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
The first challenge for most business is in defining where CRM sits within the organisation, who has control or responsibility and which theories underpin the approach.
The second challenge is to separate out the methodology and processes before identifying the technology that can be deployed to make those systems...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Deciding which data management platform will provide the best performance takes a lot of research and planning. A Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution like Cloudant helps accelerate the process...
Published: May 22, 2014
Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise software—public, private or hybrid cloud. However, many cloud vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility: they’re either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both.
But for those...
Published: Apr 10, 2014
Public cloud services such as AWS and Microsoft Azure are becoming increasingly popular and every IT organization now has a cloud mandate that they are trying to execute on.
But the basic question about what workloads “move” and what workloads “stay” still remains unanswered. Is the public...
Published: May 23, 2017
Just as organizations have finally gotten on board with the move to omnichannel customer service —offering a seamless consumer experience through available shopping channels—the game has changed once again.
Published: Aug 07, 2014
As this document highlights, when firms move to reference architecture or integrated infrastructure system strategies, they gain material cost and time-to-market advantages over traditional IT. Reference architecture and integrated infrastructure system strategies offer advantages over a "build your own" approach. ...
Published: Feb 25, 2014
This white paper explores how SaaS has fundamentally changed the economics for ITSM by reducing or removing maintenance, internal resource, and infrastructure costs.
Published: Nov 22, 2013
In a perfect world, getting rid of old IT equipment would be as simple as pulling the old stuff out and plugging the new stuff in. And there would be a clear timeline you could count on to tell when any aging piece of equipment in your data center becomes a detriment.
Published: Mar 12, 2014
The beauty of the cloud is that you can get up and running fast. oracle Fusion HcM cloud Applications offer many powerful features and capabilities to accelerate your time to value.
Published: Aug 15, 2013
The findings of the research show that the evolution of a cloud approach to IT has reached a tipping point in the UK. A majority of UK-based organisations are now using IT-as-a-service in some form and even more plan to over the next 12 months.
The strongest preferences expressed by IT decision-makers are for cloud...
Published: Mar 01, 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
In its quest to increase agility and reliability, IT is adopting cloud services and related technologies like PaaS, micro-services, and containers to rapidly deliver applications that scale to real-world conditions.
Application topology is often transient and unpredictably interrelated with countless other applications...
Published: Jan 31, 2017
An office move is the perfect chance to embrace cloud-based services, which can deliver superior performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability relative to on-premises solutions.
Additionally, InformationWeek reports that 70 percent of companies have either switched or plan to switch to unified communications....
Published: Feb 19, 2016