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Next step in 21st century education for students in Africa

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Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:10

Eight secondary schools in Africa have now received the PC as a Service solution, a cloud-computing solution that provides schools with a low-maintenance, easy-to-use model that is optimized for mobile broadband networks...

Quality and Post-Sales Service Are Major Drivers for India SMB Cloud Customers

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Friday, 03 February 2012 15:37

With cloud services showing increased demand among India small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with up to 999 employees) there has been a healthy growth in the number of channel partners offering cloud solutions in their product/services portfolio...

Don’t Let Security Misconceptions ‘Cloud’ Your Judgement

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:45

What comes to mind when you think about cloud security? Do you think about application security or protecting corporate data? Perhaps you fear virus or phishing attacks? For the past several years, cloud security has been one of the biggest concerns among IT decision makers as they consider how best to transition applications and data out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. The real question is one of perception versus reality...

Cloud suite aiming for Caribbean SMEs

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Friday, 20 January 2012 12:56

After introducing cloud-based services in 2011, the leading enterprise services provider in the Caribbean is now expanding its suite to target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the region...

New solutions help Saudi operators embrace the cloud

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Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:14

A new series of cloud-based solutions for contact centres will allow operators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reduce their operational expenditure, as well as granting them a higher degree of control, greater design flexibility and simplified migration from on-premise environments...

Cloud partnership launches services in Argentina

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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:55

Cloud computing is on the rise in Latin America following the launch of cloud services in Argentina by Telefónica...

Open Cloud Frees Vendor Lock-In

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Monday, 28 November 2011 11:38

As the debate between private and public clouds moves on to hybrid cloud adoption, a presumably more flexible form of cloud computing model, there is no denying that the fear of vendor lock-in persists, as most cloud services are still proprietary in nature.

In contrast, an open cloud provides the interoperability that will free companies from being locked in to a single cloud vendor. This in turn allows companies to select the vendor whose service level agreement matches most with their requirements...

Indian SMBs’ Interest in Infrastructure as a Service is on the Rise

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Monday, 14 November 2011 17:04

Small and medium businesses (SMBs, or companies with up to 999 employees) in India are gradually becoming more aware of and interested in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...