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  • Desktop virtualisation is not so easy PC

    Having attended VMworld and Citrix Summit in the space of a week, one of the main impressions I came back with was that for all the talk about desktop virtualisation over the past two years or so, it is turning out to be a bit more complex and expens... 

  • Big rise in costs dents Amazon Q3 results

    Investment in the Kindle Fire and further expansion has dented Amazon's third quarter profits which declined 73% to $63m on an increase in the company's costs of almost 50%. The big surge in sales, fulfilment (Amazon is adding 17 new distribution... 

  • Troops to deploy IBM SmartCloud in big data battle

    In any department of any big organisationyou'll find them doing the work. While the C level strategists are meeting withsuppliers on the golf course and the 'conference class' are doing what they dobest, filling their diaries with face to face and on... 

  • SMB clouds worth £660m to UK channel

    A report into cloud services by hosting and services provider Parallels has today suggested that the UK SMB cloud services market opportunity could now be worth up to £660m, with up to 62% of businesses planning to switch to hosted servers. The... 

  • Cloud Distribution partners get app iViz-ibility

    Cloud Distribution has added application penetration testing specialist iViZ Security to its stable as it seeks to build out a portfolio of disruptive, cost-effective cloud technologies. IViZ specialises in cloud-based web app penetration testing... 

  • GoTradeLive gives SMEs a level playing field

    A newtrade only trading system for SMEs could help them cut costs and boost theirrevenue without having to make any investment. A new trading system for SMEs, GoTradeLive,could give small business the trading power of bigger corporations, help themco... 

  • Oracle swallows up cloud CRM firm

    Oracle has bulked up its cloud-based CRM offering after swallowing up cloud customer service specialist RightNow Technologies for $43.00 per share, or $1.5bn net of cash and debt. RightNow specialises in linking up customer service activities through... 

  • Citrix Elite tier win bigger deals and more of them

    Citrix's Elite partner programme is bringing increased market share to the 300 EMEA resellers in the scheme with bigger deals and higher win rates than the vendor's other partners. Carsten Thomsen, EMEA vice president for channels, sales programmes a... 

  • Could Facebook kick-start the British economy?

    Don't laugh, but there's a theory that Facebook, Google +, Twitter, ShinDig and the like could help kick start the British economy. Well Facebook could. Thanks to Moonfruit, a web publisher, you can start your own shop their. Moonfruit helps people b... 

  • How can the user herd survive the difficult crossing of the IT landscape? It's in their App-DNA

    IT users are a bit like wildebeest. Regular as clockwork, they are forced to migrate across harsh territory as their own environment becomes increasingly hostile and unable to support the population. So, like it or lump it, they are forced into a mas...