COMPANIES THAT ARE moving most aggressively to adopt cloud computing are being rewarded with competitive advantage through increased business agility, according to a recent survey of 527 Harvard Business Review readers in large and midsize organizations around the world.
Published: Sep 04, 2014
The primary driver for cloud adoption will shift from economics to innovation as leading-edge companies invest in cloud services as the foundation for new competitive offerings.
These four pillars — Big Data, Cloud, Mobility and Social — are creating new business value and unprecedented innovation.
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Published: May 19, 2014
Once considered a passing trend — and even famously referred to as “complete gibberish” by one Fortune 50 CEO — the cloud has certainly come a long way.
Today, it’s fundamental to the way you do business, helping reduce operational complexity, securely expand IT infrastructure, and enable...
Published: Sep 04, 2014
Off-site tape vaulting and cloud storage are two of the most popular technologies for tackling back-up, recovery and archiving requirements.
This whitepaper discusses how deployed strategically, they can provide a safe, scalable and highly cost effective way to store data.
Published: Mar 01, 2015
The first challenge for most business is in defining where CRM sits within the organisation, who has control or responsibility and which theories underpin the approach.
The second challenge is to separate out the methodology and processes before identifying the technology that can be deployed to make those systems...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Enterprise data center operators face a number of challenges as they try to build and maintain their business’s most important strategic asset.
Orchestrating applications, traffic and virtual machines is becoming much more difficult. Managing an increasingly complicated network takes up time that could be better...
Published: Sep 24, 2014
Accelerate your journey to the cloud with the EMC VSPEX for Private Cloud solution. Our VSPEX solution offers complete virtualization, proven by EMC and delivered to you by your trusted reseller—designed for flexibility and validated to ensure interoperability and fast deployment.
Published: Jan 27, 2014
Shouldn’t there be a way to combine the elasticity, self-service, and metered usage of commodity clouds, with governance and management ease of traditional IT systems?
This article aims to explore the business case for the enterprise cloud, focusing on public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The discussion...
Published: Mar 14, 2014
Protect and control confidential business information while enabling employee productivity with the right level of secure access across devices, locations and networks.
Transform Windows desktop delivery into an on-demand mobile service with a highly optimized user experience on any device..
Create a network...
Published: Jul 25, 2014
In This Paper:
- Internal technology services that lack resources, rigor or efficiencies are prime candidates for the cloud
- Understand the business and regulatory requirements around the data to be moved to the cloud
- Know your cloud provider’s security and privacy commitments, and what responsibilities...
Published: Apr 22, 2014
With non-cloud-based systems, you have to purchase a large compute system to meet the peak processing needs of a limited set of specific events, such as financial milestones or annual retail events.
You are, in effect, forced to make a full year’s investment in CAPEX and OPEX for capacity you only need intermittently...
Published: Aug 07, 2014
The overhead of a typical family practice normally runs at about 60% of revenues,2 so it’s important to choose the most cost-effective healthcare IT solutions, such as practice management systems, electronic health records (EHR), and others. Cloud-based solutions are becoming increasingly popular due to their relative...
Published: Oct 25, 2013
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The development, release,...
Published: Apr 22, 2014
Jerry Gregoire, the CIO of Dell Computers, said it best “Customer Service is the next competitive battleground.” We have entered the era of the customer. Today, providing customers with outstanding customer service is essential to building loyal customers and a long lasting brand.
Social media, and other...
Published: Jul 25, 2013