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Organisations and governments are still largely digesting what they’ve heard about cloud computing, sifting through the benefits, and weighing up the “fear, uncertainty and doubt” concerning its impact on businesses and services. But what is true and very real is the impact it's having on how services are being created - and how seriously corporate IT is taking it.

The bursting of the dot-com bubble left a long and lingering scar on the IT industry for many years. Some would argue, rather successfully, that the industry never fully recovered after the 2001 implosion of an industry that had been propped up by the mad dash to prevent Y2K from changing life as we had come to know it.

Following the release of the document “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe,” VI looks at the new cloud strategy for the European Union, predicted to create and estimated 2.5 million jobs and 160 billion Euros added to the EU’s GDP by 2020. Optimistic, or attainable roadmap?

Before adding another decimal place to security budgets, maybe it's time to consider how cloud-deployed security can address the complexities of enterprise security at considerable savings...

What do the global social and economic shifts we're currently seeing mean for the future of the data center industry?

The storm which accounted for Amazon’s cloud outage over the weekend has resulted in one company ditching the AWS system over fears of further unavailability.

This is a potentially alarming finding from the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR): a combined 568 hours of downtime at 13 major cloud providers has cost £45.8 million (or $71.7 million) in lost business since 2007.

This is the year of the cloud. This is the year that business is realising it needs the cloud. But why?