8 Reasons to Consider Cloud Anti-spam
Startup companies and businesses who want an alternative to on-premise anti-spam technologies are moving towards hosted services. Cloud anti-spam solutions are an efficient and effective weapon available in the fight against spam, and it’s time you took a look at
Cloud Events in the USA not to miss in 2012
Involved in a business in the cloud industry? Surrounded by cloud professionals? Reading daily the most recent news about cloud computing and cloud management? It does sound like you are very much immersed in the industry. So, if you want
Cloud Management
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
How Do I Get My Hands Around This IT Outsourcing Thing?
Interest is fueled by what everyone inherently knows – different companies have different skill levels and cost bases around different operations. Whether a company is “off-shore”, “near-shore” or “on-shore” is of secondary importance. So what’s the difference between those outsourcing
The cloud transition: What You Can (and Can’t) listen to from your IT department
A while ago I have written an article about the future of the internal IT department in a cloud dominated world, Who’s Afraid of the Cloud?. I said that, in the future, the role of enterprise IT would become
Top industries to benefit from cloud applications’ adoption
According to the USA Cloud Adoption & Trend 2012, cloud services are now a reality to be taken into account by any organization, and the trend is upwards in both capability and coverage. The top five industries to widely adopt
Automated versus manual tools for cloud migration
Back in 2010 most specialists thought of cloud computing mostly as “capacity on demand” with the benefit of not having to deal with infrastructure and scalability issues. Today this is just one of the countless benefits that cloud computing offers.
Cloud Computing for Governments
The significant increase of cloud adoption in the private sector is not so recognizable for the public sector. When it comes to exploring the opportunities that the cloud offers, the public sector is well behind the private sector. But a
Keeping cloud based backups safe
Are you considering the cloud for backing up your critical files and data? If so, you’re not alone. Cloud based backup solutions are all the rage right now, with offerings baked in to operating systems from Apple, iCloud, Microsoft’s Skydrive,
Latest trends of the cloud computing world
There is no doubt about the worldwide cloud adoption. According to the National Inflation Association, cloud computing is currently a $74 billion industry that accounts for 3 percent of global IT spending, and it’s expected to become a $150 billion
The Hypothermic Cloud Infrastructure: Maintaining the Blood Flow to Tier 1 & 2 Apps
A particular sore spot since the beginning of the rise of cloud infrastructures, even the advent of utility computing is this: how do you forecast and pay for resources and justify costs for problems you don’t have yet?
The Benefits of Data Center Virtualization for Businesses
As we all know, data virtualization is a layered approach to manage huge data volumes from disparate sources (databases, systems and storage), through a single virtual view from within a front-end system, such as applications, or dashboards. Therefore, whether
Cloud Recruitment Perspectives
According to a study by the London School of Economics and Political Science the development of cloud computing will foster economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses. The study also reported that
Is Cloud Migration Becoming Easy?
Among some of the challenges one could encounter when taking the road to the cloud that I have mentioned in one of my earlier articles, 5 Challenges in the Journey to the Cloud, there is one that is purely
Can you Survive the Cloud Transition?
I have already explained some of the ways that cloud computing is influencing the IT industry. Among the many changes the IT industry now faces, of particular importance is the need for professionals to adapt, as cloud providers begin to