Running IT like a business is a pervasive goal of IT executives and increasingly important to business leaders outside of IT. With economic recovery still tenuous, transforming IT into an internal service provider allows enterprises to flexibly support increasing...
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Cloud computing and the trend of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives continue to work their way into today’s workplace. Those in charge of budgets view the trend through the prism of lowering overall expenditures, while IT departments often see it as a challenge...
Organizations that use cloud infrastructures cannot go on faith alone when it comes to compliance standards such as PCI and HIPAA. Hackers know as well as any IT pro that audits occur only once or twice a year. They count on lax oversight in between these audits, and...
The cloud’s economic impact has worked its way from the expansive data centers of mega-enterprises, to the single-person startup founded in a dormroom, to the remote corners of the world that now use the cloud to expand the economic role of third-world countries in an...
By Dawn Altman Asia’s the most populated continent in the world, and it's where a large number of our technologies come from. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, then, that virtualization and cloud technology demand is growing in Asian countries. With plentiful...
While many enterprises are moving rapidly to the cloud, some SMBs are still entrenched in traditional IT infrastructure. SMBs have invested such a sizable chunk in their enterprise IT that they are, perhaps understandably, unwilling to spend more. And unlike bigger...
The new year will have cloud computing moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, getting a bigger slice of business spending and improving its security perceptions, Â according to analysts. With cloud computing maturing this year, more organizations will start to move...
Featured Article By Ryan Galloway In the aftermath of the presidential election, both candidates made sure to thank long lists of people and organizations for their contributions and hard work. But one contributor was noticeably absent: the cloud. The cloud played a...
There is no doubt that the many forms of online communication available today impact e-commerce. In the below interview, John Mesberg from IBM Commerce Solutions outlines ways in which social media, mobile apps, and cloud computing play significant roles in the growth...
By: Patrick Burke The OpenStack Summit, which recently wrapped up in San Diego, covered a slew of topics for developers and end users of the OpenStack community. The latest OpenStack Summit was the community’s largest conference to date with 1,400 attendees, said...


