By Mark Smith (from Herald Scotland.) “Iomart, the Scottish web-hosting and data storage company, has more than doubled its interim pre-tax profits on the back of what it described as shift in customer behaviour towards cloud computing networks. AIM-listed Iomart, which has its headquarters in Glasgow, also said it had grown both the “size...
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By Zhang Qian (from People’s Daily Online.) “The first stage of the Cloud Computing Center of the Internet of Things of China started operation in Wuxi city, Jiangsu Province through joint efforts by the Dawning Information Industry Co., Ltd. and Wuxi New District. Cloud computing is Internet-based computing whereby shared resources, software and information...
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From PRLog. “Frost & Sullivan survey conducted across Asia Pacific (with senior IT decision makers) indicates that close to 1 in 4 enterprises use some form of cloud computing. More than 50 percent of the survey respondents believe that Cloud Computing technology in any delivery form can help businesses reduce their infrastructure cost and...
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From CIOL. “NEW DELHI, INDIA: Google India has expressed that it is expecting to increase the penetration in Indian enterprise segment and double the number of enterprise users in a year. “We have seen massive adoption of Google cloud computing applications globally and by Indian enterprises. Globally 3000 businesses start using Google application every day and 30...
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From Advertiser Talk. “At its annual customer conference VISIT in Munich, Germany, Fujitsu today introduces new technologies to drive enterprise cloud adoption – combined with powerful components for datacenters, server rooms and desktops. Three major cloud computing initiatives remove the roadblocks for further widespread enterprise and mid-size business adoption, and provide a future-facing bridge...
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From TTKN. “Tokyo–Fujitsu today announced the immediate availability of its new Private Cloud Service, offering private clouds as an outsourcing service that includes server/storage virtualization and automation, as well as a dedicated cloud-computing environment, only in Japan. This is an outsourcing service in which Fujitsu handles the complete lifecycle of the customer’s private cloud,...
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From Federal News Radio. “Big news this week on the cloud computing front. Agencies are being required by the Office of Management and Budget to adopt a “cloud-first” policy as part of the 2012 budget process. Jeff Zients, chief performance officer and deputy director for management at OMB, made the announcement during a speech at the...
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By Claire West (from Fresh Business Thinking.) “Cloud computing is revolutionising the way we work and with analysts such as Gartner predicting that by 2012, 20% of businesses will not own their own IT assets, it is clearly a technology which is set to. Best practice and standards are critical so customers have confidence...
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By Jeremy Kirk (from ComputerWorld.) “The European Union is funding a three-year research project that intends to develop a variety of technical components and policies designed to make cloud computing more secure. Cloud computing is a buzz phrase often invoked by companies offering computing services in their own data centers. Companies such as Google,...
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From PR-USA. “Online video conferencing services innovator Nefsis® announced today that it has activated multiple servers in India, Singapore and other countries in the greater Asia-Pacific region offering its online services to these countries and multinational customers with operations in India and the Far East. The acceptance of cloud computing in business and affordable webcams...
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