The buzzing cloud technology has gained a lot of momentum and is on the smooth roads of success owing to its tangible benefits that it provides to its users. All size companies are exploring the possibilities of adopting cloud to add agility to their business, streamline their operations/processes, build apps, and gain edge over their counterparts.  There is a host of cloud hosting service providers available today, offering pur... Read more>>

Software-as-a-Service or SaaS has transformed the way an organization's IT department provides computing services to other business divisions. Emergence of this software delivery model is creating various opportunities for companies looking out to change their current deployment model to service-centric applications. This will enable them to benefit from generating more business value by offering services, which are drawn from inter... Read more>>

Organizations, irrespective of size and business nature, always want to gain competitive edge without escalating the operation costs. They indeed even strive to generate revenues while keeping the operation costs low. The arrival of cloud hosting helps companies achieve their objectives with little or no effort. This is because this avant-garde technology is a proactive approach to increase business value and productivity in the workpla... Read more>>

Today's cloud market is worth hundreds of billions of US dollars. Even then, service providers across the globe are unable to cater to the growing demands of global enterprises.   While many enormous Cloud hosting providers are looming large, yet the market share does not get completely eaten up. After all, CIOs do not choose the provider on the basis of their brand. Rather they select a company forpublic cloud price cuts and... Read more>>

The cloud computing industry has encountereda steep growth in the past few years. Current SMEs are making use of cloud technology services in their businesses tovirtualize substantial portions of their servers. The growth is anticipated to increase over the next few years. Here are just a few of the major current trends in the industry today. 1. Hybrid clouds: Theon-going debate of private and public cloud model merits has ... Read more>>

As cloud technology is heralded as this era's biggest breakthrough, it promising further levels of elasticity, cost savings, and efficiency. In this light, technology pundits are trying to identify whether there is a difference between virtualization and cloud computing, or are the two terms are interchangeable. Cloud computing and virtualization were developed to augment the usage of computing resources whilst streamlining proce... Read more>>

Cloud computing has amicably revolutionized the way people customarily do their business. With the stronger dollar weighing on reported earnings, many companies have turned up to this leading-edge technology to garner huge profit on their investments. Organizations embarking on conventional hosting platform are rewriting all their applications to run in the cloud. If reports are to be trusted, Ford Motor Co. is also gearing up for cl... Read more>>

Public cloud is a platform that replicates the activity executed by the mainframe, server or personal computer – enabling a user to run applications. However, the public cloud hosting is comparatively faster, robust, flexible and accessible than all its predecessors. Several research studies reveal that IT managers are keen to explore the opportunities this avant garde technology offers, instead of emphasizing merely on a few feat... Read more>>

There’s no doubt that a host of forthcoming technologies are gaining highlights owing to its promising attributes, such as wearable technology (that is somewhat connected to ubiquitous computing) that promises for unmatched emails and search options. Driverless cars will be helping us to reach our expected destinations in the fastest possible manner, eliminating the need for hiring drivers, and IoT will incorporate an ability in n... Read more>>

Soaring usage of the Internet has drastically impeded the performance of popular web services due to heavy congestion of web traffic. No doubt, the demand for web services has grown by leaps and bounds, causing unmanageable levels of traffic flow. This causes the negligence of requests received by websites. An abrupt spike in web content requests may put additional strain on a web server, and as a result websites carrying the content be... Read more>>

Human resources (HR) data is one of the most critical forms of information diligently managed and maintained by any organization, regardless of shape and size. That is the reason why security of such data is utmost important not only to secure the employees’ highly sensitive information, but also to minimalize the chances of any legal jeopardy to the organization all in all. This issue has driven organizations to wary while dep... Read more>>

The emerging computing paradigm Cloud has brought in a plethora of new opportunities to overcome organizational challenges in businesses. As a matter of fact, Cloud is a genuine alternative to expensive data center infrastructure. Some issues related to security and privacy of data have been raised time and again. In order to overcome these issues, Distributed OSGi or DOSGi architecture can be deployed to share electronic records within... Read more>>

Recently undertaken research reveals that the Internet of Things (IoT) is on the verge of major development. However, in order to leverage increasingly emerging interconnected world one has to get to grips with the other two initiatives that will delineate this era of IT: Cloud Computing and Big Data. The IoT is driven by a perfect fusion of both. SMEs are nowadays seeking ways to capitalize on connected devices to gain a compet... Read more>>

The cloud computing sector has been experiencing an accelerated growth over the past few months. Owing to this, IT has been facing a huge challenge wherein end users are frustrated with the laid-back speed of internal cloud implementations in the IT groups. Such problems are being resolved by hosting applications within a public cloud computing environment. Despite its few downsides, the major reason behind a widespread cloud adoptio... Read more>>

We know that mobility and big data analytics are the emerging trends which have absorbed tremendous amount of attention from global IT buyers this year. As a result, cloud reigns as the largest, and most impactful IT trend on this planet today. Its aspects such as development, distribution, security, provisioning and consumption of cloud services are the most crucial factors which are making rounds. In order to ensure a smooth data s... Read more>>

As the industry is debating on the apprehensions associated with the cloud security, many banks across the globe are tapping on the potential of this cutting edge technology to streamline their back office operations. A recent study conducted by the Skyhigh Networks revealed that on an average, a bank uses approximately 844 cloud computing services throughout its network. Another report by Reuters suggested that nearly 2/3rd of the b... Read more>>

Cloud technology has become an immensely imperative part of any IT enterprise’s delivery model. It is largely due to the scalability and cost-efficiency that it delivers to line of organizations. Similar as virtualization, cloud computing initiated on the server side and now is heading up to the desktop infrastructure. When compared to on-site deployment and management, moving desktops to cloud help businesses to streamline/ centr... Read more>>

The turnaround in the field of cloud computing is making businesses inquire about the impact of this technology on work practices. Resultantly, companies are undergoing a transformation in IT security and data availability across verticals. Here is brief confab on some reflections about the development of cloud over the past few years. Through this blog, I have also tried to throw some light on the predictions related to cloud in the... Read more>>

When thinking of IT solutions, several businesses look for opportunities to cut down capital expenditure, and alleviate the cost of futile IT projects. The challenge internal IT departments face is to give assurance that they have the right investments and infrastructure to meet rapidly changing business needs. However, the crux of the tale is that very few companies are capable of harmonizing the cord. Fortunately, the arrival of cloud... Read more>>

Cloud computing describes the implementation and deployment of network-based applications in a tremendously scalable and virtualized IT environment. In fact, it defines advancement towards the wide-area networks (WANs) like the Internet to establish a swift connection between service providers and end-users. There is no denying the fact that the cloud brings a host of benefits with it and companies never give a second thought to Service... Read more>>