Cloud Consultancy News
Small Businesses Need To Face Up To Big Security Problems
We’ve had millennia to learn behaviours in the physical world, yet as a new digitised world emerges we’re still playing catch-up from a cyber-perspective. In the physical world we are extremely security aware, we would never walk down a dark alley or let...
Building Data Centres in Europe ‘Won’t Solve The Data Sovereignty Problem
Virtustream, purveyor of enterprise cloud, has said that building data centres in Europe will not be the solution to the continents data sovereignty woes. The last 12 months has seen a burst of data centre construction, especially with big name players such as AWS and...
Microsoft’s Software Defined Data Centres Of The Future
With the phenomenal rate of growth in cloud computing, the increasing number of cloud applications are demanding mega-scale infrastructures, and these infrastructures all have the same backbone, the data centre. For companies the size of Microsoft, running data...
IoT and smart machines are incoming tech tsunami, says Ocado CTO
The Internet of Things (IoT) and smart machines are incoming tsunamis of technology that will transform the way online grocery retailer Ocado does business, according to its IT boss. "There are these tsunamis coming our way, one it the Internet of Things, the other...
Is cheap and unlimited cloud storage bad news?
Everyone can agree, storage quotas for cloud services are increasing very quickly. And this means only one thing: cloud storage is getting dirt-cheap. This is nothing new, as organisations have been getting more and more gigabyte (GB) for their buck in the past...
Dell bolsters cloud programme with NTT Com partnership
Dell and NTT Com have announced a partnership that will see the latter join the former’s cloud service provider programme, with NTT’s cloud services being made available to Dell customers globally.It has been about two years since Dell announced it would...
BT Brings IP Telephony To All With ‘Plug And Play’ Cloud Phone
BT Cloud Phone offered to SMBs as company announces 1,000 new apprenticeships and graduate jobsBT says its new ‘plug-and-play’ BT Cloud Phone will allow small businesses to take advantage of many of the benefits offered by modern IP telephony...
Microsoft unveil Lumia 640 for business
Microsoft unveiled the Lumia 640 and 640 XL at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week – and the business features on the handsets suggest Microsoft is trying to win more of a toehold in the enterprise.Launching the phones at MWC, Microsoft...
NTT DOCOMO, Nokia Networks showcase high-speed data transmission in 5G
Marking an important step in the research and standardization of 5G* technologies, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) has partnered with Nokia Networks to explore and harness the potential of Nokia Networks mmWave** technology in the 70 GHz spectrum band. In a joint indoor 5G...
MWC 2015: news and reviews from the biggest phone show of the year
MWC is quite possibly the biggest yearly event in the mobile world. At MWC 2014for example we saw the Samsung Galaxy S5, Sony Xperia Z2 and a plethora of other smartphones, tablets and smartwatches.MWC 2015 is expected to be every bit as big and...