Cloud computing offers significant benefits, but will account for only a fifth of overall enterprise IT by 2012 and will leave many businesses disappointed, a Gartner analyst has claimed. Speaking at Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Cannes, Gartner vice president David Cearley said that by 2012, 20% of businesses would be using cloud computing for part [...]
The rise of Web-based apps, virtualization, and a crop of powerful mobile devices have the traditional PC desktop on the run. Well, is it? If all the buzzwords about cloud computing, Web apps, software as a service (SaaS), the free desktop, and the rise of netbooks and tablet PCs, are to be believed, it may [...]