Amazon Web Services makes aggressive customer acquisition play

At its Amazon re:Invent event Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a number of products and initiatives designed to make it easier for potential customers to move their business to the…

Cloud business users grow faster and are twice as profitable says study

Companies that commit themselves to cloud computing are likely to grow faster and enjoy twice the profit of their non-cloud using rivals, according to a study. The research also indicates…

Ctera now integrated with HP’s hybrid cloud manager

Ctera Networks says it has integrated its storage and data management systems with HP’s cloud service automation (HP CSA) as it seeks way to simplify the management of enterprise file…

Salesforce IoT Cloud promises to create meaning from M2M talk

Salesforce has launched its Internet of Things (IoT) offering with IoT Cloud, which promises to convert machine to machine conversations, digital content and customer information into useful intelligence that sales…

How the cloud enables the Bistip social marketplace to scale efficiently

BCN has partnered with the Cloud South East Asia event to interview some of its speakers. In this interview we speak to Rohit Kanwar, CEO of Indonesian social marketplace service…

Gemalto’s cloud-based encryption now available in Microsoft Azure marketplace

Security vendor Gemalto is to sell its SafeNet ProtectV encryption system on the Azure Marketplace. This means Microsoft’s Azure users will find it easier to encrypt and protect data and…

Hewlett-Packard to decimate its workforce as major split announced

Hewlett-Packard is to cut 10 per cent of its workforce, which could mean up to 30,000 redundancies, as plans to divide the company in two unfold. The losses will come…

New IBM cloud service could help car makers to internet things and cut emissions

IBM has launched a cloud service that aims to harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) so that car makers can cut the costs of production, ownership and…

How IoT Security could change infrastructure forever

On September 22nd and 23rd, the first-ever dedicated IoT Security conference and exhibition will take place in Boston. While at first glance this may appear to concern a specific and…

Software and platforms as a service driving our growth says Oracle

Oracle’s latest quarterly results show the increasing strategic of importance of revenue from cloud software and platforms as a service, according to the vendor. Chairman Larry Ellison also claimed the…