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Know more about Cloud Drive

Where Should You Save Your Data? It seems every internet giant is pushing its cloud storage now. Most have a certain amount of free cloud storage. Hosting companies are offering to host in the cloud. Google has introduced notebook ‘computers’ that use the cloud...

How Cloud Archiving Can Increase Your Businesses Efficiency

Data backups were commonplace long before computing, and whether you are storing your records in boxes or on computer archives, it has to be secure and organised in case you need to access files or emails for e-Discovery or some other purpose. The advent of cloud data...

Cloud computing: What are IaaS, PaaS & SaaS?

Courtesy of Cloudscaling Cloud computing, like any new technology, comes complete with a set of specific terms and acronyms. Three of the most important, and fortunately simple, to understand are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS which refer to the level of service you’ll be receiving...

10 Ways Secure Cloud Storage Makes Holiday Seasons Merry

Courtesy of conanil The holiday season is stressful. Forget the joy it brings with family reunions, friendship outings and volunteer opportunities – it also brings the pressure of planning the perfect parties, picking out the best gifts, and making sure you don’t break...

Stop Doubting Security in the Cloud

Courtesy of ZapTheDingbat  These days, almost everyone interacts with “the cloud” in some way, whether through banking or by storing music files online. Many users of cloud services, and especially those of online secure cloud storage services, have concerns centered...

How Cloud Contact Centres are Changing Business

Courtesy of holidayextras For some time now, business operations have been streamlined and consolidated through the development of contact centres, where all of a customer or client’s queries can be dealt with under one roof. As IT and telecommunications have developed,...

IaaS will drive cloud uptake

Courtesy of papalars The tech market tends to venerate the newest, flashiest innovations. The cloud is no exception, with the biggest buzz surrounding novel approaches to cloud services such as business process as a service (BpaaS). Buzz does not necessarily equal bucks,...

Cloud security risks

Thanks to the cloud, businesses large and small are taking advantage of cheap easy to access applications to increase their business productivity and reduce the costs associated with purchasing enterprise grade IT hardware. Virtualization, whilst by no means a new technology,...

Increasing emphasis on better networking in the Cloud

There has been a lot of discussion about how cloud computing is changing the networking paradigm from the traditional LAN/WAN end-to-end service guarantee to the public cloud “best effort” service delivery. This can for example be viewed in the success of services like Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com has ca. 3 million customers that use their...

Getting the Most Out of the Cloud

Putting your business’ data on an easily accessible network database—so long as it stays secure—can open up new opportunities for increasing employee productivity as well as decreasing IT costs. Whether your business already works in the cloud or is just now considering...

A guide to building websites in the Cloud

Dreamweaver costs hundreds of pounds, but building in Wix, SquareSpace or one of the other many cloud-based HTML WYSIWYG editors out there is a much more affordable option – prices begin at free and head up towards the $20 mark at a push. So why isn’t everyone doing it? Here’s...

5 Top Cloud Management Providers

How to optimize your cloud computing system further The cloud is everywhere. Setting up a server to host some games? You’re better off doing it through cloud. Sharing some files with work? You should probably look at cloud. Cloud saves the time, configuration, and resource-based...

Why Choose Cloud-based Website Security Services

A Recent research reviewing SMB’s website traffic showed that 51% of web site traffic is non-human, and that 31% is potentially damaging and includes automated malicious traffic from scrapers, hackers, scanners and spammers. With these numbers, no one wishes to leave...

Common Metrics to Have in Your Cloud SLA

The cloud is changing the way companies look at IT, but it has also become a buzzword. An unscrupulous vendor might take advantage of someone who is eager to jump on the cloud bandwagon. Even if you don’t understand exactly how the technology works, there is one way you...

How to overcome fears and create a loyal cloud-custome

Cloud computing has been around since almost 1994, yet clients still have doubts about this technology. This is quite understandable, since many people still believe that the world will end in 2012, a software bug can destroy time and Mac doesn’t have any glitches. Judging...

Top 5 Reasons to move to the cloud

Courtesy of Bill Strong  Cloud computing is ready. But is business ready for it? In some instances, small to medium sized enterprises might still need convincing of its merits beyond the ease of use and affordability. So if you haven’t considered it before, here’s...

Packt Publishing reaches 1000 IT titles and celebrates with an open invitation

Birmingham-based IT publisher Packt Publishing is about to publish its 1000th title. Packt books are renowned among developers for being uniquely practical and focused, but you’d be forgiven for not yet being in the know – Packt books cover highly specific tools and technologies...

Five Ways Cloud Computing Can Speed Up Your Projects

Cloud computing, the delivery of information technology services over the internet, has come a long way in recent years.  New cloud computing products and services are proliferating like never before and these are creating enormous opportunities to improve business efficiency. One...

The Top Five Reasons to Consider a Cloud-Based Monitoring Solution

Knowledge is power, and knowing what is going on with all your servers gives you the power to stay on top of things, address issues before they become outages, and meet your SLAs. With all the other tasks on your plate daily, how can you possibly keep an eye on all your servers...

Do We Need Cloud Based Industrial Software? (part 1)

Much has been said about cloud based applications for individuals, small groups and trivial applications meant for companies and cloud based software for small and medium businesses.  So what about heavyweight software meant for companies of size to operate their core businesses? El...

Mobile Optimization: Analyzing Your App

Ignorance is not bliss. Just ask any developer who’s been shocked to find review after review of complaints. Worse yet is when users are disgusted enough to abandon or uninstall the app — a 95 percent likelihood — but don’t feel it’s worth their time to explain why in a review...

4 reasons why businesses might not want to switch to the cloud

Courtesy of dungodung Cloud computing is the next big thing, whilst initial take-up was slow due to a number of concerns expressed by enterprises, there’s now little doubt as to the benefits of cloud. However, cloud takes many forms and there is usually a solution to...

B2B and Back-Office Integration in the Cloud: The Value of Using a Cloud Services Brokerage

We live in a world that is always on, always active, always connected, and always changing. In our global marketplace, the connected enterprise has a competitive advantage. The ability to integrate the value chain and share information beyond the edge of the enterprise —...