Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Cloud Computing Beats Snow

With snow on the way again in the UK, check out this infographic about how you can beat it with Cloud!

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US FISAAA Law and your data

These has been some concern over the revelation that a section in the US Foreign Intelligence Amendments Act (FISAAA) which allegedly allows US authorities to access data of non-US citizens on any cloud services run by US companies. How this will interact with EU law, and particularly the Safe Harbour Agreement, is something that was […]

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The hidden cost of cloud?

In a new paper, Symantec have published some interesting points on the state of cloud computing, and some issues that companies may not have considered. Even if you haven’t yet widely deployed cloud services within your organisation, have you ever come across ‘rogue cloud deployments’, where employees use cloud services without organisational oversight by consulting […]

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The Cloud at CES

Whilst CES by its very nature is a hardware convention, how this hardware is integrated into the trends towards BYOD and cloud computing has not been ignored. Nvidia displayed Nvidia Grid, a high-end server stack that allows 3D gaming to render directly to the cloud. Cisco displayed a service that allow consumers to record TV […]

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The Future of Big Data and IT Infrastructure

Big Data has firmly entered the zeitgeist, but what this means for the future of IT and technology is still up for debate. IDC’s Digital Universe report has analysed current trends, to anticipate the future of data in 2020. The scale of data is unprecedented, with the ‘digital universe’ (all the data created replicated and […]

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State of SMB IT

Cloud services are now used by 62% of SMBs, up from 48% in the first half of 2012, rising to 73% by early 2013 according to Spiceworks. In their bi-annual state of SMB report, they detail other key findings, with IT budgets increasing, but hiring on the downturn compared to the beginning of the year. […]

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Cloud News Roundup

Cloud News Roundup: 3 of the top Cloud stories from this week Microsoft expand into China Wired report that Microsoft have licensed two of their largest cloud services, Office 365 and Azure to the Chinese market, in order to obtain a slice of the expanding cloud market in China, estimated to grow to $3.8 billion […]

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Global Cloud Readiness

In their second annual Global Cloud Index, Cisco have predicted global datacentre traffic to reach 6.6 zettabytes of data annually by 2016, of which around two thirds – 4.3 zettabytes – of which will be cloud traffic. However, whilst Cisco make equivilances to this 6.6 zettabytes (ie 16 trillion hours of business web conferencing), only […]

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Ebooks and Terms & Conditions

As purchasing goods and services through the cloud becomes more common, it is easy to forget that it is not always analogous to buying a product physically, as one Amazon customer from Norway found out recently, when her Kindle was wiped of all its books without warning. In a blog post which includes the emails […]

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New Cloud Music Service Launched by Microsoft

Microsoft have unveiled a new cloud service, Xbox Music, which launches tomorrow. Replacing Zune, which struggled in the market, Xbox Music is described as an ‘all in one music service’, offering over 30 million songs to download or stream on various Windows devices, including on the upcoming Windows 8 releases, and on existing Microsoft products. […]

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