The need for technological protection has spawned a burgeoning industry in Dallas-Fort Worth. Economic instability. The explosion of cloud computing. The swift growth of e-commerce and online financial transactions. The rapid spread of mobile devices loaded with digitized information. The spread of social networking. These are just a few of the technological forces wreaking havoc with commercial and personal security. With the digitization of more and more elements of our social fabric comes a parallel […]
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Almost 40 per cent of SMEs expect to be paying for one or more cloud services within three years, according to a Microsoft report. The IT vendor announced the results of its third annual worldwide study into how SMEs will use cloud services over the next three years. A total of 3,258 companies with 2-250 employees were surveyed in 16 countries. The survey found that 39 per cent of SMEs expect to be paying for […]
If you treat the cloud as a mere hardware weight-loss plan, you’ll soon find your datacentre piling back on the pounds. Cloud computing is not some voguish weight-loss programme. To get the most from it requires a transformation of the whole datacentre, not just individual applications, says Lori MacVittie. Consolidation and more efficient use of resources are behind many moves to the cloud. But for long-term success and control over costs, we need to view […]
The American dream is in peril from the confluence of sky rocketing deficits, high unemployment, and the ticking time bomb of an aging baby boomer generation, with its coincident increase in the burden of entitlements as a percentage of GDP. For the first time, the next generation of Americans, our grandchildren, risk having a lower standard of living than we enjoyed. It is not a problem that can be remedied with tax increases and budget […]
An IT manager in Tokyo, Appirio’s Jason Park is accustomed to feeling the ground shake from time to time, but it was soon apparent to him that Friday’s Sendai earthquake was a big one. “Helicopter news footage on TV showed waves crushing cars, plowing through farms, and overturning buildings and houses,” Park wrote. “The northern areas of Japan are a mess, especially the eastern coastal regions. Disturbing…” From the 39th floor of a new office […]
New Zealand was already set to be the land of cloud computing, but the Christchurch earthquake should boost that process further. As businesses recover from the havoc the quake wreaked, it is becoming clear who fared best. Those who stored their data offsite were least affected, and cloud computing was shown to be good for data recovery. Analysts say that, given this, the quake will send firms to the cloud, especially since it makes it […]
Cloud computing in Dallas ranked high in a recent survey of over than 2,000 SMB and enterprise IT decision-makers. Microsoft named some of the country’s top “cloud-friendly” U.S. cities as a result of the survey. In the findings, IT decision makers nationwide discussed how they are adopting and using cloud computing. Dallas ranked third among the most cloud-ready cities for large companies. Of IT decision makers, 46 percent believe the cloud is an engine of […]
Steve Ballmer, pacing the stage at the CERAweek energy conference in Houston Wednesday night, touted cloud computing as the wave of the future. He pushed Microsoft’s Kinect system for its Xbox 360 console. He brought an actor on stage to demonstrate how Kinect’s sensors register the body motions of its users without the need for a handheld device like Nintendo’s Wii and showed how friends using Kinect can interact with each other in cloud-based cyberspace. […]
A video tour of two of AT&T’s cloud computing centers that operate in secret locations in the North Texas/Dallas area. Source
If—and it certainly appears to be the case—cloud-based computing, software as a service (SaaS) and mobile are the next wave of technology, it would make sense that venture capital orientates itself along similar lines. That is certainly the view of Notion Capital. Jos White, one of the two founding brothers was in London recently and spoke to The Wall Street Journal, Europe. Mr. White, and his brother Ben, were the people behind MessageLabs, a cloud-based […]