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IT Taps Outside Experts to Handle Cloud Complexity
Cloud services IT Taps Outside Experts to Handle Cloud Complexity Rather than eliminating the need for solution providers, the rise of the cloud is actually creating more demand for their services than ever. Top Cloud Business Benefits Surprisingly, the top business benefit cited by respondents was increased security (45%), followed by greater agility and cost…
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How Open APIs Could Change Communications Services
As a class of technologies, communications software offered a lot of promise, but the complexities associated with deploying these products on-premise tended to limit adoption. With the rise of the cloud, however, it’s now possible to routinely invoke communications software as a service. Less clear now is whether those services will be primarily invoked via…
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Companies Move More Critical Apps to the Public Cloud
Cloud spending Companies Move More Critical Apps to the Public Cloud Spending on the public cloud is increasing as more companies are committing to public clouds for enterprise applications, including ERP and CRM. Sharing Data on the Cloud 85% of IT pros polled believe it is valuable to share cloud consumption metrics with the business.…
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Distribution Comes of Age in the Cloud
As a vehicle through which IT products have been acquired and ultimately delivered to end customers, distributors have long played a pivotal role in the channel. With the rise of cloud computing, the way IT products are consumed is fundamentally changing. Those changes, however, are not so much eliminating the need for distributors as much…
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Cloud App Integration Challenges Limit Demand
Cloud data integration Cloud App Integration Challenges Limit Demand The integration of applications across hybrid IT environments is limited by the quality of the tools available, a new study finds. Top Data Integration Initiatives The top data integration initiatives include migrating data from one system to another (42%), from back office to front office (37%),…
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The Coming of the Hybrid Cloud
For all intents and purposes, applications and IT infrastructure dominated the first two phases of cloud computing. Arguably, the first cloud applications were software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps that evolved into platforms. Then came infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), that over the last 10 years transformed how IT organizations think about servers, storage…
