Cloud Computing: When archiving goes interactive

Grazed from Gadget. Author: Editorial Staff.

The advent of cloud computing has come and gone, says NATHANIEL BORENSTEIN, chief scientist at Mimecast. But how can we harness this technology to fuel further innovation within the e-mail environment?

Not all too long ago, cloud computing was a foreign and distant concept. Although it promised to fundamentally alter the way in which we relate to and store information, it was little more than a notion or idea that was beginning to find its feet within the technological community…

Today, the opposite is true. Cloud computing has permeated almost every industry in unimaginable ways, and is swiftly changing the face of data centres, business processes and digital communications across the globe.

Now that the cloud has established itself as a major force within the commercial environment and indeed the daily lives of millions of technology users, we are beginning to investigate new frontiers which have been enabled by this momentous paradigm shift in modern computing…

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