Hosted services drive growth in cloud

The technological and economic benefits offered by cloud services are accelerating enterprise migration from on-premise IT infrastructure solutions to hosted alternatives. This is driving rapid growth in the European infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market. Cloud...

Cloud deployments set for EMEA growth

IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew 16% year-on-year to reach $1,01-billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2015. According to the International Data...

Soccer in the cloud with SAP, City Football

SAP and City Football Group (CFG) have announced a global, multi-year marketing and technology partnership that will transform the way the ownership group and its football teams operate and perform, from the boardroom to the pitch. SAP will become the official “Cloud...

Five ways cloud telephony aids SMEs

If the business world was a steep cliff and entrepreneurs were rock climbers trying to get to the top, think of modern technologies as the footholds they’d use to boost themselves higher and higher, says Ambarish Gupta, founder and CEO of Knowlarity. This analogy is...

Massive growth for cloud infrastructure

Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 25,1% year-over-year to nearly $6,3-billion in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15). According to the International Data...