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Public Cloud Architecture

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Cloud demand drives infrastructure spending

  The latest numbers from IDC indicate that cloud demand is driving infrastructure spending across Europe

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Cloud infrastructure accounts for 30% of all IT spending

  IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker found that cloud infrastructure in Q42014 accounted nearly a third of global IT spending

• March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15

  New VMware German data centre goes live

  vCloud Air reaches GA in Germany as VMware continues its March across Europe

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Survey reveals public cloud adoption slowest in DACH region

  A survey from Barracuda Networks finds that Germany and Switzerland remain skeptical about public cloud while Spain is going cloud-crazy

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Google Cloud Platform gets friendly with Windows

  At long last, Google opens its cloud platform up to Windows workloads in an attempt to scoop up more Microsoft reliant businesses

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  AWS looking for more reseller engagement

  Amazon Web Services is keen to work with the channel as it looks for more market growth

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  David Linthicum says storage must evolve to meet cloud demands

  Cloud guru David Linthicum explains that the old way of doing storage is simply not good enough for the future of cloud infrastructure

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  New Big Data Azure services launched at TechEd

  Day two of TechEd is all about Big Data as Microsoft launches a range of new Azure services

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Interview: Insight EMEA president charting cloud course

  Insight is aiming to place itself at the vanguard of the movement towards a cloud and services world with Wolfgang Ebermann its EMEA president optimistic of success

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  AWS costs hit Amazon bottom line

  Infrastructure costs and the impact of a price war have taken their toll on Amazon Web Services in Q2

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  IDC: EMEA cloud spend surges skywards

  Spending on cloud hardware continues to increase according to the latest market analysis from analyst house IDC

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Claranet finds channel needs to increase cloud support

  Claranet research has found that the channel needs to increase cloud support to help customers overcome their aversion to risk

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Claranet exposes customer cloud migration problems

  Half of UK customers are struggling to migrate and integrate legacy on-premise systems with a cloud environment according to Claranet

• April 24, 2014 24 Apr'14

  Forrester revises cloud growth figures upward

  The pace of investment in the cloud has caused some analysts to revise their earlier predictions about the size of the global market

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Amazon follows Google with cloud price cuts

  Just a day after Google announced price cuts to its cloud services its rival Amazon has followed

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Claranet warns flexible cloud payments could be costly

  Research from Claranet has warned that some customers opting for pay-as-you-go cloud payment models might be leaving themselves out of pocket

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Google reveals price cuts to push Moore's Law into the cloud

  Google has announced price cuts to its on-demand cloud services as it looks to widen the market

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  Microsoft keen to help cloud sceptics

  Microsoft is willing to get those partners that have yet to take the plunge selling the cloud involved in an area of the market that is growing strongly

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  SaaS the most popular public cloud option

  Research from analyst house METISfiles indicates that SaaS is the most popular public cloud option in the UK ahead of IaaS or PaaS options

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Telstra Global highlights risk of cloud stagnation

  Customers who are not helped to exploit the cloud face losing out to the competition according to Telstra Global

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Outsourcery boss tells channel to invest in cloud

  The channel must start to make investments in the cloud if it is to survive warms the co-founder of Outsourcery

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  General public remain in the dark over cloud technology

  Research from 123.reg has found that the vast majority of consumers do not understand cloud computing

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Cisco: cloud could cause conflict between buyers and channel

  A survey of IT professionals conducted by Cisco and Intel has suggested that as control over IT shifts to lines of business, IT departments acting as brokers could come into conflict with the channel

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  EC hopes to encourage greater cloud use

  The European Commission is setting out to educate users and businesses about the benefits of cloud computing

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Cloud doubts starting to clear

  Research from Databarracks and Claranet indicates that some of the worries users had about the cloud are starting to be overcome

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Rackspace investing in growth strategy

  Cloud player Rackspace has seen its income fall and sales rise as it continues to stick to a plan to grow the business

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  CIF finds hybrid cloud is the user choice

  Findings from the Cloud Industry Forum indicate that the cloud market is becoming mainstream in the UK

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  Aorta Cloud mounts rescue mission for Nirvanix customers

  Following revelations that US cloud provider Nirvanix is shuttering its service, UK partner Aorta Cloud embarks on fundraising mission to offer service continuity to customers

• August 29, 2013 29 Aug'13

  Gartner warns resellers not to bank on cloud riches

  Although customers continue to invest in the cloud the level of money that technology takes from the IT budget will still be fairly low according to Gartner

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  SMEs struggling to win G-Cloud contracts due to accreditation complexities

  Despite government’s aspiration to put half of all new IT spending through small IT suppliers, SMEs have received only 10% of the G-Cloud contracts

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  MicroScope top stories, week ending 2 August 2013

  Last week saw the ownership battle for Dell take another turn, PC World being held up as a model for the NHS and some more predictions about the growth of the cloud

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Gartner predicts strong growth in public cloud

  With confidence rising the volume of business in the public cloud is set to grow by billions over the next two and a half years

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  G-Cloud key to government SME spending target

  G-Cloud is key to channeling 25% of central government spending through SMEs by 2015, says Mark Smitham, principal cyber security advisor

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Cloud the way for MSBs to catch up on larger rivals

  Using the cloud is the best way for medium-sized firms to catch up on the ICT investment gap between them and large enterprise competition

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Microsoft finds that cloud equals confidence for SMEs

  Those SMEs that have made the investment in cloud are more confident about their growth prospects in the future according to Microsoft research

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Security fears holding back big data moves

  Research from Voltage Security has revealed that customers are walking away from big data and cloud projects because of worries about security

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  CA bolsters managed services support for resellers

  CA Technologies has made enhancements to its partner programme in recognition of the growing demand from customers for managed services

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  CIF chairman takes non-executive role at Outsourcery

  Cloud Industry Forum chairman Andy Burton has taken a non-executive director role at Outsourcery as the reseller looks to grow its business in the cloud

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  VMware flexes channel muscles at PEX

  VMware has added new incentives, enablement and collaboration programmes on the opening day of its global partner knees-up, PEX

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Public sector looking for more nimble supply options

  Public sector customers are going to look more often at suppliers that can help them keep costs and under control and deliver IT projects on time according to IDC

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  SMEs lacking the skills to move to secure cloud

  Smaller customers lack the skills to make the move to a secure cloud environment and will have to rely on channel partners to take further steps to a hosted environment

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  UK SME cloud market heading for £2bn revenue

  The UK SME market continues to invest in cloud computing with the latest resarch into the market from Parallels indicating its just a few years away from being a £2bn market

• November 22, 2012 22 Nov'12

  SMEs looking for simple steps on cloud journey

  Small customers want to move to the cloud starting with proven technology that will inspire confidence about the hosted model

• November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12

  Brocade adds Vyatta to software networking offer

  Brocade has forked out an undisclosed sum to acquire US-based network software expert Vyatta

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Government launches next phase of G-Cloud project

  The second phase of the G-Cloud project has gone live with hundreds of new suppliers, including a substantial number of resellers, named to the public sector cloud buying programme

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  VMware profits dip as expenses rack up

  Although it booked growth across the board in licence and services revenues, VMware’s profits failed to keep pace with the runaway growth in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure in Q3

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  Redstone gives Cambridge dedicated cloud

  Redstone has extended the cloud support it gives the City of Cambridge giving the university town a business network that spans across the town

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Dell adds final Cloud Enabler certification to PartnerDirect programme

  Six months after the official launch of its channel Cloud Services and Solutions competency certification, Dell has added the final Cloud Services Enabler specialisation to its PartnerDirect programme

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Business issues rather than technical hold back cloud

  Customers are concerned about a range of issues incouding compliance and fear of contract lock-in as they weigh up the move to basing more of their IT in the cloud

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  IBM ups support for MSPs in cloud push

  IBM has indicated it will offer more technical and financial support to managed service providers to encourage them to develop services based around its cloud platforms

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Cisco reacts to cloud changes with Master certification

  Cisco has introduced a Master Cloud Builder specialisation as it looks to generate more resellers capable of selling a wide ranging solution to meet customer needs

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Rise appoints channel head to support reseller cloud moves

  Rise has appointed Sue MacDermott as head of channel with a brief to help more resellers make the transition to the cloud as it looks to get more business through existing partners

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Oracle sees hardware decline, SaaS shine

  Oracle has once again seen its quarterly hardware sales tumbling, and the decline only looks set to continue as the vendor struggles to turn around its Sun business

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Cloud growth a wake up for the channel

  Recent figures showing strong growth in adoption of hosted applications and services in recent months should spur reseller activity in this area

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Cloud adoption speeding up

  Adoption of cloud applications and services has speeded up over the last nine months as more customers start to embrace the technology

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Salford City Council offers cloud service to local businesses

  Salford City Council will offer a private cloud service to local businesses through a partnership with ANS Group

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Public cloud spend to hit $40bn this year, says IDC

  Global spending on public IT cloud services is set to hit over $40bn (£25bn) this year on its way to a $100bn high four years from now, according to the latest statistics from the industry-watchers at IDC.

• September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12

  Cloud still a foreign concept to many Europeans

  The BSA has discovered that across Europe there are mixed attitudes towards the cloud but the majority of users have little understanding of the technology

• August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

  Level 3 boosts UK datacentre capacity

  Comms services provider Level 3 is adding to its UK enterprise datacentre capacity to support international business requirements.

• August 17, 2012 17 Aug'12

  Greater cloud transparency needed to boost sales

  The Cloud Industry Forum has called more transparency from those selling the technology in an effort to get sales moving in the right direction

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  Gartner calls time on peak of cloud hype

  The cloud has passed its peak in terms of hype and is now set for a period of more realistic expectations before becoming mainstream

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  Melbourne gives iomart Manchester base

  Cloud hosting specialist iomart Group has acquired Manchester-based hosting firm Melbourne Server Hosting, giving it a physical presence in north-west England for the first time.

• August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

  Microsoft winning the cloud battle

  Microsoft's cloud offerings are winning the attentions of customers more than those of Google and Amazon according to the latest Pearlfinders IT Index

• August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

  Rackspace profits from hosted demand

  Growing demand for hosted cloud services has pushed quarterly revenues at sector bellwether Rackspace up 29% year-on-year to $319m (£203.7m), while net profit of $25m was up 49%.

• August 07, 2012 07 Aug'12

  Wozniak praised for voicing cloud fears

  The co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak has described the cloud as horrendous and raised concerns over data integrity

• August 03, 2012 03 Aug'12

  Resellers must discuss hidden cloud costs

  The cloud might appear to be flexible and better value but IT industry group ISACA has warned there are hidden costs that could trip customers up

• August 02, 2012 02 Aug'12

  intY looks for channel growth post acquisition

  Following its acquisition by Weather the cloud specialist intY is looking to grow the number of resellers it works with in the channel

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  Games should boost cloud and video conferencing

  The Olympic Games has put a strain on the transport system but as remote working increases so should the interest in cloud and video conferencing

• July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

  Cloud delivering growth for Citrix

  Citrix has shown that the cloud business continues to be a profitable one with climbs in both income and revenue in its second quarter

• July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12

  Claranet sounds warning over cloud worries

  Customer worries about the cloud continue to persist and resellers must be aware of the concerns that linger over the technology among users

• July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  On Direct powers up cloud services expansion

  Cloud services provider On Direct has embarked on a partner recruitment drive as it prepares to deliver a series of enhancements to its Cloud Direct offering.

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  Cloud driving 2012 IT spend growth, says Gartner

  Gartner has raised its worldwide IT spending forecast by half a percentage point as enterprise buyers get cloud fever.

• July 08, 2012 08 Jul'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 6 July 2012

  Our weekly round-up of the top 10 most read stories here on MicroScope.co.uk

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  Citrix joins Cloud Industry Forum

  Citrix has signed up to the Cloud Industry Forum, joining the likes of Microsoft and VMware.

• July 02, 2012 02 Jul'12

  Avnet polishes off Magirus

  Five years after it bought its enterprise IT distribution business, Avnet has returned to the table to acquire the remainder of datacentre solutions distributor Magirus.

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  Private cloud spending set for impressive growth

  IDC has released figures showing that private cloud technology will grow at an annual compound growth rate of 23% across Western Europe in the next four years

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Comstor plants flag in Cisco, NetApp FlexPod environment

  Cisco-specialist Comstor has revealed it is to sell Cisco and NetApp's FlexPod datacentre architecture in EMEA after being handed distribution rights to the converged networking, server and storage solution.

• June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  Consumer cloud new service provider opportunity, says Gartner

  Cloud providers may soon be able to consider adding a new string to their bow in the shape of consumer cloud services, as home users begin to turn to the cloud to store photos, videos and other content.

• June 24, 2011 24 Jun'11

  Data is the new oil? That's just too much

  Judging by Google, there seem to be a lot of people around at the moment who are opening their presentations with the bold statement that "data is the new oil".