People are accustomed to using their beautifully-designed and easy-to-use productivity tools in their everyday life. As employees, they now have the same expectation for their work environment. Companies are allowing employees to use their own devices (BYOD) and adopt low-cost SaaS-based solutions to save IT substantial costs but this now renders [...]
Continue Reading →Tweet Enterprise Startups SDN Market Reaches $4 Billion
Software-defined networking (SDN) changes the way companies build their IT networks. Instead of buying expensive routers and switches with a lot of fancy features from the likes of Cisco, companies can buy simpler, cheaper hardware, and less of it, and those fancy features [...]
Continue Reading →Email is constantly the subject of criticism, doubt and ridicule since social networking sites started redefining “personal communication”. Five years ago, predictions and expert opinion started cropping up about the impending demise of email. Lo and behold, email is still alive and very much kicking. The 20 Marketing Trends & [...]
Continue Reading →Tweet IDC Estimates Global Market for SDN to Reach $50 Billion by 2017
According to IDC, in 2013 the global market volume of the software defined network (SDN) market and enterprise networking will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across [...]
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According to IDC, in 2013 the global volume of the enterprise networking market (which includes software defined networks (SDN)) will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across all categories, by 2017.
The volume of the Layer 2-3 switch market segment of the market [...]
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TechNavio’s analysts forecast the SMB Cloud market in the APAC region to grow at a CAGR of 39.3 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the main factors contributing to this market growth is the reduced costs of the cloud approach.
The APAC cloud market has also been witnessing increasing adoption of [...]
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The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is developing a unified vision for cloud requirements – particularly focused on open, interoperable solutions for secure cloud federation, automation of cloud infrastructure, common management, and transparency of cloud service delivery.
As in previous years, CloudTimes is proud to announce to be a [...]
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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 [...]
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Cloud storage provider Datacore Software released the results of its third annual survey of the state of virtualization, which cut the adoption of virtualization strategies by organizations due to storage-related costs and I/O performance issues.
The State of Virtualization Survey Storage survey, suggests that businesses are willing to virtualize their mission [...]
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It’s not a secret that the US army takes special interest in groundbreaking technology, and was responsible for the development of GPS technology for example. GPS started out as technology exclusive to the military – but what about the Cloud? Cloud as a [...]
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In the past several years, as cloud computing has become one of the top IT priorities, we can agree that, for the most part, we’ve overcome the primary concerns associated with the technology – security, reliability and performance. With these [...]
Continue Reading →Tweet Yahoo Rediscovers Mobile – Will it Work This Time?
With Yahoo’s new plan to focus on mobile, we can expect the company to close some of its online services like the local events calendar and a coupon site as told [...]
Continue Reading →More and more companies encourage their employees to work on their devices, thus reducing the cost of computer equipment, but also increase the cost to maintain licenses and safety.
According to research by Gartner, half of the world’s companies will seek from their workers to individually provide devices for work [...]
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A “Data Center Without Walls” combines geographically distributed enterprise and provider data centers into one virtual pool of resources to address any magnitude of workload demand from anywhere across that geography.
Great infographic by Ciena – see below. Also read the recent guest article by Ciena’s Jim Morin: “3 [...]
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Pivotal, which recently become independent of its mother companies EMC and VMware, recently announced that they will be improving the speed of cloud-based industrial software applications, and they’re not doing it on their own, though, as General Electric will be backing them to the tune of a $105 [...]
Continue Reading →The exclusive club of billionaires cloud has a new member in its ranks: Microsoft. Windows Azure, one of the four professional cloud services from Microsoft (with Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online, and Windows Intune), have over the last 12 months reached the symbolic first billion dollars in revenue.
According to Microsoft, for [...]
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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.
