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[ Top ] Cloud computing to become "preferred solution" by 2015
Between now and 2011, the cloud will be largely for innovators and pioneers, he said, with major vendors beginning to dominate the market in the following years. Between 2011 and 2013 market consolidation is expected to take place, before the final transformation of cloud computing into a "mainstream IT effort". The projections were outlined in Gartner's latest cloud computing report, Cloud Application Infrastructure Technology Needs Seven Years to Mature, which can be purchased through the organisation's website. Back in September, Gartner claimed that the difference in opinion over what cloud computing actually is was creating confusion in the marketplace.
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Video content 'attracts more visitors when used well'
"Video can provide a far more in-depth insight into products and services than pictures and descriptions and, if used well, will almost certainly attract more visitors," he remarked. Mr Barton suggested that online video will become an increasingly important part of websites this year as companies seek to draw in more customers through innovative web design. Recent statistics from comScore demonstrate the growing trend of people watching videos on the internet, revealing that in the US, consumers viewed 38 per cent more clips in November 2008 than in 2007. More CDN / Networks / Streaming news [ Top ]
Ecommerce The average weekly value of internet retail sales in the first month of 2009 reached around £178 million, accounting for 3.7 per cent of total retail sales. This share of 3.7 per cent reflects a 0.2 per cent rise from the previous month of December, when sales were already high enough considering people were spending more for Christmas. A greater willingness to shop online is evidence of the fact that ecommerce is a prosperous business in the current economic climate.
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Managed Hosting "Linux has seen most of growth coming from on the edge Unix processes. And, now, customers have started shifting the mission critical systems to Linux," he remarked. The Hindu stated that using an open source platform would enable companies to get more out of their IT infrastructure and lower costs at the same time. Canonical and RedMonk recently carried out a study that revealed the Linux Ubuntu server is no longer being viewed as just a desktop platform and is considered to be useful for email and web hosting services. The latest Linux release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, came out last month. [ Top ]
Domain Names He said that having domain names that are optimised provides businesses with "more real estate" on search engine results pages, creating greater visibility. However, he warned that when implementing additional domain names, website publishers should create a unique site to be directed to rather than simply point to an existing one. "They should actually build out an additional site. You wouldn't want to have a duplicate of content, because that's not a god thing within the search engines," Mr Hazen added. Businesses with Google AdWords were recently informed that they are no longer permitted to use multiple display URL domains within a single ad group, as the internet giant strives to improve user experience. [ Top ]
Security With the average data theft costing firms in the region of $6.1 million (£4.2 million), according to Lumension chief executive Pat Clawson, SMBs should be particularly concerned, not least because their IT security is often in the hands of just a few people, says Brad Patten of BitWits. "It's still amazing that people don't understand the way we're being attacked today is different than it was five years ago," commented Mr Clawson. His firm recently commissioned a study from the Ponemon Institute that found 50 per cent of IT professionals believe outsourcing is the biggest security concern, followed by data mobility and cyber crime (47 per cent) and mobile devices (45 per cent). In other web security news, recent research from Netcraft showed 14 per cent of SSL certificates contain the flawed MD5 algorithm. [ Top ]
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Mark Driver, vice-president of research at the IT advisory firm, suggested that there will be three phases of evolution for the cloud, culminating in 2015 when Gartner foresees "mainstream critical mass and commoditisation".
Video content 'attracts more visitors when used well'Neil Barton of Hostway told .net magazine that companies should not restrict their websites to only include basic pictures and text, stating that most consumers are capable of viewing good quality online videos fairly easily due to broadband internet connections.
UK ecommerce experiences January boomAccording to the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics, overall online spending in January rose by 17.1 per cent from the same period last year.
Companies 'looking towards Linux'Ronald Hovsepian, chief executive of Novell, told newspaper the Hindu that he has noticed a growing number of businesses turning to Linux for mission-critical processes over the last few months.
Additional domain names 'boost SEO'Speaking to Practical Ecommerce, web marketing pioneer and founder of the online marketing firm Prime Visibility Andrew Hazen explained that extra domain names can have various benefits.
SMBs 'face biggest credit crunch security concerns'Lumension Security announced at the end of last week that firms could be left open to IT attacks due to budget cuts made in light of the credit crunch, the Phoenix Business Journal reports.
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