Tag: cloud
How safe are cloud hosting services for business data?
There are many advantages of using cloud hosting services. Data can be accessed anytime and anywhere. Furthermore, cloud services backup their own servers and have multiple copies of data available. That is an advantage against in-house data systems because it means if your premises should experience something like a fire, your data would remain completely…
Amazon Web Services’ quarterly revenue jumps 32% year on year
As one of Amazon's strongest-growing business segments, Amazon Web Services witnessed a surge in revenue in the last year. According to data presented by BuyShares.co.uk, AWS generated cloud computing and hosting revenues of around $13.5bn in the first quarter of 2021, a 32% jump year-on-year. AWS Annual Revenue Rose by 30% YoY Amid Pandemic One of…
Strong cloud growth helps Microsoft deliver healthy profits
Microsoft has reported strong quarterly financial results, largely driven by its commercial cloud services. The PC giant’s revenue stood at 28.9 billion dollars (£22 billion) in the three months to the end of December, up 12% on the same period in 2017. Net income for the company was also healthy, reaching 8.4 billion dollars (£6.4…
Millions of Brits clueless about the cloud and what technology terms mean
Millions of Brits are clueless about technology and don't even know the difference between an upload and a download. Those are just some of the findings of a poll carried out on behalf of Curry's PC World which found that a quarter of the nation are clueless when it comes to ‘the cloud’ and have…
The Latest Trends in IT Management Software
In the digital age of today’s modern world, businesses continue to rely on technology. It doesn’t come as a surprise; not only does technology allow an incredibly high level of efficiency in running a company, but it can better streamline tasks that would have otherwise been impossible to accomplish effectively. With new innovations comes…
5 Benefits To Using Cloud-Based Systems For Business
Cloud-based technology has fundamentally changed the way we do business today. More businesses and organizations are adapting to the latest cloud systems due to their efficiency, security, and reliability. Cloud-based systems enable businesses to store and access data at any time over the internet through a cloud computing service provider. But why should your business…
Greenpeace and Amazon in war of words over clean power
Greenpeace does not appear to be a big fan of Amazon, or its Amazon Web Services In a recent Green Internet report, Greenpeace praised companies such as Microsoft, Google and Apple for their green credentials, while claiming that AWS had the "dirtiest" cloud. "AWS has dropped further and further behind its competitors in building an…
Blue-Sky Thinking About The Cloud
As everyone knows, when computers were first invented, they were the size of rooms. Slowly over the proceeding half century they became the size we expect them to be today. Often when people interacted with these early computers they didn't…
Sky Sports Pub Challenge offers prizes including free Premier League tickets
Sky has launched an app designed specifically for football fans watching their favourite teams in pubs equipped with Sky Sports subscriptions. Called Sky Sports Pub Challenge, the app lets pub goers pit their wits against fellow football fans for weekly…
Adobe Creative Cloud launches: adds 20GB of online storage, access to web apps
Adobe have rolled out today the Adobe Creative Cloud, a supplementary service to use alongside CS6. Working on a monthly subscription basis, it gives online access to CS6 install files, HTML5 apps like Adobe Muse 1.0 for code-free webpage building,…