Cloud contracts ‘need more transparency’

Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner, Inc. said SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident. This leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users. It also makes it harder for service providers to manage risk and defend their risk position to auditors and regulators.

Read More

Learning Zone for service providers on path to the Cloud

Flexiant offers service provider market a one-stop shop of cloud resources from various sources.

Read More

Offshore providers without a Cloud strategy risk long-term future

While the increased use of industrialised services will reduce the volume of traditional and customised services, the impact on offshore providers will be counterbalanced by new revenue from investments in cloud-based services, said Gartner, Inc. However, service providers that are slow, unable or unwilling to invest in the shift to the cloud will risk hampering offshore services revenue growth.

Read More

Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V3.1.3 released

Latest version extends storage capabilities and enhanced dynamic workload placement to support a variety of cloud service providers’ different business requirements.

Read More

Savvis launches Cloud Data Center services

Scalable, on-demand cloud service available in North America, Europe and Asia.

Read More

Emerging markets set to bypass traditional IT for Cloud

Cloud revenues to increase by 382% to $10.4bn by 2017.

Read More

Latest Video

Maximizing Your Quality of Life with Genomic Data

Meet Hakon Gudbjartsson, PhD, WuXi NextCODE CIO, and Data Visionary. Learn how Dr. Gudbjartsson is helping organizations use data to improve the health and quality of life of people around the world.

Read more
UK SMEs increasingly confident in adoption of latest IT technology - enabling faster response to...
Global provider of cloud and network services backs calls for a consistent approach to cloud...
Verizon is extending its healthcare focus to now include the pharmaceutical and life sciences...
Global survey of business and IT decision makers reveals that special class of “mobile...
451 Research has released its 2016 Software preview report, Software 2016: Analytics, Acceleration...
Leading independent analyst Bloor Research celebrates its Silver Jubilee.