As enterprise IT deploys private clouds to increase buiness agility and reduce costs, these companies also want to increase their amount of work in public clouds to meet the ongoing needs of their business.

Solution providers who can transform into cloud brokers and act as intermediaries between these companies and cloud service providers will prosper.

The concept of "cloud broker" is not new to 2015. What is still new in 2015 is the opportunity to play this role in a marketplace that is growing.

Cloud brokers will find themselves managing across Read more...

As large retailers set up data centers to operate e-commerce, ODM server makers Quanta Computer, Inventec, Wiwynn and others get orders based on their lower prices compared to the server brands.

Retailers are aggressively expanding their e-commerce business coverage and facing the need for Big Data. These famous cost-conscious customers see hardware as a major cost consideration for their data center establishments.

Chinese and Taiwan server ODMs appeal to this type of data centre customer with lower prices and bargain concessions.

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What is the IT story of the year for 2014? Some experts point to "The Sony Hack." If it isn't the story of the year, it is at least the Hack of the Year for 2014.

Recently employees at Sony Pictures opened their computers at work to find a skull-decorated "splash page." (Shown at left.)

Sony employees were then told the company email systems were down and to go home because the company’s networks had been hacked. Sony administrators reportedly shut down much of its worldwide network and disabled VPN connections and wi-fi access in an effort to co Read more...

Intel told Wall Street that its PC sales will grow in "mid-single digits" in 2015. Some analysts think Intel is fibbing.

These industry analysts claim Intel's CPU revenue will fall by 6% in 2015, based on inventory build-ups from 2014.

Analyst Srini Pajjuri of CLSA is one of the bears. Pajjuri writes that “Management deserves credit for solid execution and consistent strategy, but we believe the company’s 2015 guidance for mid-single-digit growth is optimistic.”