Moving workloads to the cloud: A comprehensive guide
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The rapid diffusion for the cloud computing paradigm and promised benefits for the adoption of cloud infrastructure are attracting a growing number of businesses and organisations.
Of course, it is essential for organisations to maximise the benefits of migration to cloud architecture by reducing costs and minimising risks. Cloud computing represents a fundamental change in how companies use and provide their services. For many businesses of small and medium size, it represents a...
By Pierluigi Paganini, 23 April 2015, 3 comments. Categories: Adoption, Infrastructure, Migration,Platform, Software.
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Google Drive, Facebook and Twitter most popular business cloud apps – but are they safe?
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More than 15% of European organisations now use more than 1000 cloud apps with Google Drive, Facebook and Twitter the most popular, according to a report from Netskope.
The findings, which appear in the April 2015 Netskope Cloud Report, saw iCloud and Salesforce make the top five. Five cloud storage apps (Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive and Dropbox) made the top 12, alongside four social apps (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn).
Of the organisations analysed in...
By James Bourne, 15 April 2015, 1 comment. Categories: Applications, Data & Analytics, Data Loss, Data Management, Security, Software.
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Why desktop virtualisation leads the way in the VDI market
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By Michele Gasparoli, Channel Marketing Manager, Praim
The virtualisation market in general and desktop virtualisation in particular has progressed over the years to support changing business needs.
Until a few years ago, as anyone who implemented a virtual desktop infrastructure would testify, substantial resources and advanced skills both in networking and storage were needed to successfully complete a virtualisation project. These types of installations were adopted only by large customers with...
By Praim, 07 April 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Infrastructure, Software, VDI.
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The top 100 cloud-based enterprise software startups of 2015
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Investments in emerging enterprise software companies increased 53% from Q3 to Q4, 2014 according to MoneyTree Report, a collaborative research initiative between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. A graphic from the latest available data shows how software investments were 39% of all investments in Q4, 2014.
To determine which enterprise software startups have gained the...
By Louis Columbus, 07 April 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Enterprise, SaaS , Software.
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The Box advantage: Growth, predictability and competitiveness
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Although Box’s stock value has had its ups and downs since its IPO in January, going public sent an important signal to investors. Aaron Levie has demonstrated that a subscription-based service is now the only viable business model in the technology industry today.
When Salesforce debuted in 2004, there was very little market awareness of recurring revenue-based business models. They were mostly associated with print media and telecoms. Eight years later, Workday’s successful...
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Oracle CTO Ellison slams Salesforce in cloud financial results discussion
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After 27 years at the top, it remains a slight culture shock to note Larry Ellison as Oracle’s chief technical officer. But despite this he’s still stealing the headlines, by telling analysts in an earnings call his belief that Oracle will sell more new SaaS and PaaS business than Salesforce in 2015.
As reported by Seeking Alpha, Ellison told...
By James Bourne, 20 March 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Economy, PaaS, Platform, SaaS , Salesforce,Software.
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Finland has biggest take up of cloud computing services in EU, research reveals
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Finland has the highest proportion of enterprises in the EU using cloud computing, according to figures from Eurostat.
The findings from the European Union’s statistical office, from December 2014, saw more than half (51%) of Finnish enterprises in the cloud. Nordic and Benelux countries typically scored highly, with Sweden and Denmark in the top four and Netherlands and Belgium in the top 10. 24% of UK enterprises use cloud computing services.
Overall, 10 nations are ahead of the...
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Is cheap and unlimited cloud storage bad news?
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By Simon Langlois
Everyone can agree, storage quotas for cloud services are increasing very quickly. And this means only one thing: cloud storage is getting dirt-cheap. This is nothing new, as organisations have been getting more and more gigabyte (GB) for their buck in the past months. Some of the industry’s biggest cloud players, like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been engaging in a war on storage. Who will include the biggest quota at the lowest price? And who will cut...
By Rhonda Sherwood, 12 March 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Data & Analytics, Data Management,Software, Storage.
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How Red Bull North America gained its wings and flew to a different cloud storage provider
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Red Bull North America has chosen Egnyte as its enterprise cloud sync and share provider having replaced Box in a “huge” client win for the Mountain View firm.
One of the key draws for Red Bull was the use of Egnyte’s API to connect to the sales team’s iPads, enabling the team to work in the field as well as leveraging Egnyte’s back end storage.
The announcement represents a validation of Egnyte’s strategy going forward, with the company focused...
By James Bourne, 10 March 2015, 1 comment. Categories: Case Studies, Infrastructure, Software, Storage.
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Moving the help desk to the cloud: Companies reticent to adopt SaaS models
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More than two thirds of respondents in a survey from Software Advicecurrently use on-premise help desk systems despite the prevalence of cloud-based systems in the market.
68% of the more than 200 IT staff and management respondents have on-prem deployments compared to 18% utilising vendor-hosted cloud and 13% hosting on a leased server.
The most frequently used help desk software functionality, according to those polled, is ticket...