Cloud Computing, SaaS, Data centres, Cloud-based

New offering reduces risk and accelerates private cloud set-up time for enterprises

De Vere Group, one of the UK's leading independent hotel and hospitality chains, has signed a multi-million deal (over 3 years) with Manchester-based ANS Group - to move their corporate 'backend' into the Cloud.

Manish Sablok, Head of Marketing for CNE Europe at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, looks at how BYOD is driving consumers' appetite to Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), empowering today's highly mobile workforce, and offers a strategy for enterprises to support the inevitable move to the personal Cloud.

ElasticHosts, the cloud server provider, has enabled partners to start selling flexible, PAYG, easy-to-use cloud solutions under their own brand within one day.

A regional survey of UK telecoms resellers found that those in the North have a more optimistic attitude towards their business and the industry as whole versus their colleagues in the South.

End users experienced recovery speeds five times faster than tape with EVault cloud backup services according to Adam Continuity.

To further strengthen its commitment to all segments of the IT market, Kaseya has expanded its product line to offer a new entry-level cloud-based IT systems management solution.

Despite the economic outlook, recent research - commissioned by Microsoft - predicts that 18% of European SME's are planning to invest in new technology in the next twelve months.

Asigra Inc., a cloud backup software provider since 1986, announced that G2S Toolshop, a distributor of professional tools and equipment throughout Canada, has selected Asigra Cloud Backup delivered as a service by Telsist.

Eurotech, the supplier of embedded technologies, products and systems, has announced the launch of the Everyware Cloud 2.0 platform providing a foundation to deliver and manage M2M data within the business enterprise.