BrandPost: 20 Expert Tips on Integrating Mobile and Cloud Strategies
“Information you need should be there, on demand, regardless of your path to it,” argued Greg Johnsen (@gregjohnsen), CMO, GT Nexus.That desired ‘always available’ experience is commonly solved...
View ArticleBrandPost: Cloud and Mobility: Key Issues to Consider
The intersection of the wildly popular cloud and mobility trends is creating new opportunities as well as challenges for IT leaders.On the one hand, more businesses than ever are adopting cloud...
View ArticleBrandPost: How Line Of Business Is Driving The Move To The Cloud
With employees across the company empowered with greater access to technology, the tech expertise inside your business is no longer limited to the IT department. In many businesses, Sales and...
View ArticleBrandPost: Cloud Security: 6 Steps for Keeping Your Data Safe
Like alligators in the sewers of New York, cloud security concerns are an urban legend that just won’t go away.Although worries about hacker attacks are abating somewhat (the IDG Enterprise 2014 Cloud...
View ArticleBrandPost: 20 Ways to Measure the Success of Your Growing Cloud Investment
While it’s well known that the cloud helps organizations “do more with less,” the follow up question of “how much?” is far less known. IT rarely asks that question, yet the business does ask, and the...
View ArticleBrandPost: Why Now Is the Time to Prepare Your IT Workforce for Cloud Mobility
Mobile employees already demand seamless and reliable access to their business networks, whether they’re in the office or on the move. They want to share, download and sync files regardless of their...
View ArticleBrandPost: The Cloud’s Game-Changer Is Competitive Advantage
Like many technologies, the real value of cloud lies not in the technology itself but in the operational changes it enables. Here are just a few ways that businesses can use the cloud to achieve...
View ArticleBrandPost: Paul Smith’s IT Systems Evolve as Quickly as its Clothing
Paul Smith, a Nottingham, England clothing designer, constantly improves not only its clothing but also its IT solutions. “The role of IT at Paul Smith is foundational, yet transparent. It is behind...
View ArticleBrandPost: The IoT, Cloud and Security
A new era in machine-to-machine communications is dawning with futuristic concepts, such as smart milk cartons and bridges that can self-diagnose structural defects, now entering the mainstream. But...
View ArticleBrandPost: How To Measure the ROI of Moving To the Cloud
One of the main drivers for cloud is cost. The technology is seen by many enterprises to be a way to run services more cheaply, partly because of the pay-as-you-go model and partly because of the...
View ArticleBrandPost: ‘Shadow’ Spending and Its Impact on the Cloud
Lack of appropriate skill sets and other factors drive some “shadow IT” cloud projects back into IT ownership. Still, cloud deployments outside the purview of IT continue to rise.In enterprises with...
View ArticleBrandPost: Forecasting the Next Wave of Cloud Deployments
The desire to reduce costs clearly contributed to the first wave of cloud computing. To be sure, the cloud has helped companies get a better handle on IT costs. And that’s understandable given that...
View ArticleBrandPost: How the Cloud Is Changing IT Training Demands
As businesses move more applications and infrastructure components to the cloud, new skill sets are coming into vogue, and IT professionals need to keep pace – or else.Changes in IT skills...
View ArticleBrandPost: 6 Reasons to Deploy a Hybrid Cloud
If the cloud has been universally accepted as a good idea, shouldn’t it be an all-or-nothing proposition? One that lets you rely 100% on the scale, cost and redundancy benefits of one or more public...
View ArticleBrandPost: Real Time: Real Insights
The cloud is an ideal vehicle for big data analytics, thanks to cloud’s ability to provide large amounts of computing and storage capacity as needed. All types of big data have been considered fair...
View ArticleBrandPost: Public, Private, Hybrid? Choosing the Right Cloud Mix
Identifying which IT operations are candidates for cloud deployment is just the first step; organizations also have to decide whether they want their applications hosted in a public, private or hybrid...
View ArticleBrandPost: Cloud: The Great Equalizer for Small and Midsize Businesses
Fifteen years ago I joined an Internet startup that had raised $8 million in investment capital and needed every penny for the infrastructure investments it had to make. There were two big servers to...
View ArticleBrandPost: How Collaboration Tools Can Turn Your Business Into A Social...
Social networks for business help enterprises collaborate securely across departments, offices and countries. Many available tools give employees a sense of online community and help forge connections...
View ArticleBrandPost: DevOps and Cloud: Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter
If you aren’t doing DevOps now, chances are you soon will be. Results from the field show that DevOps is not only a more productive way to develop software, but also the resulting code is of higher...
View ArticleBrandPost: How the Cloud Changes Application Development
The cloud provides companies with more flexibility in deploying and managing applications. But building cloud solutions is different than traditional development, and businesses need to take that into...
View ArticleBrandPost: PaaS: 3 Critical Issues to Consider
The U.S. Office of Naval Research is testing a cloud-based platform that captures GPS data from cell phones in real-time and creates animations that can show movement of equipment and personnel. It’s...
View ArticleBrandPost: The Cloud Drives a New Wave of Disruption
In one industry after another, cloud computing has fostered unprecedented changes, allowing startups and staid companies alike to more easily set up operations, scale workloads and build competitive...
View ArticleBrandPost: Solving the Unstructured Data Challenge
A lot has been made of the enormous value that businesses can derive from gathering and analyzing unstructured data from mobile devices, clickstreams, emails, web logs, social networks, call centers,...
View ArticleBrandPost: Memo to CIOs: Cash In On That Data!
Many industries are awash in data – data that could be worth lots of money, if you only knew how to wring dollars from it. Take the global energy market, which ebbs and flows based on countless...
View ArticleBrandPost: Dealing With Data Privacy in the Cloud
Data has become a buzzword that means different things to different people, but all organisations agree that understanding customer behaviour, sales performance, and information processes can build a...
View ArticleBrandPost: Cloud-Based Backup and Disaster Recovery Is a Win-Win for Business
The cloud is pretty much a win-win when it comes to business continuity. First, a cloud service structurally is a mesh of redundant resources scattered across the globe. If one resource should become...
View ArticleBrandPost: As Big Data Hype Increases, CIOs Will Need to Manage Expectations
Business executives see value in projects that seek to leverage enterprise data in new and innovative ways. That’s why data-driven initiatives are enjoying a rise in management support.IDG’s 2015 Big...
View ArticleBrandPost: Teaming, Not Fighting, with Marketing and Sales
The emergence of affordable and accessible cloud solutions has enabled business users to do an end run around IT and provision applications on their own. Marketing and sales have been the most...
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BrandPost: Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud? Make Sure You Do It Right
SaaS deployments make up nearly half (49 percent) of all cloud investments, according to the latest installment of the IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing study. But while IT departments are...
View ArticleBrandPost: How Cloud Is Changing the IT Workforce
One of the fascinating things about technology change is the unanticipated consequences it has on us as people and professionals. Email sped up the pace of business. The Web made every buyer an...
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