Cloud computing is not the future of IT and commoditisation is, says analyst house Forrester, although the two support each …
Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software
After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat yesterday launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms. Most organisations …
EMC and Terremark ink joint cloud agreement
Terremark, the cloud vendor owned by Verizon, has become a platinum member of EMC’s cloud service provider program, solidifying a relationship between …
Winning in Vegas with cloud
When you stage a conference in Las Vegas, there is always the risk that the attendees succumb to the evil …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Appcelerator’s development tool Titanium now comes with cloud services
Appcelerator has announced version 2.0 of its cross-platform mobile development platform Titanium, which includes integrated cloud services that will make …
Brocade and EMC partner on cloud initiative
Brocade recently announced that it has been selected by EMC as a networking partner for the storage vendor’s new EMC …
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 …
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 …
Windows 8 update: Back up Windows Server 8 to the cloud
Microsoft is offering free tests of online backup for Windows Server 8 via its Azure cloud storage service, which could be a convenient way …
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 …
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.