The use of cloud-based services is growing rapidly in today’s 3rd Platform computing environment. Datacenters looking to craft the most cost-effective infrastructure to service legacy workloads like relational database and enterprise applications while accommodating next-generation applications in the mobile computing, social media, and big data and analytics areas are increasingly moving to hybrid cloud environments.
To the cloud, or not to the cloud? The answer may be more simple and economical than you imagine. In this white paper, we’ll be providing a quick lesson in cloud economics, based on an ESG audit of a model that compares the monthly cost of public cloud infrastructure with the monthly cost of leasing
Distributed enterprises often encompass many remote offices that are essential to running the organization and supporting customers. Important activities at the edge include manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, even mobile or remote life-saving environments like health clinics. And while there is usually a central IT staff that creates the overall business architecture for the enterprise, specialized
It’s a new era in IT. The end-user workforce is mobile, social, and putting huge strains on your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It’s time for a new model, one that liberates you from costly infrastructure maintenance and delivers the service and availability end-users demand. Yet, the complexities of implementing VDI at scale, specifically having
Choosing the right server infrastructure is crucial to business success. Yet with the trend towards cloud adoption accelerating, the IT infrastructure landscape for large corporate organisations is undergoing a major transformation. “In fact, recent research from 451 Research’s ‘Market Monitor: Cloud Computing, Q1 2016’ report shows that in the UK, cloud is set to grow
Technology developments and virtualisation have created huge potential for what can be achieved with businesses’ continuity and disaster recovery plans. Recent developments in enterprise technology means that organisations need to radically rethink their approach to disaster recovery and create new solutions that are more flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Disaster recovery is now high on the
Over the last few years, the concept of business continuity has become a popular topic for organisations. This is especially true, not only for corporates and global conglomerates, but for SMBs as well. Depending on the industry and sector in which these organisations operate, business continuity may encompass more than simply keeping the organisation going
Over the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of cyber attacks — from data breaches and DDoS events, to hacking attacks and malware. And it’s not only the frequency of attacks that has increased, but the sophistication of the attacks and the attackers that is growing as well. The result
Cloud has been the buzzword of choice in the IT industry for the past decade or so. In that time, conversations on cloud computing invariably leant towards cost, security, data sovereignty, choosing the right supplier and selecting the right cloud computing model. A key part of this latter topic was the comparison between cloud and
This paper describes how cloud and big data technologies are converging to offer a cost-effective delivery model for cloud-based big data analytics. It also includes: • How cloud computing is an enabler for advanced analytics with big data • How IT can assume leadership for cloud-based big data analytics in the enterprise by becoming a