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There’s a long-running debate in the cloud computing world about whether standard Infrastructure-as-a-Service resources have become true commodities, but it doesn’t look like they’re there yet. Even as prices drop ever closer to zero across the cloud-provider landscape, there are still plenty of points of differentiation…
More than a quarter of all U.S. and U.K. respondents to a recent survey by international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski say their companies are using cloud computing, with 48 percent of the tech sector organizations using cloud computing already. Legal use of cloud computing
Nearly 25 percent of U.S. respondents and 13 percent of U.K. respondents say they expect to move software to the cloud…
When it comes to cloud computing, Microsoft is leaving Google in the dust, especially when it comes to apps, Microsoft CEO boasted at the Web 2.0 summit. But take a close look at Google’s and Microsoft’s enterprise cloud-based offerings, and you’ll find that’s not necessarily the case…
Cloud computing can introduce new stress points that demand great robustness of the IT infrastructure.
In order to prepare, it’s important to first evaluate the viability of a cloud deployment and conduct a thoughtful cloud planning analysis. Once this legwork has been completed, cloud may be an excellent choice based on the problem you are trying to solve and the opportunity cost. For potential cloud adopters, I believe there are several key focus areas that must be accounted for as part of any effective cloud planning analysis. To narrow it down, network connectivity, security and infrastructure capability and capacity are three areas that will need to be assessed as part of a thorough analysis in preparation for the cloud…
Cloud computing is on the tip of everyone’s tongue recently, and no startup exemplifies the possibilities of the public cloud more than Dropbox. A recent round of funding shows that while there were some issues with Dropbox security earlier this year, they didn’t slow down the company at all. The Dropbox security issues, which have been completely resolved and corrected, raised questions about data security in the public cloud, but the strong growth of cloud-storage companies show that while businesses and consumers may be concerned about security, it isn’t keeping them out of the cloud…
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CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today released a new global report revealing how cloud computing is transforming how CIOs view themselves and their role in their business. Of the CIOs surveyed, 54% believe that cloud computing has enabled them to spend more time on business strategy and innovation. In theory, the likelihood of CIOs making the transition to CEO is increasing, but in reality, only 4% of CEOs have raised from the CIO ranks, suggesting that CIOs are being overlooked for top leadership roles in most companies…
Increasingly, groups within enterprises are using cloud-based services without the involvement of IT. This is possible because cloud solutions are typically available via a low-cost subscription or with a pay-as-you-go plan, which means that cloud computing costs start low and easily fit within group or departmental budgets. Cloud services and applications are attractive. They’re frequently described with adjectives like ‘faster’, ‘cheaper’, and ‘easier’. But, unfortunately, what may seem like a good idea today may be the source of a headache tomorrow…
The majority of SAP users recognise the potential of cloud computing, but are a lot less clear on how SAP can help them with that, a survey has revealed.
Some 80% of organisations polled by the UK & Ireland SAP User Group predicted that their future SAP implementations would be a mix of on-premise, on-demand and on-device services…
Gartner has announced its top ten strategic technology trends for 2012, at the Gartner Symposium currently being held in Orlando. Among the technologies expected to have an increased impact on the enterprise next year were cloud computing, mobile devices, analytic tools for big data and “in memory computing”…
WD TV Live streaming media player can be connected via WiFi (802.11n) or through an Ethernet connection to play the multimedia you have stored on your disk drive on your television, in Full HD 1080p quality.
Once connected it will deliver video services, internet radio and a variety of social networking applications, such as Facebook, YouTube and TuneIn Radio, directly to your TV…