Cloud & Virtualisation

The ICT subsidiary of Hungary’s incumbent telecom provider has forged a strategic alliance to resell cloud solutions under its branding...

A major Jordanian operator is rolling out a cloud back-up service to its three million subscribers...

Cloud computing offers many benefits for the Small, Micro and Medium Enterprise (SMME), including the ability to access the latest technology to optimise business efficiency, improved scalability and flexibility. On top of these is the advantage of moving this technology from a capital expense to an operational expense with a monthly bill for services instead of a large investment for technology infrastructure and software...

Businesses looking for a secure virtual environment will only consider the private cloud in the near future, says research firm IDC. According to the researcher, the private cloud is the closest to a virtualised infrastructure which offers better controls...

One of Nigeria’s leading IT support firms is now offering SMEs and start-up businesses a suite of cloud communications services...

Bharti Airtel has partnered with Microsoft to deliver its Office 365 cloud services to Indian businesses.

A new device-agnostic cloud communication service is being launched in Moldova by operator Moldcell...

A new cloud storage device is launching in Malaysia, allowing subscribers of the country’s major service provider to synch rich media, files and personal data wirelessly across smartphones, tablets and computers...

Eight secondary schools in Africa have now received the PC as a Service solution, a cloud-computing solution that provides schools with a low-maintenance, easy-to-use model that is optimized for mobile broadband networks...

With cloud services showing increased demand among India small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with up to 999 employees) there has been a healthy growth in the number of channel partners offering cloud solutions in their product/services portfolio...

What comes to mind when you think about cloud security? Do you think about application security or protecting corporate data? Perhaps you fear virus or phishing attacks? For the past several years, cloud security has been one of the biggest concerns among IT decision makers as they consider how best to transition applications and data out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. The real question is one of perception versus reality...

After introducing cloud-based services in 2011, the leading enterprise services provider in the Caribbean is now expanding its suite to target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the region...

A new series of cloud-based solutions for contact centres will allow operators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reduce their operational expenditure, as well as granting them a higher degree of control, greater design flexibility and simplified migration from on-premise environments...

Cloud computing is on the rise in Latin America following the launch of cloud services in Argentina by Telefónica...

As the debate between private and public clouds moves on to hybrid cloud adoption, a presumably more flexible form of cloud computing model, there is no denying that the fear of vendor lock-in persists, as most cloud services are still proprietary in nature.

In contrast, an open cloud provides the interoperability that will free companies from being locked in to a single cloud vendor. This in turn allows companies to select the vendor whose service level agreement matches most with their requirements...

Small and medium businesses (SMBs, or companies with up to 999 employees) in India are gradually becoming more aware of and interested in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...

The proliferation of mobile devices and applications has changed the way we buy and use business today. And interestingly, it is employees that are driving this trend, not IT...

Cloud computing is a seemingly unstoppable force, with its popularity increasing steadily across the world as its applications become more apparent. However, while many consumers can see the advantage of cloud storage, there are still many reservations about cloud service provision, with security a particular area of concern. DT editor James Barton spoke to Blue Coat’s Nigel Hawthorn about the reliability of a cloud security solution, and whether the introduction of such services is currently an option for emerging markets...

Yarob Sakhnini from Brocade provides an insight into a successful virtualisation strategy and explains how virtualisation is the driving force behind cloud computing, enabling data centres to provide a wide range of storage, processing, infrastructure and software services at a low cost...

With security concerns and bandwidth limitations now being overcome, Paul McKibbin,  Divisional CEO at Jasco Carrier Networks, looks at how South Africa is warming up to cloud computing...

A new infrastructure service provider in Russia will soon begin offering cloud computing services to public and private customers...

Cloud-based services are increasingly being adopted by multinational corporations, with firms in the Asia-Pacific region expressing the greatest interest, according to a survey conducted by Ovum...

Latvia’s largest service provider will soon offer its business customers cloud-based unified communications and collaboration services...

One of Madagascar’s leading operators is targeting the country’s Village Phone Operators (VPOs) with a new cloud-based mobile service...

Will 2011 be the year where SMBs in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) take a serious approach towards the adoption of cloud-based solutions and remote managed IT services (RMITS)? A new series of studies of the region say yes, showing the top 10 SMB ICT spending to be either cloud-based or RMITs-related. Leading the way is video conferencing, SaaS productivity, and remote managed PC services...

The South African operator Cell C has announced the launch of a new service named “MyTools”, a cloud telephony service built on global technology firm fonYou’s OMT-9000 platform...

Cloud computing looks set to top Asia’s agenda for the next ten years, if the opinions of key executives from China Unicom and Korea Telecom are anything to go by...

The Beijing Computing Centre and Mellanox Technologies have announced an agreement to build the Beijing Public Cloud Computing Centre, a laboratory that will further enhance China's cloud computing technology efforts...

After its success in Spain, mobile operator fonYou Telecom is to offer its Online Mobile Telephony platform to other mobile network operators...

Intending to aid device management and synchronisation,  Funambol has brought out what it believes to be the world's first open-source 4G mobile cloud platform for device management and synchronisation. The platform confirms to the relevant Open Mobile Alliance standards....