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Gatwick Airport flying into the Cloud
More efficient processes London-Gatwick, the second largest airport in the UK with around 35 million passengers passing through each year, has been able to retire some 200 servers by moving applications and processes to the cloud, coupled with a BYOD policy. Gatwick is now using around 12 cloud services, all managed by another service to […]
UK and EU disagreement on Cloud policy
An interview with Denise McDonagh, the head of G-Cloud, and director for IT for the Home Office in the UK, has revealed a different attitude between the UK government and their counterparts in the EU. She described the EU approach to the cloud as “a bit more restrictive, and … still a bit old-world thinking”. […]
Discovering benefits and challenges of cloud for businesses
A study from Rightscale, a cloud management company, gives some interesting information on cloud computing in the context of ‘cloud maturity’ and how this affects business practices. Cloud maturity is comprised of five sectors: No plans Cloud watchers – companies planning cloud computing Cloud beginners – companies in their first project Cloud explorers – companies with […]
Free Cloud Readiness Report
Using the tools within Cloud Profiler, for a limited time we are offering a 1-page cloud readiness report for your company, at no cost. To produce this report, all we need to know is: the number of users in your office the current internet connectivity speed Just email us at hello@cloudprofiler.com with your company name and the two […]
Businesses perform better with cloud
In a large scale study of SMBs in Australia, it was found that businesses that use cloud computing services are much more likely to have increased revenue compared to those that do not. The other major finding was that companies using cloud services were ‘120% more likely to have more sales/work than usual in their […]
Spending on G-Cloud reaches £18 million
Total spending on cloud services through G-Cloud, the UK government framework created for public organisations to submit requests for tender, has reached over £18.2 million in sales. This total includes a 50% increase in sales from the previous month, with intention to award notices going out at the end of last week. Whilst there have […]
Trends in email platform use
Statistics from the email marketing company, Campaign Monitor, show the trends of where people access their emails; from either the web, mobile and desktop. By tracking the emails send via the Campaign Monitor platform, they can track what type of email client they are using. Since April 2012, mobile overtook desktop as the most used […]
Is cloud storage catching up to physical hard drives?
Data given to the Guardian has shown that hard drive capacity sales have dropped year on year since 2010. Whilst the main factor for this appears to be the 2011 floods in Thailand which significantly disrupted supplies of hard drive components, this was exacerbated by the rapid consumer adoption of cloud storage services. Whilst supplies […]
Another one bites the dust
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Adobe ditch physical copies of software
Adobe have announced that they have stopped producing physical copies of Creative Suite and Acrobat. Instead they will only offer those products online through the Abobe Creative Cloud. Along with the changes to Adobe Marketing Cloud, this change represents a ‘fundamental shift’ of strategy, according to Neil Morgan, the EMEA senior director of digital marketing, […]
