Cloud Tech News

Aryaka, a company which offers wide area network optimisation in the cloud, has collated together several pieces of research emphasising the importance of cloud in a modern enterprise. Pooling together studies from the likes of CIO Insight, Forrester and IDC, Aryaka has examined cloud strategies at different points of the enterprise, predominantly assessing the UK market.

At the beginning of 2013, we sent out invites to our IT infrastructure monitoring community with regards to their adoption or consideration of Converged Infrastructure. As it turns out, not only is Convergence a hot topic right now; 1/3 of our respondents are already running Converged Infrastructure in their environments.

Software as a service (SaaS) has traditionally been the strongest and most valuable cloud computing market. Figures from Gartner in November show this: SaaS was valued at $14.4bn (£9.57bn) by the end of 2012; infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a $6.2bn (£4.12bn) global market; whilst platform as a service (PaaS) was forecast to hit $1.2bn (£754m).

A new survey from Brocade has revealed the extent of the changing CIO role in enterprise – and put cloud adoption as a major driver of it.

Google has calculated that an SME can lower its energy usage by 65%-85% simply by switching to the cloud.

What defines a progressive small to medium business (SMB)?

There is no doubt that open source clouds are on the minds of both open source communities/projects and commercial entities.

In a time full of change in the banking industry, banks need to keep up with the times. Is there where cloud hosting comes in?