Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
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Microsoft has announced a free tool for organisations to assess their security readiness for cloud computing. A survey commissioned by the company revealed that the top barriers to cloud adoption are concerns about the ability to deal ...
Citrix Systems has released the latest version of its virtualisation platform XenServer.Version 6.1 features cloud integration capabilities and a storage feature called Storage XenMotion that will bring agility as it allows IT executives to ...
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The number of first-time users of cloud computing services in the UK has increased by 27%from last year,according to research from the Cloud Industry Forum(CIF). But the CIF survey showed that,while the rate of adoption has ...
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The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
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CIOs must cloud-enable business processes to make companies more agile, according to John Sculley, former CEO of Apple. The Cloud Computing World Forum opened with a keynote from Sculley, who predicted cloud adoption would grow ...
LONDON --Though vendors would have you believe that cloud computing is now a mainstream technology, enterprise IT shops resist the public cloud due to cloud security concerns, licensing issues, and rising costs. Customers and analysts ...
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In spite of all the hype in the industry around cloud computing,UK IT decision-makers are not prepared to put applications in the cloud. A new study conducted by Alcatel-Lucent reported that the UK is falling behind leading countries in ...
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