People are accustomed to using their beautifully-designed and easy-to-use productivity tools in their everyday life. As employees, they now have the same expectation for their work environment. Companies are allowing employees to use their own devices (BYOD) and adopt low-cost SaaS-based solutions to save IT substantial costs but this now renders concerns around security and…
Enterprise Startups SDN Market Reaches $4 Billion Software-defined networking (SDN) changes the way companies build their IT networks. Instead of buying expensive routers and switches with a lot of fancy features from the likes of Cisco, companies can buy simpler, cheaper hardware, and less of it, and those fancy features are handled by a new…
Email is constantly the subject of criticism, doubt and ridicule since social networking sites started redefining “personal communication”. Five years ago, predictions and expert opinion started cropping up about the impending demise of email. Lo and behold, email is still alive and very much kicking. The 20 Marketing Trends & Predictions for 2013 Project states…
IDC Estimates Global Market for SDN to Reach $50 Billion by 2017 According to IDC, in 2013 the global market volume of the software defined network (SDN) market and enterprise networking will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across all categories, by 2017. The volume of the Layer 2-3 switch market…
According to IDC, in 2013 the global volume of the enterprise networking market (which includes software defined networks (SDN)) will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across all categories, by 2017. The volume of the Layer 2-3 switch market segment of the market has increased by 46.9% compared to the same period last…
TechNavio’s analysts forecast the SMB Cloud market in the APAC region to grow at a CAGR of 39.3 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the main factors contributing to this market growth is the reduced costs of the cloud approach. The APAC cloud market has also been witnessing increasing adoption of next-generation technologies. However,…
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is developing a unified vision for cloud requirements – particularly focused on open, interoperable solutions for secure cloud federation, automation of cloud infrastructure, common management, and transparency of cloud service delivery. As in previous years, CloudTimes is proud to announce to be a media partner for this year’s Forecast conference. ODCA’s…
In the past two decades, enormous innovation has taken place on top of the Internet architecture. Email, e-commerce, search, social networks, cloud computing, and the web as we know it is all good examples. With the evolution of cloud computing and virtualization, IT managers have had to change in recent years the way we interact…
Cloud storage provider Datacore Software released the results of its third annual survey of the state of virtualization, which cut the adoption of virtualization strategies by organizations due to storage-related costs and I/O performance issues. The State of Virtualization Survey Storage survey, suggests that businesses are willing to virtualize their mission critical applications, but higher…
It’s not a secret that the US army takes special interest in groundbreaking technology, and was responsible for the development of GPS technology for example. GPS started out as technology exclusive to the military – but what about the Cloud? Cloud as a concept has been around for a long time and the technology has…