Business leaders around the world are discovering that cloud computing is more expensive than imagined at the time they decided to adopt the technology, according to KPMG survey report. The KPMG survey, “The cloud takes shape”, polled more than 650 IT and business leaders across 16 major global markets and found that almost 33% of…
The global enterprise cloud-based services market will reach $31.9 billion in 2017 against $18.3 billion in 2012, according to research group Analysys Mason. This forecast report presents an enterprise cloud services forecast for both IaaS and SaaS and both revenue and ARPU forecasts for large enterprises and SMEs. According to the research group, the annual…
As cloud computing technology matured, people eventually realized that hybrid cloud has its place, as it managed to change the way businesses consume cloud resources while also filling in gaps in the workload functionality of the technology. As time went by, the technology has matured further and businesses were able to connect multi-site hybrid clouds…
Kii announced the general availability of Kii Cloud during last week’s Apps World in San Francisco (CloudTimes is a media sponsor of Apps World). Kii Cloud provides back-end services that help with user acquisition, retention and monetization for mobile apps. The solution allows also to add user management and data management functionality without writing any server code –…
IBM announced a new version of its public cloud, which has more support and services for managing enterprise applications in the cloud, such as SAP in particular. According to IBM, the main reason why large companies are reluctant to use public cloud resources is that the model of free service offered by various providers does…
Technology Business Research Inc. had recently launched the results of its survey conducted in 2012 with 1,300 enterprise decision makers in various parts of the world like Singapore, Japan, India, China, Australia, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Businesses included in the survey include media, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, financial and banking, and the public sector….
The security landscape is undergoing profound changes. There has been advanced attacks, widespread fraud with the growing use of social media, mobility and cloud. While companies must manage growing volume of data, how the data should be protected when business is changing rapidly is the real concerns. To help detect stealth threats that can be…
With the present impact of cloud computing on data access and storage, job descriptions are also experiencing some sort of a metamorphosis as businesses move to the clouds. This welcome change isn’t only transforming the IT departments but also the company, as a whole. Today, IT is no longer relegated to fixing issues. Employees in…
With over 6000 apps industry professionals & developers already registered, the global multi-platform Apps World opens on 7-8 February this week. CloudTimes is proud to be a media sponsor for this year’s App World Conference. Taking over the iconic Moscone Center West on Thursday and Friday, Apps World will deliver ten expert tracks of industry content, discussion, advice and analysis, with…
Large data sources in the world today are vast. Companies today have access to a vast range of innovative resources that give companies the ability to gather and analyze consumer information. They can act as a continuous incoming data from the measuring device, the events from radio frequency identifiers, message streams from social networks, meteorological…