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Over 95% of respondents in a comScore survey of French SMBs said cloud adoption had a positive impact on security, as well as noticing unexpected benefits, such as up-to-date systems and antivirus protection. The study of French small to midsize businesses with between 25 and 499 PCs was conducted by comScore and commissioned by Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, although the respondents were made unaware of Microsoft’s involvement.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) service revenues surpassed $2bn in the first quarter of 2013, according to the Synergy Research Group. This number is up 56% from last year’s figure, providing yet more evidence of the increasing numbers in cloud computing.

The term 'cloud' has suffered an identity crisis while the industry gets to grips with finding a clear definition. In this article Neil Hammerton, CEO and co-founder at Natterbox, the cloud-based voice services provider, explores the impact this has had on voice and telephony; for both the industry and businesses looking to move their voice services to the cloud.

A report from CA Technologies, entitled ‘Cloud Succeeds. Now What?’ has revealed that, for many companies polled, their cloud solutions have been more successful than they were expecting. And for companies experienced with cloud, the report notes that more sophisticated systems are being demanded, such as end-to-end automation, more flexible service-level management and – the big one – the ability to flip between CSPs.

Over and over again, we are pummeled with statistics on how risk is growing in disproportion to security readiness. 91% of companies have experienced at least one IT security event from an external source. 90% of all cyber crime costs are those caused by web attacks, malicious code and malicious insiders. These are staggering numbers - but what is causing this universal security paralysis?

Ovum's Integration Middleware Global Market Forecast Model estimates that the spend on cloud-based integration platforms will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31% between 2012 and 2018, reaching $3.7bn by the end of 2018. Over the same period, spending on cloud-based integration platforms in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions will grow at CAGRs of 27% and 44% respectively.

You’ve adopted the cloud, got a high level of storage and moved a lot of apps in – but you’re still not getting as much work done as you thought. That’s the alarming case with more than half of respondents to an Oracle-conducted survey entitled ‘Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly’.

One of the most frequent questions we get on cloud computing is: "When should a company move to the cloud?" While there are numerous reasons to make the move, there are also certain events that minimise obstacles and objections. These are "triggers", which greatly reduce the sales cycle for prospects considering cloud offerings. In no particular order...