Cloud Analysis & Insight

Software to rent, not buy

Analysis & Insight 9 May, 2013 Stephen Pritchard

Adobe is moving its professional Creative Suite software to a rental-only model. How will that affect business users?

BYOD, or no job, no device?

Analysis & Insight 2 May, 2013 Stephen Pritchard

Research by Gartner suggests employees may be forced to buy their own IT. This may cause business more problems than it solves.

Microsoft ups ante in Google cloud fight with Office 365 for Business

Analysis & Insight 27 Feb, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Office 365 for Business has now gone on general release. Should Google be worried?

Apps in the cloud

The apps are coming to get you!

Analysis & Insight 7 Feb, 2013 Stephen Pritchard

Inside the Enterprise: A combination of BYOD and legacy software is bringing firms' applications strategy to breaking point, a consultancy argues.

Cloudy beach

Cloud's change agents bypass IT

Analysis & Insight 31 Jan, 2013 Stephen Pritchard

Inside the enterprise: A study by Forrester finds that the drive for cloud computing continues to come from lines of business, not IT.

Balancing act

Cloud politics: the CIO's difficult balancing act

Analysis & Insight 24 Jan, 2013 Mark Samuels

The arrival of cloud computing means CIOs change their approach to procurement. What strategy works best?

Storm cloud

Why 2013 won't be the year of the cloud

Analysis & Insight 4 Jan, 2013 Max Cooter

Last year saw cloud make its way into the enterprise, but talk of a year of the cloud may be misguided, argues Maxwell Cooter.

Cloud crisis

Can you trust the cloud in a crisis?

Analysis & Insight 19 Dec, 2012 Davey Winder

The cloud is about more than just data storage and 'anytime/anywhere' file access. It's also increasingly being used as an enterprise disaster recovery tool.

Q&A

Q&A Tarkan Maner, vice president and general manager, Dell cloud client computing

Analysis & Insight 14 Dec, 2012 Jane McCallion

The former CEO of Wyse, who sold the client computing firm to Dell, takes time out at Dell World to talk to IT Pro about his new role and what the future holds.

AWS Re:Invent keynote stage

AWS Re:Invent: Who's flying high in the AWS cloud?

Analysis & Insight 30 Nov, 2012 Caroline Donnelly

Amazon Web Services' inaugural global tech conference saw firms of all shapes and sizes bang the drum for its cloud services. Caroline Donnelly finds out why.

Storm clouds

Drawing lessons from Sandy's wrath

Analysis & Insight 1 Nov, 2012 Stephen Pritchard

The impact of Hurricane Sandy has been felt across the world, but businesses should learn lessons from nature's power.

Cloud certification

Should cloud providers be certified?

Analysis & Insight 24 Oct, 2012 Davey Winder

The cloud may well be the word on every enterprise's lips, but words don't always translate into action. Could a lack of cloud certification be holding back real world deployment?

Big Data

Coping with the data deluge

Analysis & Insight 20 Oct, 2012 Mark Samuels

Whether you're talking Big Data, small data, fast data or slow data, business and tech leaders must start to change their thinking, according to Mark Samuels.

Box homepage

Q&A: Aaron Levie, CEO, Box

Analysis & Insight 28 Aug, 2012 Jane McCallion

We speak to Aaron Levie, co-founder of online file sharing site Box, about the company's European expansion plans.

The word 'why' on post-it notes

Why can’t you make a phone call (or send an SMS) from an iPad?

Analysis & Insight 6 Aug, 2012 Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy ponders why the most modern of devices can't do some of the simplest of things.

Business person on cloud

The future of the CIO and the cloud

Analysis & Insight 27 Jul, 2012 Mark Samuels

The weather outlook for CIOs is changing and, while there may be cloudy times ahead, there’s no trouble in sight, according to Mark Samuels.

Hands holding cloud image

Time to prepare for the human cloud

Analysis & Insight 26 Jul, 2012 Stephen Pritchard

Inside the enterprise: Technology is producing a global talent pool, and this could bring drastic changes to the workplace. Is IT ready?

Domain name labels

Brands, websites, and ICANN's $185,000

Analysis & Insight 14 Jun, 2012 Stephen Pritchard

Inside the Enterprise: Businesses are being encouraged to pay a six-figure sum to apply for the new top-level internet domains. But social media may make web addresses less relevant.

Man looking over clouds

Oracle in the clouds

Analysis & Insight 7 Jun, 2012 Stephen Pritchard

Inside the enterprise: Big guns taking the cloud seriously is good for larger businesses.

big data

Who’s afraid of the big data?

Analysis & Insight 31 May, 2012 Rene Millman

It seems that every vendor and analyst firm is talking about big data.

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