The file sharing site Megaupload was shutdown by the FBI which seized all hosted content including copyrighted and non-copyrighted material. The premium paid service of the site allowed users to store their files on the Megaupload service for as long as they wanted. The exact number of users who wer[...]
Archive for the ‘Cloud’ Category
Office 365 is a Hit with Small Businesses
Microsoft’s cloud collaboration and communication suite, Office 365, has sold eight times as faster than their previous cloud suite software (Business Productivity Online Suite). 90% of the customer base for the product was small businesses. Microsoft is now planning on making Office 365 ava[...]
Future Surge in Virtualization
According to Gartner, 30% of businesses by 2014 will be using recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) for backing up and restoring virtual machines. The prime candidates driving this trend will be midsized businesses. Currently, only 1% of midsized companies utilize RaaS, but it was just this year that HP, IBM[...]
Cloud Can Handle Serious Threats According to US Cyber Chief
General Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, spoke at the DARPA Cyber Colloquium. During his speech, he went over how effective the cloud was more secure and cost-effective. General Alexander addressed the effectiveness of cloud computing be[...]
November 7th, 2011 - 5:41 pm § in Cloud, Industry News
Cloud User Group Expands
The Open Data Center Alliance started out last year as a cloud user group with 70 members from some of the world’s largest companies. Since then, they have expanded to 300 members, accounting for more than $100 billion in annual IT spending. Members of this group include BMW, JPMorgan Chase,[...]
November 1st, 2011 - 2:48 pm § in Cloud, Industry News
Will Virtual Desktops Be Cheaper Than Physical Desktops? Citrix Thinks So.
Thanks to new technologies being developed, Citrix has driven down costs of deploying virtual desktops that they believe it will be cheaper to implement than physical desktops as early as next year. One of the key factors contributing to this is HDX, a new system-on-a-chip produced by Texas Instrume[...]
October 6th, 2011 - 8:09 pm § in Cloud, Industry News
State of the Cloud survey
5, 300 IT and security managers in 38 countries were questioned by Symantec for a “State of the Cloud” survey. 19% had moved at least some applications to public software as a service, while 17% adopted a private cloud arrangement. For infrastructure as a service (IaaS), 17% admitted t[...]
October 4th, 2011 - 8:26 pm § in Cloud, Industry News
Gartner Reports Cloud Revenue on the Rise
A report by Gartner stated that external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendor revenue from external cloud computing deployments is set to increase this year from $267.4 million to $417.3 million (a 56% increase). This could mean an increase in revenue to $1.45 billion by 2015. Sid Deshpande, [...]
Cloud Services Coming to Sprint
Cloud services will be offered through Sprint for various businesses in the fourth quarter of 2011. The head of Sprint’s business markets, Paul Alves, confirmed that the company is developing such a service and details will be announced at a later date. Network infrastructure will be sold thro[...]
U.S. Closing Federal Data Centers
At least 800 of 2000 government data centers will be shutdown over the next four years. This move from the federal government was made to trim billions from the budget, but also to cutdown on wasted data storage. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra stated that average storage utilization of these facilities wa[...]
