The public cloud services market in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is on pace to grow 23 percent in 2014 to total $629 million, up from $511 million in 2013, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, while Software as a service (SaaS) is expected to grow 26.3 percent in 2014 to $123 million.
Cloud drives Saudi ICT market to top $33 billion
Cloud investment is gathering momentum, with organisations in Saudi Arabia increasing software spend by 5.5 percent, boosting the Kingdom’s ICT market to $33 billion (SAR 127 billion), according to a recent report by IDC. 0 4359EMC takes on Amazon, Microsoft with public-cloud alternative
EMC today unveiled a new product initiative called Project Nile, which it expects will be the world’s first commercially available, complete …
Public cloud services market to exceed $180bn by 2015
The public cloud services market is predicted to exceed $180 billion by 2015, according to a newly released report by …
IT storage revolution in the era of cloud and Big Data
As forward-looking enterprises consider the future of their IT architectures, the key question emerging is not public versus private cloud, but rather how the enterprise will ensure consistency across an environment that includes both.
Most BYOD businesses exposing data to cyber criminals
New research has shown that the vast majority of businesses are exposing sensitive corporate data to cyber-criminals by failing to implement effective BYOD strategies.
IBM continues cloud push with CSL aquisition
IBM has acquired virtualisation management software firm CSL International, with the aim of improving the cloud computing capabilities of its zEnterprise System mainframes.
Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public cloud-weary enterprises
Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware.
CERN planning OpenStack hybrid cloud strategy with Rackspace
CERN openlab is running a pilot hybrid cloud project with Rackspace as the research facility seeks to enable the expansion of its OpenStack environment.
VMware and MapR hope to simplify virtualised big data
MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualise Big Data applications and get better support at the same time.
Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud
Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public …