General Electric is in the midst of a drive to relocate 70 percent of its information technology structure to the cloud by 2020, according to The Telegraph newspaper. While the move will certainly save money in many respects, the productivity boost is the primary advantage. Changes in applications that used to take 20 days to […]
The company may only be a week old – but Dell Technologies is already challenging the traditional leaders in the cloud infrastructure space, according to new data released from Synergy Research. Naturally, this statement isn’t quite telling the whole truth. Even though Dell Technologies came into being on September 7, the company’s history, having come […]
Some mainstream IT buyers might think that most cloud infrastructure vendors and service providers are essentially alike. But there are key differences. Besides, given the body of market research to the contrary, there’s clearly no such thing as a “one-size-fits-all” cloud solution. Furthermore, if you believe that a hybrid cloud should support an IT agenda […]
With Mobile World Congress over for another year, I’ve now had a chance to digest everything that was on show last week. This conference, which is arguably the planet’s best venue for mobile industry networking, looked at the Internet of Things and the connected world, anything and everything from developments such as 5G to newly […]
Cisco researchers recently announced that they’d disrupted a significant revenue stream generated by the Angler Exploit Kit, which has been used to distribute a wide variety of malware, including several high-profile ransomware campaigns. “In its research, Cisco determined that an inordinate number of proxy servers used by Angler were located on servers of service provider […]
This is not the most surprising news you will hear today: a note published by Synergy Research argues Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) domination of the cloud infrastructure market continues. The Seattle giant held 31% of the worldwide market in 2015, the researchers argue, with Microsoft (9%), IBM (7%) and Google (4%) trailing. Despite the yawning […]
HP is now the top selling supplier to the cloud infrastructure equipment market, having sat on the shoulder of market leader Cisco throughout 2013 and 2014, according to a study by the Synergy Research Group. The research group’s sales figures for the two vendors showed them to be tied in the first quarter of 2015, […]