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Ensuring end-to-end interoperability of the cloud

James Walker President of the CloudEthernet Forum explains the Open Cloud Project and how it will prevent fragmentation of the cloud. The CloudEthernet Forum (CEF) and MEF have recently announced the creation of the CEF ‘Open Cloud Project.’

Are cloud price reductions sustainable?

Chris Morris takes a wide angle view on the recent flurry of huge cloud investments and asks whether corresponding price falls make sense.

Flexiant Acquires Besol’s Tapp Multi-Cloud Management Technology and Business

Tapp multi-cloud lifecycle management platform to be integrated with Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to immediately benefit MSP’s, telcos and others

City Network extends the lead in European IaaS

City Network unveil their fifth data center and the first City Cloud data center outside of Scandinavia.

CenturyLink announces mitigation appliance option for DDoS Mitigation Service

CenturyLink, Inc. launches DDoS Mitigation Service that protects businesses’ IT infrastructure against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

IBM unveils storage technology for an era of Big Data

IBM today unveiled a portfolio of software defined storage products that deliver improved economics at the same time they enable organizations to access and process any type of data, on any type of storage device, anywhere in the world.

How do Kingston see the storage market maturing throughout 2014?

Matthew Mackender, EMEA SSD Business manager at Kingston gives us some market insight into the take up of SSDs and Flash memory.

Carrot, stick or lockdown? How to approach BYOD

To tap the productivity benefits of BYOD businesses need to consider how to reconcile IT and access. Esther Rutter looks at the options. Here at Compare the Cloud, we've already taken a look at the factors to consider before implementing a BYOD scheme: cost, productivity, employee morale, acceptable use, security, and availability...

Will Virtual Desktops ever arrive?

James Mackie, MD of VESK provides a deep insight into the evolution - and current state - of the hosted virtual desktop market.

Server Flash and Flash Hypervisor solution lowers application latency

Flash lowers application latency and increases server consolidation

Case Study: Kingston Technology combine PernixData Flash hypervisor with Kingston Flash SSD to improve SAN performance and service life.

Net Neutrality: good for cloud computing?

Compare the Cloud takes a look at Net Neutrality pros and cons and its impact on consumers and providers of cloud computing. Net Neutrality – the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally and shouldn't be meddled with – has hit the headlines again...

The Case for Open Source Virtualization

Rick Delgado outlines the key business, technology and operational advantages of open source virtualization software. Virtualization has now become a regular part of the business world. Company leaders no longer look at is as the wave of the future so much as it is one of the present day tools used for business.

Choosing the right CSP – how important are multiple sites?

IBM Debuts Enterprise Cloud Marketplace with Global Partner Ecosystem

IBM today launched a new Cloud marketplace that brings together IBM’s vast portfolio of cloud capabilities and new third-party services...

IBM Announces New BlueMix Services to Help Developers Build Applications in the Cloud

IBM today announced more than 30 additional cloud services are available in BlueMix, its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to help developers quickly integrate applications and speed deployment of new cloud services.

Intermedia appoints new UK sales director

Intermedia has appointed Aidan Simister as its new UK director of sales following the company’s recently announced growth strategy and the acquisition of SaaSID.

MSP vs Traditional IT Channel

Daniel Thomas looks at the hype around MSPs being the key to cloud adoption, and suggests VARs may be even more vital.

Lunacloud expands business to Russia

Lunacloud announces the opening of its operations in Moscow, Russia.

Has IaaS commoditisation triumphed?

With news that cloud computing units will be traded on a commodities exchange, Compare the Cloud considers what the impact will be.

Disaster recovery: Should we, or shouldn't we?

Russel Ridgley of Pulsant looks at the not insignificant matter of DR and what options you have for protecting your data and to what extent.

60% of UK SMEs taking advantage of outsourced IT infrastructure, according to Node4

New research has shown that 60% of UK SMEs have partly or fully outsourced their IT infrastructure; and that 1 in 10 SMEs have already deployed a fully cloud-based IT infrastructure.

SMEs are not interested in cloud technology!

Neil Cattermull of Compare the Cloud finds a gap in the understanding of cloud computing that SMEs have, and that vendors think SMEs have. After drinking what must be thousands of lattes, meeting a similar quantity of end user 'consumers' (potential and actual), and then hundreds of cloud computing vendors...

VMware: Memory extends cloud performance

Case Study: When VMware wanted to boost virtual machine capacity on an existing server base they chose to double the memory capacity.

The cloud's value chain needs service brokers

Maurice van der Woude of BPdelivery explains how cloud service brokers provide a valuable link in the cloud delivery chain.

StratoGen Appoints Kat McClure to Spearhead Global Marketing Efforts

Leading VMware cloud hosting provider StratoGen is pleased to announce the appointment of Kat McClure as its new Global Marketing Director.

IBM Accelerates Mobile Innovation for Businesses with New MobileFirst Services

IBM today announced the expansion of its IBM MobileFirst portfolio with new services focused on mobile strategy, security and management.

Community computing initiative drives learning and creativity

Compare the Cloud & Reprezent Radio help young to compute and broadcast their way to a brighter future.

Is NSA killing cloud?

Frank Jennings examines whether the NSA revelations are grounds for giving up on cloud computing. Much copy has been given to the Snowden revelations and there has been widespread ire at the practices of NSA and GCHQ.

Cisco - Between a rock and a hard(ware) place

Christopher Morris considers Cisco's designations of being a provider of cloud computing services and what the proposition will look like. Last week, Cisco Systems Inc announced that they plan to offer cloud computing services, pledging to spend over $1 billion...