Empowering Business
Enterprises are leveraging cloud services to improve efficiency, increase agility and unlock new opportunities. But every business is unique. How do you define the right cloud model for your needs? Our multi-author blogging team, sponsored by Microsoft, will provide the insights you need to choose the best path forward.
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Cloud: The Great Equalizer for Small and Midsize Businesses
The cloud has become a no-brainer for startups on a shoestring, but the message apparently hasn’t trickled down to the majority of small and midsize business (SMB) owners. They're missing a big opportunity.
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Public, Private, Hybrid? Choosing the Right Cloud Mix
IT managers should consider several factors, including performance, availability, security and interoperability, when deciding which cloud option to implement.
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Real Time: Real Insights
Several real-time big data analytics services rolled out in recent months leverage the changing economics of performing real-time analytics on large data sets.
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6 Reasons to Deploy a Hybrid Cloud
Mixed cloud environments are on the rise as organizations balance public and private data needs. Here’s what to consider before going hybrid.
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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.
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Forecasting the Next Wave of Cloud Deployments
It’s increasingly clear that the promise of the cloud has more to do with the role it is fated to play in accelerating the enterprise’s rate of innovation.
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‘Shadow’ Spending and Its Impact on the Cloud
Shadow IT serves a useful purpose in the enterprise, and it is important for IT to understand and support that purpose.
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How To Measure the ROI of Moving To the Cloud
Measuring the return on investment of the cloud is difficult, but if done convincingly, it can embolden the C-suite to support cloud initiatives.
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The IoT, Cloud and Security
Integrating the Internet of Things into cloud strategies raises a new round of security concerns; here’s what CSOs need to do.
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Paul Smith’s IT Systems Evolve as Quickly as its Clothing
A large clothing design company in England has reduced response time, decreased IT spending and boosted system availability by converting to a hybrid cloud.
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The Cloud’s Game-Changer Is Competitive Advantage
Cloud computing's real value lies not in the technology itself, but in the operational changes it enables.
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Why Now Is the Time to Prepare Your IT Workforce for Cloud Mobility
What advice can experts in the field give businesses looking into long-term strategies for exploiting Cloud as a tool to underpin enterprise mobility?
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20 Ways to Measure the Success of Your Growing Cloud Investment
If IT is going to better align themselves with business operations, they must be able to objectively quantify the value of the cloud.
Cloud Security: 6 Steps for Keeping Your Data Safe
Cloud service providers have little choice but to deliver world-class security, yet concerns about data loss and privacy continue to frustrate broader adoption.
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How Line Of Business Is Driving The Move To The Cloud
With non-IT departments often having a clearer picture than IT of the technology that can improve how they work, how should companies factor in the views of all parties while maintaining IT’s control of technical processes?
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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.
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20 Expert Tips on Integrating Mobile and Cloud Strategies
How do you build a unified mobile and cloud strategy that results in an "always available" experience for your enterprise? Industry experts weigh in with 20 favorite tips.
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The Transformative Power of Containers
Containers are poised to transform the way we build and use applications.
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Cloud Security: Transparency Is Crucial for Service Providers
Enterprises are getting over long-held reservations about cloud security, but they also want vendors to be more transparent about the controls they use to protect customer data in the cloud.
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Top Cloud Security Fears & How The C-Suite Is Tackling Them
While enterprise business leaders increasingly see the value of migrating to the cloud, they still struggle with concerns about security.
