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
This whitepaper explores the growing desire for cloud services amongst consumers, sohos and small businesses, and how Value Added Resellers must incorporate these services into their offerings in order to remain relevant in such a fast-changing technical landscape.
Technology research firm Gartner predicts that by...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
OpenStack® is a hot topic, and with good reason: This rapidly evolving open-source architecture can enable IT departments to build infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds running on standard hardware.
Companies of all sizes see the possibilities, a recent IDG Quick Poll of CIOs shows. But those companies may...
Published: May 01, 2013
Hothead Games is an award winning, independent games development studio founded in 2006. Focused on developing and publishing high quality games for mobile gamers, Hothead has developed games for Apple’s App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, Barnes and Nobles Nook App Store. The company’s games include...
Published: Jun 20, 2014
The virtualization market reached a tipping point in 2010, when more virtual servers were launched than physical servers. Today, VMware generates more than $4 billion in annual sales and has assets valued at more than $40 billion.
Published: May 01, 2013
In today’s competitive marketplace—where world-class computing power is more affordable than ever, and self-service, personalization and instant access to technology have become the norm—we are seeing a shift in expectations regarding cloud computing.
Yesterday, the cloud was about running IT more...
Published: Nov 12, 2013
Having survived today, it is human nature to want to have another day just like it tomorrow. Many IT departments, in fact, are set up according to that fond illusion. Having put out the usual fires with the usual heroics, too many IT departments are surprised by the inevitable when a disaster they could have seen coming...
Published: Sep 23, 2013
Research shows that six out of 10 contact centers are projected to have cloud-based deployment by the end of 2013. This Aberdeen Analyst Insight demonstrates the top factors driving businesses to invest in a cloud-based contact center as well as the post-deployment benefits they gain through improved scalability.
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Published: Aug 16, 2013
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 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
Ask several different organizations why they are implementing a private cloud, and you're likely to receive several different reasons.
Ask several people within any one organization why they are implementing a private cloud, and you're still likely to receive several very different reasons, especially if those...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
Over the past six years, Aberdeen Group has been measuring organizations' willingness to consider a SaaS deployment model for their ERP implementations. This Analyst Insight examines trends in ERP deployment models and provides clues as to whether cloud ERP is the right fit for your organisation.
Published: Nov 05, 2013
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
IBM® SmartCloud™ Entry for IBM Power Systems™ is an entry-level private cloud offering from IBM for IBM POWER® processor-based systems.
The following article is my first impression of the product, albeit with limited exposure to its full potential.
Published: Jan 09, 2014