Author: David

Vodafone India is making a foray into the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) segment with mobility, connectivity and cloud computing services on the offer.   "It is (SME sector) currently the fastest growing market and that is the reason why any telco wants to get into the market," Vodafone India Executive Vice President and Head -SME Business Deepak Pande told PTI.

He said Vodafone’s suite consist of three kinds of products which include wireless products including voice and data, connectivity services like internet lease lines and cloud computing…

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has registered a price appreciation of 70% over the last five years, as compared to the Nasdaq’s 44%. The company enjoys recurring revenues and we predict a high sustainable growth rate for IBM. The company has been focusing on cloud computing, and is on track for its 2015 road map to grow revenues.

The expected growth rate for the next five years is ~11% per annum. Revenues from the company’s growth markets were up 8% YoY, adjusting for currency. We believe the stock has an upside potential of more than 20%...

IT shops have more storage infrastructure choices than ever before as more vendors jump into the software-defined storage market.

Software-defined storage abstracts storage from hardware, making storage a pooled and fungible resource across physical boundaries, managed as a service according to policy. It isn’t an entirely new concept — storage virtualization has been around for years — but putting the point of management control into the virtual server and consolidating storage and server resources onto one hardware platform is relatively novel…

Identifying, retrieving, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a subpoena can be a time-consuming and costly business. Processing just one gigabyte of data in response to an electronic discovery (ediscovery) request can cost at least $30,000, according to the Sedona Conference Journal.

It’s not surprising, then, that few cloud providers have yet addressed the issue of ediscovery responsibilities in their standard contracts. But that leaves enterprises with their ESI in the public cloud at risk. "Courts have shown little patience for companies that fail to meet their discovery obligations," says Kim Leffert, counsel in the litigation practice of Mayer Brown. "An excuse that ‘the data is on an outsourcing provider’s systems’ will likely fall on deaf ears." Indeed, courts have issued sanctions for failing to respond to ediscovery requests, including fines, suit dismissals, default judgments, and even potential jail time…

Tax departments are being excluded from discussions about whether it’s a good idea for their companies to move into cloud computing, despite security concerns.

That raises the possibility of tax risks, lost cost-saving opportunities and decreased return-on-investment for cloud projects. While the use of cloud environments continues to be increasingly embraced by companies, 52 percent of a group of senior U.S. corporate tax professionals surveyed by KPMG saif they are generally not included in discussions with top management of other groups in their organizations to provide the tax perspective on cloud initiatives…