Ciscos backtrack on Connect Cloud – taking privacy for granted?
Cisco has been forced to apologise for what Home Networking Vice President Brett Wingo described as “confusion and inconvenience” following the roll... Read more.
Dating site dumps Amazon EC2: “100% uptime a required SLA”
The storm which accounted for Amazon’s cloud outage over the weekend has resulted in one company ditching the AWS system over fears of further unavailabil... Read more.
Public cloud on increase in India – in line with wider trends?
The past few days have seen a variety of cloud-oriented news come from the Indian market and reveal some intriguing trends. What are the highlights?... Read more.
What trends can be taken from Cisco’s UK cloud adoption research?
Research recently published by Cisco Systems has revealed that cloud usage in the United Kingdom and Ireland is becoming increasingly mainstream.... Read more.
Storms take Amazon cloud down – were you affected?
In the week that the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency reported worldwide cloud outages cost at least £45m over five years, the al... Read more.
Will CliQr end fears of cloud vendor lock-in?
As the Google I/O conference gets underway in San Francisco, a Google-backed start-up has launched a cloud solution which aims to eradicate vendor lock-in.... Read more.
Over a third of consumer content in cloud by 2016, says Gartner
There’s no such thing as too little cloud research from Gartner, and this is more interesting news for cloud users: Gartner forecasts that more than a thi... Read more.
Nine specifications for a Cloud Computer: A call to action
No vendor currently does everything that’s required to serve customers well. What’s required for such a cloud? I think an ideal PaaS cloud would hav... Read more.
Companies gaining more trust in the cloud, says survey
The annual North Bridge Venture Partners survey into cloud computing trends has revealed that more and more companies are starting to get their heads around clo... Read more.
Cloud downtime cost £45m over five years, IWGCR claims
This is a potentially alarming finding from the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR): a combined 568 hours of downtime at 13 major ... Read more.