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7 February 2012

Perspectives & Trends in The Cloud & Virtualization

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Four in ten enterprises plan to switch hypervisor

11 November 2011

Concerns around cost, licensing model and features prompt 38% of large business to switch hypervisor supplier, according to Veeam-backed survey

Symantec and KPMG spin cloud stats in opposite directions

04 October 2011

Security company and professional services firm find similar results in their cloud adoption surveys, but interpret them very differently

Email and collaboration will be mostly cloudy by 2020

20 September 2011

Gartner predicts that 55% of the email and collaboration systems market will be hosted in nine years' time. Plus, Google is now a legitimate enterprise email provider

Cloud spending to hit $9bn in 2015

28 July 2011

IT operations looking for simplicity will continue to take up cloud offering through 2015, say research firm IDC

SaaS market will grow by 21% this year, says Gartner

12 July 2011

Capital constraints, increased familiarity and the rise of cloud driving rapid growth in the software-as-a-service market, analyst company finds

Security barriers

21 June 2011

Delegates at Information Age’s most recent roundtable debate saw security as a key barrier to supporting business-critical applications on virtualised platforms

All change

31 May 2011

The British Transport Police is undergoing a virtualisation transformation in advance of the London 2012 Olympics

Black swans in the cloud

23 May 2011

An outage at Amazon Web Services and a catastrophic data breach at Sony show that when Internet-scale systems fail, they do so spectacularly

Almost 50% of corporations use cloud computing, says Ovum

16 May 2011

Analyst report finds 45% of multinational corporations are using cloud computing services, though uptake in Asia/Pacific outpaces the rest of the world

The year of virtual storage

27 January 2011

Storage virtualisation came into its own in 2010, the Effective IT Survey found

Storage technology becomes a hotbed of innovation

14 January 2010

The disruptive impact of innovative technologies made the storage market one of the IT industry’s hottest sectors in 2009

Long established techniques addressing application resilience, data availability and disaster recovery are being challenged by server virtualisation technologies. Where do we go from here, asks John Abbott, founder of the 451 Group

Storage market shrinks

16 July 2009

The decline of the storage market begins to be reflected in results of major players

Storage revenues plummet

17 June 2009

Sales of disk systems fell off a cliff during the first quarter of 2009

Storage revenues increasing steadily, says Gartner

14 April 2009

Dell shows strong growth in storage business while IBM's revenues erode

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