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SaaS – You’ll Get What You Pay For

July 8, 2011

Recently, Adrian Steel, who is the head of infrastructure and management at the Royal Mail, moved all of the company’s IT into the cloud. This meant changing from desktops to things like Microsoft’s BPOS and Office365, and while some of the cost savings have appeared as advertised, Steel would “love to be able to access [...]

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Cloud Challenges And Champions – What To Expect

July 7, 2011

At the recent Cloud Leadership Forum in Santa Clara, CA, CIOs, IT managers, analysts and vendors from across the globe came together to discuss the current challenges facing the world of cloud computing, as well as the advantages it can bring. Chaired by Frank Gens and John Gallant of IDC and IDG, respectively, the forum [...]

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Hyper-V Coming To A Windows 8 Desktop Near You

July 7, 2011

A recent leaked build of Windows 8 shows that it will support virtualization technologies – and it is no surprise that the core of these technologies is Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Having a virtualization client built right into the OS will mean that the system will already support these environments natively, and that plug-ins like Virtual PC [...]

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Will An Apple A Day Scare Cloud Hosters Away?

July 6, 2011

According to Scott Gibson, director of product management at Rackspace, “Apple’s announcement of iCloud is a huge proof point to the importance of the cloud.” With a company like Apple backing the notion of the cloud as the “next generation” of inter-connectivity, there can be no question that the cloud is on its way up; [...]

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Storage in the Cloud – Rainy Days for SMBs

July 6, 2011

With many gurus telling the world that the age of the cloud has come, the move to the cloud is not always all it’s cracked up to be. In a recent study, a cloud storage provider, Drobo, discovered that while most small and medium sized business were well aware of the what the cloud had [...]

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Cloud Spending On the Way UP, Says IDC

July 5, 2011

Research firm IDC has taken a look at where cloud computing is heading, and is of the opinion that the cloud is set to “radically expand the users and uses of information technology, leading to a wide and entirely new variety of intelligent industry solutions.” This, they say, will be a driving factor in the [...]

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Dell Finds Cloud Building Blocks With RNA

July 5, 2011

According to a statement made on the Web site of Oregon-based RNA Networks, the company “has been acquired by Dell Inc”. Along with this notice of acquisition, the message goes on to talk about the benefits of Dell, and lists an offer for interested parties to look for a career at Dell. Although the large [...]

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The Cloud Now And In The Future – Experts Speak Out

July 5, 2011

At the recent GigaOM Structure Event, a number of large players in the cloud industry discussed not only the current state of the cloud, but where they saw it heading in the next few years. In an interview with Satya Nadella, Forbes bureau chief Eric Savitz asked the President of Server Tools and Business about [...]

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Cloud and Virtual Migrations Present Real Challenges

July 1, 2011

“Virtualization is an enabler for private and hybrid clouds and our survey shows that planning a seamless move is critical to achieving all the simplicity, affordability and efficiency that these environments have to offer,” according to John Magee, VP of cloud solutions and actualization at Symantec. The survey he is referring to is Symantec’s 2011 [...]

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Private Cloud Anti-Spamming Device Set to Launch

July 1, 2011

According to Ronan Kavanagh, CEO of anti-spam software developer SpamTitan, “the uptake of cloud computing is set to increase in 2011 with cost savings and flexibility being the key motivators.” This uptake comes with several unpleasant side effects, one of the most obvious and most annoying being an increase the in amount of spam on [...]

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