NextiraOne launches Dedicated Cloud and Disaster Recovery Suites that … – RealWire (press release)
Suites bundle wide range of products and services; easily deployed, low risk option solutions. Lichfield, 29 January 2013 – As one of Europe’s leading integrators of private Cloud Solutions, NextiraOne has launched dedicated Cloud and Disaster Recovery Suites in the UK
Read MoreWhat’s Missing? Game-Changing! Visualize That! You Get What You Pay For – Smart Data Collective
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Read MoreManufacturing Cloud ERP – What Can We Agree Upon? – Manufacturing Digital
Written by Pat Garrehy, President & CEO of Rootstock Software To read the latest issue of Manufacturing Digital, click here Today, there is common thinking among business and market analysts, software vendors and system integrators about the role of Cloud ERP. At last, this consensus is finally trickling down to end-users. Before discussing those commonly held beliefs about Cloud ERP, facts that are difficult to refute, let’s quickly review what is meant by Cloud ERP
Read MorePH gov’t agencies seen adopting cloud in 2013 – Manila Standard Today
DataOne Asia President and CEO Cyril Rocke The public sector is expected to jump into the cloud this year, according to data center operator DataOne Asia, which said that more government agencies are ready to foray into the cloud for their computing needs. Considered as one of the cloud computing pioneers in the country, DataOne Asia launched in 2012 a cloud-based business productivity and communications service for enterprises
Read MoreWFT Cloud Announces Utility based On-Premise Private Cloud Solution for SAP … – Melodika.net (press release)
Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud), a leading SAP Infrastructure and SAP Cloud consulting firm, has made significant gains within the cloud computing domain by focusing on cost savings and faster ROI for customers when they deploy or migrate SAP Applications to the Cloud
Read MoreBeware: 7 Sins of Cloud Computing – Wired
Image: infomatique/Flickr Why seven? Why not?! While none of these problem areas align with the so-called deadly sins, the reality is that each represents a real challenge that can arise in many organizations, whether enterprises or SMBs, when it comes to implementing and maintaining a cloud architecture.
Read MoreXirrus Takes the Complexity out of High-Performance Wi-Fi With a New Class of … – Marketwire (press release)
New Zero Touch XR-520 AP With Application Control Ensures That Applications Always Work THOUSAND OAKS, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 22, 2013) - Xirrus®, the leader in high-performance wireless networks, today announced major additions to its comprehensive portfolio of wireless solutions. The Xirrus XR-520 represents a new class of Access Point that delivers the advanced services of the Xirrus XR modular Array family in a low-cost, 2-radio AP option for smaller office spaces, class rooms, hotel guest rooms, hospital patient rooms, and more. Xirrus also announced a new release of the Xirrus Management System (XMS) that introduces XMS Cloud, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment option for XMS that delivers the full feature set of the existing on-premise offering without the need to maintain on-site equipment.
Read MoreWhy Every Business Needs to Plan for Disaster Recovery – BizTech Magazine
Although capital expenditure budgets may be stagnant or growing slowly, enterprise data volumes remain on a sharp upward trajectory. The latest IDC Digital Universe Study estimates that 1.8 zettabytes, or 1.8 trillion gigabytes, were created last year alone.
Read MoreIT Service Management Forecast for 2013: Hybrid Conditions Will Prevail … – Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
The notion that IT Service Management solutions will migrate exclusively to the cloud in 2013 is a fantasy. In point of fact, “cloud-based” might be the most abused marketing concept of the past three years. The mindset behind this thinking is that enterprises are universally aligned in their belief that IT services should and must be moved wholesale to the cloud.
Read MoreBeware of ‘rogue clouds’ and hidden costs, warns Symantec – ComputerWeekly.com
As a growing number of businesses migrate to cloud platforms, SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and large businesses are experiencing escalating costs tied to rogue cloud use, complex backup and recovery, and inefficient cloud storage, warn Symantec. Symantec defines rogue clouds as those public cloud applications implemented by business groups that are not managed by or integrated into the company’s IT infrastructure. Its latest study – Avoiding the hidden costs of cloud 2013 survey – revealed that rogue cloud deployments are one of the cost pitfalls and are becoming a common problem with as many as 77% of businesses experiencing rogue cloud situations, or unauthorised use of cloud services, in the last year.
Read MoreThe Public Cloud Arrives in 2013 – IDG News Service
In corporate circles, inside the four-walls of IT, and at executive gatherings, tales of the affair between the public cloud and IT have fed uninterested CIOs with far-from-juicy gossip. It was clearly a relationship--between IT and the public cloud--that was doomed from the start. A lack of trust, a world of insecurity, and a baggage of unresolved issues had crippled its foundation.
Read MoreThe Public Cloud Arrives in 2013 – CIO India
In corporate circles, inside the four-walls of IT, and at executive gatherings, tales of the affair between the public cloud and IT have fed uninterested CIOs with far-from-juicy gossip. It was clearly a relationship—between IT and the public cloud—that was doomed from the start. A lack of trust, a world of insecurity, and a baggage of unresolved issues had crippled its foundation
Read MoreSurvey reveals correlation between ‘rogue’ cloud use within businesses and … – Out-Law.com
Many businesses that permitted the 'rogue' use of cloud computing by internal departments or employees also lost confidential information last year, according to a new report by an information and systems security provider.18 Jan 2013 Symantec said that nearly 1,000 of the 3,236 business and IT executives within global organisations of all sizes it had surveyed about the ‘hidden costs of cloud’ had simultaneously reported rogue cloud use within their firm and the loss of confidential information last year. Symantec defined 'rogue clouds' as "business groups implementing public cloud applications that are not managed by or integrated into the company’s IT infrastructure". The primary reason why businesses allowed rogue use of cloud was to save money, according to Symantec
Read MoreSymantec Survey: Poorly Planned Cloud Move Can Be Costly – Talkin’ Cloud
When it comes to cloud, sometimes the pitch seems a little too good to be true—save money, move capex to opex, increase productivity, ease management troubles, etc. Sometimes it feels as though the promises fall just short of, "It'll make your coffee in the morning." Cloud, of course, can do all that—and more (okay, except make my coffee; there needs to be an app for that).
Read More6 Hidden Costs of Cloud and How to Avoid Them – CIO Magazine
It should come as no surprise at this point that organizations of all sizes are flocking to the cloud with high hopes of reducing CapEx, making OpEx more predictable, enhancing scalability, making management easier and improving disaster preparedness. In fact, here in the opening weeks of 2013, a new study by Symantec finds that 94 percent of enterprises are at least discussing cloud or cloud services, up from 75 percent a year ago.
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