Top 10: why your cloud is only as good as your network

This week in cloud: More outages, fewer data centers GigaOM One reason is that companies will not build as many small data centers in house and will shift more work to the cloud computing typicaly handled by the mega data centers built by Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. That means while the number of ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

Cloud, Mobile Present Opportunities and Challenges AAPL, ORCL, GOOG Live Trading News The technologies are orthogonal to each other. Certain features of cloud computing like load balancing and dynamic scaling are useful for mobile computing. In today's cloud-based 'technology-as-a-service' world, institutions are considering specialist ... See all stories on this topic »

Top 10: why your cloud is only as good as your network AME Info Revenue from cloud computing products and services are due to increase from around $20bn to almost $150bn by 2020 - a total of 8% for all technology spend, according to research by Bain & Company. Their study, titled The Five Faces of the Cloud ... See all stories on this topic » AME Info

Cloud, social media changing way of doing business: Oracle Muscat Daily New technologies like cloud computing, social networking and big data solutions are changing the ways of doing business, the vice president of Gulf states and cluster and technology leader of Oracle said. Speaking at the Oracle Day event at Grand Hyatt ... See all stories on this topic »

China,United States : MICROSOFT crosses boundaries with OFFICE 365 ... Equities.com The pioneering software giant has inked a partnership deal with the Shanghai Municipal Government and 21Vianet Group Inc. to take Office 365 and Windows Azure cloud-computing services into China. Chinese customers who desire to work with Microsoft ... See all stories on this topic »