In today's technology roundup: Skype for iPad debuts, Apple's iCloud.com goes live, Nokia unveils Symbian smartphone, and recession causes greener data centres.
The EMC Forum 2011 will take place at Vodaworld, in Midrand, on 4 August.
The cloud is where customers are choosing to work, says Patrick Hastings, divisional MD, ATS at Bytes Systems Integration.
The cloud start-up hopes to eliminate the customisation required to build most private clouds.
In the future, high-density areas within a current data centre set-up, or in a completely new environment, will need to be built, says Lex Pienaar, CEO of Merit TS.
In today's technology roundup: HP, Oracle in trade secrets row, S Korea fingers China for data theft, RSA Security attack costs $66m, and MS-DOS turns 30.
Cloud servers can help save energy if their excess heat is used to warm up our buildings.
Chris Kemp starts a private cloud computing system to handle the massive data load of the US space agency.
Customers can use the software as a SaaS from the Fujitsu Group's highly reliable cloud environment.
Users are able to centralise data from any number of local systems into a single storage device. [Local rep: Duxbury Networking]
The company will distribute and resell Irish-based SoftCo's range of solutions locally.
The majority of local organisations believe cloud computing is here to stay, according to a survey.
The number of people with data management skills is not growing proportionally with the rate of data explosion, says Database 360.