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How the cloud is transforming HR

April 3, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

Cloud computing promises benefits in numerous functional areas, but in few has the impact been felt as keenly as in human resources. Particularly for core “back office” HR areas such as benefits, time and attendance, and systems of record, decades […]


Service Models

Why resiliency is a key component of a successful container strategy

March 29, 2017

Via: Thoughts on Cloud

Let’s face it: bad things can and do happen when you’re deploying and managing complex, distributed applications. There are potential failures in the application, the process, the host, the network, dependent services, and even the data center itself. All of […]


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FreeStor Maximizes the Benefits of the Cloud

March 28, 2017

Via: Cloud Expo

FalconStor Software has announced that organizations using FreeStor® to seamlessly migrate, protect and recover data in the cloud are able to do so without being tied to specific hardware, networks or protocols, making it an ideal solution for businesses that […]


Service Models

Is multi-tenant cloud relevant anymore?

March 27, 2017

Via: CompareTheCloud

In the 2000s, multi-tenancy underpinned almost all ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) enterprise application delivery – Salesforce was a pioneer of this approach. In fact enterprise software was designed and constructed with cloud deployment in mind. But why was this? Fifteen years […]


Cloud Clients, Deployment Models, Others

Considerations for enterprises before migrating to the cloud

March 24, 2017

Via: CompareTheCloud

The future of the cloud, whether private, public or hybrid, is without doubt secured. Digitisation strategies are being rolled out across enterprises to gain all the benefits of low latency, agility, elasticity and economies of scale the cloud brings, while […]


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Researchers: Cloud is no commodity

March 23, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

A new report from 451 Research theorizes that the “race to the bottom” of public IaaS cloud prices is an unsustainable model that is not expanding market share. Instead vendors have transitioned to a “race to the top” to add […]


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Nearly a third of finance workloads could hit cloud in 3 years

March 23, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

The financial industry has been one of the most reticent to adopt IaaS public cloud computing services, but researchers at Deutsche Bank predict that big banks’ use of cloud will ramp up “materially” in 2017. Regulatory barriers, questions about security […]


Global Cloud

What Motivates Companies To Move To The Cloud?

March 23, 2017

Via: CRN

CloudEndure specializes at getting organizations onboard the cloud. The company’s migration software is used by businesses large and small — recommended (and sometimes funded) by hyper-scale cloud providers to their customers. The Israeli-American startup focused on enterprise workload mobility offers […]


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5 Cloud-Based Customer Service Trends

March 21, 2017

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Customer service has become the new battleground in today’s marketplace. In fact, 97 percent of customers around the world now say that customer service makes a key difference in whether they decide to go with a brand or not, Microsoft […]


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Top five ways to manage cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service

March 21, 2017

Via: CompareTheCloud

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers the ability to only incur infrastructure costs when needed, which is great for test workloads—no need to buy a permanent piece of hardware and have it sit idle most of the time. Simply turn […]


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Enterprise Software Vendors Embrace New Licensing Models to Complement Cloud

March 20, 2017

Via: Talkin' Cloud

Forty-three percent of software vendors now receive half or more of their revenue from the perpetual license model of enterprise software vending, according to a report from Flexera Software. The report Software Licensing 2016: Seismic Shifts – Shaky Foundations, released […]


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Choosing IaaS or a Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting Provider?

March 20, 2017

Via: Cloud Tweaks

We are all familiar with the old saying “That’s like comparing apples to oranges” and though we learned this lesson during our early years we somehow seem to discount this idiom when discussing the Cloud. Specifically, IT buyers often feel […]


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This site aims to be the Yelp of the SaaS world

March 13, 2017

Via: Computerworld

Online reviews have already transformed the way people choose everything from restaurants to respiratory therapists, and now SaasGenius wants to do the same for enterprise software in the cloud. This week the company will launch a beta version of its […]


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Who’s got the best cloud latency?

March 10, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

For some applications, the public cloud is only as good as the slowest connection to it. Latency of cloud providers – the amount of time it takes for a cloud-based service to respond to a user’s request – is one […]


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The stratospheric rise of cloud-based video services

March 10, 2017

Via: CompareTheCloud

In recent years, a bewildering array of acronyms about X-as-a-Service has sprung up. Cloud computing has made it possible for UK businesses to tap into an increasingly wide range of services provided over the Internet instead of on premise, with […]


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Google Explains What Went Wrong to Cause PaaS Outage

March 8, 2017

Via: Data Center Knowledge

Google has released more details this week on what caused its Google App Engine outage earlier this month. The Aug. 11 outage affected 37 percent of applications hosted in its US-Central region, according to the incident report. Google said that […]


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Embrace the cloud, but don’t forget your umbrella

January 27, 2017

Via: CompareTheCloud

There are many benefits of Software as a Service (SaaS) such as elasticity, expertise and usage-linked costs, all of which are becoming increasingly well-known in business. Gone are the days when the words ‘cloud computing’ would be followed by radio […]


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Data Platforms as a Service

January 18, 2017

Via: Cloud Expo

With the proliferation of both SQL and NoSQL databases, organizations can now target specific fit-for-purpose database tools for their different application needs regarding scalability, ease of use, ACID support, etc. Platform as a Service offerings make this even easier now, […]


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Public Cloud Services to Hit $208.6B in Revenue by Year-End

November 21, 2016

Via: Talkin' Cloud

By the end of 2016 the public cloud services market will reach $208.6 billion in revenue, up 17.2 percent from $178 billion in 2015, Gartner said this week. Cost savings and benefits to innovation and agility are causes for public […]


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Dell plans to move VR content creation to the cloud

November 16, 2016

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

Dell wants to prove that you don’t need a high-end GPU in your computer to create content for virtual reality headsets. Instead, the company wants to move VR content creation into the cloud with new computing products it plans to […]