An updated forecast has been recently released for enterprise software and cloud computing. This is due to the increasing influence of security, mobility, integration of legacy systems, and analytics which are now being taken into consideration by IT corporate heads in their buying decisions. In an article by Forbes, it says that both Gartner and…
By Scott Hebner, Vice President, IBM Cloud & Business Infrastructure Management Social, mobile and cloud are more than just three of the most hyped buzz words in technology, they are three facets of the same movement and an everyday reality for consumers and businesses alike. Whether you’re a college student streaming music on a smartphone…
Asia Pacific Cloud Index Survey, a report come up from the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), is projected that the business of cloud computing will generate more than 14 million jobs around the globe including 10 million in the Asia Pacific region in the next three years. The group’s Cloud Readiness Index gives us an…
Symantec has presented its vision for a secure, agile and efficient cloud. Within five years, companies would operate in a world of cloud, virtualization and mobile computing, converged IT; a world in which the cloud will be much more secure. Today, cloud computing technologies are changing rapidly. A survey conducted by Symantec reveals that 23%…
In a research by Bain & Company in the Middle East, it revealed that cloud computing revenues can reach almost $150 billion in 2020, which accounts to 8% of the total technology expenditures. The research, titled “The Five Faces of the Cloud”, believes that the Middle East has to strengthen its network if the region…
Hadoop is a free Java framework for distributed applications and intensive data management. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. With Hadoop, companies discover and put into practice new techniques for analysis and retrieval of data, techniques previously impossible to implement for reasons of performance, cost and technology. As…
In a conference in Orlando, Florida, Gartner Inc. revealed that the central focus of IT consisting of social media innovations, mobile devices, web information, and cloud computing can disrupt the whole IT environment. Addressing at least 10,000 participants, Gartner Vice President David Cearley said that at the rate things are going the mobile experience is…
Gartner named the top 10 technologies and trends in IT that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013. The analysts presented their findings at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference, which was held in Orlando last week. Gartner calls a strategic technology that can have a major impact on the corporate market in the next three…
This article is a summary of the research paper “Cloud forensics: An overview“. Cloud computing is said to be a game changing technologies in the recent history of computing. Unfortunately, due to its young age, cloud companies don’t have yet any process that allows for a set procedure on how to investigate or go about…
A large number of potential adopters of cloud computing in Europe are averse to embracing the technology fully due to unfounded fears that it has unnecessary risks or dangers operations and management, resulting in the region falling behind a large part of the world. While there are specific challenges that need to be hurdled with…