Bill Gates today ruled out ever returning to the helm of Microsoft after Fortune reported rumors this month that Gates was considering a comeback to Microsoft, the company he founded in 1975 but stepped back from in 2006 to focus full-time on philanthropy. Gates spoke today in Sydney, where he is on holiday with his family, that he…
Google has officially announced the start of construction of its Singapore data center, which will cost US$120 million. The new data center is located in Jurong West and is expected to be complete by early 2013. The head of Google Southeast Asia, Julian Persaud said at the data centre groundbreaking ceremony “Building this data centre is…
Several happenings marked Microsoft’s week as they unveiled their new Windows 8 App store. Other than this a revamp of Xbox Live Dashboard took place and a new four-year partnership agreement with HP was also recently signed. The new business solutions will be the integration of Microsoft’s cloud products that include Lync Server 2010, Microsoft…
The cloud is all clear and promising, but do people really understand what it is all about? It is now part of almost all sectors of society from small businesses to giant online shops, from social networking to government finances. The next move from giant nations like the US is to migrate entirely to the…
Gartner predicts cloud computing will rise as the most influential factor in terms of technology and economy. It will continue to be about applications and cloud services in 2012. Experts say that the cloud’s leasing scheme of digitized IT services, assets and business solutions will boost small to large business enterprises. This is a result…
For a decade now, Marc Benioff had to deal with the comments that his company Salesforce.com had been fired with. Recently, however, Salesforce received a sincere flattery from its rivals when most of these companies started to acquire more firms to set up their own cloud platform, which is a pioneer strategy from Salesforce. One…
CloudSigma announced today that it has secured a significant round of angel investment funding from its own chairman, Anthony Foy, and director Phil Collerton. Both Foy and Collerton have deep technological expertise in data centers, cloud and managed services, enterprise software and telecommunications, and are well-positioned to help strategically shape and foster the company’s growth….
Some of the cloud predictions for 2012 include huge cloud computing pullouts, IT skills shortage and government control and regulation for social media and networking. 2011 was a year to reckon for the IT industry because of the huge effect of cloud computing in most business solutions. This even became unprecedented because of the participation…
HP computers now also offer its PC buyers with cloud data storage and collaboration services. This was the result of the recent partnership of HP with Box.com, a cloud company that offers data center storage and collaboration services that are cloud-based. HP’s move is an admission that computer and business IT computing is now towards…
SAP AG finally purchased SuccessFactors Inc.; a Web-based software company that will serve as the vehicle for SAP to be at par with its rival’s Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud market. SAP had been suffering in the business for five years now as it tried to create cloud applications to get a chunk of…