Amazon vs. ProfitBricks
Amazon’s cloud computing service may encounter a new rival with an interesting offering on providing virtual servers. Rather than offering several types of pre-defined instances (each with a predetermined amount of memory, storage and CPU power), ProfitBricks, a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company is prepared to allow its customers to create their own [...]
IBM Projects $7 Billion Cloud Revenue
Back in 2011, IBM projected that cloud services would generate $7 billion in revenue for the company by 2015. This statement came during an interview with IBM’s CFO Mark Loughridge. This year, the company’s path towards this ambitious goal became clearer. This article takes a closer look at how IBM has delved deeper into the [...]
Adoption Trends for SMBs
of cloud services. This is not just a North American trend, rather the phenomenon of SMB cloud adoption seems to be observable worldwide. This article takes a look at what this trend will mean for those working with, or interested in cloud services. A close look at SMBs The firm Parallels, specialist in hosting and [...]
Security as a Service (SecaaS)
We’ve gone through many of the varied offerings available in the cloud – from software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and identity as a service (IDaaS). An emerging trend is the offering of security as a service (SecaaS), which is designed to address the sense of insecurity [...]
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley 2011
The ninth annual Cloud Expo is set to take place November 7-10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA. It is supposed to be a huge enterprise IT event that covers the entire scope of the cloud computing spectrum. What is Cloud Expo? First announced on February 24, 2007, Cloud Expo started in New York City with [...]
