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The enterprise wide area networking (WAN) landscape is rapidly changing. Adoption of IP-based WAN is being driven by evolving business requirements such as increasing business agility with the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing, providing distributed employees, suppliers, and customers with anytime, anywhere access to enterprise applications, as well as planning for the evolving hybrid IT architecture. These ever demanding business requirements, in addition to the decline of available IT budgets, are pressuring enterprise IT to do more with less.

New Frost & Sullivan white paper titled, The Role of High Performance WAN in Enterprise Cloud Transformation, discusses the business trends that are driving enterprise IT transformation, the role of WAN services in a cloud-centric IT environment, and how EarthLink can help with its high performance WAN solutions…

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Sometimes it seems like every other business is a cloud-based company. This internet-based computing service has entirely transformed the way information is processed, organized, stored and shared. Indeed, it seems almost impossible to separate the explosion of big data from cloud computing.

However, the rapid transition from old school data management to the highly efficient data centers driving today’s markets has created a need for cybersecurity solutions. With sensitive personal information, healthcare records and financial records being managed by these systems, cloud security has emerged as a vital aspect of protecting this data. As a result, cloud computing, cybersecurity and big data investment have formed an important nexus in the tech space…

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The growing number of connected devices has given an entirely new dimension to the mobile strategy of enterprises. Any device which is plugged onto the internet becomes a mini-computer and has become the new point for end-user computing. The rapid adoption of a mobility strategy has thrown open a huge market opportunity for virtualisation software company Vmware, who enable the running of the applications and securing it on any mobile device. Sanjay Poonen, executive vice-president and general manager, end-user computing, VMware talks about mobility strategy of enterprises and how they are expanding their reach in an interview with PP Thimmaya. Excerpts:

How is VMware expanding its reach into the fast growing area of end-user computing?

VMware is the fourth largest software company and fastest growing. We have built innovative software where we have grown out of the data centre which is now heading to the cloud. The newer area of end user computing has now become the fastest growing big business inside the company…

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Mobile chip giant Qualcomm is getting into the data center market with a new joint venture to design and sell server chips in China. The joint venture was announced Sunday morning in China, and brings together Qualcomm and the government of China’s Guizhou province.

A Qualcomm subsidiary will own 45% of the newly formed company and the Guizhou government owns 55% for a total value of RMB 1.85 billion, or about $280 million.  As part of this deal with the province Qualcomm will also establish an investment company in Guizhou that will serve as the vehicle for future investments in China…

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Intel reported fourth quarter earnings after the market closed Thursday, that showed a continuing decline in its PC chip sales and only a slight growth in its data center business. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker reported that it’s net income in the fourth quarter fell 1 percent to $3.6 billion, or 74 cents earnings per share, compared to $3.7 billion, or 74 cents earnings per share, in the quarter a year earlier. The company posted revenue of $14.9 billion, up 1 percent from the previous year.

Wall Street analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected earnings of 63 cents per share on $14.8 billion in revenue. Full year revenue was $55.4 billion, down 1 percent. Net income was $11.4 billion, down 2 percent. Despite the earnings beat, shares fell 4.61 percent in the after-hours period to $31.22, after trading up 2.6 percent to $32.74 in Thursday’s session…

Often dwarfed by IaaS and SaaS services, platform as a service or PaaS is a category that has quietly been growing in scope and demand over the past couple of years. This category of cloud services offers customers a platform to develop and manage their own web applications, without any need to build the supporting infrastructure. So what comes next for PaaS? Here are a few predictions of what could happen over the next year.

Cloud services in 2016

To understand the position of PaaS among cloud computing trends as a whole this year, it helps to look at the bigger picture first. This year, leading cloud experts have made predictions showing that the whole field will grow and change in significant ways. For example, it’s expected that an increasing number of enterprises will jump on the cloud bandwagon as a whole, with many businesses choosing to diversify their cloud strategy rather than rely on a single provider. So while a business may choose one vendor for their storage services, they may choose another for PaaS, which opens up the playing field.

TSO Logic Cloud Enablement streamlines transformation with these key capabilities: