The panel discussion provided insight into some of the most common fears and practical considerations regarding cloud computing.
Increased IT productivity, business agility, capacity and availability remain top drivers of cloud computing adoption in EMEA, says VMware.
The most recent patents awarded cover concepts core to the next generation of cloud computing.
Windows Azure provides an open set of services to build and run any application in the cloud.
The solutions will encompass Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync 2010 Cloud Services.
SA will be the first of 10 countries to go live with services based on Microsoft's platform.
Space Age Technologies is poised to help businesses migrate to the cloud, ahead of the Office 365 go-live date.
HP Converged Cloud Services for Airlines provides airlines with the ability to scale to meet organisational demands.
New cloud offerings increase collaboration between application development, testing, infrastructure and operations teams.
The solutions include capabilities for processing Hadoop data, as well as a new clickstream analytics solution.
The company was positioned by Gartner in the Mobile Device Management Software 2012 report. [Local rep: NetXactics]
Concerns about outages top the list of inhibitors to cloud adoption, according to research from Alcatel-Lucent.
Because the technology is so close to becoming a reality, most businesses have put a freeze on their infrastructure spend, says Greg Pothitos, HP ESSN business unit manager at Tarsus Technologies.