Cloud computing has become a viable, mainstream solution for data processing, storage and distribution. Adoption is accelerating — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has gone from 262 billion objects stored in its S3 cloud storage in 2010, to over 1 trillion in 2012. However, companies that work with big data have been unable to realize the
Aspera’s fasp transfer technology is an innovative software that eliminates the fundamental bottlenecks of conventional file transfer technologies such as FTP, HTTP, and Windows CIFS and dramatically speeds transfers over public and private IP networks. The approach achieves perfect throughput efficiency, independent of the latency of the path and is robust to packet losses. In
IT organizations are on the brink of a new wave of desktop transformation, with Windows 7 operating system (OS) migrations a critical stop on the journey. These OS migrations are extremely complex and pose real risks in terms of end-user downtime, business interruptions, and increased costs. IT needs to ensure migration projects go quickly and
While the inevitable move to Windows 7 has been on the horizon for IT departments for several years, it’s clear that migration projects continue to plague many IT professionals. RES Software commissioned its second Windows 7 migration survey in June 2012 to assess the progress of these implementations in relation to a previous benchmarking survey
Video conferencing offers clear benefits to business users, including better collaboration, faster decision-making, lower times to market and cost-effective, face-to-face meetings. But many managers have a hard time getting employees to warm up to video technology at the office. Although many employees are familiar with video in their personal lives—making ready use of video recording
“Video is the new voice.” So goes the thinking in many organizations today, where employees are increasingly working remotely from home offices, satellite offices, client sites and the road. But even as companies grow increasingly virtual—and increasingly global—they continue to see budget cuts that limit travel and demand a clear return on investment from any
According to research by Infotrends, around one billion camera-equipped smartphones, as well as hundreds of millions of camera-equipped laptops and tablets, will be sold this year. While mobile video calling using Skype or Apple’s Facetime is already commonplace and predicted to steadily increase among consumers, it has yet to achieve widespread adoption amongst business or
The IT landscape has changed significantly over the past five years. In many ways, the exception is now the norm. Nowhere is this truer than in client computing. Mobile computing dominates the workplace and promises to bring orders of magnitude more devices into the workplace.
Companies seek to maximize benefits and savings from their virtual desktop deployments. Discover how IT organizations are saving over 25% in TCO costs, while improving productivity and flexibility with Cisco’s VXI Smart Solution.
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