Tag: cloud

October 12, 2018

“Look before you leap” may be an old proverb, yet it’s as pertinent as ever when it comes to cloud migrations. The better prepared the organization is, the better the business outcomes. To better understand the considerations businesses must take […]

October 1, 2018

Edge computing is a very widely used term these days in lot of technology blogs, analyst reports, conferences and product announcements. Many companies are positioning themselves to grab a share of the edge computing addressable market. A lot of announcements […]

September 28, 2018

You are setting up a quick report around sales for the year, and it needs to use three separate databases. One is an object database running on Amazon Web Services. The second and third are relational databases running on Microsoft […]

September 26, 2018

Businesses considering investing in an IT Service Management (ITSM) solution are faced with a plethora of choices in the marketplace. Before exploring vendors, the decision can be made easier by first considering the type of platform that will work best […]

September 25, 2018

I gave a cloud computing talk in a rural Midwest town a few years ago. I went on and on about the benefits of using the cloud. During my talk, I noticed a lot of folded arms and concerned faces. […]

September 19, 2018

One of the main reasons is to get better cost management and that usually leads to cost reductions. Running on an op-ex model eliminates any large cap-ex outlays and while those outlays are usually planned at 3 or 5-year refresh […]

August 21, 2018

Gartner’s latest quarterly report “Emerging Risks Report” surveyed 110 senior executives about risk, audit, finance, and compliance at large global organizations. Not surprisingly, they identified cloud computing as the top concern for the second consecutive quarter. Why? Moving to the […]

August 17, 2018

“It works.” That’s a term used to go right along with “success,” but these days it means that you’ve gotten an instance of a cloud solution up and running. But it’s typically falling short in some way that those that […]

August 10, 2018

Data security has become of utmost importance for the EU business enterprises after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into effect. Across enterprises, regardless of the approach of data management – cloud or on-premise, GDPR observes data privacy, […]

August 7, 2018

The cloud has come to the health care sector, and it’s having an impact by saving some money. However, that’s not the real value of cloud computing for this sector, a sector that affects us personally at some point in […]