Survey says... cloud and virtualisation top priorities for 2013

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Cloud ServicesLarger organisations in Australia and New Zealand favour a blended public/private cloud strategy, but there still seems to be some confusion about the definition of 'cloud'.

Although Australian organisations have taken to virtualisation in a big way, they are more hesitant when it comes to taking the additional step into cloud computing.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: SecurityEmerging technologies like mobility and cloud computing, along with concerns about traditional issues of security, Business Intelligence, including Big Data, and skills development, are exercising the minds of Australia’s CIOs and IT decision-makers as the top priorities to tackle in their businesses.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Cloud ServicesA partnership between CA Technologies, Westcon, and radixcloud Australia will offer a cloud-based network performance management service.

The 2nd Annual Top 50 Cloud Services Providers survey ends today (Friday, April 27). Complete the survey, available on Talkin’ Cloud (The VAR Guy’s sister site), and your company could be ranked among the world’s top CSPs in the Talkin’ Cloud 50. The survey is open VARs and MSPs that generate revenues from cloud-related projects and services.

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Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Cloud ServicesMicrosoft's new Cloud Security Readiness Tool provides organisations with a report showing how moving to the cloud could help the organisation's security.

A new poll of senior IT managers has identified cloud computing and server virtualisation as the key value driver behind their IT strategies. The result is consistent with the recently announced push by global outsourcer CSC into the private cloud market.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Cloud ServicesProject Avalon, Citrix's plan for large-scale Windows virtualisation will be delivered in two stages, dubbed Excalibur and Merlin.