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Desktop as a Service
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Could Your Smarphone Be Your Next PC?About 20 years ago, I would lug my nine-pound laptop on trips all over the world. It got me thinking that there must be a better way to compute while traveling. Back then, though, the technology only allowed for heavy and clunky portables; if you wanted to work on the road, they were your only option. |
Virtualized AvailabilityIf we restrict virtualization to only enabling server consolidation, we miss out on the other big benefits it brings. Namely, virtualization can transform how we prevent and recover from disasters, offering a simple way to protect our businesses from acts of God or acts of great stupidity (i.e., human error)... |
The cloud will eliminate security concerns for BYODBring yur own device (BYOD) is a term that has been skirting the corporate marketplace for a number of years, but only now we are starting to see a genuine need and desire to embrace this new way of doing things... |
Infrastructure as a Service
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Small and Mid-Size Businesses See Productivity in the Cloud: SurveysAre SMBs jumping on the opportunity yet? Two recent surveys suggest they are embracing cloud for both end-user applications at a rapid clip. And they love the... |
3 Reasons Your Company Still Hasn’t Moved to the CloudIt’s only natural to reject change in a work environment. Change generally means relearning processes for tasks workers mastered years ago by learning new rules, methods, and practices. Despite the very real benefits of change, those in management can have a very hard time justifying... |
Private Cloud within the Public Cloud ArchitectureWe've always been focused on Software as a Service. And Dimension Data, which was recently bought by NTT, has always been focused on on-premise cloud," explained Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource, a Dimension Data company, in this... |
Disaster Recovery as a Service
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Enterprise IT: Don't Bury Your Head in the Sand on Cloud Data ProtectionIn a lot of ways, changes in enterprise technology have mirrored consumer technology trends over the last few years. Just look at mobility, social apps, and cloud computing as examples. And whether you view the crossover as advantageous, overly risky, or merely inevitable, it's certain that enterprise IT security must... |
Transitioning to the CloudIn the first quarter of 2012, FEMA reported 12 natural disasters throughout the country, including tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and severe storms from Florida to Alaska. The threats to your data are limitless - natural disasters, fires, water damage, equipment theft and hardware failure to name just a few. In the event of a disaster, if you don't have access to... |
Cloud computing journey starts with the data centreThe debate on cloud computing should not be about private or public clouds but on the data centre, according to Raju Chellam, cloud practice head, Dell South Asia & Korea. And the key questions are about merging legacy systems with new infrastructure and "migrating apps without migraine," said Chellam. He shares with CIO Asia why the answers lie within the data centre... |
