The Cloud Industry Forum voices strong opposition to Google’s latest attempt to control the future of the .cloud gTLD

Industry remains highly concerned that a dominant vendor should never be allowed to have control of a generic industry term such as cloud. Earlier this year ICANN started the process of reviewing thousands of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) applications across varied industries. One of those was .cloud. Three global brands – Google, Symantec and Amazon – applied for that domain as a closed registry, meaning that the applicant would be the sole registrar and registrant with...

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Digital Realty establishes distributed Cloud data centre connectivity platform

Solution leverages Epsilon’s global network exchange, powered by BTI Systems.

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Due diligence is key when adopting cloud, says Databarracks

SRA needs to look north in light of growing cloud adoption.

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Appirio announces G-Cloud iii approval

Cloud services provider confirmed as accredited supplier.

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Exponential-e launches 10Gig cloud connectivity into UK’s major data centres

Tech enabler to use cloud-ready network to meet enterprise bandwidth needs.

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Hybrid cloud is the future for 60 per cent of UK and US enterprises

A new study by Rackspace ® Hosting suggests that while the public cloud remains important to IT decision-makers at UK and US enterprises involved in the research, the limitations of using this type of platform as a one-size-fits-all solution are becoming more apparent. According to the survey, these limitations are leading many respondents to turn to a hybrid cloud infrastructure (i.e. public cloud, private cloud and dedicated servers working together in any combination) for certain...

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