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SaaS will be $14.5bn market this year – Gartner

 27 March 2012

Analyst company has increased its estimate for the value of the SaaS market in 2015 by almost $1bn, up to $22.1 billion

How to navigate cloud complexity

 13 March 2012

The complexity of the cloud computing market means businesses must be savvy customers, argues PA Consulting's Jan Timmermann

Germany to overtake UK as cloud capital of Europe

 07 March 2012

Microsoft-sponsored IDC survey says UK will have the most 'cloud-related' jobs in Europe this year, but will be overtaken by Germany in 2013

The cloud shift

 07 February 2012

Cloud computing is shifting the IT department’s role from handling technology to managing contracts and suppliers, Information Age’s latest roundtable debate heard

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

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