A recent survey on the present scenario of cloud security has cleared the fog around rising intricacy in business critical data and web applications security, with which midsize companies are facing a tough time. However, these organizations have to understand the significance of security and try to seek a way to mitigate risk as they make the almost foreseeable move towards the cloud. Let’s have a closer look at why businesses... Read more>>

As companies in this digital era are connected via the Internet, technology experts and researchers are gauging the impact of information technology on a country’s gross domestic product (GDP). A nation’s economic productivity mainly provides an aggregate measure of its production, which is the sum total of its overall institutional units employed in the production process. According to a recent research conducted by one ... Read more>>

As companies continue to steamroll ahead various cloud computing models, service vendors are continuously striving to improve their underlying systems. This will enable them to provide greater support and understand client requirements in a better way. With the advancements in the information technology, connecting a private and public instance together to create a secured and robust cloud environment has become much easier. More and... Read more>>

Cloud hosting technology and associated services have become a key ICT (Information and Communication Technology) delivery model. This is because Cloud based ICT service is an innovative way to improve reliability and scalability of services rendered by businesses. Global agencies undertaking ICT procurements are now evaluating cloud delivery models. The best solution is suggested by specific agencies headed by experts; these cloud e... Read more>>

Cloud hypervisors are also popularly known as virtual machine managers. These hypervisors are critical to cloud architecture and allow hosting providers to run numerous operating systems on a single server. Hypervisors are most important part in cloud computing. These virtual machine managers are considered to be one of the more secure components as well. So, most of the enterprises have started opting for cloud technology to avail clou... Read more>>

There's only so much that a small business can spend on new equipment compared to their larger peers. Strategies such as hiring staff and expansion plans always take a back seat due to budget constraints. In order to attain required level of healthy profit, computing overheads need to be efficiently tackled. This is where cloud storage steps in. Significance of Cloud Storage Cloud storage has rapidly emerged as a widely held a... Read more>>

It is quite astonishing to perceive that in this age of technological advancement many organizations still don’t adopt adequate disaster recovery (DR) measures to protect their mission-critical applications. It is perhaps assumed that disaster recovery is highly expensive, difficult to manage and untrustworthy for any mission-critical applications to run and access in order for streamlining business operation. However, this tale h... Read more>>

The approaching years will witness a substantial increase in the far-stretched adoption of cloud services by several business segments. In this light, developers and architects seeking to build new applications are leveraging the latest cloud based solutions to design the components; employ APIs for design, development, testing and deployment. Choosing cloud storage services allow them to take immediate advantage of greater scalability,... Read more>>

Businesses are increasingly seeking optimal solutions for managing risk that can pass through different countries and seamlessly connect with thousands of suppliers worldwide. The advent of cloud has simplified business operations even where the internal system can’t do. Let’s have a closer look at why some of the key cloud supply chain niche solutions that are gaining traction: •         Rea... Read more>>

Cloud technology is extremely beneficial when it is used as part of an organization's disaster recovery (DR) plan. These days, it is possible for a company to produce a cloud-based recovery site which replaces an incapacitated primary data center is. A huge number of alternative strategies are used in cloud for disaster recovery and disaster prevention. Cloud-based DR  is the process by which an effective DR i... Read more>>

The SaaS model (software as a service) backed by IaaS model (infrastructure as a service) on cloud is beneficial for an independent software vendor (ISV). That is why ISV businesses across the globe are adopting cloud hosting technology solutions. But such software companies demand for IT infrastructure support. This is where the need for a smart enterprise grade cloud steps in. This model eliminates all redundant infrastructure associa... Read more>>

Content delivery network (CDN) is touted as one of the major breakthroughs in the field of information technology. CDNs are revolutionizing most of the sectors across the world as they are designed to corroborate the rising content volumes, which sequentially prevent network clogging. Moreover, the networks further improve the availability of audios and videos while proving as a more efficacious model when used for static website conten... Read more>>

Cloud computing has significantly changed the way developers create and run business applications. Today, delivering new applications is as simple as opening a web browser. With Platform as a Service (PaaS), enterprises are able to run critical applications, without the hassle of managing hardware & software infrastructure within their office premises. According to a research conducted by the US-based premium research and advisory fi... Read more>>

Computing power consumption of global enterprises is critically high these days. Such computing resources have a direct impact on our environment. Scientists and researchers across the globe have realized the same in the past decade; that is why they are obsessed about finding out the best solution to curb modern-day environmental issues.    As an SME, you may not have considered all the services to be eco-friendly. Yet,... Read more>>

With increasing business risks and rapidly changing economic environment, enterprises today are more focusing on flexibility and business agility. Businesses need to ensure that their existing IT set up and operations must achieve strategic and financial objectives with economic resources, scalability and agility to meet ever changing business demands. A research conducted by Forrester states that Infrastructure-as-a-service wing of ... Read more>>

What is Cloud Desktop? Cloud desktop is nothing but a computer that is sitting inside the cloud. There is no need to carry your laptop anymore because your computer is now in the cloud and can be accessible from anywhere in the world. It hardly matters what device you are using, you just need to log on to the Cloud Desktop and access your computer.   Why Healthcare Organizations Are Opting for Cloud Desktops?  Heal... Read more>>

Recent surge in the adoption of cloud by small businesses exceeds the adoption rate of large enterprises by two factors. The statement seems to be true, considering that having access to sophisticated software without the expense of purchasing and maintaining it gives small businesses an opportunity to go hand in hand with large organizations in terms of productivity, clientele base and revenue.  No doubt, there are ma... Read more>>

The Internet of Things (IOT) is creating a big wave in the digital universe. The velocity at which start-up enterprises are adopting IoT opportunities is stimulating traditional and large size organizations to leverage this cutting-edge technology in their business. According to a research conducted by Capgemini Consulting, about 50% of the start-up firms that are less than three years old are forecasted to implement IoT solutions by 20... Read more>>

Irrefutably over past few decades, enterprise resource planning (ERP) application has gained paramount significance. It is one the critical aspect that businesses can't even think of overlooking. And, the coming together of ERP system and the cloud is fairly an exceptional phenomenon that has come forth despite the benefits the cloud offers. While businesses may always want to deal with certain types of mission-critical data on-p... Read more>>

SaaS and Cloud Computing are two sides of the same coin. Yet, there exists a bold line between them which distinguishes these services on the basis of risks and rewards attached. Before proceeding towards the differences between Cloud Computing and SaaS, let us discuss a little about Internet.  Internet and Cloud are interchangeably used. An example of the same is the paper The Self-governing Internet: Coordination by Design, wh... Read more>>