The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customise existing ones, according to ...
Tags: analysts, Gartner, PaaS, platform, Service, cloud service
Cisco Systems has taken a step back from its Cisco Connect Cloud service, removing it as the default setting for management of its Linksys EA Series Wi-Fi routers after a firestorm of complaints from customers about automatic firmware ...
IT pros are accustomed to handling unexpected crises, such as when hardware fails or a cloud service has an outage. But it seems many IT leaders haven’t considered what will happen if they’re suddenly unable to work. More than ...
Tags: CIO, IT manager, Succession plan, Successor
With each year, Oracle becomes a bigger company and in turn, so does its annual OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco. In fact, Oracle's long run of acquisitions, spanning from applications to middleware to ...
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An official document containing policies and pledges for customers of Oracle’s cloud services reveals that many aspects fall in line with industry standards, while others may prompt cause for worry among customers, according to ...
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IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according to analyst firm Forrester. In a blog entry which counts down the company’s top 10 cloud predictions for ...
Tags: Forrester, Cloud economics
Check Point Software Technologies plans to introduce document security software that encrypts and controls access to files across an organization's various departments and also meets the growing need for corporate users to access company ...
ALLIANCE, OH, October 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Novosoft LLC, the developer of Handy Backup data protection software solutions for home and business usage, announced the release of Handy Backup new version, 7.3.0. The updated product ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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Selecting cloud service providers could become easier, thanks to changes made today to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) code of practice. In 2010, CIF published a the code to promote the adoption of cloud-based services. It previously ...
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Hewlett-Packard has launched a hosted offering called HP Service Anywhere, providing IT service management (ITSM) software over the Internet. “We believe that SaaS as a delivery model and as a business model makes sense for many of ...
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Meaningful cloud computing standards are crucial to improve the maturity of cloud-based services and bring increased flexibility, security and interoperability, but too many competing standards could wreak damage, warned the Cloud Industry ...
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Since the mid 2000s one of the prevailing trends in the IT world has been to move networks,data,operating systems and servers into an environment where they are not tied to a specific piece of hardware. In the early days the emphasis was ...
Tags: Virtualisation, cloud computing, networks, Cloudstore, BCS
The key concern for SMBs when it comes to the cloud seems to be a lack of related knowledge. This is according to a recent MYOB national study, titled MYOB Business Monitor, which found it to be a key barrier to cloud usage for almost ...
Tags: SMB, cloud usage, security of data, cloud computing
Microsoft has released the customer preview of its latest version of Microsoft Office, which will be cloud-based and work best on Windows 8. Steve Ballmer announced the preview, claiming Office 2013 will provide consumers and businesses ...
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