Misinformation and a lack of understanding have delayed some companies from obtaining the advantages of cloud computing. With the explosion of information regarding cloud computing, a lot of people think that everybody knows more than they want to about the technology. Yet according to many IT solution providers who are working with customers to help them transition to the cloud, the biggest issue holding them back is a lack of understanding about what exactly is […]
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Apple Inc yesterday announced the coming of its cloud based platform, aptly dubbed iCloud. According to news reports, the web service will synchronise and coordinate shared content across all devices – a key element being its ability to stream music; in other words an all-new iTunes. Following its hotly anticipated autumn launch, iCloud has the potential to revolutionise how music is acquired and distributed, offering a service to rival that of Google, Amazon, and Spotify […]
Back in April 2009, McKinsey set the cloud computing community afire with a presentation arguing that corporate cloud computing adopters might expend more money using cloud versus traditional data center resources. As reported by Steve Lohr in the NYTimes Bits blog: “The McKinsey study, “Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing,” concludes that outsourcing a typical corporate data center to a cloud service would more than double the cost.” Many in the cloud computing space, including […]
With each passing day, more and more businesses in the UK are signing up to cloud computing, the revolutionary concept which allows clients to store data and run software remotely, rather than from an in-house server or computer harddrive. The potential and possibilities of cloud computing seem considerable. But so do the risks and snags. Here we’ve outlined the top 10 risks of cloud computing today. If you can explore all these issues before deciding […]