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Cloud hardware spending breaks $4 billion mark

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures and vendors' strategies. The overall investment in hardware for cloud environments in EMEA is expected to exceed $4 billion in terms of user value by the end of 2014, with a strong 19% YoY growth. 15% of the infrastructure spend in EMEA will be...

Apple and IBM forge global partnership

Apple and IBM have announced an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps—bringing IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad.

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New offering includes enhanced service levels, transparent charging models and a developer+ programme.

Global Cloud Services market to reach $555 billion by 2020

According to the new report by Allied Market Research, titled "Global Cloud Services Market (Services, Type, End User and Geography) - Global Analysis, Industry Growth, Trends, Size, Share, Opportunities and Forecast, 2013-2020", the global cloud services market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17.6% from 2014 to 2020, reaching a market size of $555 billion in 2020. In 2014, the overall cloud services market revenue will reach $209.9 billion, led by public cloud services. The...

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Half of cloud users cite lack of in-house skills as a reason for adoption.

No escape from company email

Independent research commissioned by GFI Software reveals that the demands of work email are encroaching even more into everything from holidays to starting a family.

“CIF Code of Practice lets us know we are on the right track”, says LawWare

LawWare re-certifies against the Cloud Industry Forum Code of Practice.

Cyber just one of many threats

Survey conducted by British Continuity Institute shows that, while cyber threats are a major...

Research reveals top data management challenges

Research from Quantum and ESG reveals growing cyber threats, data sprawl and storage costs as top...

Rackspace and VMware enter into strategic partnership to 

Delivering Managed Private Cloud to the enterprise.

Targeting HANA at private clouds

Expect to see more of this approach from American Digital of packaging up applications with the...

Intel Security appoints Richard Steranka to lead global partner efforts

Former vice president of Avaya's worldwide partner organisation to bring proactive security to...

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