Yin and WAN? Analysing the relationship between network and cloud provider

More than half (56%) of businesses have expressed concern over security gaps at the point between their wide area network (WAN) and public cloud provider, according to a recent research…

The big data and IoT opportunity is here – so don’t miss out on it

The value of big data equity in the UK was estimated at £12 billion a year or 0.7 per cent of the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2012. Four…

Cloud computing and the urgent mission of green ICT

Green ICT is a global imperative that must be pursued with urgency. Everyone involved in information and telecommunications technology – including cloud computing – must take it into account in…

Upcoming Yu device with 3GB RAM spotted on GFXBench and Zauba

A Yu-branded smartphone with model name YU5200 has been spotted on GFXBench, as well as import listing site Zauba. As per GFXBench, the device may come with a 5.2-inch Full…

Telstra and Cisco Unveil New Products

Telstra and Cisco have recently announced three new software-designed networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) products that aim to improve both cloud security and global data center interconnection. These…

Analysing the latest AWS services: Certificate Manager, Lambda, and DevSecOps

Picture credit: "The Crunchies Awards 2008", by "Nandor Fejer", used under CC BY / Modified from original The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is continuing its pace of rapid, iterative…

Gartner: Top Security Technologies for 2014 and Safety of the Future

Organizations are dedicating increasing resources to security and risk. Security and risk leaders need to fully engage with the latest technology trends if they are to define, achieve and maintain…

Marketing Automation and Creativity: How to Have Your Cake and Eat it Too

Some people are locked into the belief that technology is destroying creativity, particularly in the marketing department. This probably goes back some way; you could imagine a caveman looking at a paintbrush, tutting…

Verizon Challenges Amazon With Verizon Cloud Storage and Compute

Verizon has finallymade public in the New York Interop Show the details of its new business cloud service, the Verizon Cloud. The company fearlessly announced last October 3 that the…

Analysing security and regulatory concerns with cloud app migration

As businesses look to clouds for faster, more flexible growth, they confront significant challenges from a legacy application base that has varying levels of cloud suitability. It is therefore worth…