Sometimes You Just Have to Build Your Own Cloud
March 17, 2016
Grazed from Windows IT Pro. Author: Richard Hay.
Cloud, Cloud, Cloud! It seems the cloud is involved in nearly every business decision, planning for start ups, etc. but when do you decide it is time to go solo with your own cloud? We all know that cloud is a bit of a misnomer because in reality your files are just in residence on someone else’s server hardware.
There is no need to look any further for proof of this than the server revenue and shipment report for the last quarter of 2015 that I wrote about last week. Companies around the world are moving a lot of hardware and making money while doing it. Of course, you folks understand this and the decision to go public or private cloud can be a challenging one because it involves cost and what the ultimate return on your investment will be in either case…
The market for cloud services is growing and some of the biggest names in the tech industry have turned it into multi-billion dollar business. Microsoft, Google and Amazon tend to be the big three when it comes to cloud but it is a very dynamic environment…
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