Fans of using cloud computing and VoIP for business should be excited to hear the trending telecom news for this week. Skype has announced its purchase of GroupMe, a group messaging program that will allow users to add collaborative chat and messaging to their resource library. In a business application, this could prove particularly usefulContinue Reading

IT blogger The VAR Guy is attending the Comp TIA Breakway conference in Washington, D.C. (Aug 1-4) and has posted a handful of the first rumors he’s heard around the conference. Unsurprisingly, a fair amount of the chatter seems to be revolving around cloud computing companies, including Advantix partner and content-management solution Box.net. Advantix reliesContinue Reading

This coming Monday, according to GigaOM, Apple will be unveiling iCloud, a Mac-driven cloud computing system. Apple has already completely revolutionized mobility, music, and personal computing. Will they be able to revolutionize the cloud, as well? Up until now, Apple’s only significant cloud computing offering has been MobileMe, which, as GigaOM writer Darrell Etherington pointsContinue Reading

Continuing on the subject of tablet computers, MobileEnterprise has published an excellent breakdown of some of the enterprise mobility concerns faced by businesses whose employees have begun using smartphones and tablets in the office. The article is a detailed breakdown of the benefits, challenges, and concerns faced by an enterprise and its employees in anContinue Reading

The Telecom Blog has taken a look at Verizon’s newly announced acquisition of Terremark, which provides managed IT infrastructure and cloud computing services in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America. Verizon seems to have had some trouble growing their in-house cloud computing and data management services, so this is definitely a smart move for them.Continue Reading

TechRepublic has another Top 10 trends in 2011 list out, this time from Quest Software. Quest surveyed IT experts to get their opinions on what it is we should be expecting to see the most of this year. Not surprisingly, six out of the ten deal with cloud computing. Like Gartner, Quest is expecting thatContinue Reading

What are the implications of cloud computing for the future of IT professionals? Gartner reports this year that they expect the number of IT professionals who use cloud computing to grow from 3% to 43% in the next four years.