Habtoor Hotels has become the latest enterprise in the region to express its satisfaction with a move to the cloud. …
VMware acquiring cloud automation vendor DynamicOps
Expanding beyond the delivery of software for its own cloud platform, VMware is acquiring DynamicOps for its heterogenous cloud management …
HP cloud plans focus on open source, management
HP reiterated its commitment to open cloud computing standards this week at the Red Hat Summit, as the company’s enterprise cloud vice …
Amazon cloud hit by real clouds, also knocking out Instagram, Pinterest
Digital cloud services aren’t immune to the impact of real clouds, and that meant some bad news this weekend for …
Data Centres and Cloud Computing: Implications for the Cabling Infrastructure
A third of consumers' digital content will be in the cloud by 2016: Gartner
The desire to share content and to access it on multiple devices will motivate consumers to start storing a third …
Big data in the cloud
There’s a wealth of data that companies can use to better understand customers and identify emerging business opportunities and threats. …
Samsung mulls enterprise cloud services for mobile devices
Samsung is looking into the idea of hosting its own cloud services to extend the appeal of its Android-based consumer …
Amazon pitches MySQL in the cloud for $19 a month
Amazon Web Services has introduced a micro version of its cloud-based database service RDS running MySQL and priced from US$19 …
McAfee tightens integration of cloud security products
McAfee has tightened the integration between components of its cloud security platform to improve reporting on web traffic and the …
Red Hat launches Cloud Forms
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the next step in its delivery of open …
Forrester: Cloud is not the future of IT
Cloud computing is not the future of IT and commoditisation is, says analyst house Forrester, although the two support each …
Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs
Amazon Web Services has integrated configuration templates and auto-scaling features with its Spot Instances offering in an effort to make …
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 …
Ellison: Oracle will deliver world's 'most comprehensive cloud'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared the company is ready to offer “the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth,” during …
Cloud-based mobile device management getting hot: Gartner
To place management controls on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones used in business, the enterprise has showed preference for acquiring …
SAP to pay $4.3B for cloud B2B vendor Ariba
SAP has agreed to purchase cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion. The deal has been unanimously approved by Ariba’s …
Dell reaches for the cloud with new prototype ARM server
Dell yesterday announced a prototype low-power server with ARM processors, following a growing demand by Web companies for custom-built servers …
D-Link Cloud Routers 1200 and 2000
D-Link recently introduced the latest additions to its line of wireless cloud routers that are configurable and manageable from a …