Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
Two multibillion cloud company acquisitions in one day!
There were two multibillion dollar acquisitions of cloud companies on Tuesday by enterprises in the US. IBM have acquired SoftLayer Technologies, a privately held cloud computing group for around $2bn, adding to IBM’s cloud computing portfolio at a time when they are pivoting towards providing services to enterprises, of which cloud is becoming increasingly more […]
End of life for XP and Exchange 2003
By now, if you are still running Windows XP in your workplace, then you probably know that end of life is fast approaching. On the 8th April 2014, support from Microsoft for Windows XP and Exchange 2003 is ending, meaning they will become a greater security risk. If you’re still running Windows XP, hopefully you’ve […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Cloud Computing use increasing in local government
A recent survey by Eduserv has found that 71% of local councils across the UK are using some form of cloud computing, with 57.5% adopting cloud in the past 5 years. Perhaps surprisingly, cloud applications were the most popular in use, with 37% of local authorities using some form of SaaS, with cloud hosting at […]
EU Report on Cloud Security
A report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) – responsible for improving network and information security and organising defence against cyberattacks in the EU – has described cloud computing as a “double edged sword”. Concerns… ENISA note that the more services and resources stored in data centres mean that an attack can […]
