Will businesses opt for SaaS in next ERP lifecycle?
As ERP systems near the end of a current lifecycle, CIOs are assessing upgrades or replacements. With firms such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and RightNow offering alternative software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP systems, should businesses move to the cloud?
Homomorphic encryption: Can it save cloud computing?
Homomorphic what? My Oxford English Dictionary suggests the following definition: "Pertaining to two sets that are related by a homomorphism."
Come on. Let’s try homomorphism: "A transformation of one set into another that preserves in the second set the relations between elements of the first."
Put homomorphic with encryption and thankfully Wikipedia provides something useful: "A form of encryption where a specific algebraic operation performed on the plain text is equivalent to another (possibly different) algebraic operation performed on the cipher text."
Dedupe and the Cloud: Is There a Problem Here?
One of the most effective tools for managing increased data loads to have emerged over the past 10 years is deduplication. Figures vary, but it’s not hard to imagine redundant data rates at some enterprises hitting the 50 percent mark, particularly in email systems.
But just because dedupe is good technology, does it follow that it is also good policy? Increasingly, flags are being waved that dedupe can produce a number of unintended consequences, particularly of the regulatory and legal variety.
Retaking the High Ground in the Cloud Discussion
The Future of IT Is Up for Grabs in the Cloud
While one can argue that cloud computing from a technical perspective is evolutionary, from the perspective of the business, cloud computing is nothing short of a full-boat revolution in terms of how the business will come to view IT.
Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing
Too often, organizations aren’t getting as much out of virtualization and hybrid cloud computing as they first thought they would, according to a Symantec survey of 3,700 information technology managers in 35 countries that was published today.
“Cloud Coupling” [kuhp-ling] – noun: connecting one cloud to another
I’d like to coin a new industry term: "cloud coupling". This noun (and also a verb) describes the conjoining of two or more (generally large) data sets across various applications, cloud services and social media streams.
So, "cloud coupling", say it with us now ☺
IBM Launches Smart Cloud for Disaster Recovery, Data Archive
IBM has announced two new cloud services that enable users to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes—versus days—in the event of a disaster.