The primary driver for cloud adoption will shift from economics to innovation as leading-edge companies invest in cloud services as the foundation for new competitive offerings.
These four pillars — Big Data, Cloud, Mobility and Social — are creating new business value and unprecedented innovation.
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Published: May 19, 2014
The healthcare industry continues to undergo rapid changes, putting increasing pressure on healthcare executives to embrace innovative and agile methodologies in order to improve the quality of patient care and reduce operational expenses. This perspective from IDC delves into how cloud is playing a critical role in enabling...
Published: Aug 26, 2020
Two thirds (65%) of IT decision-makers admit the conventional systems and approaches in use today aren’t fit to address the emerging digital business needs of tomorrow. Realising it’s time to modernise is the first step.
In “The CIO’s guide to intelligent IT” explore the three steps to...
Published: Jul 30, 2019
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 white paper is a business guide for customer service executives and managers who have already made the decision to deploy customer service in the cloud but need further insight into the best practices for how to do so successfully and further evolve customer service in the cloud through four phases: implementation,...
Published: Nov 13, 2013
A key technical underpinning of the Cloud is the Application Programming Interface (API). APIs provide consistent methods for outside entities such as web services clients and desktop applications to interface with services in the Cloud.
More and more, it will be through APIs that cloud data moves; however, the security...
Published: Aug 21, 2014
There’s no question that network rationalization can lead to immediate cost savings, simplified management, and improved reliability and performance.
Getting rid of complexities, redundancies, and unnecessary networks and equipment that are brought on by years of accumulated technology is a commonsense way to...
Published: Mar 12, 2014
Ransomware isn’t new. In fact, it’s 30-years-old . What IS new is ransomware’s sudden rise as a favored attack by cyber criminals . Cyber crime has become a lucrative business and, unfortunately, ransomware has become an integral attack method that many organizations are fighting a losing battle against. ...
Published: Aug 02, 2019
Elasticity is a relatively new term, introduced with cloud computing, that expands on traditional notions of scalability. Where scalability focuses on expansion or growth of a resource, elasticity also implies the reverse: the ability to contract available resources.
Elasticity is considered superior to traditional...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
This research provides user organizations' CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, integration competency center/service oriented architecture (SOA) center-of-excellence (COE) managers, B2B integration managers and project leaders, as well as IT providers' planners, with an analysis of the evolution, adoption trends...
Published: May 22, 2013
So you’re considering private cloud for your business communications. You’re not alone! In fact, more and more businesses are turning to cloud communications (a.k.a. hosted communications), as witnessed by its tremendous market growth of roughly 25 percent year over year.
Why choose private cloud for your...
Published: Jan 28, 2020
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
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) on the shop floor is as critical to the viability of the enterprise as any component in the execution of manufacturing.
High-performing manufacturers have found that full integration of real-time operational data collected from the shop floor to the top floor is key to reducing costs,...
Published: Feb 21, 2014
Despite a growing determination to use the cloud for faster, better, cheaper data storage, organizations are struggling to navigate the options in a crowded landscape.
After reading this paper, you will be armed with valuable information to guide you in selecting the right cloud storage solution for your organization....
Published: Jul 08, 2013