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Nutanix, the enterprise cloud computing solutions provider, has overhauled the disaster recovery capabilities of Yorkshire-based hosting company Millennia Computer Services' data centre to support the mission critical systems of its leisure and theatre ticketing customers.

By Sam Woodcock, Principal Solutions Architect, iland.

Last week, iland took part in techUK's "How to Build Trust in the Security of Cloud Computing" panel debate in London.

The dividing lines between Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) are blurring. But according to Phil Brindley, CTO, The Bunker, the dominance of the latter belies the importance of the former in the Cloud Computing arena and there are several reasons why both will remain as distinct layers and product sets.

Microsoft Corp. and Red Hat Inc. have announced a partnership that will help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure.

The Linux Foundation has announced the line-up of speakers and sessions for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe, The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) official conference series which will showcase dozens of key Apache projects across topics and tracks such as cloud computing, deployment, Internet of Things (IoT), libraries, microservices, web development, community, and more.

Cloudnexa, the cloud managed services provider that helps clients realise the full power of utility cloud computing, announced the release of new functionality for Cloudnexa's vNOC cloud management platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Cloud computing has officially hit the mainstream in the UK. With more than three quarters (78%) of organisations formally adopting at least one cloud-based service with this number only set to rise, resellers must broaden the scope of their offerings for their increasingly cloud-savvy customer base and ensure scalable private and hybrid cloud solutions are available or risk losing out on huge potential revenue.

The increasing number of connected devices is multiplying the probability of cyberattacks on companies across sectors. This is compelling organisations to adopt cybersecurity solutions in order to secure computing resources, information, networks and applications. As such, innovations will be directed towards fortifying sophisticated technologies such as cloud computing, big data, wireless communication, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Cloud computing offers Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) global access to their data and software but there is a growing trend for UK businesses to procure their Cloud services from a company based locally.