Cloud Tech News

Nearly nine in 10 small to medium businesses have experienced “cost-related challenges” with backing up and recovering virtual servers, according to the latest industry report from virtualisation provider Veeam. These fiscal frustrations primarily included ongoing management costs, backups requiring too much storage and expensive licensing models, according to the report.

Some manufacturers recently have made an impact with a "five nines" uptime guarantee, so here's some perspective. Five nines is 5.26 minutes of downtime per year, or 25.9 seconds a month. Four nines is 52.6 minutes per year, which is one hour of maintenance, roughly. Realistically, no one can guarantee uptime because uptime really needs to be measured from the host or application perspective.

VMWare is well known for its virtualisation products, so it's not surprising that it is establishing a presence in the cloud computing world. Its hybrid cloud service, VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service, runs off of vSphere and vCloud.

Economic uncertainty surrounding the US government sequester, European debt crisis and weakening GDP in China has resulted in volatile spending patterns across most segments of the market. According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), as a result of the current economic climate, business technology spending was slightly below expectations in the second half of 2012 and first quarter of 2013.

LogMeIn’s Xively is ready to connect “The Internet of Things” as a brand new PaaS (platform as a service) offering APIs for interacting with real world objects, along with real-time messaging thrown into the mix for good measure.

Research by Nucleus aims to highlight the ROI of cloud-based contact centres - so just how are businesses improving customer service thanks to the cloud?

Enterprise security can be a labyrinthine, complex beast, but when we get down to the nitty gritty, security can be simplified by six simple questions: who is logging in, what are they accessing, where is the device from which that person logs in, when was any asset changed, how are they authorised, and what is the impact of the event?

Maintaining security that meets the risk and compliance requirements of the enterprise is a constant challenge. Systems and networks are becoming more open and accessible, but at the same time, threats have become more advanced, persistent, and complex.