Cloud Tech News

China is the latest country to realise the full potential of cloud computing, as they are now pushing a huge amount of money into it.

Zscaler, the SaaS cloud security company, has for the first time received outside investment to the tune of £24 million ($38m), mainly from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

"Back in the day", CIOs, CTOs and IT directors were the injection point for technology acceptance into the business. Now, that injection point has been turned into a fire hose.

Many executives regard technology evangelists as “drive-by shooters” – people who cruise by their offices firing so-called “silver bullet” solutions. Are cloud evangelists in this category?

The secret to Amazon’s success is their ability to tune out the noise and focus on innovating, disrupting and creating new markets. Here’s five reasons how not to compete with Amazon AWS:

Following Gartner’s recent report on what it sees as the five key trends that will shape cloud computing strategies between now and 2015, here is my perspective on the impact cloud computing will have on an SME audience.

Having read JP Rangaswami’s argument against private clouds (and the obvious promoting of his version of cloud) I have only to say that he’s looking for oranges in an apple tree. His entire premise is based on the idea that enterprises are wholly concerned with cost and sharing risk when that can’t be farther from the truth.

Some people think that offshoring software development = outsourcing software development. That’s not the case. You have multiple options. Let’s talk about the main options and how they may or not make sense for you: