SOURCE: Computerworld Once you move your core IT systems into private or public cloud networks, your work isn't over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off for your enterprise and...
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Jul 5, 2011
SOURCE: Wall Street & Technology While use of cloud computing continues to grow at a healthy pace, determining exactly what "the cloud" is remains a topic of discussion. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a useful definition:...
Jun 28, 2011
SOURCE: Data Center Knowledge While everyone in the data center industry follows the new Internet Data Centers (IDCs) built by Google’and Facebook, there are really only a handful of these in the world. While being a supplier to these companies is a great...
Jun 22, 2011
SOURCE: InformationWeek IBM has spent $14 billion in just the last five years acquiring analytics and optimization software companies that are vital to its Smarter Planet initiative. It has also talked up the growth and importance of cloud computing. However, where...
Jun 21, 2011
SOURCE: FierceIT Healthcare organizations are embracing the need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation, but they still require the tools and capabilities to make data available in real time and reduce the burden on scarce resources. These are...
Jun 20, 2011
SOURCE: IDC Cloud computing will continue to reshape the IT landscape over the next five years as spending on public IT cloud services expands at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6%, from $21.5 billion in 2010 to $72.9 billion in 2015. But the impact of...
Jun 9, 2011
SOURCE: FierceEMR Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest their compliance with the Meaningful Use...
Jun 7, 2011
The impact of EMRs often leaves many clinicians behind – struggling with lost or forgotten passwords needed to access patient information. A brand new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute researched the economic, productivity and security impact that single...
Apr 27, 2011
SOURCE: CloudTweaks Independent research firm Forrester Research expects the global cloud computing market to reach $241 billion in 2020 compared to $40.7 in 2010, according to a new Forrester report called “Sizing the Cloud”. The report aims to provide insights into...
Apr 25, 2011
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal Heading into the cloud can seem like an attractive prospect. But there are a lot of questions companies should consider before they make the trip. The sales pitch for cloud computing is simple: Companies pay a third-party vendor to run one...
