What exactly is cloud to cloud backup? How does it work, what does it require and what are the benefits? It’s easy enough to understand the concept of copying data from one cloud and replicating it in another for safe storage and easy retrieval. The real question is, when and why is cloud to cloud backup necessary,...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
The competitive pressures in the automotive industry have never been as intense as they are right now. Automotive manufacturers are working vigorously to meet customer needs, squeeze out costs, achieve the highest possible quality, and do all of this with fewer and fewer resources.
The pain of “doing more with...
Published: Feb 21, 2014
Enterprises increasingly recognize that application workloads are critical to the success of their business.
They also recognize that the composition, nature, and deployment of cloud workloads represent an entirely new set of challenges. These factors directly impact the role that hybrid cloud networks will...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
Choose your cloud vendor, deployment model, and application wisely. SaaS and cloud applications have moved into the mainstream of enterprise IT strategy.
What started with applications in highly contained functions like sales force automation (SFA) and talent management is now spreading to a broad set of enterprise...
Published: Apr 22, 2014
This paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing. It then explains how it can benefit midsize companies and the steps they can follow to take advantage of what it has to offer.
Published: Aug 23, 2013
From online merchants, vendors and suppliers to high street retailers, media and even manufacturers seeking a direct channel, organisations are putting a multi-channel strategy at the core of their business.
As business evolves, technology increasingly holds the key to keeping the customer satisfied, to controlling...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
This intelligence paper reports on the findings from Claranet’s research into cloud adoption in the UK. Conducted in November 2012, this is the second annual survey of cloud infrastructure adoption, following the Claranet Cloud Market Report 2011.
As with the previous report, the research engaged senior IT decision-makers...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
While IaaS deployments offer numerous benefits, connecting the enterprise data center to the cloud within a hybrid data center model can present hidden challenges and costs.
This whitepaper focuses on key aspects of how IaaS deployments can impact the network, and proposes a new approach to a resilient, consistent...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
Bursting with HP CloudSystem lets you tap additional resources as you need them—perhaps because you need more processing power to deal with a sudden spike in demand, or maybe because of specialized requirements such as keeping a particular workload secure or within a certain geographic area.
Bursting through...
Published: Jul 14, 2014
Plex Cloud ERP provides control plans, which have become an integral part of production as they track the activities on the shop floor.
At Batesville’s plants, control plans track the engineering quality of parts and provide consistent and timely communication to operators regarding specifications, setup, and...
Published: Feb 21, 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
Data management for mobile applications is exactly what it sounds like: it’s all about moving data around. It isn’t an application design problem, yet so many people approach it at the API layer. Great mobile apps should work well both on- and offline, and require a new way of thinking about data modeling for...
Published: Nov 13, 2013
Disaster recovery is top of mind for many. Monthly, there are around 7,200 searches for DR plans and around 7,600 for DR vendors and providers. Your options for DRaaS vendors and partners today may seem similar at first glance, even when it comes to pricing. But dig deeper and you’ll begin to see some concerning...
Published: Feb 07, 2014