• Cloud computing gaining momentum in 2013: Ovum

  The global cloud computing market will continue to grow in 2013 as enterprises look to reduce costs and boost innovation, according to analyst firm Ovum.

• Australians obsessed with planking, cyclones and the census: Facebook

  Each year, millions of people post on Facebook to share what's important to them, discuss world events, or just goof off with their friends. With more than 800 million people connected around the globe on Facebook news about the world's triumphs and tragedies – as well as the latest – spread fast.

• Search engines ruin our memory, make us smarter

  By now you've probably heard that Google and other search engines are making us think differently. Columbia University researcher Betsy Sparrow said we are remembering less information if it is readily available online, but we are remembering where we can find that information on the Internet.

• Twitter Local Trends: What's the tweet in your area?

  People logging on to their Twitter accounts this morning found a new feature waiting for them.

• Twitter Trends goes local

  Australians will have to wait for the newly-hatched Twitter Local Trends feature - which went live overnight - to come down under.

Whitepapers about trends

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  Unified Monitoring™ A Business Perspective

  The enterprise computing landscape has changed dramatically. Virtualisation, outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing are creating fundamental changes, and ushering in an era in which enterprises distribute increasingly critical IT assets and applications across multiple service providers.This paper explores today’s computing trends and their monitoring implications in detail. In addition, it reveals how a new monitoring paradigm architecture, that uniquely addresses the monitoring realities of today’s and tomorrow’s enterprises—whether they rely on internal platforms, external service providers, or a combination of both.