Cloud Computing - Mobile Cloud
According to a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum of 450 organizations in the UK, almost half (48 percent) are already using cloud computing in some shape or form. The survey showed high levels of satisfaction with cloud service providers, but lingering confusion about business interruption issues and the consequences of downtime. The Cloud Becomes Mainstream The survey suggests that cloud services are no longer a buzzword, but already in widespread practice. Not … [Read more...]
The widespread adoption of cloud computing in business-critical applications such as storage and CRM has set the stage for conquering another, video conferencing cloud computing offers compelling, fundamental advantages in this product category: lower cost, automated fail-over, and much easier to scale versus video-specific routers, multipoint control units (MCUs) and other infrastructure hardware solutions. But as experienced IT managers know, there’s more to video conferencing than meets … [Read more...]
Although most agree that mobile cloud computing holds a great promise for delivering cloud solutions to individuals and even critical corporate applications to employees by enabling access from anywhere, there are still several barriers that need to be addressed to elevate its usefulness and capabilities. For mobile cloud computing to reach its full potential, the following three critical challenges need to be addressed, as detailed in a recent article by Bryan Betts: Lowering network … [Read more...]
July 14, 2011 – Cloud providers have primarily focused on cost savings when they try to persuade companies to migrate to the cloud, but businesses indicate that agility to deliver new services is their primary driver to adopt cloud computing. This is according to a recent study conducted by the Cloud Industry Forum in the UK (www.cloudindustryforum.org). Companies are moving to the cloud because it offers them the flexibility they need to adapt to the ever changing business climate. The … [Read more...]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – July 11, 2011– Today at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Nimsoft announced Nimsoft Monitor now features expanded coverage and additional advanced capabilities for use with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to provide customers with in-depth details of their cloud and data center platforms. The Cisco Unified Computing System is the first fabric computing platform that combines industry-standard, x86 compute resources with networking and … [Read more...]
Cloud computing is high on the agenda for all UK businesses, particularly for companies with substantial IT infrastructure – hosting providers, and large enterprises. Such companies could exploit the Cornerstone OnDemand learning management system to improve their overall business execution. Whether its building a private cloud for internal users, or a public cloud on which to host paying customers, the first challenge is finding the best way to “cloud-enable” that IT … [Read more...]
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