By Scott Hebner, Vice President, IBM Cloud & Business Infrastructure Management
Social, mobile and cloud are more than just three of the most hyped buzz words in technology, they are three facets of the same movement and an everyday reality for consumers and businesses alike.
Whether you’re a college student streaming music [...]
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By John Bantleman, CEO, RainStor
With the price of commodity hardware continuing to motion downward, it continues to surprise me when I talk to organizations that still offload their historical data to tape offline and inaccessible. I can only guess that it is driven by a mix of factors that include no [...]
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Application delivery networking has its roots in simple load balancing, but has evolved considerably over the last decade. The first evolution was the integrated traffic management appliance, combining load balancing with additional networking functions such as SSL acceleration, compression, caching, TCP offload, connection multiplexing and Web firewalls to improve the performance, availability [...]
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Recent research reviewing small- to medium-size website traffic revealed that 51% of web site traffic is non-human, and that 31% is potentially damaging – automated malicious traffic from hackers, spies, scrapers, and spammers.
Given these numbers, no one wants to leave a website’s “front door” open. Website owners work hard [...]
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According to Forrester Research, the global cloud computing market will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020. The global research firm, IDC, predicts that cloud computing will generate nearly 14 million jobs globally by 2015.
Cloud computing is flourishing in Taiwan, where an US$800 million, [...]
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By Chris Grandi, CEO, Abacus Group
We’ve entered the next phase of the age-old “buy vs. build” debate. Owning and operating on-site IT resources comes with a heavy cost, leading many investment managers to evaluate cloud-based IT solutions for their businesses. Security, privacy and application performance concerns that once plagued cloud providers have [...]
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by: Ken Stephens, Xerox Senior Vice President of Cloud Services
It’s easy to get lost in the business of cloud and enterprise data management, even for this audience. We get so focused on the technological aspects of making the cloud work for our clients that we may not consider the real-life impact it makes [...]
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Where’s Your Data?
In the world of IT, what could be more fundamental than keeping control of enterprise data and making that data accessible to authorized employees? Yet today, a growing number of IT organizations find it challenging to meet this requirement.
Why?
The consumerization of IT and the dawn [...]
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Big Data is a “Wild Wild West” movement, with companies in all industries trying to figure out whether to invest in these supercharged analytics projects, and how. The CEO wants the game-changing results he’s been reading about in the press. Yet there are significant risks when it comes to [...]
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A Primer for ISVs moving to the cloud
by Sanjeev Kumar
There is a tectonic shift taking place in the IT industry with the advent and adoption of cloud computing. According to IDC, a leading global market research firm, worldwide sales of public IT cloud services will reach $55.5 billion in 2014 [...]
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As of May 28, Google’s cloud security reached a new high when Google Apps for Business earned ISO 27001 security certification. Although the news of the certification caused a lot of hype in both the business and the technology worlds, not many people are aware of just how important this security certification [...]
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By: Matthew Smith
On average everyday there are 22,200 blog posts written about the topic of cloud computing. You would need 444 hours if you tried to read every blog post from one day.
If you are like me your calendar is already so full you don’t even have 30 minutes to [...]
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by Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround
Cloud infrastructure is being continuously improved and optimized, so that over time it will be standardized and commoditized. Today’s cloud service providers are offering nearly identical hardware and stacks, which is more cost effective on their end in terms of maintenance and operational costs. This begs the [...]
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Article by: Nelson Nahum, co-founder and CTO, Zadara Storage
When people talk about cloud storage, they usually refer to storage that is accessible from outside the cloud, to stores files, pictures, and backups. Sometimes referred as object storage, a good example of this type of cloud storage is Amazon S3. In this article, [...]
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Article written by Claudio Erba, CEO of Docebo.
In recent years, various organizations of different nature have used at least once e-learning as a training method that can respond to a specific need. Although about 50% of the market is actually represented by the U.S., in Europe there are different realities, whose [...]
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By Dave Meizlik, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Dome9 Security
“Cloud” is one of the most over used and least understood words in technology these days, so it’s little surprise that there’s so much confusion about its security. Popular ideas, right or wrong, can gain traction and become accepted truths, so [...]
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Organizations of all types are attracted by the promises of private cloud computing, but few actually have the virtual maturity to be successful. This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud.Free White Paper
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Creating the right cloud delivery strategy is critical to reducing your organization’s risks and building its future. Many IT organizations want to start small, to build a pilot or proof of concept for the cloud, and expand from there. They want to start understanding how a private cloud can make their organization more flexible and agile. As they expand, they can add self-service capabilities that make it simple for IT users to request new virtual environments.
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Forrester Whitepaper: IT Operations Managers Must Rethink Their Approach to Private Cloud
Organizations of all types are attracted by the promises of private cloud computing, but few actually have the virtual maturity to be successful. This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud.Free White Paper
Build a Cloud Within A Day
Creating the right cloud delivery strategy is critical to reducing your organization’s risks and building its future. Many IT organizations want to start small, to build a pilot or proof of concept for the cloud, and expand from there. They want to start understanding how a private cloud can make their organization more flexible and agile. As they expand, they can add self-service capabilities that make it simple for IT users to request new virtual environments.
