ESG recently conducted an in-depth survey with IT professionals representing small, midmarket, and enterprise-class organizations to find out about their organizations’ usage of, interest in, and opinions regarding online file sharing and collaboration services and deployment model preferences.
The findings...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
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
Massive changes are occurring to how applications are built and how they are deployed and run. The benefits of these changes are dramatically increased responsiveness to the business (business agility), increased operational flexibility, and reduced operating costs.
The environments onto which these applications are...
Published: Oct 10, 2013
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
These IDG survey results echo the findings and predictions in the February 2012 paper by Gartner analysts David W. Cearley and David Mitchell Smith, “Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Your Cloud Strategy Through 2015.”
In this report, the analysts state that “over time, hybrid cloud computing...
Published: Jan 16, 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
Read this report to learn about how Claranet’s hosted desktop provides a platform for the delivery of a working, personal desktop for different user groups, regardless of location or device.
Utilising the latest technologies, the service delivers significant efficiencies and productivity gains, while reducing...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Enterprise customers require cloud computing solutions that allow them to quickly scale and flex deployments of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) service models.
As part of HP’s Converged Cloud, HP CloudSystem enables enterprises and service providers...
Published: Jul 26, 2013
Find out how a large enterprise data warehouse company used Red Hat CloudForms to create a private cloud that including automated provisioning and self service for developers and testers, enabling them to build, test, and release new product versions faster. This reduced the time to market for new versions of the company’s...
Published: Jan 09, 2014
In “Fast and Furious: Digital Customer Experience in Overdrive”, you’ll learn strategies and tactics to help your organization achieve greater innovation through a deeper understanding of customer behaviors. It’s essential reading for any IT professional who wants to help drive true innovation...
Published: Aug 04, 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
Choosing a cloud application backup provider is like any technology decision: there is no one-size-fits-all solution. You must determine which provider offers the best cost/benefit for your organization’s unique needs. This guide will highlight the most important features and policies associated with cloud-to-cloud...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
This white paper is a business guide for customer service executives and managers who have already made the decision to deploy customer service in the cloud but need further insight into the best practices for how to do so successfully and further evolve customer service in the cloud through four phases: implementation,...
Published: Nov 13, 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