
92 percent of workloads will be on the cloud
Cisco predicts it will be off our desktops by 2020
Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index suggests that more than 92 percent of computer processing will be done in cloud centres by 2020.

SAP buys cloudy software outfit
Altiscale becomes part of the mystery
The esoteric business software outfit which makes expensive business software which no one can be certain what it does, has just bought the cloud start-up Altiscale.

Amazon offers unlimited cloud storage for £50 a year
If you are in the UK
Amazon has just issues a new Unlimited Storage plan launches in the UK for a flat fee of £55 per year.

Lenovo will build Microsoft's data servers
No one ever got fired for buying Lenovo
It seems that Lenovo has managed to buy IBM's reputation along with its server business and scored a contract building data centers for Microsoft.

Cloudy forecast
Why does it always rain on me?
The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker claims that revenues from sales of infrastructure products for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 3.9 per cent on year to US$6.6 billion in the first quarter of 2016.

IBM suffering
New business can't make up for old
While IBM's new cloud and mobile business are doing quite well, they are not making enough to off-set the losses from the older traditional arms of the company.

Kingston expands Cloud headset range
HyperX Cloud Revolver pre-order tomorrow
HyperX, a division of Kingston has told us that its HyperX Cloud Revolver headset will ship May 9 and is available for pre-order tomorrow.

Acer starts huge restructuring
Spliting into three major segments
Acer plans to implement a corporate restructuring project and divide its business into three major segments – PC, cloud and data center management, and re-investment businesses.

Microsoft knifes security partner and customer
The old Microsoft is back
Microsoft seems to be back on form spectacularly knifing one of its long term partners and customers as it seems to be adopting its own rival products.

Ballmer agrees with most of Microsoft’s cunning plans
So it is almost certainly doomed
The shy and retiring Micrososft CEO Steve “sounds of silence” Ballmer has quietly put forward his modest opinion that Microsoft's hardware—Surface, HoloLens, and Xbox—is "absolutely essential" to its future.