CLOUD COMPUTING

RBC Capital Markets expects tablet market to reach 185 million units in calendar 2014, up 83 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 17 million in calendar 2010. RBC Capital forecasts global tablet revenue to increase from $11 billion in calendar 2010 to nearly $70 billion in calendar 2014.

IBM would be hosting its Analyst Day today at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York at 10 am EST that is likely to focus on 2015 roadmap, according to Barclays Capital.

Apple could be a victim of its own hype, created by its muted response to media prodding for details about the upcoming iPad 2.

Google has assured Gmail account holders who lost their mails that many of these missing emails are stored on offline tapes and efforts are on to restore these to the users' accounts.

Apple's ambitions to boost its cloud-computing prowess got a significant push as its $1-billion data center in North Carolina approaches its opening this spring.

Amid concerns over Seagate's next-generation hard drive come questions on the future of data storage.

A recent survey says the growing demand of security professionals is outpacing the supply.

U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed 2012 Federal budget included proposals to improve the inefficiencies in government data centers. The budget outlines the adoption of cloud-computing and virtualization technologies to lower IT spending costs and increase agility.

Workforce management software firm ClickSoftware Technologies expects annual sales growth to surpass 20 percent in coming years and profit to improve on new mobility and cloud computing products.

Speculation is that Apple is due to launch a smaller and cheaper version of its iPhone to sit alongside the current and upcoming breed of iPhones.

Google stands the risk of being disconnected from its primary source of bread and butter, the internet, if there is any bite to Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) warning that chides Google for copyright infringement.

Microsoft Corp named veteran insider and expert engineer Satya Nadella as the head of its $15 billion server and tools business, as it looks to revitalize its push into cloud computing.

Senior U.S. lawmakers demanded answers on Tuesday from regulators and financial exchange operators about computer hacking attacks.

A possible management shake-up in the Microsoft camp is due to throw up senior product executives with engineering muscle at the top to tackle the might of Apple and Google in the smartphone, tablets and cloud domains.

Analyst Kim Caughey Forrest says Verizon's record sale of iPhones today was old news before it even happened.

More companies are hopping on the NFC contact-less bandwagon.

Amazon Web Services LLC plans to make Oracle Database 11g available through Amazon Relational Database Service during the second quarter of 2011.

Bringing Terremark aboard for $1.4b will add to Verizon's expanding cloud services.

Verizon Communications announced its plan to acquire Terremark, an Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider for $1.4 billion in cash to bulwark its everything-as-a-service cloud strategy. The acquisition of Terremark confirms that Verizon has more on its mind than just telecommunications.

The company continues expanding its cloud computing services in Asia with plans to build a center in Langfang City.

PC maker Hewlett Packard launched a suite of new products and services for businesses and governments under the cloud computing platform.