Cloud computing has been getting a bit of a bad rap lately. It’s not surprising since some big security hacks of late (we’re thinking of you Twitter!) have got users thinking twice before they send all their valuable data and CRM client information to a galaxy far far away. When storing data on the cloud, [...]

The cloud computing train has done nothing but gain momentum over the past few years, and it appears it will continue all the way to $100 billion in revenue. “The IT industry is in the midst of an important transformative period as companies invest in the technologies that will drive growth and innovation over the [...]

In a recent Data Center Knowledge article, president and CEO of Aryaka Networks Ajit Gupta suggested that the cloud is bringing an end to the days of closed enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN). “Now enterprise resources increasingly are being deployed in the cloud, whether via more aggressive use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or by leveraging Infrastructure-as-a-Service [...]

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are switching their systems to the cloud with greater frequency. A recent Experian QAS report indicated they have good reason to, as cloud services offer scalability benefits that make it easier to expand. “For fast-growing organizations, it’s easier to expand in the cloud than to upgrade to a series of [...]

Forbes contributor Joe McKendrick recently detailed a study conducted by Rackspace Hosting and Manchester Business School, which indicated that cloud computing is not merely providing existing organizations with substantial savings and increased flexibility, but also driving the emergence of the next generation of startup companies. Furthermore, with the time and money saved by adopting cloud [...]

With all the talk surrounding the emergence and adoption of cloud services, most might already agree that the cloud has gone mainstream. However, its hype cycle is far from over. In a recent article for CIO Journal, contributors Steven Rosenbush and Michael Hickins reported how the largest company in the world by revenue, Royal Dutch [...]

The cloud market is booming, with revenue for public services estimated to reach $100 billion by 2016, according to a study by IDC. And that total does not take into account the private cloud market, which is expected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 21.5 percent by 2015. “By the end of the [...]

A large percentage of organizations are either currently using or planning to move their online database software to the cloud in the near future. They now have IT professionals’ support in their decision to make the switch. Qumu, the top business video platform provider, released the results of its 2012 IT in the Cloud Assessment [...]

Governments, on what appears to be a global level, are pushing for more investment in cloud computing. The European Commission, for instance, recently announced its plan to spend nearly $50 billion on cloud services – an investment the organization hopes will produce 3.8 million jobs and more than $200 billion annual GDP gains by 2020. [...]

Midsize Insider contributor Rick Robinson recently reported that some enterprise software industry observers are identifying several ways in which cloud services are fundamentally changing the way firms manage information about their customers. While enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been typically on-premise solutions, cloud solutions that are easy to implement via a cloud database form [...]