The market for subscription web services is now expected to grow 19.6 percent this year to $109bn worldwide, with business processes a key market, according to Gartner
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Alibaba To Press On With Aliyun Development
Chinese Android rival gets a $200 million investment and its own business unit
Facebook Data Centre Engineer Develops Troubleshooting Tool
A Facebook engineer has built a heatmap monitoring tool to help troubleshoot data centre infrastructure
Cisco Abandons ADC Market As Competition Bites
Cisco is halting development of its ACE application delivery controller because of intense competition
Quiz Of The Week: So You Think You Know YouTube?
Test your knowledge of the world's favourite video platform
Dreamforce 2012: JP Rangaswami – I Hope Salesforce Stays A Start Up Forever
Salesforce is still a start-up and should remain so, chief scientist JP Rangaswami tells TechWeekEurope
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com UK Data Centre In Doubt For 2012
Salesforce.com tells TechWeekEurope no date has been set and it is unsure whether the data centre will materialise this year
Dreamforce 2012: Is Benioff Right To Follow Facebook In All-Social Strategy?
Analysis: Benioff tells TechWeekEurope he loves Facebook but is he right in borrowing from a firm that has had a difficult year after its troubled IPO?
Open Compute Publishes Open Rack Data Centre Standard
The Open Compute Project has released its latest hardware specs for more power efficient data centres
OpenStack Foundation Arrives With 5600 Members
The OpenStack Foundation has officially launched with over 5,600 members and £6.2m in funding
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com Launches Dropbox Enterprise Rival Chatterbox
Another Dropbox for business appears, but this time from one of the biggest cloud players in the world
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com Turns Rypple Into Work.com
Work.com will "revolutionise" the way employees are recognised and motivated, says Salesforce.com
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce Adds Social Identity And Mobile App Platform
Salesforce Platform gets socially-oriented SSO and a whole new way to develop mobile apps
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com Hails Social Revolution With Cloud Updates
Chatter social service spreads as iPad app goes on general availability
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com Adds Marketing Cloud For Social Insight
Salesforce.com brings together two of its biggest acquisitions - Radian6 and Buddy Media - for social marketing service
Microsoft Cuts Data Centre Waste Water To Zero
Next on the agenda - getting rid of diesel generators and producing energy on the spot
Alibaba Buys Back Half Of Yahoo’s Stake For £4.3bn
Yahoo sells half of its stake back to Alibaba, which heads towards its IPO
AMD Loses Chief Financial Officer
Thomas Seifert, AMD's CFO and former acting chief executive, is to quit the company at the end of the month, the latest in a string of executive losses
The Cloud Will Manage Our Health And Work By 2025: Video
Don't stress about super-crowdsourcing, printed medication and the ubiquitous workplace, says Virgin Media Business
Stephen Kelly Appointed As The Government COO
The man who made Micro Focus a success joins the Cabinet Office
Google Pressures Acer To Drop Alibaba’s Android Rival Aliyun
Indignant Alibaba says its Linux-based cloud OS is very different from Android
New Microsoft Studio In London To Boost Tablet Gaming
The all singing, all dancing Surface tablet will also do videogames
Intel’s Linux-Proof Clover Trail Chip Is Doomed, Says Perens
Power management not available to open source developers
Oracle Upgrades VirtualBox For Ease Of Use
A new VirtualBox feature called VM Groups is designed to streamline management, improve network capabilities and provide support for new host and guest operating systems
Five Successful Consumer Big Data Applications
Mark Young rounds up five popular everyday big data applications and asks what inspiration businesses might be able to take from them
100 New Amazon Jobs At London Digital Media Centre
New Digital Media Development Centre aims to employ new tech talent in London
BT Wins One Horse Cumbrian BDUK Race
BT has been awarded the BDUK contract to wire up Cumbria to superfast broadband
IT Life: Putting Innovation To Good Use
Ian Osborne of Intellect is busy in the Government's Knowledge Transfer Networks, helping put innovation to work
Brocade Extends SDN And Fabric With Router, Switch Additions
Brocade has extended its fabric and software-defined networking (SDN) strategies with new product additions
Five Things To Consider Before Moving Into The Cloud
For Dominic Pollard, preparation is everything