Written by Mark Goros, CEO of Caringo Inc. 1. Object Storage will bring Cloud economics to any organization in 2012 A key to the affordability delivered with cloud storage is to begin with commodity components in a redundant, multi-tenant architecture with highly efficient disk utilization. These benefits are driven by object storage infrastructure which most…
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…
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…
The image below illustrates the CloudTimes top list of cloud computing companies organized in three categories and their corresponding sub categories: 1. IaaS – Cloud Management, Storage, Virtualization, Content Delivery Networks, Networking, Computing 2. PaaS – Development & Testing, Integration, Database, Application Platform, General 3. SaaS – Business Management, Vertical Apps, Tools, Cloud Security, CRM…
SAP users are continuously facing challenges and difficulties in their move towards cloud computing. This is the result of the complexity brought about by the cloud licensing structure for hybrid environments. Chairman of the UK & Ireland SAP User Group, Alan Bowling mentioned this in his message at an IT conference he attended at Birmingham….
This week Adobe unveiled six applications designed with a touch interface that will run first only on tablets using Google’s Android operating system. The Touch Apps for the Android market, which include the first touch version of Photoshop, are bound together by a service called Creative Cloud that synchronizes creative work across a broad range…
The IBM’s 2011 Tech Trends Report was released this week which highlights “significant enterprise technology trends” for the year ahead. Around 4,000 IT professionals were surveyed from 93 countries and 25 industries to garner their views on future IT trends. The report studied how businesses are adopting, using and planning to use cloud computing, mobile…
SnapLogic CEO, Gaurav Dhillon meets with CloudTimes to talk about the importance of cloud integration and the ‘app store’ model to software-as-a-service application integration. Gaurav was the co-founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation where he led the company from a startup idea to a leading worldwide software enterprise in just 12 years. In 2009, Gaurav became…