How to Plan Your Migration to the Cloud Since I have already provided some guidelines for choosing a cloud provider, I would like to further discuss steps to be undertaken when preparing for a cloud migration. Problems might appear at any moment, and the best thing you can do is take all measures to reduce risks and minimize their potential negative effect. This is why advanced planning for a cloud migration is crucial. Here are some general guidelines to keep in mind when planning for a cloud migration: Perform an analysis of processes and evaluation of business needs. You should
Invisible Computing: How Cloud Is Forcing Software And Hardware Apart
Invisible Computing: How Cloud Is Forcing Software And Hardware Apart By 2018, Gartner predicts that 70 per cent of professionals will conduct their work on personal mobile devices, enabled by the revolutionary concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing essentially separates software from the logical functionality of local hardware. In other words, instead of needing computing power to ...
Cloud Infographic: The Amazing Cloud ATM
Cloud Infographic: The Amazing Cloud ATM One of the more entertaining and colorful infographics brought to out attention by CA Technologies. The research has been conducted with 542 IT leaders from around the world. Infographic Credit: CA Technologies
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Storage 2013
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Storage 2013 Future Trends And Prospects In Cloud Technology – Year 2013 Many technology experts think that cloud technology has not reached its maturity yet; it may take it about five or more years to mature if the present pace of growth remains consistent. It is being anticipated that the growth will be even ...3CLogic Unveils New “Cloud Switch” Incentive Program 3CLogic is motivating customers to switch from the Five9 platform they are currently using over to 3CLogic’s Call Center Service deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud based contact centers specialist has launched a three-point incentives program called “Cloud Switch” to this end and says that it will promote this program throughout the month of September. The incentives announced under the “Cloud Switch” program include software “trade-in” pricing, half-price CRM integration and free, discounted training. For the software “trade-in” pricing, 3CLogic is offering qualified users of the Five9 system the one-time ability
Amazon Announces ElastiCache Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching system, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. Amazon ElastiCache is protocol-compliant with Memcached, a widely adopted memory object caching system, so code, applications, and popular tools that you use today with existing Memcached environments will work seamlessly with the service. Amazon ElastiCache simplifies and offloads the management, monitoring, and operation of in-memory cache environments,
DynamicOps Supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DynamicOps has announced new support for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The Operations Virtualization platform provider has made significant enhancements to the DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center and also expanded support for the physical and virtual resources comprising a cloud infrastructure – including Cisco UCS, Dell and HP Servers, Citrix XenDesktop 5 and VMware vSphere 5. The company notes that the expanded support and capabilities in DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center are available immediately. This enhancement has enabled customers to leverage their DynamicOps infrastructure as a public cloud gateway that securely
Hewlett-Packard May Spin Off PC Business To Focus On Cloud Computing Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N), which may spin off the world’s largest PC business, is no longer a “safe haven” stock, said Robert W. Baird, which downgraded the stock to “neutral” on weak results and the company’s decision to overhaul its portfolio. As part of a series of moves away from the consumer market, the iconic company associated with the birth of Silicon Valley plans to kill its new tablet and buy British software company Autonomy Corp (AUTN.L) for $11.7 billion. “We are directionally positive on the shift to high-growth, high-margin
