There are many reasons why your business should to move to the cloud and away from traditional IT. Getting out of the data center business makes you more efficient, more secure, and provides greater flexibility. The cloud also offers other benefits, such as automation, increased collaboration, efficient disaster recovery, and faster time to market. The business challenges the cloud solves …
Going Beyond the Cloud: Platform as a Service
As cloud-computing gains more and more strength, enterprises are turning towards PaaS, IaaS and SaaS to implement business changing processes for the future. Find out more.
Expert Secrets to Improve Cloud Migration and Cloud Portability
Vendor lock-in is a barrier to many companies migrating to cloud computing. Learn strategies to approach portability and avoid vendor lock-in.
The One Thing CIOs Might Be Missing: A Cloud Computing Exit Strategy
Should cloud partnerships fail, CIOs need to have well-defined cloud computing exit strategies on standby. Here’s why.
HIPAA Guidelines: Understanding Compliance in the Cloud
Learn about the HIPAA guidelines and gain a better understanding of how you and your IT provider play a part in cloud compliance. The international healthcare cloud computing market is projected to rise to a valuation of nearly $9.5 billion in 2020—an annual growth rate of 20.5%. For organizations that manage, store or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI) and …
Five Things You Need to Know About Fog Computing
I know, I know. Just when we’ve gotten on board with the concept of sending our data to a far-away land, aka the cloud, a completely new concept emerges: fog. If fog computing or edge computing has left you feeling a bit hazy, you’re not alone. Businesses worldwide have spent millions buying into the anything-as-a-service (XaaS) model the cloud and …
How Cloud Computing and Technology Enable Better Communication
The way we communicate within our businesses and throughout our workdays has been forever changed by technology, and chances are good that will continue to change at a rapid rate. Technology, especially the advent of cloud computing, has paved the way for better collaboration, more effective processes, greater efficiencies, and streamlined business practices. Let’s explore some of the ways that …
Mastering the Management of Complex Cloud Environments
Cloud environments continue to get more complicated as businesses evolve. Most businesses now use at least one public cloud and one private cloud. Research indicates that most businesses probably use a combination of three to four, and some are even introducing fog or edge computing to the mix. Management of this complex cloud environment has proven to be difficult, and …
Is Fog Computing Going to Take Off in 2017?
As the Internet of Things transforms into the “internet of everything,” companies are beginning to see some shortcomings in traditional cloud environments. Sending every piece of data to the cloud and back again creates a strain on the system. The solution for faster computing and connectivity may lie in fog computing. Understand Fog and Edge Computing If you compare computing …
Fully Embracing Open Source Cloud Computing
Right out of the gate, 2016 began with open source cloud computing as the talk of the tech town. I was certainly talking about, and it was the headline of every “Trend to Watch” list. The year is coming to a close, and it’s just now garnering the attention of the outside world. Technology giants like Microsoft have already embraced …