While cloud computing gains steadily in the U.S., U.K. and Germany (and rather slowly in Canada), it's taking off in emerging markets like Brazil, China and India. According to a study by GfK Cus tom Research, and covered by FineChannel, cloud computing enjoys relatively high penetration rate in emerging markets, regardless of company size.
| A new survey of UK-based IT shops showed high levels of satisfaction with cloud service providers, but lingering confusion about business interruption issues and the consequences of downtime. |
| Is the idea of cloud computing still a bit ominous for your company? Not to worry. If you are already virtualizing some of your enterprise apps, then you've been gaining great experience that will help ease your transition, says analyst Laura DiDio. |
Some data centers can be built anywhere, and some can't…
| When selecting a site for a data center, enterprises are faced with two categories - locations of corporate convenience or more remote locations where resources are cheap and plentiful, the local climate is friendly or increased security is provided. |
| A new survey from CIO shows that public cloud storage adoption is strong in the enterprise and poised for a big increase over the coming year, despite concerns over security and performance. |
| Web hosting provider Rackspace announced on Thursday that it has launched its Rackspace Cloud DNS beta to all UK and US cloud customers, according to a blog post on its website. Last week, Amazon Web Services expanded its DNS service Route 53 edge with new locations in Stockholm, Sweden. AWS' DNS service launched late last year. |
Well, they do have a lot of traffic…
| After talk of numerous data center leases, effective use of Amazon's clouds and hyper-growth capacity management, social gaming company Zynga hopes to raise $1 billion in an IPO, and says investment in data centers is a priority. |
TradeStation has extended its existing services contract for network services for an additional two years, and is expanding the scope of the agreement with Savvis to include colocation facilities. Low-latency is a big factor for TradeStation.
I have to admit I hadn't considered motor sports and cloud together…
| "Migration to cloud infrastructure and motor car racing have some interesting parallels. As Henry Ford II found out in 1964, just pulling together a team (solutions framework) with the right skills and components doesn't mean your plan is fool-proof. Factors outside the framework can still ruin your... |
| From CIO.com: Data center construction is growing ever more complex and expensive as data center facilities expand to meet enterprises' seemingly limitless computing needs. |
| July 5, 2011 -- Web host NetHosting announced recently that its hosting services will support CentOS 6. CentOS 6 was supposed to be launched on Monday, according to the press release. |
| The cloud is a platform, like that of the desktop and mobile industries, where the same issues occur. So how can these issues be alleviated? "Open source is the answer," according to Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer and President of the Rackspace Cloud. "Just like Apache built the web, open source cloud solutions will drive standards to eliminate these issues." |
| NTT America has filled three key executive positions that focus on corporate sales and streamlined corporate processes. Michael DeVito is appointed the new vice president for enterprise solutions. Reporting to the head of the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit, Mr. DeVito will have responsibility for both the business management and network services teams, which operate the Arcstar network, determine pricing, product marketing and bid management, and deliver enterprise sales. Mr. DeVito comes to NTT America with more than 20 years of leadership experience in building and managing highly successful technology services businesses in competitive global markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. He has held executive positions at BT Global Services, Equant Network Services (now Orange Business), Qwest and MCI. His strength in Fortune Global 1000 sales, leadership in enterprise network services and tenure in the industry will enable NTT America to better serve enterprise customers that have growth goals to expand their business globally. Reporting to Michael DeVito, Bryan Tam has been promoted to vice president and head of enterprise sales. In this role, he is responsible for day-to-day management of the sales team focused on Fortune Global 1000 and multinational corporation (MNC) sales for public and private network services, colocation, unified communications and managed security services. Mr. Tam has more than 28 years of experience in management, solution selling and global relationship building. He joined NTT America 10 years ago and previously was regional vice president of enterprise sales for the Northeastern, Central, and Southeastern regions of the United States. Mr. Tam has significant sales experience with Fortune Global 500 companies, is an expert on information technology in China and India, and speaks several Chinese dialects. He is also actively involved in a variety of company-wide initiatives including NTT America's Kaizen (continuous improvement) programs. To further strengthen NTT America and contribute to the next level of competitiveness, Jun Nojima has been appointed to the newly created role of chief administrative officer (CAO). In this role, Mr. Nojima will have responsibility for corporate marketing, human resources, corporate strategy and legal. He will work to increase NTT America's efficiencies as an organization, while interfacing with other NTT group companies in a more holistic fashion. Mr. Nojima is a 23-year veteran of NTT, and brings a wealth of experience and contacts to the office of the CAO. Most recently, he led the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit as the vice president and head of sales and marketing, a position to which he was appointed in January 2010. Previously, Mr. Nojima was head of global marketing for NTT Communications at the Tokyo headquarters. He received his Masters of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2009. "The wealth of experience with global 1000 companies that Mike, Bryan and Jun bring to the table ensures that NTT America has the best leadership to continue the growth of our business in the upcoming years," said Kazuhiro Gomi, president and CEO of NTT America. "We welcome Mike on board and congratulate Bryan and Jun on their new positions." |
