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  • IBM predicts the future - there may be five trends: one for each major city?

    Keen historians will remember the story of theIBM executive who looked into the future andpredicted that, one day, there would be as many as five mainframes in the world. One for each major city. So it waswith great excitement that we noticed a new s...  Opinion

  • Dial M for Merger - UK Cloud companies set to be acquired predicts report

    US companies are expected to be the dominant purchasers of UK tech firms with Cloud related technologies expected to be the most attractive purchases - says a report Deloitte's biannual survey of UK technology companies, launched today, reports that ...  Opinion

  • There's no Cloudburst in sight, says rainmaker

    Here's Mark MacGregor, CEO of Connect, and widely regarded as one of the industry's top rainmakers, giving his thoughts on cloud computing. McGregor has cast a suspicious eye on the analyst projections for cloud growth and wonders how these tie in w...  Opinion

  • Trend tightens up defences for virtual desktop infrastructure

    Trend Micro has announced a special promotion on virtual desktopsecurity Here's Caroline Hodson, the pugnacious southpaw who fights inthe Trend Micro camp, which has announced a special promotion for virtual desktopinfrastructure (VD) aware securit...  Opinion

  • The clouds threaten to snuff out the data centre manager

    Carbon dioxide might threaten the existence of the planet as we know it, but the flip side is even worse for the men in the data centre. The build up of potentially lethal CRCs (carbon reduction commitments) could devastate the data centre indus...  Opinion

  • Does cloud mean anything to the masses?

    If there is one thing that you have to give Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer credit for it is his very public attempts to link the vendor with cloud computing. The vendor was criticised in the past for being slow on the uptake with emerging technologie...  Opinion

  • The vertical cloud sale

    The industry used to like the phrase; get big, bet niche or get out' and it might have some place to play in the cloud era. The talk up to now has been of private or public clouds but there could be a vertical pitch emerging as well. The experiences ...  Opinion

  • Is solid performing cloud a fairy tale?

    Once upon a time there was a kingdom where people lived and worked and where software was sold by skilled and happy resellers. A wizard, named Internet, came along and said some magic words, and people discovered they could also download software wit...  Opinion

  • If we build it will they come?

    There is an expression 'if you build it they will come' but what happens when they don't? This is a question that is asked with more and more regularity as channel players look to launch new initiatives and engage with social media platforms worried ...  Opinion

  • Ballmer puts cloud firmly on the agenda

    When someone of the stature of Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft, stands up and dedicates his keynote speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) to the subject of the cloud you know this is a technology that he and his company believes has arrive...  Opinion

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