Market
India leads in cloud storage adoption
A survey by IDC sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems reveals that the Indian market is the most mature in terms of the adoption of cloud technologies and has the highest usage levels of converged systems. [Continue]
India is second best in virtualisation
Higher awareness about virtualisation and its widespread adoption is enabling several Indian companies to graduate to cloud more rapidly than their counterparts in other Asian countries. [Continue]
Businesses in India seen embracing ‘hybrid cloud’
Even though the understanding of cloud (a metaphor for the internet) computing in the Asia-Pacific region is the highest among Indian businesses , most of these seem to be concerned about the data privacy issue. [Continue]
Industry
Best Practices for Securing Your Virtualized Data Center
Virtualization is changing the way IT is delivered today and the implications of this transition are endless. As with many new – and less tested methods of computing, there are often data thieves, [Continue]
50 percent of Indian companies prefer hybrid clouds: VMware
Adoption of the hybrid cloud model is on the rise with 50 percent of Indian companies preferring the model, according to a VMware study in association with Forrester Consulting. The traction is seen [Continue]
Hybrid Cloud Adoption Rising In India
VMware, Inc., the virtualisation and cloud infrastructure company, has revealed that 91% of organisations in India consider cloud relevant to businesses, according to the Cloud Computing in Asia [Continue]
Leveraging the cloud confidently
Cloud computing today has captured the attention of organizations of all sizes alike. How can businesses ignore a technology that offers lower operational expenses, scalability and mobility among [Continue]
Finance/Investment
Cloud Computing Services Market to Reach US$127 Billion by 2017
CA Technologies to sharpen focus on India, Asia pacific
Intel Capital to invest in Happiest Minds, TELIBrahma in India
Siemon aims to take 20% of data centre pie in 3 yrs
EMC Corp to invest $2 bn in India by ’14
Aditi Tech acquires cloud computing start up Cumulux
Infrastructure
Fujitsu launches PRIMEQUEST servers in India
Fujitsu India announced the launch of the new PRIMEQUEST 1000 series high-performance mission-critical x86 server for enterprise database, application, cloud and virtualization environments. [Continue]Security
Traditional “Port Blocking” Firewalls Useless in Today’s Application and Threat Landscape
The Internet now accounts for the majority of traffic traversing enterprise networks. And it’s not just web surfing. The Internet has spawned a new generation of applications being accessed by network users for both personal and business use. [Continue]
Technology
How To Build A Government Cloud
The federal government’s cloud computing strategy reached a milestone recently when the Department of Homeland Security became the first federal agency to sign up for infrastructure as a service through the General Services Administration. But the path there wasn’t fast [Continue]Legal/Regulations
e-Government and the Cloud: Paul Sumner, Senior Manager, Broadband Asia-Pacific, Analysys Mason
Why governments are looking at moving services to the Cloud, out of their own internal systems and networks to the Cloud, what the challenges are in [Continue]
Tax treatment for cloud computing needs scrutiny, says law firm
Although e-commerce taxation has been rapidly evolving in India, cloud computing, being a relatively new phenomenon, has neither been tested by the [Continue]
How To Build A Government Cloud
The federal government’s cloud computing strategy reached a milestone recently when the Department of Homeland Security became the first federal [Continue]
People
‘With the cloud, it is easy to fix defects’: Werner Vogels
Most CIOs understand the private cloud, but you have to understand that when there is a paradigm shift, everybody takes time to get comfortable. This [Continue]
Arista Expands Portfolio and Cloud Resiliency
Arista Networks announced four new switches to its 7050 Series family and Arista EOS software enhancements that address the most demanding needs in [Continue]
Leveraging the cloud confidently
Cloud computing today has captured the attention of organizations of all sizes alike. How can businesses ignore a technology that offers lower [Continue]
Corporate/Companies
Lippis Test Results Show Extreme Networks as the Fastest Switch Vendor for Cloud and Mobile Network Markets
Extreme Networks, Inc. has announced the results of independent performance tests by Lippis Reports for its cloud switch. The BlackDiamond X8 switch, [Continue]
HP speeds clients’ Cloud evolution
New data center services, HP VirtualSystems solutions and HP CloudSystem programs streamline cloud adoption. [Continue]
50 percent of Indian companies prefer hybrid clouds: VMware
Adoption of the hybrid cloud model is on the rise with 50 percent of Indian companies preferring the model, according to a VMware study in [Continue]
News
India’s National Informatics Centre Builds e-Governance Cloud Project on Eucalyptus Cloud Software
Eucalyptus Systems revealed that the open source Eucalyptus Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software is the cornerstone of the e-governance cloud [Continue]
Blue Coat unveils Cloud-Connector to enable branch-to-cloud internet access
Blue Coat Systems has announced it has added Cloud-Connector to its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization appliances and virtual appliances. It lets Blue [Continue]
Indian CIOs eager to hop on to the cloud
Today, many CIOs want to leverage the benefits of the cloud, but at the same time are concerned about the business benefits and challenges such as [Continue]