Cloud Computing

Staff need to spend less time on infrastructure support of collaboration services

Telefónica, the owner of the O2 mobile brand in the UK, is deploying the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite and Yammer social networking platform across its operating businesses worldwide, covering 130,000 staff in 24 countries. read more

Reducing cost and increasing efficiency key considerations over the coming year, according to IT executives responding to a CIO UK survey

With a focus over the next year on cutting costs and increasing efficiency, CIOs expect the cloud to overtake mobile developments as the second largest driver of transformation at their organisations behind data analytics, according to CIO UK’s CIO Priorities survey. But with clear mobile strategies which are in the deployment and pilot stages, the UK’s business technology leaders are anything but ignoring the current mobility explosion. read more

Reducing cost and increasing efficiency key considerations over the coming year, but data and analytics still leading the way in driving transformation

The cloud is poised to overtake mobile as the second largest driver of transformation for CIOs, a study of our readership shows, while data analytics will remain the leader for business transformation agendas for another year. read more

Chris Taylor discusses agility, mobility and why the cloud is key to transforming a modern business

News International CIO Chris Taylor wants to move all the company's infrastructure to the cloud to help drive their transformation from a "great newspaper company to a multimedia giant". read more

Announcement continues SAP's emphasis on the in-memory database technology

SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire conference. read more

CloudSense will help mobilise Centrica's gas and power origination teams

Centrica Energy is deploying mobile cloud-based Salesforce.com platform CloudSense for its energy trading business. read more

HP's tools for managing servers, databases, middleware, and workflows have been updated

HP has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds as the company pursues its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments. read more

Boost productivity with enhanced support for java EE 6

Download this white paper to learn how you can align your current state architecture with a future state that includes engineered systems and cloud deployments, protecting your existing investments and accelerating your plans to move to the architecture of the future. read more

Box plans to integrate Crocodocs' HTML5 document viewing technology into its enterprise cloud storage and file sharing application

Box has acquired Crocodoc in a move to significantly improve the way documents are rendered for viewing on its enterprise storage and file sharing service. read more

Dr Sykes will help Cloud Industry Forum lead the charge for 'recognising standards within cloud provisioning'

CIO UK columnist and blogger Richard Sykes has been appointed the non executive chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum. Alex Hilton has been appointed CEO. read more