Choosing The Right Cloud Provider For Your Business:

Looking at business yesterday vs. business today, one of the biggest differences is speed. Business moves faster today. Business cycles, market opportunities (and challenges), product lifespans—they have all been compressed. Five-year project plans? Long-term strategies? Yes, we all still prepare them, but they come out laden with more caveats than ever before. Whether you are…

Data Privacy In The Cloud

DATA PRIVACY IN THE CLOUD  INTRODUCTION The collection of technologies known as cloud computing have created revolutionary change in the way people around the world live and work. The ‘cloud effect’ on commerce has been impressive, with international business benefiting from the technological and cost efficiencies of cloud infrastructures. However, emerging and disruptive technologies rarely…

The Hybrid Cloud: A PRAGMATIC VIEW OF ARCHITECTURES

Introduction: PRAGMATISM RULES Is the future of computing in the cloud? Increasingly, it appears headed in that direction – and for good reason. Cloud computing presents numerous cost, agility, and operational advantages that are undeniably compelling. In fact, in a vast majority of enterprise data centers, cloud-like architectures are quickly taking root. Companies are virtualizing…

Best Practice Security in a Cloud-Enabled World

Introduction The cloud will be a growing part of your IT environment. This is inevitable, particularly in consideration of the following: ▪ Economic Attractiveness – The economic attractiveness of cloud infrastructure services (e.g., Infrastructure as a Service – IaaS) is rising with each round of price wars. Lured by this attractiveness, will your organization be…

UK Cloud Adoption Trends For 2015

This Executive Brief is a summary of the white paper: The Normalisation of Cloud in a Hybrid IT Market UK Cloud Adoption Snapshot & Trends for 2015 DEFINITION • Hybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organisation provides and manages some information technology (IT) resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for…

Achieving a Hybrid Cloud Balance for Business – Critical Workloads

A growing number of enterprises are adopting both private and public cloud computing models. While virtualization, cloud, mobility, data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are providing tremendous opportunities for businesses, they are also creating new challenges for IT departments. Certain workloads are better suited to the private cloud, whereas other, often newer applications…

The Global Risk 2015 Report

The Global Risk Report 2015 Global Risks 2015, 10th Edition is published by the World Economic Forum within the framework of The Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network. The information in this report, or on which this report is based, has been obtained from sources that the authors believe to be reliable and accurate. However, it…

Global Study: Hybrid Cloud – From Hype to Reality

Executive summary Technology has gained critical mass in enterprises in several ways. Historically the IT department, with clear orders and budget from the CIO, would buy, deploy and strictly control any technology used by employees. Then the “Consumerization of IT” brought consumer technologies into the workplace that were cheaper, more mobile and easier to manage,…