For the past few years, cloud computing has been hailed as the ‘silver bullet’ that will transform the way organizations manage their local and global IT applications. By placing data and software in ‘the cloud’, there is the promise of consistent, up-to-date information delivered to every user, combined with potentially huge cost savings through economies of scale. Cloud has a particular appeal to Finance Directors, with vendors selling the vision of lower cost “commodity pricing”, […]
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Now is the time for virtual desktops. There are a lot of people in the industry saying that you should wait. We ask why? There are serious savings in support and energy costs to be garnered along with significant other factors that will increase agility and lower TCO. Don’t wait. If you follow the advice and steps outlined below, and build a solid business case, you will be successful. Virtual desktops are the hottest virtualization […]
SMBs looking at cloud computing – don’t overlook hosted and managed services Almost every child has looked at a cloud and said, “That cloud looks like a _____.” The filled-in blank often becomes the point of highly subjective argument. In much the same way, IT professionals continuously seek to fill in the blank with an understanding of “cloud computing” and we’ve learned that what you see in your cloud has a lot to do with […]
Cloud computing vendors may be popping the bubbly well into the new year, as a handful of promising cloud computing startups have started off 2011 with sizeable financial injections to get the ball rolling. And the early influx of cash to kick off 2011 comes on the heels of many more cloud computing up-and-comers that closed out 2010 with late-year funding to help them dig their claws deeper into the channel. The windfall of cash […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Gartner Magic Quadrant isn’t an entirely accurate, or even objective, measure of who’s who in any given IT field. If you haven’t heard, the analyst firm’s ranking system has been called out as being everything from merely subjective (as opposed, I guess, to being only partially subjective like every other list of industry leaders) to rewarding vendors that have paid Gartner the most money for its […]
The Economic Model for Enterprise IT can be thought of as the Business & IT linkage of demand and supply. In particular, it is the interactive dynamics of consumption of IT resources by the business and the fulfillment behavior of processing by IT. An economic model blueprint for Enterprise IT must orientate service delivery (people, process and technology) as a digital supply chain. This supply chain must adhere and be managed against the IT economic […]
Cloud computing has long been touted as a way to help entrepreneurs conduct businesses by housing data and computer hardware over the Internet. While using the cloud is pretty straightforward, getting a cloud infrastructure in place can take some time and work. Thankfully, there are many cloud computing services companies that can help build the right infrastructure for your business to migrate data, hardware and software to the cloud. “The last thing small businesses want […]
Many companies are considering updating or replacing their current telephone systems in order to move to IP telephony or to have access to other modern features, such as UC (unified communications). As is true with other IT-enabled functions, a significant percentage of these companies are exploring or considering remotely hosted alternatives to premises-based PBXes. Several Focus community members have experiences and insights into hosted PBXes that can help decision-makers at these companies to make more […]
The Motorola Atrix smartphone introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the first of what may soon prove to be a broad generation of handsets that can double as a laptop computer. The phone has a hypervisor embedded in it that can receive and run the presentation of a Windows application on a large screen. In that sense Atrix is more than a smartphone. It’s a device intelligent enough to sub as a PC […]
A lack of proper understanding appears to be dissuading many small businesses from investing in cloud computing, it has been reported. According to Clodagh Murphy, director at Eclipse, it is not so much cost issues which put off such enterprises – rather the apparent complexity of the technology. She said that cloud computing must be explained to business owners in plain English which they can fully understand. Ms Murphy added that when embracing the cloud, […]