Cloud adoption has been gaining a considerable momentum due to realization of multiple attributes of cloud than can enhance business processes by transforming the overall IT infrastructure of organizations. Right Approach of Cloud Adoption Entrepreneurs need to be reassured that cloud migration need not be an all-or-nothing exercise. Ideally, one can start experimenting cloud adoption by leveraging cloud applications for resolving... Read more>>

Cloud services have become new normal since that are being leveraged by a large majority of businesses. The increasing dependence of enterprises on cloud has also resulted in growing need to secure data from possibility of intrusion by hackers. It has become necessary to implement multiple security measures to protect mission critical data from intruders.  Security as a roadblock in cloud adoption Security is a significan... Read more>>

In what can be seen as a confirmation of cloud’s ability to drive business processes with economy and flexibility, growth of cloud adoption in 2017 is projected to hover around seventeen percent over last year.  Factors That Influence Growth of Cloud Services The major contributor to cloud enviable growth is going to be IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service, since it is poised for a whopping growth of around 43 percent. T... Read more>>

On the wide horizon of application development, containers are emerging as part of cloud computing. This underlines the significance of portability in this domain. Thanks to technology that enables abstracting applications into virtual containers for enabling their movement between different clouds.  Containers also offer unique advantage of architecture since one can access standard process of dividing applications into contain... Read more>>

The unprecedented success of Pokémon Go is food for thought for everyone who is associated with cloud in some or other way. The augmented reality game has been a runaway success wherever it has been launched. It enjoys a top position for average daily engagement by replacing even Facebook. Just within a matter of week Pokémon Go overtook Tinder in total number of installs and Twitter in number of users per day.  ... Read more>>

Organizations consider cloud as a valuable resource to enhance their agility, operational flexibility, and ability to scale. Depending on the type of cloud that is being implemented in enterprise cloud infrastructure, organizations can expect to improve their operations by adding cloud value to their existing capabilities. Emergence of open software computing Cloud strategists and enterprise IT planners focus on future-proofing th... Read more>>

Cloud providers have been focusing mainly on the small businesses and large organizations while neglecting the midsized companies. This has happened due to the presence of massive number of small companies that present huge opportunities for retail based cloud services and the cash rich big organizations that have been targeted by cloud industry. Lucrative market segments Cloud landscape has been influenced by upper and lower mark... Read more>>

Whether you are a business traveler or a photo enthusiast, cloud storage aims at making your life easier while you are travelling because you will be not only travelling lighter but also be free from worrying about lost pen drives or spending longer time at airport security counters.  Cloud storage application has changed paradigms of saving or sharing data and has resulted in saving working hours. One can make good use of trans... Read more>>

The amalgamation of cloud and big data can be attributed to fresh IT wave that is causing ripples across IT departments of different industry verticals. Challenges associated with data storage in the new environment of big data and cloud, are influenced mainly by rapidly accumulating data.  It is becoming increasingly overwhelming to separate and discard irrelevant data due to huge volume and rapid generation of big data. This i... Read more>>

It is estimated by experts that data virtualization is poised to grow in terms of its importance with massive generation of data is extremely important for the organizations. Importance of data virtualization is attributed to the need for extracting maximum possible benefits from the available data that is in structured as well as un-structured forms.  By adopting data virtualization processes businesses are able to abstract dat... Read more>>

Majority of discussion forums in India consistently discuss digitalization and there have been numerous examples of enterprises that have already adopted the same to some extent in the age of cloud. Major industry verticals that have been contributing to cloud growth are banking and securities, utilities, manufacturing, communications, and media related services. Cloud as an optional resource is a thing of the past with nearly 75 per... Read more>>

We should not overlook some of the tradeoffs of cloud computing while appreciating its large spectrum of advantages. Every organization needs to assess its current needs and future growth objectives before concluding whether public cloud services would be appropriate for its business processes. Benefits of cloud computing for SMBs On a general note it is observed that most of the small and medium enterprises are able to exploit ad... Read more>>

There has been a remarkable market consolidation of the major cloud vendors offering IaaS public cloud computing solutions. The year was witness to a significant transition impacting all enterprises that have used cloud services from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.  The transition was marked by greater ability of enterprises to choose locations to host their data across the globe and growth in nu... Read more>>

Cloud ERP has transformed manufactures’ ability of saving costs to acquire a competitive edge. This is the common perception of all manufacturers who have adopted cloud ERP in place of traditional software based ERP. The most compelling advantage of cloud ERP over on-premise ERP is its cost effectiveness. Cloud ERP in manufacturing provides central visibility and facilitates use of a uniform system for coordination of diverse o... Read more>>

Cloud computing is one of the most omnipresent and all-pervasive modern technologies that is subtly influencing communications and information exchange in our day to day lives in the form of apps and wide spectrum of cloud assisted services. These technologies and associated services are driven by remotely positioned servers and an array of computing devices. In order to implement cloud based solutions, we need massive compute power,... Read more>>

There can be no two opinions about the growth of cloud adoptions across all categories and verticals of businesses. It is interesting to know that due to growing adoption of cloud assisted solutions cloud traffic is poised for four-fold increase in the next few years.               Extensive Proliferation of Cloud Services This phenomenal growth will also lead to processin... Read more>>

Users of SAP are often perplexed while customizing their environments or implementing new upgrades. These tasks are highly time consuming, resource intensive, and can lead to project delays. This underlines need to move SAP environment to cloud.                Relevance of Cloud Benefits From SAP Perspective Although, many individuals would rate agility as t... Read more>>

Use of several cloud services by individual cloud user has become a new normal. This has been clearly brought out by 2016 RightScale State of the Cloud Report that confirms use of average of six cloud services by every user of cloud. Multiple clouds being used by any user is usually an assortment of public and private cloud solutions. This may also account for clouds that are commissioned for the purpose of testing or experimentation. ... Read more>>

If industry pundits and strategic reviews of global technology research firms are to be believed, the major portion of Indian software exports can be attributed to solutions that combine cloud and analytics. It is interesting to note that cloud and analytics are significant components of SMAC (Social Media, Mobile, Analytic, and Cloud), which is fast emerging as a robust facilitator of business as well as technology of the approaching d... Read more>>

The time is ripe for deciding on the next course of action that any business organization needs to take in terms of its on premise IT infrastructure. Given the fact that right choice of server infrastructure is extremely important for success of any business enterprise, one needs to understand the ongoing transformation of IT landscape owing to accelerated rate of cloud adoption by organizations. If an organization is exploring ways ... Read more>>