Right type of cloud for clear thinking

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OVERVIEW It’s worth spending some time to work out what, if any, type of cloud will work for your business, writes Stephen Armstrong who offers a guide to savvy virtual business Silicon Valley is good at many things, but names... Read more

Potholes on road to the cloud

Peter-Vandevenne

ROUNDTABLE Three European IT leaders tell Jessica Twentyman of the biggest obstacles to cloud adoption and how they helped their organisations overcome them In a recent blog entry written to coincide with the European Commission’s announcement of a new digital... Read more

Can companies refrain from ‘never going to give you up’

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SECURITY While the truth is that data may be more secure in the cloud than on-site, Michael Dempsey discovers there is some information firms just can’t bear to part with When Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern seaboard of the United... Read more

Navigating the Cloud is the clear way forward

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RACONTEUR SURVEY Cloud computing – the use of hardware and software over the internet – is a growing trend and the focus of Raconteur Media’s latest in-depth survey by researcher Mike O’Driscoll Cloud computing is a rapidly maturing technology and... Read more

Thinking big comes to crunch time

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BIG DATA The computing power of the cloud is perfectly suited for the Herculean task of crunching big data, writes Rod Newing Big data, any technology officer will tell you, is mainly unstructured information that is too large to be... Read more

Cloudspotting: gazing at the shape of things to come

Michael-Schrage

OPINION Michael Schrage argues that the cloud is a catalyst of change which is revolutionising computing and transforming technology users on a global scale iPods may not be the incandescent bulb of cloud-centric computing nor was Steve Jobs their Edison.... Read more