When Work And Personal Life Overlap: A Primer To The “Bring Your Own Device” Era In the modern business world, carrying more than one device is most often a factor of available applications, device capabilities, or personal preferences rather than a solid-walled barrier between work and play life. A “bring your own device” (BYOD) landscape exists because, over the last decade, the line has increasingly blurred between “business” and “personal” technology usage. BYOD may be defined as a business policy allowing employees to bring personally owned mobile devices to their places of work and use these devices to access privileged
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Top Four Ways Cloud Computing Can Help Families Cloud computing is often confused with corporate IT jargon. Rarely is cloud computing sold as a family tool, product, or service. Naturally, you could blame it on the marketing people. Also, people’s lack of information on this topic can also be a reason for this statistic. Very few people imagine cloud computing can be used at home, with the same efficiency you would use it in their business. 1. Making copies of important documents Sometimes, keeping relevant documents at home can be a challenge. You may have no idea where to store private and sensitive
The Day Hard-Drives Become Obsolete Not too long ago, the only way to store data for personal users was on the hard-drive of a computer. After that came the use of disks, thumb drives and external hard-drives. This was the way of life for most users for years – until cloud storage. Today, cloud storage is growing in popularity and more users are skipping the traditional methods of storage and opting for the cloud instead. Cloud storage is essentially just a fancy way to back up information, only this time it is left on a server rather than a physical
Mobile Cloud Computing: What Does The Future Hold? When industry pundits forecast in 2006 that the usage need of data would surpass that of the voice market, not many could not conceptualize such a market outlook. Five years later and the ratio would pitch data market at nearly 70% of the mobile market and growing. The mobile technology has witnessed tremendous advances in recent years such that experts have reckoned that mobile cloud will colligate cloud computing in the next few years. Mobile cloud computing is set to impact and transform the mobile communication landscape and the whole computing infrastructure.
Five Cloud Trends That Are Changing The Way Business Is Done As the cloud computing concept gets wide acceptance among businesses both big and small, the trends shaping it are evolving at a pace destined to change the way business is done. As more business tasks get accomplished on the cloud, many CTOs are willing to let a good amount of their operations run in cloud platforms. Cloud hosting is dominating the implementation level across industries with several hosted solutions offering services such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Other provisions, like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are also seen taking considerable shape as a business
Moving In To The Cloud? Choose Wisely Most organizations which have entered into cloud computing are seeking a competitive advantage. Sooner or later, cloud computing will graduate from a strategic imperative to an operational norm. Regardless of the rationale behind the migration, it is important for any organization to be well aware of the intricacies and elements of cloud computing before committing resources and expectations. Stakes are always high, and the nature of the choices we make has a major impact on the future. The cloud computing transition has dawned upon most organizations, immediately following the internet transition. Regardless of the change, there is association
Advantages of Cloud Computing Cloud computing tells us how to use the computer resources more efficiently. It is the name of the technology that has changed our point of view regarding software and hardware requirements. Interestingly, cloud computing is the mixture of various delivery models, technology, and latest ideas, but also includes other models in the sector of IT. These models are specially designed for companies that provide services over the Internet. Cloud computing allows the user to access servers, data center space, software, and any of the network equipment. The user can also have the required platform if he
