“Cloud first” markets — those where companies’ first serious engagements with information technology are in the form of cloud computing — are beginning to emerge. For the BRIC economies in particular,… Read more »
Writing for InformationWeek yesterday, George Crump asks “Are storage vendors shopping for SSD companies?” He looks at the rumors surrounding Apple’s play for Anobit, and wonders “Will we get to the… Read more »
Originally an American phenomenon, retailers are now working hard to make Black Friday a fixture in other markets as well. My (UK-based) email inbox has been inundated with offers from the… Read more »
Consumer-focused cloud storage company Dropbox announced a new Series B round worth $250 million this week, valuing the startup at around $4 billion. Claiming more than 45 million users and expecting… Read more »
Apple’s iCloud became available to Mac and iOS device customers today. With the explicit name-association to “cloud,” and the marketing push that Apple is giving this, we will no doubt very… Read more »
Gavin Clarke at The Register has reawoken earlier suggestions that Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure play some role in delivering data to customers of Apple’s forthcoming iCloud. Rather than merely serving… Read more »
My wife, once again, has been proved right (don’t tell her). I survived more than a week offline, on the side of a mountain on Crete. My business did not implode,… Read more »
According to the trend trackers over at Compete, we’re in the “year of the cloud,” as Amazon, Google and Apple all rush to push their consumers cloudward. Compete sees Amazon attracting… Read more »
As expected, Steve Jobs announced Apple’s iCloud service today and reiterated the company’s commitment to making this service succeed where earlier attempts such as MobileMe had not. Rich Miller at DataCenterKnowledge… Read more »
Not content with protesting outside Facebook’s offices, Greenpeace has launched a new scorecard on the whole industry entitled How Dirty is Your Data? Facebook has come in for sustained criticism over… Read more »