by cloudtweaks on June 3, 2013
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Mobile, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Top 10's
Four Tips For Integrating Mobile Cloud Applications Into Your Treasury Department The global enterprise mobility market is expanding at a rapid rate – predicted to bring in $140 billion a year by 2020. As the market continues to expand, so do the varying needs of mobile businesses who rely on cloud-based solutions. For mobile employees, having full product functionality at their fingertips is critical, and cloud-based services enable a much more efficient solution than legacy apps. However, companies shouldn’t assume that “mobile” equates to “road warrior.” Employees that are primarily office-based also find value in access to data on mobile
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Are You Focused On Cloud Performance? Let These Free Information Assets Guide You “Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.” - Harold S Geneen (1910-1997), American businessman and former CEO of ITT. In almost every sphere of human activity, and business is no different, performance is the key differentiator for success. Whether it’s the performance of your systems or your people, performance is what brings in the dough. Understanding what affects performance in the cloud, how you can measure and analyze it, what you can do to remove hurdles affecting performance and how you can improve it – these are
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by cloudtweaks on May 30, 2013
in Apps, Business, BYOD, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Mobile, Security, Storage, Technology
Cloud ERP in Manufacturing: Why Join The Movement? The manufacturing sector of the economy was an early user of ERP systems when the software first emerged, but surprisingly, most manufacturers have been slow to adopt cloud ERP. By 2010, only about 5% of manufacturing companies were using cloud ERP. One reason for this slow adoption is that many ERP providers were slow at developing the solutions that manufacturers needed. Although numerous retail and wholesale companies, as well as service firms, have adopted cloud ERP, manufacturing companies have an extra layer of complexity: Myriad functionality needs and different design considerations which
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Hybrid Cloud is the Way Forward No one in the industry likes vendor lock-in but it is something which every enterprise has to live with, in fact, this is how the enterprise software and solutions market was originally designed to work. One of the promises of the Cloud was to break this vicious cycle of locking in with a vendor but with a plethora of Cloud offerings and service delivery models – SaaS, PaaS, IaaS etc. – and dearth of standards, there’s an acute need to federate the way in which different Cloud services talk to each other and learn
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Mobile Devices & BYOD – Bring Your Own Desktop? The plethora of mobile devices with smartphones and tablets leading the wave of a new era of computing, CIOs and IT managers wake up to a nightmare i.e. mobile management. Mobile management spans both, the platform or the mobile devices and content which in the case of enterprises would be sensitive business data which an employee accesses and perhaps stores on the mobile device. PC sales are in slump while mobile devices have made their inroads, landing right into the hands of consumers around the globe and then strategically seeping into
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Towards a Cloud Common market: UK Administration has G-Cloud in Tow While many states seek to establish a framework, guiding mechanisms, and caveats that should govern their Information Technology, if not cloud computing, markets, some countries go ahead to endorse the cloud as a market of choice. The United Kingdom has joined a select few countries of the globe that now take IT and server-based storage seriously. Next to the Aussie and American demonstration of the cloud as a national issue, via appropriating policies and security protocols, the British have gone a step further by instituting the sector. Through the
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Has The Cloud Stepped Out of Infancy? (And How You Can Benefit From Its Growth) “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955), possibly the smartest man in the last century. When we speak of cloud computing, we often speak of its relative infancy. We cite the lack of standards, the lack of understanding, the limited adoption as symptoms of cloud computing’s newness in the technological landscape. While the cloud may still be young when compared to its much-older peers, a recent survey commissioned by CA Technologies indicates
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Cloud Infographic: Raise Your Cloud IQ What Is? Data Center A purpose-built facility for housing ICT resources, e.g. computing servers and telecommunications equipment. Very large enterprises (e.g. Facebook, Google) operate their own facilities. Others are “carrier neutral” and make up the points of presence for telecoms firms to build their networks and that make up the Internet’s backbone. Some are used expressly to provide colocation services to business customers. Datacentres are also the “homes” of cloud services… Virtualization In a technology environment, a concept whereby the logical entity (like a network, server or desktop platform) is separated from the physical
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