The healthcare market within the cloud computing industry is on course to be worth $10 billion by the year 2021, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan.

One of the world’s leading hardware and cloud service providers says that its new artificial intelligence (AI)-based software can predict problems in infrastructure before human engineers can.

The global public cloud market saw revenues swell by 28.6 per cent in the first half of 2017, according to the latest data from researcher IDC, as the sector continues to grow. According to the firm’s Worldwide Semi-annual Public Cloud Services Tracker, total sales in the industry hit $63.3 billion (£44.2 billion), a figure which represents a large advance on 2016’s $49.2 billion.

UK businesses are taking huge losses on the chin for every digital project that ends up cancelled, according to new research, with each failure costing enterprises an average of just under £500,000.

Companies in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region may be spending far less on traditional IT outsourcing, but those turning to cloud computing solutions are steadily growing, according to new research.

The UK economy could gain a £100 billion boost to its productivity if firms would consider making greater use of everyday tech such as cloud computing, according to new research from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

A recent survey has shown that most organisations are confused about which party will be responsible for keeping their customers’ data safe, with more than 80 per cent believing that cloud service providers are responsible for data protection.

Although the public sector is continuing to adopt cloud computing and make it a part of their daily operations, promised “digital transformation” is still some distance off for many agencies, according to new research.

A failure to fund in-house IT training and up-skill staff is contributing to cyber security skills gaps and potential threats, according to a recent survey.

The UK government has confirmed the development of a new £30 million National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), which will aim to put the country at the "forefront" of the cloud computing industry and help Britain capitalise on a potential £40 billion a year boost the economy.