Today’s cloud computing providers come from a variety of industries. Companies like Google and Amazon have adjacent businesses (search, e-commerce) and expertise in running computing at scale that fit well with selling IT services. Here are some of the major providers:
Storage specialist EMC has outlined a vision that takes the cloud concept to its ultimate conclusion – a global unified storage system that functions as a single resource pool.
The theoretical system, which would use YottaYotta technology, promises to be able to overcome limitations such as latency, bandwidth and cache coherency, to allow people from all over
Cyber warfare against enterprises grows more brutal by the year, but now carriers are getting caught in the crossfire as more organizations move sensitive data into operators’ clouds, according to a survey sponsored by telecom network security vendor Arbor Networks.
Competition, cost pressures, and the demand for “anytime, anywhere, any device” services and apps are forcing telecom service providers to consider alternative models for the delivery of IT services.
Service providers regard their networks as a strategic asset capable of driving incremental revenue and increased profitability, but how do they extract max
Telecom service providers often talk about cloud computing services as if they’re a well-established entity with enterprise customers, but as with all things cloud, there’s a lot of hype surrounding the truth. The truth? Carriers say one thing and enterprises say another.
As the mobile industry gathers in Barcelona for the industry’s largest annual event, we provide our opinion of the most interesting announcements made today. For further information on any of the following, please contact the analysts named below.
2009 was the Year of the Cloud for most tech vendors. But if you ask 27 different vendors to define "cloud 2computing," you’re likely to end up with 27 different answers.