Cloud Computing Worth $82.9 Billion in 2016
More than 30 percent of enterprises worldwide are deploying at least one cloud solution, according to a new survey by Visiongain. The IT analytics and media specialist’s latest report, titled "Cloud: Moving into the Realm of an Essential IT Strategy," examines the fast-growing cloud services market and looks at the state of enterprise cloud market and how businesses can leverage cloud services to cut costs, improve efficiency and drive innovation within their organization.
Mobile Workers, Fast Threats Spur Demand For Cloud Security Services
The market for cloud security services will continue to grow as companies strive to secure mobile systems and keep up with fast-moving threats, according to a new study.
In a report released this month, the Radicati Group, a market analysis firm, projects that the worldwide market for security-as-a-service will double during the next four years, reaching more than $2 billion in 2014. Companies’ problems in securing their mobile workforce is a major factor in the demand for cloud security services, says Sara Radicati, president and principal analyst for the firm.
Camwood debuts cloud-based application lifecycle management
Camwood has launched Application Lifecycle Manager, a cloud-based service to help application teams monitor application usage.
The service provides real time information on the status of a single application, groups of applications or an application portfolio, aggregating information on application usage and costs.
Camwood says the product is proving a key component for software-optimisation perspective, claiming it can help organisations save up to 20% of their desktop licensing cost.
Cloud to cannibalise managed services?
Once cloud computing reaches the stage of maturity, it will probably eat into managed services revenues.
So says Julian Liebenberg, Business Connexion’s GM for services, who, however, notes that despite the advent of cloud computing, traditional methods of installing and customising software on an organisation’s own data centre are still popular among local businesses.
What Cloud Computing can do for Startup America
With President Obama recently having to report dismal job creation stats, it’s clear just how important it is that programs like Startup America are supported to succeed. As this article reports the bulk of net new job growth comes from new startups.
So our key question is what role can Cloud Computing play in supporting the initiative?
Small Businesses Not Yet Swayed By Cloud’s Benefits
Nearly half of small businesses say they don’t believe cloud computing will reduce their IT costs, a recent survey by Newtek Business Services found.
According to Newtek’s SB Authority Market Sentiment Survey, 48 percent of small-business owners do not believe cloud computing will shrink their IT costs. The survey polled 1,000 respondents in June. Meanwhile, 20 percent believe cloud computing solutions will reduce their IT costs, while 32 percent are undecided or uncertain.
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How to set up an international company in the public cloud
I blogged last week about how corporates are beginning to look at using applications in the public cloud.
Improving the Mobile Cloud Experience
Although most agree that mobile cloud computing holds a great promise for delivering cloud solutions to individuals and even critical corporate applications to employees by enabling access from anywhere, there are still several barriers that need to be addressed to elevate its usefulness and capabilities. For mobile cloud computing to reach its full potential, the following three critical challenges need to be addressed, as detailed in a recent article by Bryan Betts: