Organizations are boarding the public cloud train to achieve more efficient time to market, improve overall business and continue carving a competitive edge. However, as business-centric groups continue to drive adoption, security teams are not always involved in the process.
Based on common experiences, these security...
Published: Apr 05, 2018
Cloud computing has rapidly become the most talked-about IT concept of the day. For some, it is yet another new label for the well-worn concept of ‘utility computing’, and therefore amounts to a marketing gimmick.
For less cynical observers, it is a powerful set of technologies based on Infrastructure...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Over the past six years, Aberdeen Group has been measuring organizations' willingness to consider a SaaS deployment model for their ERP implementations. This Analyst Insight examines trends in ERP deployment models and provides clues as to whether cloud ERP is the right fit for your organisation.
Published: Nov 05, 2013
The average lifespan of a company has reduced from 61 years in 1958 to 18 years today, and is forecast to decline to 10 years by 2018. For smaller companies, more than half of today’s businesses will not be around in five years.
Read this Frost & Sullivan survey report of 1,500 senior executives across...
Published: Sep 11, 2017
OpenStack® is a hot topic, and with good reason: This rapidly evolving open-source architecture can enable IT departments to build infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds running on standard hardware.
Companies of all sizes see the possibilities, a recent IDG Quick Poll of CIOs shows. But those companies may...
Published: May 01, 2013
Enterprises increasingly recognize that application workloads are critical to the success of their business.
They also recognize that the composition, nature, and deployment of cloud workloads represent an entirely new set of challenges. These factors directly impact the role that hybrid cloud networks will...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
These IDG survey results echo the findings and predictions in the February 2012 paper by Gartner analysts David W. Cearley and David Mitchell Smith, “Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Your Cloud Strategy Through 2015.”
In this report, the analysts state that “over time, hybrid cloud computing...
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
So you have taken the initiative to convert to a cloud-first infrastructure model. Whether you have moved your entire or most of your infrastructure to the cloud, this is only the beginning of an ongoing process of assessments and decisions to make to continue to ensure that your enterprises best interests are protected....
Published: May 03, 2017
The competitive pressures in the automotive industry have never been as intense as they are right now. Automotive manufacturers are working vigorously to meet customer needs, squeeze out costs, achieve the highest possible quality, and do all of this with fewer and fewer resources.
The pain of “doing more with...
Published: Feb 21, 2014
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
This intelligence paper reports on the findings from Claranet’s research into cloud adoption in the UK. Conducted in November 2012, this is the second annual survey of cloud infrastructure adoption, following the Claranet Cloud Market Report 2011.
As with the previous report, the research engaged senior IT decision-makers...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
IBM® SmartCloud™ Entry for IBM Power Systems™ is an entry-level private cloud offering from IBM for IBM POWER® processor-based systems.
The following article is my first impression of the product, albeit with limited exposure to its full potential.
Published: Jan 09, 2014
The way you interact with your customers is hugely important in terms of building unbreakable relationships, and with effective use of CRM software you can benefit from vital intelligence on customer trends and behaviours.
This whitepaper will look at a number of examples of businesses adding real value...
Published: Mar 01, 2015