When integrated into a modern marketing technology stack, AI and machine learning have the ability to accelerate a company’s internal processes, reduce manual guesswork, and improve aspects of customer experience. However, before businesses can implement AI they must first ensure that they are mature enough to understand...
Published: Jul 30, 2019
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
Organisations Have New Needs and Need New Solutions. The pace of change in organisations is relentless—and is only likely to increase. New entrants are creating challenging competitive solutions and established companies are having to adopt new ways to find growth and protect themselves from the new entrants.
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Published: Sep 11, 2017
ESG recently conducted an in-depth survey with IT professionals representing small, midmarket, and enterprise-class organizations to find out about their organizations’ usage of, interest in, and opinions regarding online file sharing and collaboration services and deployment model preferences.
The findings...
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
Shouldn’t there be a way to combine the elasticity, self-service, and metered usage of commodity clouds, with governance and management ease of traditional IT systems?
This article aims to explore the business case for the enterprise cloud, focusing on public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The discussion...
Published: Mar 14, 2014
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
Done right, a cloud delivers strategic advantages to your business by redirecting resources from just maintaining the status quo to innovation. But only an open cloud delivers on the full strategic business value and promise of cloud computing.
Read this joint Gartner and Red Hat paper to learn how you can build an...
Published: Nov 07, 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
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
When read individually, each article provides a unique perspective of one company’s experience or one expert’s advice on SAP HANA. But when read as a collection, these articles provide the comprehensive roadmap you need to plan your organization’s SAP HANA journey.
Published: May 18, 2014
Almost all analyst and industry surveys list data security and privacy as top concerns for CIOs. While organizational computing resources and data in the cloud are attractive targets for attackers, the cloud computing characteristics and their associated focus on virtualization technology are driving an important change...
Published: Aug 26, 2013
After one failed (and costly) attempt to launch a system it felt could meet these requirements, Spring Dynamics feared the disruption and capital investment involved in installing another solution.
It approached a second review of potential solutions very cautiously. After a lengthy and intense analysis of possible...
Published: Jun 06, 2014
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: May 26, 2016