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Lets take a look at the Top Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share, and The Leaderboard (Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers). Large enterprise IT companies continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand cloud compute model enhancing their portfolios with Cloud acquisitions. Here is a snapshot of 2012 acquisitions and the most recent changes to the rankings since 3Q2011 (followed by 2011 and 2010 acquisitions).

Virtualisation, cloud computing, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDIs) deliver enormous management and costs savings, however, these benefits can easily be lost if application performance hampers end user productivity or backend processes, as often happens when applica­tions are delivered across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

Hadoop was one of the most-searched terms on Gartner’s website in 2011 through 2012, spiking to 601.8% over the last twelve months alone. Additional insights from the Search Analytics on Hadoop include the following:

Apple has quietly been releasing information on now to integrate its growing list of Smart devices with Enterprise IT. While currently synonymous with consumers or perhaps less kindly termed "masses", the evidence is clear that Macs, iPads and iPhones are infiltrating corporate environments either knowingly or unknowingly.

With all the advantages that cloud computing provides, it is no wonder that more and more people are turning to the phenomenon for their IT software and storage. As professionals move through their chosen industry they bring with them new ideas and ways of working to proliferate the ethos of cloud computing.

The big C when it comes to Cloud for the Channel is Conflict. I have been presenting and visiting partners around Europe for the past several years and listening to the opinions and input from vendors, Vars, Resellers, MSP’s, ISP’s and a variety of channels by varying name definitions and one things for sure, the Cloud has certainly stimulated debate.

As applications built for the cloud multiply, so too do the number of user interfaces floating around. With so many unique takes on UI design, it can be disorienting to switch between multiple cloud applications. One soution to this problem may be to create a set of UI standards to create a more unified experience.

Enterprise mobility is no longer such a scary term for many of the world’s big businesses, with 71% looking seriously into deploying customer mobile applications this year, according to new research.