China is the newest country to see the massive potential of cloud computing, and the nation is now throwing its massive weight behind the cloud, with the country currently accounting for around 3% of the global cloud computing market share, estimated to be around $90 billion USD in 2011 alone. Their annual growth rate is…
The combination of higher energy prices, increased demand for computing capacity, environmental and economic pressure has made the development of energy-efficient data centers key to transforming the IT industry. According to a recent report from Pike Research, the global market for green data centers will grow from $17.1 billion in 2012 to $45.4 billion by…
How To Counter Threats Of Cloud Computing Phishing is a popular scam to bait internet users into providing private information. It usually acquires information for the purpose of identity theft. A “phisher” usually sends emails to various individuals and claims to be a legitimate entity. People are duped into providing their personal information, mostly of…
Federal IT managers believe benefits of moving mission-critical applications to the cloud, but many of those apps require major re-structuring to modernize them for the cloud, according to the online community and go-to resource for government IT provider, MeriTalk, new report. According to the “Mission-Critical Cloud: Ready for the Heavy Lift?” report, 46% of managers…
Few small SMEs are taking advantage of cloud computing technology, but many who opt for the services have seen their revenues rise in the past year, a new study has found. The survey commissioned by business software provider MYOB found that 79 percent of SMEs are not using cloud technology, only 14 percent said they…
Netflix’s Move to the Cloud and its Risks Netflix is one of the examples that public cloud based services will serve as the driving force in the transformation of in-house IT operations. Netflix has decided that they no longer need an on-premise datacenter to support their in-house corporate IT services, and have started shifting internal…
The already huge amount of data generated by businesses, users and devices, has experienced explosive growth in the near future will require analysis for competitive advantage. The key to productivity will transform big data into business intelligence. The problem of big data is about to become relevant for large enterprises, and they need to prepare…
For those individuals who want to invest in cloud computing stocks, the best advice you can have is to ensure that you have chosen the right company to invest in. Basically, you can do this by comparing the company with important statistics and financial objectives. Rackspace Hosting and Salesforce.com are 2 of the best performing…
To promote cloud computing development, the French Government has invested its Caisse des Depots, France’s sovereign wealth fund, in 2 competing local cloud providers. Each of the 2 companies, Cloudwatt and Numergy, has a backer from the French IT industry and cellular phone industry. Both cloud providers promise to keep the applications and clients’ data…
HP and Microsoft have announced integration of an agreement in the private cloud. HP and Microsoft continue their collaboration this time targeting desktop applications, virtualization, and messaging and collaboration tools, sales and support. Under the agreement, HP and Microsoft will offer private cloud solutions to help public companies to rapidly increase the number of users….