By Kyle Hailey Most enterprise business customers today face a plethora of challenges in order to migrate their massive applications to the cloud environment. For instance, many enterprise applications are so large that one of the easiest ways to migrate a customer environment to the cloud is to physically ship the customer storage disks to…

By Lori MacVittie Of late there have been a lot of articles and columns discussing the lamentably small percentage of women who are entering STEM fields. All posit potential causes for the decline noted over the past couple of decades, and some even offer advice on hiring practices or changes in the work environment necessary to attract…

By Paul Wolf, Director, Retail Services, Xerox Struggling retailers and those who aren’t going to remain in business have, perhaps, missed the memo on the cloud. The market for cloud services continues to grow as retail businesses embrace the flexibility that the cloud offers. But what about using the cloud at the store-level? What is…

By Francois Bondiguel The battle to dominate the mPOS space continues. With more than $3.6 trillion in credit and debit card transactions processed annually in the US alone, the race to get the biggest portion of this extremely profitable pie is definitely on. The three major contenders right now are PayPal, Square, and Groupon, with each…

In the past, companies have relied on server-client models that depend on cloud-based infrastructures, which tend to source its data from remote devices and locations, before collating and transforming whatever they collect into information that can be used by a wide variety of computing devices. However, there seems to be a major industry shift looming…

The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), the global association that promotes Green IT and promote the goal IT equipment a tool for assessing the sustainability performance of suppliers of raw materials and components to manufacture, revealed in a report that increased use of cloud computing services will reduce the dependence on energy and save over US$2.2…

In the past two decades, enormous innovation has taken place on top of the Internet architecture. Email, e-commerce, search, social networks, cloud computing, and the web as we know it is all good examples. With the evolution of cloud computing and virtualization, IT managers have had to change in recent years the way we interact…

To date, there is still a lot of debate how big data from the cloud should be collected, interpreted and managed to be used for business efficiency, accurate quantitative research and maximizing revenue opportunities. However, there is another aspect of big data that could potentially benefit another industry: social science. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other…