platform-as-a-service

With for most emerging technologies, the hype is bigger than the reality. A welcome exception is cloud storage, which is enabling many organizations to achieve major economies of scale and greater control of growing data volumes. A Commvault user survey of 535 executives reveals that more than half are looking at cloud storage.

Cloud computing is the buzzword for 2010. There is much confusion as to what it really is. Dr Steve Hodgkinson, research director, public sector at OVUM, begins the discussion with a definition. He also needs at the conditions by which cloud computing can take its roots in Asia. He believes that cloud computing is being driven by a need to do things better.