What exactly is cloud to cloud backup? How does it work, what does it require and what are the benefits? It’s easy enough to understand the concept of copying data from one cloud and replicating it in another for safe storage and easy retrieval. The real question is, when and why is cloud to cloud backup necessary,...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
There is a wide range of approaches to enterprise IT but new research from Logicalis shows that the fundamental challenges are starkly universal.
On the one hand, organisations must deal with creaking infrastructure and constant cost-cutting. On the other, technology is expected to contribute to growth and customer...
Published: Nov 28, 2013
This book gives you some insights into what it means to leverage both IaaS and PaaS in both public and private cloud environments and how these environments work with data center services. Companies leveraging these foundational cloud services need to keep all the models in context with business requirements for performance,...
Published: Aug 23, 2013
Cloud-enabled services are the next wave transforming how businesses capitalize on information technology, and that in turn drives the next evolution in the processes, roles, skills, and structure of IT organizations—the evolution to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). Today’s CIOs must exercise extraordinary leadership...
Published: Sep 23, 2013
With commerce evolving at light speed, now is a truly exciting time to be in a position of leadership. Becoming a customer-centric organization that fosters innovation and collaboration requires a new way of thinking and operating. Companies equipped with the tools and vision to embrace that change today will be positioned...
Published: Nov 12, 2013
The overhead of a typical family practice normally runs at about 60% of revenues,2 so it’s important to choose the most cost-effective healthcare IT solutions, such as practice management systems, electronic health records (EHR), and others. Cloud-based solutions are becoming increasingly popular due to their relative...
Published: Oct 25, 2013
Disaster recovery is top of mind for many. Monthly, there are around 7,200 searches for DR plans and around 7,600 for DR vendors and providers. Your options for DRaaS vendors and partners today may seem similar at first glance, even when it comes to pricing. But dig deeper and you’ll begin to see some concerning...
Published: Feb 07, 2014
This whitepaper explores the growing desire for cloud services amongst consumers, sohos and small businesses, and how Value Added Resellers must incorporate these services into their offerings in order to remain relevant in such a fast-changing technical landscape.
Technology research firm Gartner predicts that by...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
It’s no secret that Software as a Service (SaaS), and the cloud in general, offers the enterprise a tremendous opportunity. SaaS delivers the breadth, simplicity and affordability of packaged applications in a fraction of time and for a fraction of the cost of traditional models.
But SaaS also changes the dynamics...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
Claranet’s Managed Application Hosting (MAH) service uses the latest advances in virtualisation, security and storage technologies to part- or fully-manage a customer’s applications. Our hosting platform underpins the service, while Claranet’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees the availability...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
For internal and external applications, Web APIs provide flexibility and unlock the value of your data and software. However, ongoing API development, deployment and delivery require extensive domain knowledge in operating an enterprise-class infrastructure. Without this expertise, scalability, reliability, and security...
Published: Aug 01, 2013
The next five years is set to bring a dramatic, hybrid shift in the way IT leaders approach the IT infrastructure that supports their business growth and innovation, according to a global IT Outsourcing study released today by Savvis, a CenturyLink company.
In fact, by 2018, this global report predicts...
Published: Mar 17, 2014
By the year 2020, the digital universe will grow to 44 zettabytes—that’s 10 times the amount of data that existed in 2013. By then the amount of data that is tagged and open to analysis will grow by 35 percent—to 16 million petabytes of potentially usable information.* Every organization wants to turn...
Published: Sep 22, 2014
While IaaS deployments offer numerous benefits, connecting the enterprise data center to the cloud within a hybrid data center model can present hidden challenges and costs.
This whitepaper focuses on key aspects of how IaaS deployments can impact the network, and proposes a new approach to a resilient, consistent...
Published: Feb 10, 2015