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
The way you interact with your customers is hugely important in terms of building unbreakable relationships, and with effective use of CRM software you can benefit from vital intelligence on customer trends and behaviours.
This whitepaper will look at a number of examples of businesses adding real value...
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
It is important for IT that the performance of backup, archive, and recovery applications runs smoothly in order to ensure they don’t affect other online activities. There has been an increasing pressure on IT to improve application performance because customers accessing websites critique companies based on performance....
Published: Jan 03, 2014
Cloud-enabled services are the next wave transforming how businesses capitalize on information technology, and that in turn drives the next evolution in the processes, roles, skills, and structure of IT organizations—the evolution to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). Today’s CIOs must exercise extraordinary leadership...
Published: Sep 23, 2013
The findings of the research show that the evolution of a cloud approach to IT has reached a tipping point in the UK. A majority of UK-based organisations are now using IT-as-a-service in some form and even more plan to over the next 12 months.
The strongest preferences expressed by IT decision-makers are for cloud...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
In this whitepaper, we will explore:
• The reasons behind changing traditional desktop computing strategies
• Why cloud-hosted virtual desktops are a compelling solution for many businesses
• How to leverage cloud-hosted desktops for Windows 7 migrations, mobile and departmental workers, and...
Published: Sep 02, 2014
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
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
Activity on the Race for Life website is cyclical as publicity builds ahead of each summer’s events. As a result, the charity’s websites are faced with a spike in activity, placing pressure on a hosting resource that was coming to the end of life. “It became clear with the success of fundraising activities...
Published: May 22, 2014
A key technical underpinning of the Cloud is the Application Programming Interface (API). APIs provide consistent methods for outside entities such as web services clients and desktop applications to interface with services in the Cloud.
More and more, it will be through APIs that cloud data moves; however, the security...
Published: Aug 21, 2014
Companies looking to take advantage of a cloud UC strategy need to consider the move from a myriad of business perspectives.
Here are six additional questions to ask any potential UCaaS provider before making a decision.
Published: Jan 05, 2015
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