Interoute, the owner and operator of one of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has today announced the results of its 2011 financial year, with top-line revenues increase in 2011 to €366 million for the year, a 24% increase over the same period in 2010.
Google and Samsung will both join the cloud storage market within the next 10 days, if rumours circulating in the US are correct. Google’s Dropbox-style cloud storage ‘Drive’ has been the centre of speculation for some time and is expected to launch this week, while industry insiders are also claiming Samsung could launch a rival to Apple’s iCloud on 3rd May.
International activists, Greenpeace, have caused a major stir among a number of global cloud computing providers, by releasing a report entitled ‘How Clean is Your Cloud?’, criticising Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft for choosing “dirty energy” to power cloud computing.
International activists, Greenpeace, have caused a major stir among a number of global cloud computing providers, by releasing a report entitled ‘How Clean is Your Cloud?’, criticising Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft for choosing “dirty energy” to power cloud computing.
VMware has announced its financial results for Q1 of 2012, reporting 52% more income and 25% more profit compared with the same period in 2011, and strengthening its position as a leader in the virtualization market.
Forget security – the biggest issue for the widespread adoption of cloud computing in the UK is broadband speed; or rather, our current lack of – as BT’s former chief technologist and futurist Peter Cochrane explains.
SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronisation, file storage, and collaboration tools, has announced that the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has deployed its platform across the NHS in England.
Journey to the Cloud’s Geoff Smith continues his five-part series of blog posts, in which he looks at how to classify current changes in the IT department. This week he focuses on the concept of order, how we consume IT and why it’s consumed in this way.
While nearly all businesses have disaster recovery (DR) plans in place for their data, there are still less than 50% using off-premise DR capabilities. Evault’s Andy Brewerton explains why, when it comes to protecting data, a shift to the cloud should be something every company is considering.
Paul Kenyon, COO of Avecto, explains why application whitelisting and security privilege management – which are at the heart of Australia’s government security – could also be applied to the UK’s G-Cloud strategy.