud now used by 80% of firms: Capgemini
A worldwide survey of 1,250 C-level executives and IT directors shows that 81% of firms have already moved at least …
People and processes – barriers to cloud: VMware
People and processes are barriers to cloud adoption, not technology and security, according to VMware. “Technologically, the issues [around cloud …
HP, Toshiba to collaborate on cloud computing
Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will collaborate to push cloud computing and related services to infrastructure organisations, the companies said over the …
Fujistu introdues pre-configured data centre for private cloud
Fujitsu introduced today its first completely preconfigured data centre environment in the Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio with Microsoft Windows Server …
IBM building security into cloud fabric
IBM said the company is looking to many of its existing tools, from the Tivoli management system to Cognos business …
HP sets $2B in financing to speed cloud adoption
On the big screen at its user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard (HP) executives tried to make the practice of …
Jobs unveils free iCloud sync, storage service
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today took the stage at his company’s annual developers conference to tout the new iOS 5, …
SMBs are forsaking the cloud: survey
The majority 60% of UK SMBs are focused on improving existing IT systems and processes in order to find efficiencies, …
Cloud computing “like ordering a pizza”
IT industry professionals, analysts and vendors all have their unique ideas when it comes to describing what cloud computing means, …