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HP helps the European Commission plan a federated Cloud
HP Cloud Highlights HP understands the EU cloud ecosystem must enable an open market, addressing barriers to adoption and meeting regulatory, legal, geographic, trust and performance constraints Active...
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Atos buys Bull for €620 million
Atos has had its offer of €620 million accepted by Bull’s board, allowing it to continue to build its IT Services. It’s a major deal, but not as big as its acquisition of Siemens IT Services back in...
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Consolidate, Virtualise, Integrate, Cloudify – The 2014 Data Centre Imperatives
Martin to Speak at IP Expo October 8 2014 at 3pm I’ve been booked to speak at IP Expo for the 3rd year running on data centre transformation over time. 2014 is a year in which suppliers have been...
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Consolidate, Virtualise, Integrate, Cloudify – The New Data Centre Imperatives
Please click above to see my presentation on the new data centre imperatives given this week to IP Expo Europe in London. Data centre managers can create useful new strategies by addressing each of...
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5. The year of the Revenue Cloud – Cloud service grows 14.8%
Our fifth prediction is that 2015 will be the year in which Cloud Computing comes of age as an accepted resource for big business customers and a strong revenue generator for major suppliers. In...
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Avere – more progress in NAS storage reinvention
Avere continues to make progress in helping customers to address the separate issues of storage performance and capacity through adding features and functions to its edge filers. In its latest...
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Cloud 2014 – huge growth, poor profits
Cloud computing is a complicated subject: it involves lots of virtualisation, changes in purchasing from Cap Ex to Op Ex, shifts from owned assets to acquired service and – most importantly – a need to...
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Cloud services suffer massive regional currency discrepancies
Following my sizing and forecast for cloud services published yesterday, I wanted to expand on the regional growth stats. The rapidly falling value of almost all local currencies against the $US is...
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2016 prediction 7 – Cloud Computing continues to surge – SaaS is the star
Cloud computing will grow by 13% to reach $354B. The strongest growth will be in SaaS (26.3%), which we count as part of the software market. IT services engage to build and manage private, public and...
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Cloud services grow 20% in 2015 to reach $107B
Having had a look at client devices last week it’s time to focus on enterprise IT. I’m waiting for HP Enterprise to report its results today before looking at the hardware markets. Today’s subject is...
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NetApp Steers for the Cloud
NetApp Cloud Highlights Has adapted its strategy, moving from being a horizontal to integrated system player Focuses its strategy on the Cloud – introducing Dynamic Data Portability Has a strong and...
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HP helps the European Commission plan a federated Cloud
HP Cloud Highlights HP understands the EU cloud ecosystem must enable an open market, addressing barriers to adoption and meeting regulatory, legal, geographic, trust and performance constraints Active...
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Cloud Computing in EMEA reaches €29.9B in 2015
I wanted to shares my cloud forecast and 2015 markets shares for EMEA with you. In 2015 the total grew by 37.0% in Euros (15.0% in $US) to reach €29.9B ($33.3B). The best performing subcategory was...
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What is Cloud Computing?
IT and Communications are one of the world’s largest markets, accounting for $6.6 Trillion spending in 2013. While the thought leadership of major players subdivides things by mega trend – Big Data...
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Cloud computing – whose resources and where?
Over the last few years I’ve extensively about cloud computing and – as a researcher – spent a lot of time trying to define it enough to size and forecast its growth. It’s the right time to look at it...
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IBM Edge 2016 – balancing systems and cloud services
I flew into Las Vegas from Heathrow yesterday, arriving in a much warmer – but still Summer-ending – climate. Goodness knows how many attendees there are here, where IBM is taking up the conference...
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2017 prediction 7 – suppliers will rethink mega-theme marketing
Figure 7 – 2017 marketing themes Source: ITCandor, 2017 Perhaps because real differences in technology are hard to grasp, our industry is full of meta-language used by suppliers to persuade users to...
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Cloud 2016 – $133b and growing
‘What are you doing about the cloud?’ has been a constant question for suppliers, channels and users in recent years, especially since the Credit Crunch of 2008-9. Since then everyone’s done an awful...
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