by cloudtweaks on April 23, 2012
in Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Images, Infographic, IT, Mobile, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools, Trends
Cloud Infographic: The Cloud Tablet Mobile cloud is the convergence of cloud computing and mobile apps. It is one of the hottest trends in cloud computing that is expected to play an increasingly important role in the future. The entry of iPads into the enterprise space. Tablets are now entering the enterprise space and are projected to supplement the PCs in the nearby future. From data centers to construction firms, tablets are finding their uses in innovative settings. By moving apps from the PC to the tablet, enterprises are putting more effort on their mobile cloud services…. Continue Reading Source:
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by sourya on April 23, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, IT, Microsoft, News, SaaS, Security, Stocks, Storage, Technology, Trends
Microsoft’s Biggest Client, or Just a PR Stunt? – Part I On April 13, Reuters ran a news item where “Microsoft announced its biggest-ever customer for cloud computing – software that it hosts on behalf of clients and delivers over the Internet – after winning a contract to provide free services to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)” (). Now, the first thing that struck me was the word “free” and left me thinking, “Does this truly make the AICTE Microsoft’s biggest client, or is this just a PR stunt full of fluff with no solidity?” I looked
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by Balaji on April 23, 2012
in Backups, Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Green Computing/Clean Tech, Host, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools, Trends, Virtualization
Are You Overwhelmed By The Number Of Cloud Services To Manage? The past 2 years have seen a rapid adoption of cloud services among enterprises. CIOs and CTOs were able to convince the CEOs about the business case for cloud migration. However, the biggest sticking point is in the integration of various cloud services. The need for convergence While many enterprises have moved their non-critical applications to the public cloud for the cost advantage and robustness, regulatory compliance and performance needs are forcing some of them to use the private cloud and virtual private cloud for core business operations. Moreover,
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by Florence on April 23, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Education, Green Computing/Clean Tech, Host, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
The Carbon Footprints of Cloud Computing IT is a tool to reach environmental sustainability objectives which allow business entities to report, manage, analyze, and measure environmental data in order to manage risks and lessen their general impact. The kind of IT services and infrastructure chosen is part of the business entity’s carbon footprint which can control the growth and scale through time. Cloud computing is a solution which lessens hardware requirements, offers scalability, and provides reductions in carbon and direct energy emissions. It also provides efficiency to business scalability, processes, and improved collaboration and communication. Although cloud computing can greatly
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by cloudtweaks on April 20, 2012
in Big Data, Case Study, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Education, Government, Host, IT, Podcast, Security, Storage, Technology, Unified Fabric
Premise to Cloud: Adopting Hosted Unified Communications to Converge, Collaborate, and Compete Collaboration is the linchpin to being competitively relevant. And being relevant is not solely defined by the products or services that an enterprise now offers. Relevancy is defined by how quickly and effectively an enterprise responds to market needs, incubates new ideas, and pushes the most promising ideas to production. This cannot be accomplished with yesterday’s technologies. Unified Communications and Collaboration—the convergence of multiple modes of communication and collaboration, independent of end-user device and location—is no longer a nice to have; it is a must have. But what
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Cloud Management And The New Paradigm Of Computing Cloud computing has definitely revolutionised the IT industry and transformed the way in which IT Services are delivered. But finding the best way for an organization to perform common management tasks using remote services on the Internet is not that easy. Cloud management incorporates the task of providing, managing, and monitoring applications into cloud infrastructures that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location or of the system that delivers the services. Monitoring cloud computing applications and activity into requires cloud management tools to ensure that resources are meeting SLA’s, working
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by Jeff Norman on April 20, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Education, Government, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
Healthcare in the Cloud: Good and Bad and Around the World What field isn’t the cloud revolutionizing right now? From music to entrepreneurship, virtually every relevant sector is capitalizing on some aspect of the cloud in order to improve efficiency and — one hopes as a byproduct — creativity as well. Healthcare is not immune to the effects of cloud, either. The data storage concept is equipping the field to streamline and adapt to modern medicine. However, cloud’s advantages to healthcare come with both a good and bad side. Let’s start with the good news: cloud computing is set to
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by Humayun on April 20, 2012
in Backups, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Education, Host, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
Cloud Research Findings: Hackers Feast On A Hefty $1 Billion Fairly recently, analytics giant Price Water House Cooper (PwC) had made its research outcome public. The report throws light on the trembling discovery that hackers have cumulatively laid their dirty hands upon an amount as large as US $1 billion rightly belonging to enterprises stationed in Brazil. Worse than that, Business Software Alliance has ranked Brazil as the top-most cloud unready nation among the 24 momentous others that make up more than 80% of the globe’s communication and information technology. The release by PwC establishes that close to one-third of
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