A variety of IT research organizations predicted that by 2014 SaaS products would account for more than 40 percent of all new software sales. By any reasonable measure, SaaS is now considered to be an acceptable and, in some cases, a desirable means of supporting a company's business operations.
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Published: Sep 19, 2013
The SilverSky Silver Lining Report will equip IT professionals with an industry-wide barometer on the advancement of cloud-based services from a security lens, while also painting a high-level picture of the cloud-specific trends affecting their business goals.
Published: Apr 16, 2013
Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre resources are built on enterpriseclass hardware, which means that the virtual infrastructure will deliver a high performance, reliable and secure platform for your applications.
The new service has been designed specifically to replicate the internal IT infrastructure model, and...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
This book gives you some insights into what it means to leverage both IaaS and PaaS in both public and private cloud environments and how these environments work with data center services. Companies leveraging these foundational cloud services need to keep all the models in context with business requirements for performance,...
Published: Aug 23, 2013
Anticipating property market trends NetDataVault is a company that provides data centre services and cloud computing. It has the first ANSI/TIA-942 compliant Tier-3 data centre in Northern India.
When it started out, NetDataVault needed to find a robust, cost-effective cloud platform to enable it to deliver Infrastructure...
Published: Jul 30, 2014
This whitepaper provides some frequently asked questions and important insights about private clouds, to help organisations discover how private clouds add value while maintaining simplicity, enabling automation and driving self-service.
Published: Jun 13, 2014
The next five years is set to bring a dramatic, hybrid shift in the way IT leaders approach the IT infrastructure that supports their business growth and innovation, according to a global IT Outsourcing study released today by Savvis, a CenturyLink company.
In fact, by 2018, this global report predicts...
Published: Mar 17, 2014
Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise software—public, private or hybrid cloud. However, many cloud vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility: they’re either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both.
But for those...
Published: Apr 10, 2014
The wide area network (WAN) will be critical to the success of enterprise hybrid cloud strategies and initiatives. Although WAN optimization and traditional WAN services addressed a broad range of client/server requirements, other capabilities are needed in the context of the 3rd Platform.
This IDC Insight offers...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
An integrated hosting and network provider, Claranet’s comprehensive range of hosting services offer innovative solutions to meet the needs of any organisation operating in today’s demanding business environment.
Published: Mar 02, 2015
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
Cloud computing has rapidly become the most talked-about IT concept of the day. For some, it is yet another new label for the well-worn concept of ‘utility computing’, and therefore amounts to a marketing gimmick.
For less cynical observers, it is a powerful set of technologies based on Infrastructure...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
This paper discusses the importance of workloads when planning for your migration to the cloud. It also describes how a structured approach to cloud workload analysis can help you identify cloud initiatives that offer faster time to value, reduced migration risk and higher potential return.
Published: Jul 14, 2014
The greatest promise of the information-driven enterprise resides in the vertical-specific questions business leaders have historically been unable or afraid to ask, whether because of a lack of coherence in their data or the prohibitively high cost of specialized tools.
Centralizing and bringing compute to all your...
Published: Sep 10, 2014