Consumer confusion around Cloud technology

U.K. research released by Juniper Networks reveals that nearly one quarter of respondents (21.8 percent) said they don’t use cloud technology or don’t know what it is, yet the same respondents spend large amounts of time using digital, cloud-based applications such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify. The findings highlight a large disparity between consumers’ digital behaviour and their understanding of the technology that powers it.

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The European General Data Protection Regulation – a major opportunity for cloud providers

New AIIM whitepaper highlights the potential to deliver EU-wide services under a single operations model, but also the risk if organisations do not comply. The forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) offers a single law for organisations to follow, but increases fines up to 100 million Euros if found guilty of a ‘negligent breach’ of privacy or loss of data.

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OpenStack Summit heads to Europe

For the first time, the OpenStack® Summit is coming to Europe. The 10th OpenStack Summit will be held November 3-7, 2014 at the Palais de Congrès and the Le Meridien in Paris. This week-long event brings together users, developers, telco leaders and enterprise CIOs from across the industry to collaborate on the future of cloud computing.

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MapR Technologies receives Big Data Competency Status from Amazon Web Services

MapR Technologies, Inc.says that it is one of the first to receive Big Data Competency status from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now part of the new AWS Partner Network (APN) Competency Program, AWS has named MapR as a Big Data Competency Partner based on customer success, technical proficiency and software validation.

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US companies split on adopting Software-Defined Networking

Juniper Networks has announced findings from its Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Progress Report that found there are two distinct camps when it comes to adoption of the technology. The study found more than half of U.S. businesses surveyed (52.5 percent) plan to adopt SDN, while the other half (47.5 percent) say they still have no plans to implement the technology.

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