How Managed IT Services Can Help Enterprises Move to the Cloud

Managed IT Services

What is Managed IT Services? The term “Managed Information Technology Services” covers a range of product offerings that busy IT departments can take advantage of. Third parties offer managed IT services as a way to outsource some aspects of the IT infrastructure in order to save money, cut down on mundane tasks and focus a business’ technology resources and investment on corporate directives instead of day-to-day operations. Some managed services include: *Database … [Read more...]

How the Mobile Social Cloud Triple Play Will Transform the Enterprise

Mobile Social Cloud

2011 was a defining year for cloud computing and this year is expected to be even bigger.  Cloud computing platforms such as Salesforce, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google App Engine (GAE) are fast gaining acceptance worldwide. Coupled with the rapid proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets as well as increased acceptance of social media, it is believed that the mobile-social-cloud computing triple play will take off big time in the enterprise segment this year. Let’s … [Read more...]

VoIP and Cloud Computing – Two technologies with a joint future

VoIP Cloud

Internet phone service has slowly taken the market share from the conventional phone services. It has offered many features to its customers that were not offered by landline or cellular networks. Similarly, cloud computing has also taken the world of data centers by storm. Modern VoIP phone service providers are switching to cloud computing for several reasons. Let us have a look at what cloud computing is and how is it playing an important role in future of the VoIP service industry. What … [Read more...]

Public vs Private Cloud Computing

Private vs Public Cloud

Now the big decision becomes: public or private cloud?  With a private cloud, the infrastructure is set up exclusively for one organization. It can be managed on the site of the organization. This is sometimes called an enterprise cloud. However, it can also be hosted offsite and managed by a service provider, either as hosted or managed cloud. On the other hand, there is the public cloud. This type of infrastructure has many different tenants (multitenant) and is perhaps most suitable for … [Read more...]