Adoption of cloud computing in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) may be on the rise but many companies remain clueless about the technology. This was the finding of a new survey by PeoplePerHour.com PeoplePerHour.com. After talking to 1,300 SMEs across the UK, it discovered almost three quarters of the respondents (74 per cent) didn’t use cloud computing and 43 per cent of those didn’t even know what the term meant. Furthermore, more than a third […]
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One of the latest spin offs of business VoIP technology is the Hosted PBX. This technology allows small and medium sized businesses to have a sophisticated telephone system without the investment in telephone equipment. In fact, the entire telephone system is operated and maintained by your voice-over-ip service provider. A hosted PBX lets employees work from their home, a hotel or on their cell phone while still being connected to the same office telephone system. […]
In the future, mobile phones will dominate, with businesses moving to a ‘bring your own device’ strategy and voice virtualization will take on more importance in business’ networks according to survey results taken by business communications and collaboration software and services provider Mitel Networks. The survey found 53 percent of respondents felt that, in the future, mobile phones would become the dominant communication device in the workplace. These same responders also stated that their organizations […]
Where does a 500-million-dollar, mid-sized company go to implement cloud computing? Where should they begin? How should a company phase its deployment in order to reduce risks? First, let’s focus on a global law firm. Most law firms have similar business applications, so a public cloud provider could address this niche for law firms around the globe. What should they outsource first? I’ll outline five deployment phases related to risk and information security. The five […]
Forty per cent of C-level executives have stated they are not planning to adopt cloud computing, according to a global report by the non-profit IT Governance Institute. Senior executives who do not plan to use cloud computing at all in the near future list security (47pc) and privacy concerns (50pc), followed closely by legacy infrastructure investments (35pc), as barriers to adoption. The 2011 study polled 834 executives from 21 countries, divided almost evenly between business […]
Cloud computing is high on the wish lists of many mid-sized companies, with roughly 2/3 of them adopting cloud computing technologies, a recent IBM (NYSE:IBM) study found. At the same time, IT budgets in the midmarket are increasing for the first time in years. IBM queried more than 2,000 midsized companies, ranging from 99 to 1,000 employees, in 20 countries to determine their IT spending patterns in its study “Inside the Midmarket: A 2011 Perspective.” […]
Growing calls for SLAs are increasing pressure on the entire cloud service supply chain Cloud computing, an industry dependent on the availability of high-speed internet connectivity, grew on the realisation that internet bandwidth could be used for more than just downloading large files. However, the cloud’s initial lustre is starting to wear off and businesses are starting to query why they should move to the cloud and what happens once that leap is taken. The […]
Cloud computing has quickly established its rightful place in modern IT organisations, helping enterprises become more agile while keeping close watch on costs. As a new mainstream appeal, the new delivery model has proven its stripes with applications like messaging, storage and CRM. Now, technology innovators are applying what they learned. Cloud service delivery has hit critical mass, with the majority of organisations already riding the wave. With that adoption, enterprises have become more comfortable […]
With security concerns still trotted out as a major inhibitor to the adoption of Cloud Computing, the European Union’s cyber security Agency ENISA has weighed in with a new report on Governmental Cloud Computing that might upset the anti-federalists. Addressing security concerns, the Agency unsurprisingly concludes that private and community Clouds appear to be the solutions that best fit the needs of public administrations if they need to achieve the highest level of data governance. […]
Despite the hype, the virtualization scenario in India is laced with implementation challenges and cost pitfalls. Mehak Chawla finds out the causes for reluctant adoption and what needs to be done for virtualization to live up to its image In a newsletter issued by an IT giant for its US customers last week, I stumbled upon the sentence “We think virtualization will be the hottest technology in 2011. It shall be adopted across verticals and […]