A warning shot: Why cloud security remains more important than ever

With all the recent well-publicised hacking and malware attacks, not to mention numerous meteorological events that have affected companies around the globe over the last year, IT leaders are very…

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…

OpenStack cloud adoption continues to rise but challenges remain

The adoption of OpenStack is going up and increasingly seen as a cost effective alternative to public clouds, according to a new survey released by cloud software provider Talligent. The…

Microsoft Continues its Move Towards Enterprise Cloud with Windows Azure

A Forrester reportrevealed that when it comes to enterprise cloud devs, the industry leader is still Amazon Web Services, which isn’t surprising to say the least, as Amazon has consistently…

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…

Can Switching to Cloud Hosting Improve SEO Ranking?

If you’re looking to improve your business and increase your revenue, something that all experts and industry analysts will tell you to do is improve your SEO ranking for your…

New research questions conventional wisdom on cloud providers

Updated 1522 GMT Two pieces of research have simultaneously hit the inbox of CloudTech, both with surprising findings in terms of choosing cloud providers. A study from Spiceworks argues Microsoft…

Equinix Cloud Exchange Expands To Include Rackspace And IBM SoftLayer

Equinix announced that both Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer are now accessible directly through the Equinix Cloud Exchange in multiple regional datacenters. The addition of the cloud services grows Equinix' datacenter-to-cloud…

IndependenceIT Cloud Workspace Suite Version 4.2 Update Available

IndependenceIT has announced an update to its Cloud Workspace Suite (CWS) platform. CWS version 4.2 brings deeper integrations and connectivity into public cloud architectures, including Azure, and delivers increased controls…

Working Toward the Enterprise Cloud

The enterprise is anxious to push more of its workload onto the cloud even as it strives to overcome many of the lingering trust issues that accompany the adoption of…