Alten Group announces expansion plans for India
Alten Group, the â¬1. 07 billion European provider of innovation consulting and engineering, has announced plans to strengthen its presence in India. More...
NEXTDC opens "Melbourne's largest data centre"
claimed to be Melbourne's largest, at 17,500 square metres - was officially opened tonight by communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy. . More...
Vendor lock-in and cost fears over cloud justified
Vendors can lock businesses into lengthy contracts to move to the cloud and the move itself could be more expensive than deploying on-premise tools, warns George Teixeira, CEO of storage virtualisation software vendor DataCore. More...
Storm raises worries on cloud computing
Outages at an Amazon. com data center in Ashburn, Va. , caused by last weekend's storm have prompted some congressional officials to question whether the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on private-sector cloud computing servers. More...
Mozilla promises Firefox OS phones in early 2013
Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured by Hong Kong's TCL Communication Research, pursuant to this agreement its Alcatel One Touch nameplate, and by China's ZTE. More...
Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Network To Expand In The Kansas City Area
Verizon Wireless today announced that it will expand the nation's largest 4G Long Term Evolution network in several towns in the Kansas City area in the coming weeks. More...
Cable digitization to pave way for cable broadband penetration
Telecom Lead India: Cable digitization efforts in developing economies will be a key driver for cable broadband penetration worldwide. . More...
Verizon Playing Dangerous Game in Net Neutrality Battle
First, a little background on net neutrality itself. The framework of rules developed by the FCC is intended to ensure an even playing field for all on the Internet, and prevent Internet service providers like Verizon or Comcast from blocking certain content, or giving preferential treatment to other content. More...
Europe opens up to the cloud
If last weekend's Amazon outage taught us anything, it's that the cloud is a complex thing. However it's particularly convoluted in Europe, where the desire by companies to rely on Internet-based services is at odds with the European Union's relatively tough data protection laws. More...
Virtualisation versus a private cloud
Since the mid 2000s one of the prevailing trends in the IT world has been to move networks, data, operating systems and servers into an environment where they are not tied to a specific piece of hardware. More...