Cloud

[ad_1] Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will reach $122.5 billion in 2017, representing an increase of 24.4% over 2016. As enterprises across the world increased investment, overall public spending is expected to surge 21.5% by 2020, nearly seven times the rate of overall IT spending growth. By ...

[ad_1] RightScale’s “State of the Cloud” report is out now and has been well covered by InfoWorld, so I won’t give you the rundown here. But there were key findings I want to point out in terms of impact to the enterprise. According to the report:  In polling the respondents, RightScale ...

[ad_1] This should be the year your organization looks to dump its consumer file-sharing software. Don’t get me wrong — many of those services are great for individuals, but they’re not really suitable for enterprises. There are other products, however, that offer the file sync that Dropbox and Box and ...

[ad_1] Researchers at IBM have developed a hub for wearables that can gather information from multiple wearable devices and share it with a doctor, potentially cutting down on the time patients need to spend in a hospital. The gadget, which IBM has dubbed a ‘cognitive hypervisor,’ funnels data from devices ...

[ad_1] The first utility-scale wind farm in North Carolina is now fully operational even though the state’s top politicians wanted President Donald Trump to nix the $400 million project because they said it’s a national security threat. Avangrid Renewables today announced the wind farm, sporting 104 turbines that are 50-stories tall, ...

[ad_1] Smart Homes On the consumer side, the IoT has slowly worked its way into our personal lives. There has been a surge in the popularity of smart home assistants with the Amazon Echo leading the way, which has already begun to change the way we interact with technology. It ...

[ad_1] 13/07/2016: Microsoft’s free upgrades to its latest operating system, Windows 10, end on 29 July, and it has now confirmed just what it will charge its SMB and enterprise customers. While consumer users will pay £99 to use Windows 10 Home, or £130 for Windows 10 Pro, prices are somewhat ...

[ad_1] Google Home is the tech giant’s answer to the question of how to bring you the smart home of tomorrow today – or, at least, later this year. The device, which was revealed at Google’s I/O conference in May 2016, leverages Google’s latest virtual assistant to provide you with ...

[ad_1] If you work in IT then it’s easy to be sceptical about a service that promises to simplify your life. But hold on to your scepticism for a second, because HP Touchpoint manager is something different. Not only does it come from one of the world’s most trusted IT ...

[ad_1] Dropbox kicked off its 2017 product launches with a pair of major announcements Monday aimed at improving users’ productivity at work. The cloud storage company announced the general availability of its Paper document collaboration service, along with the closed beta of a Smart Sync feature that gives users easy ...