Will there be anyone who won’t have their head in the cloud? The answer to that question is ‘Yes’.  As with so many other facets of life those who won’t adopt cloud in the next 10 years will fall into two categories, ‘those who can afford not to’ and ‘those who can’t afford to’.  When [...]

Google’s enterprise Gmail is building momentum with commercial organisations, and it now presents a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange Online and other cloud email services, according to Gartner, Inc. Gmail has only been in the market for five years. “The road to its enterprise enlightenment has been long and bumpy, but Gmail should now be [...]

Warwickshire County Council is to be the first major public sector organisation to provide e-mail services via the public cloud in a pilot scheme that has potential to change how local authorities use e-mail and ICT services. The county council is working with Cabinet Office to pilot the use of cloud-computing within Government to introduce [...]

Is my job screwed? Perhaps before you consider that question you have to ask yourself, do you think this ‘Cloud thing’ is really going to happen?  Consider this, the company that controls, by its own estimate, 90% of the PC desktops in the world is Microsoft.  They have about 50% of the server market  These [...]