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Jun 13, 2018

VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise software-defined data center (SDDC) to the AWS Cloud. It enables customers to easily migrate their existing virtual infrastructures to seamlessly run their business-critical applications like SQL Server, in the cloud, using the same VMware vSphere...

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May 02, 2018

As mobility and cloud computing continue to expand, so does the network perimeter that defense agencies need to protect. Data loss prevention (DLP) used to be simple, at least in theory: Protect the local network, and all data within that network perimeter will be secure. But it’s no longer th...

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Mar 14, 2018

Organizations tend to think of data storage as an ancillary service and do not optimize storage after data is moved to the cloud. Many also fail to clean up unused storage and let these services run for days, weeks, and even months at significant cost. According to this blog post by RightScale, up t...

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Mar 15, 2018

In the traditional data center-based model of IT, once infrastructure is deployed, it typically runs whether it is needed or not, and all the capacity is paid for, regardless of how much it gets used. In the cloud, resources are elastic, meaning they can instantly grow or shrink to match the require...

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Oct 05, 2018

As the internet gets more popular and efficient, the variety of network devices has become increasingly diversified, and the result is a rapidly growing demand of these products and
services. Such services include the applications on smartphones, OTT boxes that replace DVD players and cable T...

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Oct 10, 2018

Endereum Inc., a semi-decentralized serverless cloud computing platform, has a vision for a DPaaS model (decentralized platform-as-a-service), which refers to a new generation of p2p and block chain network that will not only provide decentralized services, such as smart contracts, but also hosting ...

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Oct 06, 2018

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service delivers the world’s most advanced database cloud by combining the world’s 1 database technology and Exadata, the most powerful database platform, with the simplicity, agility and elasticity of a cloud-based deployment. Customers can now run Oracle d...

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Oct 05, 2018

Today, modern computing techniques are capable of easily storing, processing and analyzing large amounts of and a variety of data. These techniques could correlate diverse datasets in order to create individual’s profiles, to gain insights, and to offer new digital services. Among others, thre...

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Sep 03, 2018

The battle for new mobile services will be fought in the cloud. Mobile traffic is expected to increase ten-fold in the coming years, while revenue for traditional services (e.g., voice, data, messaging) remains flat. The new revenue opportunities will be found in the next wave of mobile services, wh...

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Sep 22, 2016

Internet of Things (IoT) market forecasts show that IoT is already making an impact on the global economy. While estimates of the economic impact during the next five to ten years vary slightly (IDC estimates USD 1,7 trillion in 2020 [1], Gartner sees a benefit of USD 2 trillion by that time [2], an...

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Apr 10, 2018

This paper discusses best practices for Oracle VM Server for SPARC (previously called Sun LogicalDomains). Oracle VM Server for SPARC virtualization technology allows creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system. Deployed on Oracle SPARC servers, this solution provides a powerful...

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Jun 07, 2018

Blockchain technology has provided a way to maintain consensus across all nodes with no central authority. However the technology faces fundamental issues like a lack of real-time transaction settlement and scalability. Despite improved consensus algorithms, Some blockchain implementations such Bitc...

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Oct 19, 2017

Server virtualization has proven itself time and time again as the biggest benefit to virtualization in the datacenter. Despite its ever-decreasing limits, where server virtualization has been applied rigorously, it has both enormous and positive impacts on corporate power and cooling expenses as we...

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Dec 22, 2017

Many of the industrial control systems in use today were installed 30 years ago and are now becoming outdated, presenting major business challenges to industries. While the legacy infrastructure has provided a stable platform for control systems for many years, it lacks
flexibility, requires ...

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Sep 05, 2018

Whether you are running a chain of retail stores, bank branches, classrooms, or health clinics, or are collecting IoT data at a remote site, your digital transformation needs to reach these locations. Business digitization is evolving from siloed administrative islands (in the form of headquarters, ...

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Sep 19, 2018

Regulation is a fundamental pillar supporting the success of the financial services industry, ensuring protection of investors and integrity of markets. Over the past
century, regulatory requirements have evolved, both in the U.S. and globally, to keep pace with the growing complexity, speed ...

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Sep 20, 2018

In recent years, enterprise geographic information system (GIS) deployments have increasingly moved from traditional office-based workflows to leveraging GIS apps in the field with mobile technology. This makes security considerations more complex and challenging for information technology (IT) arch...

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Mar 01, 2018

Telecom companies are shifting gears towards an ecosystem-based business model, partnering synergistically with digital content service providers. With seismic changes in customer expectations and increased executive push towards digitization, the strategic imperative for telcos is to revitalize the...

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Sep 20, 2018

This reference architecture for virtualizing high-performance computing (HPC) environments describes the infrastructure and configuration of an HPC deployment based on VMware technologies. In addition, it provides information about the components of traditional and virtualized HPC (vHPC) environment...

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Sep 28, 2018

For the purposes of the Oracle Autonomous Content and Experience Cloud and the Oracle Content and Experience Cloud, the Service tracks either named users or visitors based upon the role that a user is given in the Service; users with anonymous access to the Service will be tracked as visitors. Visit...

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Oct 12, 2017

FireEye understands cyber attacks better than anyone else and uses that knowledge to remove complexity from security. The company has built an intelligence-led, security-as-a-service approach that blends innovative security technologies, nation-grade FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence and worldrenowned exp...

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May 30, 2018

In many ways, the public cloud is more secure than a traditional data center. Asset management, inventory, audit logging, two-factor access controls, connectivity redundancy, and firewalls are built into the cloud provider platform. Servers are easier to patch. And since implementations that are jus...

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Sep 28, 2018

1,000,000 API Calls per Month: is 1,000,000 API calls or notifications consumed by any application built on the Oracle Cloud Service during a month. 1,000 Emails Sent: is defined as 1,000 unique outbound deliveries sent through the Email Delivery service to send during a calendar month. Outbound del...

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Sep 20, 2018

The world’s fastest supercomputer, the IBM/NVIDIA Summit, began final testing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Peak performance is over 200 petaflops (2 x 1017 64-bit floating point calculations) and 3.3 exaflops (3.3 x 1018) for tensor operations. Previously untouchable prob...

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Feb 21, 2018

As organizations reimagine their future through a digital lens, they are adopting new technologies at greater scale and with greater speed. Technologies such as intelligent automation, big data analytics and cloud computing are combining to create the “new machine,” with the potential to...

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Oct 03, 2018

Let’s explore some of the current processes around pipeline management and forecasting and how they can be improved.

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Oct 03, 2018

The first CRM launch truly changed the way sales were managed. We went from tracking customers on spreadsheets (and even in rolodexes) to tracking them and their attendant opportunities with software. It wasn’t long before reps started to feel the purpose of a CRM was more about preserving the...

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Oct 03, 2018

In the end, you need to be rewarding your sales reps with more than just money if you want to keep them motivated and if you want your sales compensation plan to deliver on its promises.

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Oct 25, 2017

We live in a multicloud world. A world where a multitude of offerings from Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) give us the potential to agilely respond to business opportunities and challenges at a moment’s notice. With application and infrastructure services deployed across public, private, and hy...

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Apr 21, 2016

Demand for cloud-based applications is growing in both the consumer and business spheres. Hybrid cloud computing combines private and public cloud resources. This model will radically change the design and management of corporate networks – as hybrid cloud computing also requires a hybrid netw...

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Feb 13, 2018

There is an enormous and timely opportunity for Canada to implement a national precision medicine initiative that will deliver breakthrough discoveries and safer, more effective, and cost-efficient treatments for millions of people affected by genetic diseases in Canada and around the world. In orde...

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Jun 07, 2018

Organizations are turning to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in vast numbers to extend internal data centers and take advantage of the elasticity of the cloud. While AWS secures the infrastructure, AWS end-users are responsible for protecting everything residing within it—as described in the AWS Sha...

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Jun 16, 2018

Cloud computing provides computing services, servers, storage, databases, networking, software over the Internet whenever it is required. Cloud is a shared pool of data one can use Cloud Computing to transforms the databases and application software to the huge data centers. In this paper, we focus ...

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Mar 22, 2018

As global competition from traditional rivals and new entrants continues to intensify, businesses
must deliver exceptional customer service and experiences. In an increasingly digital world, this
necessitates holistic, end-to-end service assurance, i.e., monitoring, managing, and contr...

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Jul 01, 2018

The Internet of Things is the interconnectedness of devices via the Internet. Watches, coffee machines, refrigerators, thermostats, and cars, these once offline items are quickly speaking to the Internet, driving technological innovation. Composed of Internetenabled hardware, these Things perform co...

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May 01, 2017

DTCC plays a critical role in protecting the integrity and stability of the global financial system. The firm stands at the center of the global marketplace, and in its role as the holding company for Systemically Important Financial Market Utilities (SIFMUs) in the United States, its services are d...

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Apr 25, 2018

In this white paper, we present the Ankr Blockchain, a multi-chain and useful work based decentralized network with a native data feed. We first review a novel mining solution using the Proof of Useful Work (PoUW) consensus. We will explain the Multiple-Chain Structure and then describe how we plan ...

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Jun 01, 2018

Virtualization transforms enterprise IT, increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving business continuity. This infographic explores adoption data on server virtualization and how it’s growing, the importance of containers and the benefits of software-defined storage. Most enterprise...

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Feb 02, 2018

HEROIC.com is powering the future of cybersecurity with artificial intelligence and the blockchain to protect against current and next-generation cyber threats. As cyber threats are growing at an exponential rate, modern cybersecurity solutions are reactive,outdated, and ineffective. The vast majori...

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Jun 01, 2018

OneLedger is a cross-ledger agnostic protocol that enables high-performance scaling using a sharded and modified practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus scheme -- which allows for either a permissionless or permissioned setting. By coupling public key infrastructure (PKI) with identity manageme...

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Jul 12, 2018

VMware Cloud™ on AWS lets customers easily run their applications in virtual machines on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. Customers have successfully run their business-critical applications with high performance demands on VMware vSphere for many years. It is now possible to do the same t...

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Aug 01, 2018

Comprehensively trained cloud organizations are 80% more likely to adopt cloud and nearly three times as likely to achieve their innovation goals, but are hampered by an ongoing cloud skills gap. Online platforms and in-person training programs struggle to measure cloud skills and provide effective ...

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Jul 19, 2018

Cloud computing is now the “new normal” for enterprise IT environments. Businesses now plan “cloud first” and are increasingly taking an application-centric approach to cloud, using a mix of cloud vendors to best meet their application needs. A recent survey of IT decision ma...

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Jan 18, 2018

This study provides a performance and cost comparative analysis of GPU-instances in the AWS public cloud against onpremise high-performance GPU servers. The objective is to determine the best performance and business options for enterprises and startups in need of accelerated computing solutions, pa...

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Aug 13, 2018

The growth of cloud computing and the emergence of big data systems have been two of the most disruptive technology trends over the last few years. These developments have changed the way technology organizations operate and deliver value to their stakeholders.

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Aug 14, 2018

Predix Platform is asset-centric and provides a productionready distributed application platform. Predix Platform provides a deployment model that spans cloud, on-premises, and the edge. This allows organizations to connect to assets, ingest data, perform analysis, and gather intelligence where it&#...

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Aug 01, 2018

To respond to the ever increasing demand for faster innovation, organizations are looking to shift to a more agile, service-oriented IT model that leverages both private and public clouds. Highly dynamic, agile, available, and programmatic compute, network, storage and security services are no longe...

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Aug 01, 2018

The rise of blockchains has created an inflection point that is driving the creation of a new "decentralized Internet". With the rise of decentralized blockchain-based cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, momentum for the creation of a decentralized Internet has surged. Numerous pro...

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Aug 24, 2018

The most recent installment of the Federal Cloud & Data Center Summit, held on June 13,
2018, included five MITRE-ATARC (Advanced Technology Academic Research Center) Collaboration
Sessions. These collaboration sessions allowed industry, academic, government, and
MITRE repre...

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Aug 01, 2018

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of a massive wave of change generated by social media, mobile devices, and the growing Internet of Things. This wave is driving the pace of business, pushing companies to accomplish more, in less time, than ever before. The engine of that change is IT. As it in...

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Jun 01, 2018

Cloud-native principles and technology have proven to be an effective acceleration technology in building and continuously operating the largest clouds in the world. This new technology has been selected by Cisco and others in the industry to develop next-generation Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) ...

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Jul 01, 2018

In the digital economy, applications are both the face and the backbone of the modernenterprise.For the digital customer, user experience trumps all. Customer-facing applications must be available anytime, anywhere and on any device, and must provide real-time updates and
intelligent interact...

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Aug 10, 2018

In IT, there is an exception to every rule; even the most basic rule of IT, which states that the answer to every question is “it depends.” Security is no different, and because it touches on all aspects of IT from the physical out to the cloud, anything to do with security is going to b...

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Jul 01, 2017

The internet is continually evolving. Thirty years ago, only large enterprises owned big data
centres and startups needed to invest large sums for their own servers1.If they became
successful, they often had a very short time to increase their capacity by spending even more in
i...

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Mar 01, 2018

In a recent IDG survey, an average of 89% of respondents across multiple industries indicated they have adopted or plan to adopt a digital-first strategy. Market research firm IDC predicts that digital transformation spending will reach $1.7 trillion worldwide by the end of 2019. For the most part, ...

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Aug 21, 2018

Enterprises are rapidly transforming their critical network infrastructures to encompass private, public and hybrid cloud architectures. This complex mesh of diverse network topologies coupled with dense virtualization and artificial intelligence applications has posed exponential security challenge...

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Jun 05, 2018

It’s become abundantly clear that the cloud is no longer the future— but the new normal. Enterprises rely on cloud computing for web-based meetings, email, file sharing, and more every day to reduce costs and administrative burdens while enhancing productivity. With the wealth of benefit...

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Jun 01, 2018

Information Technology (IT), once seen as only for “software development,” has now found its way into all types of organizations. Businesses that fail to embrace IT and IT leaders who fail to be strategic partners to their business leaders will also fail to lead the business towards thei...

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Jul 15, 2017

As the use of cloud services continues to increase in most organizations, IT Management is generally managing how best to utilize cloud services but they are struggling with how best to transition from a technology-centric organization to a service-centric organization, and figuring out what their o...

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Aug 16, 2018

Both traditional on-premises virtualized private clouds and the new VMware Cloud on AWS provide users the benefits of server consolidation, manageability, and flexibility that VMware brings to the table. To gauge the relative merits of on-premises vs. VMware Cloud on AWS from a Big Data performance ...

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Feb 01, 2018

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure doesn’t offer a prepackaged image with KVM preconfigured. However, we want to provide you with the ability to start using KVM within your environments and move virtual machines into the cloud. This white paper details how to use KVM on a bare metal instance. Before ...

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Aug 01, 2018

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The d...

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Mar 01, 2018

The Oracle Linux operating system is optimized for performance, scalability, reliability and security, and powers Oracle Cloud Applications, Oracle Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle Linux Premier Support is included with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure subscriptions at no additiona...

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Aug 01, 2018

Enterprises need scalable hybrid cloud solutions that meet all their security, data protection, and compliance requirements. To meet this need, Oracle developed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which offers customers a virtual data center in the cloud that allows enterprises to have complete control wit...

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Jul 01, 2018

Software as a Service (‘SaaS’) is already an established option among loan origination software vendors. It is a simple concept riding on a strong business case: clients subscribe to an application hosted by the vendor over the internet, rather than licensing software and installing it o...

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Jun 01, 2018

From research records to supply chain monitoring, pharmaceutical firms have been managing vast amounts of data for years. The amount of data under management continues to increase. New innovations and business models have led to an explosive growth in the volume, variety, and complexity of data. Unf...

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Mar 01, 2017

Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) are increasing in the dental industry, with larger, geographically dispersed infrastructures becoming more commonplace. Due to the number of component practices involved in each DSO, these businesses have specific hardware and software considerations that directly...

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Mar 01, 2018

Please note that we are in the process of undertaking a legal and regulatory analysis of our token sale model and the intended utility of tokens and Holo fuel on the underlying platform. Following the conclusion of this analysis, we may decide to amend the intended utility of tokens and/or Holo fuel...

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Mar 27, 2018

The Hypernet Foundation is launching the Hypernet protocol in order to make high-performance parallel computing a consumer good. Currently, only large corporations can truly benefit from massively parallel computing by exploiting on consoliated  comnputing power.

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Jul 17, 2018

With the explosion of mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the evolution of mobile networks, a variety of services that require low latency and high speed are emerging. To provide services that meet these requirements, cloud computing services, such as Dropbox, Google Cloud Platform, and ...

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Jul 01, 2018

Cloud-based risk processing has become increasingly attractive for banks. The immediate appeal is not having to constantly add “on-premises” compute and storage, instead using on-demand infrastructure. Beyond “going faster for less,” the strategic advantage of knowing your ex...

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Jul 23, 2018

The spreadsheet conundrum... Joe Smith, sales director for Great Start-Up Number 5 Billion and Thirty-One, puts on a blindfold and reaches out blindly for something, ANYTHING, to help him organize his team’s deals and commissions. He’s hopeful. He’s waiting. He knows he’ll co...

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Jul 23, 2018

You’ve reached a certain point in the evolution of your company and you know it’s time to invest in a CPQ system. But buyer beware: There’s a certain misconception around CPQ systems as being plug-in devices or turnkey-ready overlays of your existing infrastructure, or a simple app...

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Jul 23, 2018

It all ties together. You want your sales reps to behave a certain way and close a certain amount of deals in specific verticals that match your company’s 3- and/or 5-year vision, but the systems you currently have in place to drive this behavior are not working for any number of reasons. Most...

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Jul 23, 2018

Custom ICM solutions are built for you, not auditors, so they typically don’t offer visibility into actions performed over time. Auditors may lack confidence in your homegrown system, especially if they find errors or omissions. In fact, audit risk from errors and overpayments is often the mos...

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Oct 01, 2017

Cloud technologies help organizations transform their businesses, and there is no doubt that cloud adoption is growing quickly. IDC forecasts that within the next three years, well over two-thirds of all IT infrastructure and software will be consumed as cloud services. In IDC's 2016 CloudView S...

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Jan 01, 2017

SAP® customers who have long envied the many operational and cost benefts promised by cloud computing can now confdently pursue “cloud-frst” strategies. Companies that have made this move in collaboration with a leading company like Amazon Web Services (AWS) aren’t looking back...

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Jul 01, 2018

Virtualization transforms enterprise IT, increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving business continuity. This infographic explores adoption data on server virtualization and how it’s growing, the importance of containers and the benefits of software-defined storage. Most enterprise...

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Jul 01, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising topic of technical, societal and economic significance [1]. It has the potential to significantly drive business, technology, and economic growth over next decade [2]. The IoT is intended for ubiquitous connectivity among different entities, also called th...

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Oct 02, 2017

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a significant change and opportunity for the manufacturing industry. Technological advancements in connectivity and communication technology, real-time data analysis, and complex event processing have opened the possibility of integrating the traditional opera...

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Jul 01, 2017

An organization’s requirements for a big-data solution are simple: Acquire and combine any amount or type of data in its original fidelity, in one place, for as long as necessary, and deliver insights to all kinds of users, as quickly as possible. Cloudera, an enterprise data management compan...

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Jan 10, 2018

Financial institutions in Australia are increasingly moving to the cloud as a way to effectively manage their digital operations, access new technology, improve security, and achieve cost efficiencies. In order to ensure a high level of information security and management, the Australian Prudential ...

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Aug 01, 2016

VMware has introduced two key new technologies over the past couple of years that have dramatically improved the management and delivery of primary storage resources: Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) and Virtual SAN. Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) helps transform storage management for...

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Jan 01, 2017

Google has a global scale technical infrastructure designed to provide security through the entire information processing lifecycle at Google. This infrastructure provides secure deployment of services, secure storage of data with end user privacy safeguards, secure communications between services, ...

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Feb 01, 2018

Of the many approaches to x86 systems virtualization available in the market today, the hypervisor architecture—in which virtual machines are managed by a software layer that is installed on bare metal—has gained the greatest market acceptance. This fact has translated into rapid growth ...

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Dec 01, 2017

Hybrid IT is the operational model sought and used by most large businesses. For the on-premises portion, the difficulty is ensuring it can be deployed with the ease and financial model of the public cloud, yet retain traditional governance and control. This guide will focus on achieving item No. 3,...

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Jul 01, 2016

Five years ago, such instant access to critical information would have been impossible. However, cloud-based software and storage are enabling businesses large and small to access client records, analytical tools, legal records, documents, online research and other critical information easily and fr...

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Dec 02, 2017

This whitepaper covers top considerations for cloud procurement for U.S. Government organizations and their partners, with specific guidance on planning, governance, licensing, and eligibility for Azure Government. This guidance is intended for the early stages of your cloud journey, to help you thi...

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Aug 01, 2018

Campus information systems often house vast amounts of sensitive data. Should a data breach occur, the consequences for exposed individuals can be grave—and the financial and reputational damage to institutions can be severe. The EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) i...

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May 01, 2018

Aberdeen research has shown that when organizations harness the power of Flash, they are able to more effectively implement a digital transformation, build hybrid infrastructures, and gain increased agility and competitive advantage. In this eBook, we’ll explore how leading businesses can bett...

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Mar 01, 2018

Traditional authentication methods that rely on usernames and password integrity are widely considered to be broken. As organizations begin to move more sensitive data to cloud apps to take advantage of the productivity gains, the traditional perimeter expands to wherever the user is logging in from...

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Jul 07, 2018

High-performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing trace their history back as far as the 1920s. In the early modern era, HPC was used by monolithic supercomputers, such as those produced by Cray Research beginning in the 1970s. This technology was largely limited to national research laboratories ...

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Apr 01, 2018

Big Data Block (BDB™) combines Big Data solutions and blockchain technology utilizing Ethereum’s smart contract and token capabilities. BDB™ democratizes Big Data for everyone. Combining the best of Big Data and the best of blockchain we remove the deep technical skills and costs n...

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Jun 06, 2018

The information set out below may not be exhaustive and doesn’t imply any elements of a contractual relationship or obligations. The sole purpose of this Whitepaper is to present HighIoT, the Akita device and HIT tokens to potential token holders in connection with the proposed token sale. Des...

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Jul 05, 2018

This White Paper sets out to examine how the Internet of Things is markedly reshaping user engagement, defined here as a stakeholder’s response to some type of offering, such as, but not limited to, a product or a service. It starts with a brief overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) and exp...

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Mar 01, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the spotlight innovations which has the potential to provide unlimited benefits to our society. The development of the IoT is about to reach a stage at which many of the objects around us will have the ability to connect to the Internet to communicate with each...

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Jul 01, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising topic of technical, societal and economic significance [1]. It has the potential to significantly drive business, technology, and economic growth over next decade [2]. The IoT is intended for ubiquitous connectivity among different entities, also called th...

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Nov 01, 2017

Today’s healthcare systems must transform to a data-driven, patient-centric model that is more collaborative, distributed, and personalized. The growing demand for affordable quality healthcare drives a smart and connected care continuum where seamless and secure data capture, analysis, and sh...

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Jul 01, 2018

The 5G Software Network Working Group as part of the 5G-PPP Initiative prepared this white paper (WP) to provide first insights and trigger discussions about 5G cloud-native design. The shift from the cloud ready to cloud native, from VM to container, from MANO to Kubernetes, etc is a must have to a...

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Jun 01, 2018

The virtual machine abstraction provides a wide variety of benefits which have undeniably enabled cloud computing. Virtual machines, however, are a doubleedged sword as hypervisors they run on top of must treat them as a black box, limiting the information which the hypervisor and virtual machine ma...

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Mar 01, 2018

Purchasing of TalentSnap Tokens does not present an exchange of cryptocurrencies or conventional currencies for any form of ordinary shares of the Seller and the Buyer of TalentSnap Tokens is not entitled to any guaranteed form of dividend. The Buyer is only entitled to certain rights within the Ter...

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Dec 01, 2017

Connected Vehicles and especially connected Autonomous Driving (AD) vehicles bring a whole new ecosystem with new requirements on the Cloud and the network architecture to support the new workloads and to satisfy the real-time service requirements. Such ecosystem includes the vehicles, the road infr...

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Sep 01, 2017

Edge Computing refers to a broad set of techniques designed to move computing and storage out of the remote cloud (public or private) and closer to the source of data. For the emerging class of “5G Applications” this is often a matter of necessity. Locating such applications in a traditi...

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Jun 01, 2018

A number of technical issues, including WAN performance, security, and central management of virtual and IP services, prevent the widespread adoption of cloud computing infrastructures in the enterprise. This paper explores the nature of these technical challenges and offers solutions for building a...

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Jun 01, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating an unprecedented volume and variety of data. Data for transportation applications - including smart traffic signals, road-weather information systems, traffic sensors, and vehicles themselves - are no exception to this rule. For these data to enable a true ...

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Jun 13, 2018

At the heart of the enterprise data center stands the monolithic application. These systems are a paradox—crucial to business processes today, yet a painful obstacle to tomorrow’s requirements. While the business demands speed and agility, these systems are difficult to update. And when ...

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Jul 01, 2017

The cloud promises the efficiency and agility needed in a digital age, but also comes with new levels of IT complexity that, if not properly addressed, can compromise business objectives. This complexity intensifies at the enterprise edge: the branch office and remote office (ROBO) locations that ar...

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Jul 04, 2018

Acute Angle Cloud is a globally distributed IaaS platform. It is designed to be a globally distributed cloud computing service with a basic-layer platform based on the New PC Network (distributed hardware terminals), the Acute Angle Chain and CAN (Content-Addressable Network). Its construction will ...

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Apr 05, 2018

The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new, comprehensive data protection law that goes into effect on May 25, 2018. It applies broadly to organizations based in the EU and elsewhere that collect and process the personal information of individuals residing in the EU. ...

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Mar 07, 2018

Autodesk® BIM 360® is a cloud-based construction project management platform designed to improve performance across a project’s lifecycle. As a secure, cloud-based product, Autodesk BIM 360 offers the benefits of collaboration in the construction space while safeguarding customer data....

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Mar 01, 2018

The boom in cloud computing over the past few years has led to a situation that is common to many innovations and new technologies: many have heard of it, but far fewer actually understand what it is and, more importantly, how it can benefit them. This whitepaper will attempt to clarify these issues...

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May 24, 2016

Interest in cloud computing has been growing significantly in the past years. More businesses are now switching to the cloud for data management, storage and analysis. According to the official NIST definition, cloud computing is a model that allows ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access t...

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Jun 01, 2018

The datacenter has always been where applications have resided, but the composition and nature of applications have changed as technological eras have come and gone and as businesses have become increasingly digital. We’re now in a period where applications have gained unprecedented importance...

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Jan 01, 2018

Cognida™ delivers trusted blockchain solutions that address the increasingly complex information sharing challenges that enterprises face by allowing them to incorporate decentralized blockchain security features into their existing systems for external and internal sharing of data. The Cognid...

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Nov 16, 2017

The Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) has been conceived to help break the existing barriers to healthcare information sharing and systems' supplier lock-in. To achieve this it defines a set of open standards that anyone can implement in order to create interfaces through which information can be s...

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Apr 10, 2018

Communication Service Providerd(CoSP)have used computing servers in separate networking and IT organizations for many years. By consolidating syatem architectures and operational practices,they can enable a hybrid CoSP cloud. The CoSP cloud,also known as telco would enable resources to be flexibly r...

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Jun 14, 2018

The cloud market includes a vast number of cloud providers, ranging from the big players, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure, to smaller cloud providers or combination of private server clusters, along with a large variety of services and offerings. Companies are attracted ...

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Jun 01, 2018

After the bow wave of GDPR readiness legal work in the run up to 25 May 2018, IT lawyers may be forgiven for thinking that the biggest change is now behind them. But the truth is that GDPR heralds rather than ends a period of change in IT law and regulation as business transforms through the adoptio...

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Jun 14, 2018

One of the key benefits to enterprises consuming cloud services is the ability to leverage value-added features and functionality as quickly as the cloud service provider can deploy them. But for many cloud providers, “adding value” often means having full access to user data and content...

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Jun 20, 2018

This document herein is a whitepaper which provides technical specific overview of the current and potential future state of the Path Platform and token ecosystem. This whitepaper is for informational and educational usage only, and as our technology and development may change is not a statement of ...

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Jun 20, 2018

As part of your strategic procurement applications deployment, you should evaluate how these solutions work with your existing systems and the different integration options that are available to you. The approach you take will depend on your business needs and processes as well as your existing syst...

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Jun 01, 2018

Edge computing as an evolution of cloud computing brings application hosting from centralized data centres down to the network edge, closer to consumers and the data generated by applications. Edge computing is acknowledged as one of the key pillars for meeting the demanding Key Performance Indicato...

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Jun 21, 2018

Cloud computing is rapidly becoming the predominant IT service delivery mechanism as more enterprises realize its potential for digital transformation. However, as organizations evaluate different cloud platforms and configurations, it has become apparent that there is no “one size fits all,&r...

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Mar 28, 2018

Enterprises today are realizing that it’s a multi-cloud world. Recent findings from Microsoft and 451
Research state that nearly one third of organizations work with four or more cloud service providers.
As organizations shift towards a multi-cloud approach, new challenges have b...

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May 21, 2018

For organizations migrating applications to the cloud, replacing traditional fax systems with cloud fax creates significant opportunities. Faxing has been an integral part of many organizations’ business communications, both internally and with partners, for decades. As a result, it is often s...

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Jun 12, 2017

In the digital era, businesses in every industry are becoming technology companies. New business models such as “product as a service” (in which traditional manufacturers and distributors are driving new revenue streams by integrating software-based services into their offerings) and new...

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Nov 16, 2017

Cloud computing — ubiquitous access to digital resources over a network — has been revolutionizing business since its mainstream debut in the late 1990s. Providers satisfy a range of needs, allowing companies to apply cloud technology to their industry. The cloud can handle immense stora...

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Jan 24, 2018

The arrival of cloud computing is changing the landscape for information technology (IT) more completely than has any trend or innovation since the first commercial use of the Internet, 15 years ago. Cloud computing redirects energy and resources that IT has traditionally consumed in operations and ...

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Sep 26, 2017

According to recent data from Accenture, 66% of organizations are currently using one or more cloud applications. However, many of these organizations are leaving a lot of value on the table. For example, among those organizations that have adopted cloud applications, only 40% of customer service us...

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Jul 25, 2017

Companies are unsure if the cloud is ready for those key applications. More specifically, they are unsure about running the large databases that underpin applications in the cloud. That is not to say that there is a history of problems with databases in the cloud. Rather, there is a lack of experien...

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Dec 07, 2017

Cloud computing is important for many organizations, with use of a wide range of cloud services and the transition of both data and applications to cloud computing environments. The topics of interoperability and portability are significant considerations in relation to the use of cloud services, bu...

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Nov 01, 2017

Hybrid cloud infrastructure is the composition of multiple services from multiple providers into a single service and is a combination of dedicated private cloud resources-built and supported internally or by a third party, and/or public cloud services. 30% of 100 largest vendors new investments to ...

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Jun 18, 2018

Almost every use case and every connected device focused on by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) requires some sort of compute capability at its source, at the edge. Multiple sources define edge computing as “cloud computing systems that perform data processing at the edge of the networ...

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May 17, 2018

Although Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides standard operating system (OS) images for launching compute instances, many scenarios require custom images, either based on the standard images or created by users. This white paper describes how to create and import custom images. It provides step-by-s...

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Feb 01, 2018

CIOs find digital transformation often demands not only technological change but also a re-imagination of roles, skills and culture. This report examines how CIOs are changing themselves and their organisations to ready themselves for the future. Today, these changes require going beyond simply intr...

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Jan 01, 2018

Security teams have lost visibility into their networks. As recently as a few years ago, network boundaries were well-defined and data and devices easily identified. But a tsunami of new developments means that not only have we lost the boundaries of the network, but we have lost control over how an...

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Jul 01, 2017

IT environments are now fundamentally hybrid in nature – devices, systems, and people are spread across the globe, and at the same time virtualized. Achieving integration across this ever changing environment, providing it at the pace of modern digital initiatives, and still being able to mana...

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Nov 02, 2017

Decentralized Infrastructures: Stealth Grid™ foresees "a radically decentralized, more highly interconnected world. A global society that will fundamentally change your costs, eff ciency, and reach, opening up a wealth of new opportunities for those who prepare for it; the infrastructure ...

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Jul 20, 2017

Although n¬tier, monolithic architectures are the norm for most applications running in production today, they are often not the best fit for complex cloud¬based systems. The primary driver for cloud adoption across businesses both big and small is the need for agility and flexibility in the...

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Jul 17, 2014

In business transactions, electronic documents are being increasingly exchanged and archived as a matter of course in the same way it has been done for a long time with their counterparts in paper form. The paper documents are often provided with hand  written signatures, which give the documen...

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Jan 10, 2018

Compared to the majority of other ICO-launches on the market n’cloud. swiss is not a start-up operation. The initiator of n’cloud. swiss AG - Netkom IT Services GmbH - is a Swiss based IT & cloud provider with a proven track record of 17 years of successful operations in various coun...

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Nov 30, 2017

The boom in cloud computing over the past few years has led to a situation that is common to many innovations and new technologies: many have heard of it, but far fewer actually understand what it is and, more importantly, how it can benefit them. This whitepaper will attempt to clarify these issues...

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Feb 13, 2018

The AWS Cloud provides a broad set of infrastructure services, such as computing power, storage options, networking and databases that are delivered as a utility: on-demand, available in seconds, with pay-as-you-go pricing. From data warehousing to deployment tools, directories to content delivery, ...

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Mar 12, 2018

Rather than simply comprising a cost to do business, information technology (IT) should link with and complement business strategy. This requires an efficient, flexible and resilient infrastructure that is primed to anticipate and respond rapidly to shifting business requirements. These requirements...

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May 08, 2018

The landscape for application performance management (APM) and network performance management (NPM) tools has changed enormously over the last few years, driven largely by changing infrastructure and application architectures. The industry as a whole, including enterprises, service providers and ven...

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Aug 19, 2016

The term “hybrid cloud” is defined differently by virtually every industry analyst, vendor, and company, highlighting the fact that applications leveraging a hybrid cloud architecture can take a wide variety of form factors. In the context of Application Performance Management (APM), a s...

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Mar 01, 2018

The continuing digitization and globalization of our economy is becoming increasingly reliant on the control and processing of personal data. And while this presents enormous opportunities for business, it accompanies a growing public awareness and concern for the importance of personal data protect...

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Jul 16, 2015

As cloud adoption accelerates, organizations are increasingly placing their trust in third-party cloud service providers (CSPs). But can you fully trust your most sensitive data to cloud providers? And how can you be assured that they will deliver the security and data protection you need?

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Oct 18, 2017

The cloud has huge potential when it comes to storing, sharing and exchanging files, but the security provided by cloud services is questionable. Users, after uploading their files, have no control anymore about the way their data is handled and the location where it is stored. Even worse, users hav...

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Feb 07, 2018

Cloud VR introduces cloud computing and cloud rendering for VR services. Fast and stable networks allow the implementation of cloud-based VR service content and content rendering where display output and audio output are coded, compressed, and transmitted to user terminals.

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Mar 29, 2017

The public cloud has become a major factor in all IT decision making due to its endless supply of technical resources at an affordable cost. In fact, it is quickly reshaping the way organizations of all sizes are looking at their technology needs as its affordability is now making available new leve...

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In this white paper you will learn about the opportunities and challenges ahead for companies wishing to build competitive smart products for residential and commercial buildings, including the infrastructure and software required to ensure connected services are secure, scalable and ultimately succ...

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Oct 05, 2017

Cloud is transforming how communications and collaboration capabilities are purchased and consumed. It delivers revolutionary changes in cost savings, risk reduction, business agility, and ease of management. Most enterprises have several audio, video and web collaboration assets - digital signage, ...

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Apr 03, 2018

The hybrid cloud is defined as a computing infrastructure that spans one or more public and private clouds. Within the hybrid cloud model, private cloud services may be hosted either on- or off-premises, in a dedicated section of a cloud service provider’s data center. Utilizing the hybrid clo...

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This whitepaper outlines AWS practices and services that support enterprise architecture (EA) activities. It is written for IT leaders and enterprise architects in large organizations.

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Internet-based computing, popularly known as cloud computing, has quickly become more than just marketing hype. Real companies are using it every day to speed up transactions, outsource distracting bits of technology, and give themselves more business agility than ever before.

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As sensitive data proliferates in cloud and mobile environments, data lakes, and other big data repositories, it poses a growing challenge to data security. Indeed, Gartner says data security governance and the orchestration of data security policies across disparate data silos and platforms will be...

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It seems cloud computing has erupted from nowhere but it has actually been around for decades. It has evolved from a shared resources “time-sharing” model in the 1950s to the 1990s era of “grid computing”. Broadband connectivity has enabled rapid adoption of the Internet, and...

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Much talked about for several years, Cloud computing, it seems, has finally arrived. If the number of vendors now offering Cloud services and the number of customers now buying and using cloud are any gauge, then 2010 appears to have become the ‘tipping–point’ for Cloud. In additio...

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Cloud computing is a digital and global transformation that has revolutionized how businesses function. With infinite storage available at economical rates, multiple security assurances, and diligent availability, cloud computing makes new inroads towards a different tomorrow. At the epicenter of cl...

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Customers are realizing that the distinct benefits they offer — including increased security, better performance and potential cost reductions — can give them a much-needed competitive edge in an increasingly complex marketplace.

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Dec 12, 2017

iExec aims at providing decentralized applications running on the blockchain a scalable, secure and easy access to the services, data-sets and computing resources they need. This technology relies on Ethereum smart contracts and allows the building of a virtual cloud infrastructure that provides hig...

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Safe Software’s entire business is built on data, and we understand that it is among the most important assets of any organization. The security and privacy of your data is our highest priority. Safe Software’s FME® Cloud security features manage operational security, user security, ...

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Feb 14, 2018

IT infrastructures using private and public clouds are gaining momentum. When moving to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, your internal IT team — as well as managed services providers — needs to undergo a major chang...

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Mar 28, 2018

The traditional electronic security industry, whose origins are rooted in the burglar alarm, is now moving very rapidly toward more complex networked systems and information management. Much discussion has occurred about the role of IT and physical security and the need to work closely together to m...

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Cloud computing promises to be a fundamental transition in the evolution of IT. Measurable benefits such as lower costs, greater agility and better resource utilization have spurred initial adoption. Public cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service are already quite popular,...

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Mar 19, 2018

Specifically tailored for Software Companies seeking integrated financial software, this infographic from Intacct Corporation looks to share the true benefits of cloud financials for software companies.

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Mar 06, 2018

With the further development of the cloud computing market, organizations are becoming more convinced that cloud computing is not just a technology shift. Cloud computing has an impact on all organizational layers, starting with the IT departments and the IT professionals working within these depart...

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A hybrid cloud model gives organizations the flexibility to put their workloads and data where it makes most sense – leveraging the right blend of public and private cloud services, whilst addressing data security, governance, compliance and budgetary challenges. Many organizations are now tak...

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Cloud computing has been compared to the early proliferation of electricity. Homes, businesses and towns did not want to produce or rely on their own source of power. They began connecting into a greater power grid, supported and controlled by power utilities. Along with this utility connection came...

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This paper provides public sector organizations guidance on addressing common challenges with cloud computing services procurement and will reflect alignment with the Federal Government’s “Cloud First” policy per the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy.1 Guidance presented in this doc...

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Feb 01, 2018

This WP does not constitute any relations between the recipient of this WP and Crowd Machine. This WP does not constitute a prospectus or offer document of any sort, and is not intended to constitute an offer for securities or a solicitation for investment in securities in Crowd Machine or any relat...

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Nov 15, 2017

In recent years, there has been a concerted effort among all companies to move their infrastructure to a centralized cloud, enabled by virtualization. This push started with the vision of reducing time to market for new services and achieving lower total cost of ownership (TCO). This surge in the de...

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Today’s cloud platforms are missing out on the revolution in new hardware and network technologies for realising vastly richer computation, communication, and storage solutions. Technologies such as FPGAs and GPGPUs, programmable network routers, general‐purpose middleboxes and solid‐state dis...

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Jul 14, 2015

Global data is on the rise, in terms of scale, complexity and functionality, paving a way for data centers to be more intuitive, coherent, holistic, and easily accessible. With disruptive technologies such as Big Data, Mobile Technologies, Social Network and Cloud Computing gaining incredible speed,...

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Oct 12, 2017

The world is not getting any friendlier –we hear new security threats, hacking attacks and data breaches every week. Couple that with major service interruptions and outages experienced with the largest cloud provider, and it is no surprise that business and IT decision makers are only willing...

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As the shift into a digital economy continues to accelerate, companies must out-innovate, outthink, and outpace their competition. Businesses must embrace change and transform to become the disruptors in their industries rather than wait to be disrupted by their competitors. In the face of this pres...

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Feb 23, 2018

On 25 May 2018, the most significant piece of European data protection legislation to be introduced in 20 years will come into force. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive. The GDPR strengthens the rights that individuals have regarding perso...

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In delivering security for its cloud offerings, IBM looks to and relies upon its strong security heritage and expertise. IBM has more than 6,000 security engineers and consultants around the world, designing, building and running security solutions for its customers and helping them address their ch...

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Feb 17, 2016

For the past several years, the IT industry has been re-ordered, driven by simultaneous developments in data, analytics, cloud, mobile, social media, and the Internet of Things. At the same time, business leaders have shifted their reliance upon gut instinct for decision making to new forms of busin...

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Feb 05, 2018

Cloud computing is revolutionizing many aspects of business. In particular, the ability to provide technology platforms and infrastructure “as a service” is driving positive change in IT operations, helping companies bridge the gap to digital innovation, quickly and cost effectively.

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Feb 14, 2018

This paper describes the background of and challenges faced in metro network. It also describes the cloud-based BNG with control plane and user plane(C/U) separated architecture and the future evolution of the cloud-based metro network architecture.

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Cloud computing offers to change the way we use computing with the promise of significant economic and efficiency benefits. The speed of adoption depends on how trust in new cloud models can be established.

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Over the past several years, IBM has gained valuable experience implementing cloud solutions within our clients’ environments and within IBM. Now, as the cloud computing market matures, it is time to begin capturing the knowledge we have gained through these implementations. While cloud adopti...

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Feb 13, 2018

As organizations have expanded cloud appropriation in the course of the last few years, public cloud spending has now become a significant portion of enterprise IT budgets. While the advantages of the cloud are clear, the on-request nature of cloud utilizes frequently brings about uncontrolled cloud...

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Mar 15, 2018

The cloud is an excellent alternative to an abundance of expensive and complicated on-premises solutions; however, it is far from a simple turnkey experience. Getting the most out of your cloud solution requires finding the right provider, plan, and configuration for your enterprise.

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Cloud computing has become an increasingly popular means of delivering valuable, IT-enabled business services. Adopting cloud technology can be an affordable way to get access to a dynamically scalable, virtualized computing environment. Optimal IT hardware, software, expertise and infrastructure ma...

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Jul 14, 2011

The availability of cloud services – defined as Internet-based subscription services for applications, platforms or infrastructure – is rapidly reshaping the way businesses provision their IT. Simple, consumer-style offerings make it easy for end users to self-provision compute capacity ...

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Jul 13, 2017

For over a decade, centralized cloud computing has been considered a standard IT delivery platform. Though cloud computing is ubiquitous, emerging requirements and workloads are beginning to expose its limitations. With its strong data center centric view, where compute and storage resources are rel...

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Jun 14, 2017

Public sector and federal government agencies are looking for better vehicles to tame IT budgets, and at the same time provide agile IT services to organizations, citizens and constituents. The paradigm of cloud computing, which has been recently introduced and developed, offers means for public man...

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Nov 22, 2017

Previous analysis and industry focus has missed the point: access networks, not data centres, are the biggest threat to the sustainability of cloud services. This is because more people are accessing cloud services via wireless networks. These networks are inherently energy inefficient and a disprop...

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Jan 17, 2018

Because of the costs to buy and maintain mainframe computers, it was not practical for an organisation to buy and maintain one for every employee. Nor did the typical user need the large (at the time) storage capacity and processing power that a mainframe provided. Providing shared access to a singl...

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Leveraging data in innovative ways offers businesses unparalleled opportunities to understand and respond to the needs of a rapidly moving and changing market. Yet as an increasing volume of data from ever-growing numbers of sources pours into data centers, today’s enterprise is just as likely...

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Tata Communications commissioned independent technology market research specialist Vanson Bourne to undertake the research upon which this report is based. During September and October 2014, Vanson Bourne conducted a total of 1000 interviews with senior IT decision-makers in private organisations of...

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Feb 06, 2018

Whether it’s the world’s largest insurance company, or the local PR consultancy, it is clear that cloud computing is big business. IHS estimates that global business spending on the cloud (infrastructure and services) reached $174.2 billion at the end of 2014, up 20 percent from 2013.1 B...

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Now that the hype stage is over, it is time for every CIO to take a serious look at cloud computing—what it offers today, and what it will offer in the long term. To that end, we provide a realistic assessment of cloud computing—the companies that are already migrating applications to th...

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Jun 10, 2014

This white paper provides information required for the Cloud Computing Foundation exam that is not covered by either the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing or the text “The Cloud at Your Service.” It is intended to provide supplemental material to address areas in the exam necessary for ...

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Dec 15, 2016

German cloud users of cloud service providers often have concerns whether the use of the cloud is acceptable from a data protection perspective, what they should look for in the contract with their cloud service provider and which measures they themselves should take in order to be compliant with th...

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Jul 16, 2015

We live in a golden age of information. Advances in data science, analytics and smart networks are helping produce breakthroughs across a range of endeavors—how doctors treat disease, students learn, and businesses innovate, to name just a few.

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Nov 16, 2017

It’s not surprising that the public’s imagination has been ignited by Artificial Intelligence since the term was first coined in 1955. In the ensuing 60 years, we have been alternately captivated by its promise, wary of its potential for abuse and frustrated by its slow development. But ...

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Sep 15, 2017

Consider any technology today, and you will likely find a “cloud” version that is just perfect for your needs, at least as far as the vendor is concerned. Cloud-based solutions and cloud computing in general seem to be what everyone is talking about - what everyone desires - and any comp...

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Feb 13, 2018

The rise of virtualization as a business tool has revolutionized the way companies operate today. By decoupling data from the underlying physical hardware, businesses are freed from the limitations imposed by a need to keep their data within arm’s reach—it can now be stored anywhere in t...

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Aug 17, 2017

Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently dismissed without catching the improvements to hosting called utility computing that permit...

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Dec 14, 2017

Cloud applications, platforms and services are changing the way enterprises compete for customers. The implementation of cloud technology promises business transformation and modernization, while adding product value and meeting the increasingly demanding needs of applications – maneuvering ev...

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Jan 31, 2018

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describes three ways to deliver cloud computing capabilities: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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Feb 05, 2018

A robust SaaS product can be built with a minimalist approach, for example, Tomcat, mySQL, XML, Struts 2.0, POJO and JSP are all it takes to build a SaaS application/product using Java technology. And it can work very well too. However, there are additional tools/techniques that can be utilized effe...

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Jul 13, 2017

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) represents a new consumption model for the use of IT resources. An IaaS provider offers customers bandwidth, storage and compute power on an elastic, on-demand basis, over the Internet.

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Feb 14, 2018

This white paper examines the issues, process and technologies which can be adopted to provide public sector organisations with a springboard to the cloud.

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Jan 24, 2018

Nowadays, we are being offered a wide variety of storage options, such as direct attached storage, networked storage, and Internet-based public storage services. Since different types of storage services are designed for different purposes, we often use several of them to meet different needs.

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Jan 24, 2018

Across all industries, discussion of migration to cloud services have become commonplace. In fact, it is one of the first considerations when discussing IT cost reduction. While cost savings, speed of deployment and scalability top the list of business motivations, an increasing number of enterprise...

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Jan 17, 2018

IT executives are in one of the most dynamic, challenging business environments of all time. The business expects speed; the IT function strives to keep up while pursuing innovation and efficiency. Many CIOs recognize that cloud is a possible solution to achieving both but they are uncertain about t...

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Jan 24, 2018

Digital transformation has changed virtually everything in the business world. Old ways of working are no longer enough to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation and market change. Whether you’re a tech startup born in the digital world or a hundred-year-old company establishing new process...

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Jan 12, 2017

In the age of the customer, businesses realize the need to take their big data insights further than they have before, in order to win, serve, and retain their customers. Today’s modern company has more data than ever before and is now looking to derive insights from the data that will help pr...

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Sep 20, 2017

Today’s leading-edge organizations differentiate themselves through analytics to further their competitive advantage by extracting value from all their data sources. Other companies are looking to become data-driven through the modernization of their data management deployments. These strategi...

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Dec 05, 2017

With the advent of digital age, Cloud SaaS applications have become the next big thing in enterprises. Almost every organization (small or big) is planning a move to cloud technology and Saas applications. One of the biggest adopters of cloud technology has been the HR department of these organizati...

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Oct 11, 2017

Although there is a lot of talk about cloud, we do not even have a clear common view of how it is defined; that makes it confusing and thus disruptive. This document attempts to give some understanding by taking an inclusive orientation around the subject, rather than taking an exclusive and prescri...

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Nov 30, 2017

As cloud adoption increases so do digital data regulations and organizations’ concerns about where their data is located. With data security and privacy regulations varying significantly from country to country, organizations must firmly embrace data sovereignty in their cloud strategies. Data...

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Jan 25, 2012

The use of cloud-based services is growing rapidly, with the use of software as a service (SaaS), in particular, now becoming mainstream. There are many advantages to be gained through the use of such services rather than deploying and managing technology inhouse, and many of those benefits, such as...

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Feb 23, 2017

Virtualization revolutionized business IT. Now containerization is doing it again. Understanding the difference between the two technologies, and learning when to use each of them, is key to improving IT efficiency in an organization of any size.

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This white paper provides an overview of Cloud Computing and the related Virtualization aspect of Cloud Computing. For a detailed white paper on Cloud Computing see my white paper “Cloud Computing Private and Public.

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Jul 20, 2011

Cloud computing is expected to be one of the fastest-growing technologies in the coming years. Business applications will be the largest market for cloud servicesspending, with a gradual transition from on-premise to cloud-based services especially for general business applications like customer rel...

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The term “cloud”, as used in this white paper, appears to have its origins in network diagrams that represented the internet, or various parts of it, as schematic clouds. “Cloud computing” was coined for what happens when applications and services are moved into the internet ...

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Oct 31, 2017

Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) offers a radically different paradigm of storing and managing information online. Decentralised ledgers lack the points of failure and associated security issues of traditional databases and top-down protocols, whilst at the same time posing their ow...

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Nov 15, 2017

To respond to the ever-increasing demand for faster innovation, organizations are adapting technology trends and moving workloads to the public cloud. Although public cloud services can be a good fit for many applications, company-owned data center continues to play a critical role, with majority of...

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DADI is a global, decentralized cloud platform, focused on the provision of web services to help you build, scale and grow your digital products. With DADI there is no single authority that regulates computing resource distribution.

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Cloud computing has been widely adopted globally and is expected to grow even further in coming years. Business agility is undoubtedly the main benefit and key driver behind enterprise cloud adoption because IT resources can be acquired and deployed more quickly. Once deployed, these resources can b...

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Cloud has become the catalyst for a host of disruptive new business technologies, from chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) to applied machine learning and blockchain. From an IT operations point of view, it’s never been easier to use services— and cut costs. Looking into the near f...

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The Cloud Era has transformed Enterprise infrastructures in many ways. Explore how SD-WAN, powered by Cisco, can enable more secure, consistent and cost effective enterprise connections.

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Many people are confused as to exactly what cloud computing is, especially as the term can be used to mean almost anything. Roughly, it describes highly scalable computing resources provided as an external service via the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. The cloud is simply a metaphor for the inte...

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Cloud computing offers many advantages and conveniences for today’s organizations. Employees can work together in documents in real time from their phone or tablet from any location, and communicate instantly with teammates via video, voice, instant message, or email. No longer tied to a singl...

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If you work in healthcare, you understand the challenges that come with keeping information safe. You’ve gone through the audits, implemented the safeguards, designed with security at the forefront of your solutions, and protected electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI) at all costs. But...

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The widespread adoption of cloud computing services and mobile devices by organizations has drastically changed enterprise information security. Organizations are no longer well served by the conventional approach of protecting the traditional corporate perimeter, whose boundaries consisted primaril...

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F-Secure Security Cloud (later: Security Cloud) is a cloud-based digital threat analysis system operated by F-Secure Corporation. It consists of a constantly growing and evolving knowledge base of digital threats fed by data from client systems and automated threat analysis services.

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In a world where data are continually streaming from distributed and diverse sources—from scientific instruments, to web traffic, to live imagery—making timely discoveries requires computing capabilities that can keep pace with rapidly evolving phenomena.

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Containers, the current darling of software developers, earn their love by allowing faster delivery of application functionality and simplifying the process of deploying and managing applications. Although the first is a developer priority, IT operations likes the streamlined deployment and manageme...

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Cloud computing promises to be a fundamental transition in the evolution of IT. Measurable benefits such as lower costs, greater agility and better resource utilization have spurred initial adoption. Public cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service are already quite popular,...

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IT executives today can be forgiven if accused of having their heads in the clouds. That’s because the clouds that interest IT executives today aren’t of the meteorological variety; they are computing clouds. Widespread interest and even unabashed excitement about cloud computing emanate...

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Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift that sees the dawn of a new age of computing driven by distinct benefits. Given the undeniable value to be gained from a move to Cloud Computing, it is hardly surprising that many organizations are contemplating a shift “to the Clouds”. Experience has ...

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While there are many benefits of adopting the infrastructure, platforms & services offered by a Cloud Service provider, the applicability of these would depend on the nature & size of an enterprise. With an ever-growing list of cloud computing service providers , the decision for enterprises...

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While cloud computing1 is still emerging as a computing style, it has already begun changing how IT delivers economic value to countries, industries, and businesses. Adoption of cloud technologies is as disruptive for existing IT approaches as it is for business and existing revenue models. In some ...

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Cloud computing is an important evolution in IT service delivery for the enterprise as well as for telcos, hosting companies, government agencies, and others.

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Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider...

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Cloud Computing is currently one ofthe hottesttopicsin information technology (IT). However, it is notso much that the term ‘Cloud Computing’ represents a host of new technologies, but rather that these technologies are combined and effectively upgraded so that they enable new IT service...

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A recent survey in 2011 carried out by PEER 1 Network Enterprises found that of the 88% of key
decision-makers that do not use cloud computing, 39% said it was because they did not know enough
about it. This paper helps define, in layman’s terms, what cloud computing is, and how ...

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Cloud computing can be defined as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provi...

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A common understanding of “cloud computing” is continuously evolving, and the terminology and concepts used to define it often need clarifying. Press coverage can be vague or may not fully capture the extent of what cloud computing entails or represents, sometimes reporting how companies...

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Weighing the financial considerations of owning and operating a data center or co-located facility versus employing a cloud infrastructure or a cloud service requires detailed and careful analysis. In practice, it is not as simple as just measuring potential hardware expense alongside utility pricin...

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The IT industry continues to innovate to drive down cost and increase efficiency. Recently, the industry has capitalized on two key innovations: 1) Cloud-based solutions; and 2) As-a-Service solutions. Zadara® Storage has become a leader in Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) solutions by of...

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Cloud computing has become a viable, mainstream solution for data processing, storage and distribution. Adoption is accelerating — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has gone from 262 billion objects stored in its S3 cloud storage in 2010, to over 1 trillion in 2012. However, companies that work with b...

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Cloud computing is a technology deployment approach that has the potential to help organizations better use IT resources to increase flexibility and performance. The underlying automation of cloud-based technology helps organizations access the right computing resource at the right time for an econo...

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The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consum...

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The VMware® Cloud Infrastructure Suite (CIS) consists of five technologies that together expand the capabilities and value that customers can realize from a virtualized infrastructure. CIS is designed to help organizations build more intelligent virtual infrastructures. It does so by enabling hi...

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This white paper presents an evolutionary approach to cloud computing within a high-performance computing (HPC) context. The paper addresses the seamless and incremental process of moving from private/internal to public/external clouds, the realistic use cases, and the qualities needed in a vendor t...

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Just as the experts predicted: Cloud computing is dominating enterprise IT. Nearly all organizations (95%) are using cloud, and 85% have a strategy to use multiple clouds. By 2020, corporate “no-cloud” policies will be as rare as “no internet” policies are today. “Cloud...

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If you’re among those who think that cloud computing works like that, you’ve been watching too many commercials. Like the many who think that putting up a firewall provides complete security, expecting cloud computing to be selfoperating is simply wishful thinking. Cloud computing is, ho...

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Migration, in literal sense, is a relocation of a population to a place usually considered more optimal for that population’s survival or quality of life. Migration may happen periodically or over time and may occur in either direction, to or from a place previously considered home. While this...

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The global market is undergoing a major technological and legislative transformation. Companies all over the world are facing external and internal pressures to develop business strategies that reduce time to market, increase savings, and strengthen regulatory compliance. Organizations want to accel...

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There is an ongoing convergence in research computing as computational social science takes on more and more characteristics similar to the high-end computing traditionally reserved for the physical sciences. However, there are also computational and data requirements of social science applications ...

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For organizations managing elastic applications, a hybrid cloud application architecture provides a robust and cost-effective solution to handle application workloads as they expand and contract. Rather than provisioning servers in the data center for peak traffic, a hybrid architecture enables dyna...

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Before embarking on a new technical effort, it’s important to understand what prob‐ lems you’re trying to solve with it. Hot new technologies come and go in the span of a few years, and it should take more than popularity to make one worth trying. The short span of computing history is l...

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True data-driven organizations seek to extract all the insight from all their data to optimize every aspect of their business and better serve their customers. They collect and analyze more and more data from traditional sources, such as ERP, CRM, and point of sale systems, as well as from newer dat...

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Reducing the cost of quality, improving time-to-market performance and meeting compliance requirements for Aerospace and Defense manufacturers is our passion at Plex. Our customers are achieving lot traceability, document control and audit trails, all in compliance with the International Traffic in ...

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Manufacturers can build or boost their competitive advantage by streamlining their operations but disconnected processes, systems, and data often present roadblocks. Many companies manage an already complex environment with an equally complex web of systems for financials, CRM, manufacturing executi...

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Virtualization and cloud computing can help your organization achieve significant datacenter savings in hardware costs, operational expenditures, and energy demands—while achieving improvements in quality of service and business agility. Yet many organizations don’t realize that using th...

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The process of migrating existing applications to AWS is complex and often involves stakeholders from every part of an organization. Therefore, it’s important to spend time upfront to acknowledge that cloud migration is not just an IT project  it affects many different groups, and often r...

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Your business today needs to move at the speed of now. To keep pace, enterprises are moving more applications to the cloud and relying more heavily on DevOps. According to IDC, worldwide spending on public cloud computing will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19%, from $67B in 201...

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Today’s enterprise is driven by agility. DevOps practices automate code and systems deployment, and the cloud delivers instant deployment and elastic scale. These put application owners in charge of their own destinies and allow them to deploy and manage their applications at DevOps speed. But...

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Cloud enables the connected world, transforming industries at speeds without historical precedent and in ways once deemed science fiction. Cloud data centers filled with inexpensive and rapidly scalable computing equipment (millions of virtual servers accommodate increased computing demands without ...

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To accelerate their businesses, enterprises are seeking to implement the right mix of private cloud, public cloud, managed cloud and traditional IT infrastructure, thereby speeding innovation and growth. A solution that focuses on a hybrid infrastructure design is the top choice of many mid to large...

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Moving to the cloud is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Given the array of options, the decision to adopt cloud computing requires a thoughtful and flexible roadmap to guide applications and processes, set priorities, address security considerations and establish return-oninvestment objectives t...

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Organizations of all sizes are adopting cloud for application workloads. These organizations are looking to avoid the costs of running and managing their data centers or, more often, to accelerate the application delivery process. Using cloud enables development teams to operate with a much greater ...

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Instrumenting your public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure with System Center technologies is the best approach an IT manager can take. From the System Center vantage, with properly deployed instrumentation, problem identification and resolution can be dramatically accelerated. T...

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The advent of cloud computing is beginning to transform the way companies engage with customers, partners, and suppliers to increase flexibility and streamline operations. Cloud computing makes it much easier for the organization to implement new business services and to create new revenue opportuni...

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The Hybrid Cloud and Microsoft Azure  toolkits across the Azure stack and Azure cloud. Developers and infrastructure operation managers will be virtually unable to distinguish working between the 2 environments.

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Cloud adoption is an expanding part of IT organizations’ strategies, and IT architects are growing more sophisticated in how they think about cloud. As of 2016, enterprise adoption of cloud has truly moved into the mainstream, with 68% currently using public or private cloud for more than one ...

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This paper highlights five key truths about automation in hybrid cloud environments that affect both IT and the business. Every business stakeholder should consider the implications of these five truths  and ensure that delivery of cloud services to end-users is automated accordingly. Business ...

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Citrix Cloud services represent the fastest, simplest, and most flexible approach to delivering integrated digital workspaces available today. Services are provided either as full Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or other cases, as hybrid cloud services where Citrix provides cloud-based management, whi...

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Is the Cloud right for your business? Which systems in your business belong in the Cloud and which do not? Which providers should you invest in and how do you make the transition? These are all questions that Triwest Communications can help your IT and financial teams determine and take your busines...

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In this White Paper, the concept of connecting crosscloud applications, machine to machine communications, social media and smartphones (or transactions living inside applications) to other applications or transactions is called Cloud Orchestration and messaging.

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For most, the cloud represents accessing and consuming someone else’s compute resources. Images of a team of minions and automation quickly come to mind. While you no longer control the environment, you can now dynamically provision and access compute resources to build, test and scale all man...

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The objective of this paper is to minimize the online storage requirements with transparent data tiering to the on-premises private cloud storage or hybrid cloud storage in the digital video surveillance solution. The paper covers the test strategy used and the results of the testing. This paper des...

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As businesses turn to cloud-native applications, they’re looking to increase their development and deployment options by bringing in cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings. The goal is that offerings such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry will enable rapid implementation of their applications acr...

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While any of the other technologies cited can stand on their own, each is made more accessible and more valuable through cloud. Take big data, for example: As Wikibon’s Peter Burris points out, for the past decade, businesses have tried to create value out of big data and analytics through the...

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For strategic reasons, IT leaders and their C-level business counterparts are focused on moving existing workloads to the cloud, extending existing workloads to the cloud, or building new workloads on the cloud and integrating those with existing workloads.

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The Cisco CloudCenter solution includes a number of additional architectural features, such as cloud-independent application profiles, that improve speed and flexibility while offering comprehensive administrator visibility and control that spans the boundaries of applications, clouds, and users.

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Magenicons, a fictional comic book publishing company, has decided that its IT infrastructure needs to go through a modernization effort to increase system reliability while providing cost savings. Its IT staff believes leveraging cloud computing will help the company gain better agility for its IT ...

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Cloud is becoming an essential ingredient to a successful IT infrastructure. Recent research by IDC has identified how the growth of cloud as a computing platform has magnified the importance of cloud skills to the success of the enterprise. Moreover, it is becoming clear that IT professionals with ...

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The enterprise telephony market is undergoing a transition as more businesses adopt unified communications (UC) and as the lines between telephony and UC blur. UC is on the rise, integrating communication tools such as voice, messaging, presence, and collaboration. As workforces are increasingly mob...

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In its second-annual Cloud Communications Survey, conducted in late August and early September, No Jitter Research set out to assess the attitudes of the No Jitter enterprise audience regarding the use of cloud-hosted services to meet communications needs. The 2016 results reveal continued growth, w...

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IT consumption is rapidly evolving to help address these challenges. Organizations are now sourcing, managing, and consuming IT services across a blend of traditional, private cloud, and public cloud (hybrid infrastructure) to create the right IT mix where workloads are deployed and applications sou...

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Datto uniquely empowers MSPs to meet the growing needs of SMBs for economical and effective backup, disaster recovery and business continuity. Datto’s Total Data Protection Platform uses a hybrid cloud architecture because it offers the best value for SMBs and the best business model for the M...

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Cloud computing is a fact of life for all enterprises—and not just for the IT organization. Cloud is now a business platform more than just a technology solution, involving and affecting people, processes and applications. This is changing the roles, priorities and mandates across the entire o...

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Public clouds use proven technology to pool data center resources and help maximize their computing potential. These same principles can be used in your data center, either on your premises or on one that you exclusively rent from someone else, to create a private cloud. This technology also gives y...

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In this paper we explore the concept of the cloud and carrier-neutral data centre and consider the benefits it can offer to organisations in different sectors and how it allows enterprises to future proof their IT infrastructure. We also look at what data centre neutrality could mean for the future....

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The role of cloud as a valid IT delivery platform is now widely accepted by CIOs, IT directors and IT organisations, who see it as offering clear advantages. Arriving at this point has been quick and driven mainly by the Business Units (BU) rather than IT, and that brings challenges that need to be ...

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The emergence of cloud computing has changed every aspect of enterprise IT service delivery. IT organizations around the world have already started to embark on the journey to take their services ‘to the cloud’, allowing IT to leverage virtualized datacenter resources gaining automated, ...

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vxFlow gives you the ability to quickly join up the business to your service offerings and to actually automate the entire service, from the time someone in the business needs something to the end of the lifecycle, fully automating all points in between. It provides the vital layer missing from exis...

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Adopting a cloud-native platform and microservices raise the expectations that business units have for an IT organization. As development velocity increases, cloud-native software development principles, horizontal scaling, and elastic computing put a new twist on the old theme of “availabilit...

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Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), a modern, cloud-native platform, can play an instrumental role in improving your security posture. At the same time, it can also help your development and operations teams work more effectively. In this paper, we review the security features of PCF, and discuss how you c...

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The cloud is more than a marketing concept. Cloud computing is an intentional, integrated architecture comprising a suite of tools that help automate your business operations on a service-provider’s infrastructure, your infrastructure, or a hybrid combination of both.

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“Cloud native” is a term used to describe applications designed specifically to run on a cloudbased infrastructure. Typically, cloud-native applications are developed as loosely coupled microservices running in containers managed by platforms. These applications anticipate failure, and t...

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Expectations of enterprise IT have changed, and virtualization has already made silos of physical infrastructure hosting a single application obsolete. Self-service portals, with near instantaneous provisioning and lower costs, are the epitome of the new goal: cloud computing.

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Application threats are constantly evolving. Recent high-profile Internet attacks on organizations like HBGary, RSA, WikiLeaks, Google, Comodo, and others prove that no one is immune. Anyone could be a target, and perpetrators are extremely organized, skilled, and well-funded. Culprits are often bet...

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When discussing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), one rarely hears the subject of security being addressed. Rather, security discussions are typically centered around data security, network security, and authentication. One reason for this is that the HCI space has really been about operational b...

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Cloud computing is revolutionizing information technology through its cost and operational flexibility. Organizations are rapidly adopting cloud computing, but the transition is still in progress with many organizations keeping their mission-critical applications on-premises. Even though migrating t...

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Ceding control to outsiders is unnerving, particularly when it involves enterprise applications. But with the right tools and processes, your applications can be as secure if not more so in the public cloud. There’s little doubt that enterprises are overcoming long-standing fears over the secu...

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Considering how many cloud choices are available, it may seem like the public option is the simplest one to pick. But that may not always support the performance and utilization that your particular workloads require. Public cloud data centers will account for 61.2% of total spending on cloud infras...

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For years, understaffed teams, legacy technologies, and misaligned budgets have forced IT departments to spend a disproportionate amount of time putting out fires rather than focusing on providing business solutions and optimizing revenue-generating processes.

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With the additional pressures to adapting green computing methodologies and delivering against stringent service level expectations, the protection of your data can be daunting. Traditional data protection falls short in today’s environments of complex software, expensive hardware, and media m...

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Whether you’re a hundred year old enterprise from the days of Rockefeller or a fresh start-up with big ideas, the cloud is likely your platform of choice for rolling out new business applications. The speed, agility, and flexibility granted by the limitless infrastructure of the cloud offers t...

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Four years into the transformational network functions virtualization (NFV)-fueled telco cloud era, there is little doubt that NFV will have an impact not only on all network layers, but as well as access. The concept of virtualization has impacts on essential network elements like DNS which has uni...

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Cloud computing is emerging as a solution to some of these competing forces. It promises the vision of ubiquitous computing, available on-tap in a simple and cost effective manner. Cloud computing is quite a nebulous terms that encompasses a wide variety of software delivery models.

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Enterprise use of public cloud services has made managing IT costs more complicated than ever. Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) leaders need to track, analyze, and manage not only traditional infrastructure and applications but also the company’s usage and cost of public cloud service...

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The 2015 Gartner Hype Cycle Report indicates that presently 10 to 15% of companies have adopted a hybrid IT strategy. Hybrid cloud computing will be mainstream within two to five years, according to the same report.

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This paper focuses on how existing VMware customers can gain a strategic advantage by leveraging the IBM Cloud platform, while retaining the capabilities of their on-premises VMware infrastructure. It assumes a cursory understanding of the features and functionality of VMware, as well as basic famil...

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The abstract nature of cloud computing implies that the physical location of data is irrelevant within the cloud. Business transactions occur across international borders. Big data created in one location can then be stored, processed, and pulled from other locations.

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The concept of a single cloud platform is pretty much a fantasy, and that’s just what it should be. After all, if you were running all workloads in a single cloud, you would most likely be settling for lowest-common denominator performance and availability, rather than being able to tailor the...

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Every organization’s cloud journey milestones are different. An IDG Research Services poll conducted for Rackspace in late summer 2016, found 16% had already reached the tipping point, 24% expected to do so within a year, and 22% projected it would be 13-24 months. That still left 38% with a l...

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To accelerate Intel IT’s journey to a federated, interoperable, open hybrid cloud, we act as an in-house cloud broker, providing Intel application owners with choice and flexibility through private, public, and hybrid cloud hosting options.

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A hybrid cloud enables companies to leverage external public and onpremises private clouds for the best of both worlds efficient scalability and elasticity of the public cloud for rapidly changing business requirements and the visibility and security of a privatecloud for sensitive or regulated data...

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Several technology inflection points are coming together that are fundamentally changing the way networks are architected, deployed and operated both in the public cloud as well as the private cloud.

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Extreme Networks Virtualized Multi-Tenant and Cloud Data Center Architecture leverages applied performance through a flexible network architecture built on a family of fixed and modular switching platforms that enables a flattening of network tiers while providing the network scale to meet the needs...

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This Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) decision guide focuses on how enterprises should manage hybrid cloud, containers, and DevOps to provide their business with an optimal IT environment where innovation can be delivered in the most efficient and effective manner.

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With initiatives such as continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), DevOps, and containers, there is a constant effort to maximize developer efficiency. A higher developer efficiency results in a shorter time to get software to market. And, ultimately, because developers can do more in le...

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In a cloud-based backup, critical data is backed-up over the internet and stored in a shared infrastructure at an off-site data center maintained by a third party vendor. Cloud-based services include backup, archiving and replication.

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The recent research from cloud solutions provider RightScale shows that 93 percent of businesses use cloud technology in some form or another.

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Organizations have established fairly comprehensive security architectures to combat these attacks. However, the move to public cloud computing is changing the rules of the game - sensitive corporate data is now stored on servers managed by cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Goog...

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Defending today’s complex public cloud computing environments requires a similar sophisticated approach. The absence of a physical network boundary to the internet combined with the risk of accidental exposure by users with limited security expertise, increases the attack surface in the cloud ...

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More recently, cloud computing has become an increasingly popular means of delivering valuable, IT-enabled business services. Customers and end users access the IT service catalog through self-service portals, using and paying for only  those services they need, when and where they need them. F...

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Cloud computing models offer a new approach for IT organizations to deliver business services to end users. It is a technology model that provides both flexible IT deployments and dynamic business agility.

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Organizations can optimize public and private cloud benefits, and achieve fast time to value, through turnkey hybrid cloud solutions.

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The results provide clear proof that by transforming IT for greater agility, hybrid cloud makes implementing digital business initiatives a faster, easier and less expensive process.

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Cloud compliance is a journey, not a destination. Not only must an organization develop strategies that ensure secure, compliant functioning controls outside of an audit, they must continually refine other functions like optimal security reporting and threat protection.

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With this whitepaper, you’ll be able to identify what cloud services work best for your compliance needs, what to expect from the audit process, and how you can get all of the information you need from your cloud provider to pass your audit.

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The benefits and flexibility associated with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services are well known. But this same flexibility can make developing a cheap, effective EC2 backup strategy seem like a daunting task.

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A cloud-era file system is a file system that runs on top of cloud storage. But it does more than just store the files themselves in the cloud, a cloud-era file system also stores all its metadata in the cloud.

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According to IDC, more than 80% of IT organizations will be committed to hybrid cloud architectures by the end of 2017. Companies born in the ‘cloud era’, such as Airbnb, Slack, and Snapchat, have utilized public cloud since inception.

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Market-leading Cloud Data Management platform that delivers instant application availability to hybrid cloud enterprises for recovery, search, cloud, and development

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If traditional storage technology had been able to handle the massive data growth that plagues businesses, the industry disruption of cloud services would not have been possible. On-premises technologies, such as larger capacity drives and scale-out storage, have helped to stem data growth challenge...

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The rise of cloud services is not a temporary phenomenon. It is here to stay, and is fundamentally changing the way organizations procure, deploy, and access information technology

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Tintri puts the agility of public cloud inside your data center. Tintri’s all-flash architecture uses building blocks similar to public cloud to simply manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Leading cloud service providers and organizations, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA and Toyot...

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Given the multitude of opinions of what constitutes a complete definition of “enterprise cloud,” any serious discussion should begin with a level set on what that term represents. While definitions of enterprise cloud vary significantly depending on the bias of the presenter, NIST has pr...

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Market-leading Cloud Data Management platform that delivers instant application availability to hybrid cloud enterprises for recovery, search, cloud, and development.

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Moving applications and workloads to the cloud has become a major goal for most IT decision-makers. But cloud migration can come with challenges and pitfalls for organizations that haven’t done their homework.

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Industry observers have long been following the emergence of object storage for large-scale unstructured data, reflected in major public storage cloud offerings from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

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The advantages of multi-cloud are great, and Scality is committed to developing multi-cloud controller technology that exploits its true power. Our multi-cloud controller project is focused on enabling a robust solution for efficient Hybrid cloud storage, with powerful policy-based data management f...

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Hybrid cloud NAS looks and acts just like the traditional enterprise NAS you have in your data center, and looks like a standard Windows file share to your applications and users.

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Modern data centers are looking to the cloud to offer a solution to these limitations. The cloud can offer levels of durability, availability, and scalability at a cost that no traditional NAS solutions can match.

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Organizations continue to be lured by the financial and technological benefits of cloud computing, to the point where over the last few years there has been significant acceleration in the adoption1 of this computing platform.

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There’s a common misconception that cloud providers handle security, a relic leftover from hosting providers of previous decades. The truth is, cloud providers use a shared responsibility model, leaving a lot of security up to the customer.

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More and more business applications are moving to the cloud and taking their clients with them. By 2017, Gartner estimates that 33% of all users will be on cloud-based business office systems like Office 365.

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For years now, we’ve been hearing predictions about the cloud-delivered future of businesses and IT systems. Now, this future has actually taken shape. Uses of cloud take many forms, often within the same business.

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More and more applications are being migrated to the public cloud. Organizations want the scale and agility of public cloud, but is it the right home for all your applications? Some applications need the control of cost and performance that’s only possible in your data center.

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The Essential Guide to Enterprise Cloud is all yours. You’ll learn how to control costs, simplify management and scale your footprint like a champ.

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Public cloud may seem attractive to organizations looking to accelerate DevOps, but unanticipated surcharges and lack of in house control should prompt exploration of other options.

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If you are trying to optimize your enterprise cloud solution’s storage infrastructure supporting applications, you have two choices. You can manage your storage-related virtual infrastructure or enterprise cloud operations via your hypervisor and your storage configurations via each vendor&rsq...

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Integration technology is powerful, providing sophisticated features that enable organizations to create complex links and connections across diverse applications and systems.

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Each ARIS Cloud Advanced & Enterprise customer has access to Software AG’s customer portal, Empower. To ensure a quick and efficient support process, all incidents have to be reported by the customer using this portal or via phone.

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IDC's research indicates that over 90% of enterprise-scale organizations plan to make use of multiple clouds in the next several years. These organizations are focused on matching the needs of specific workloads to the cost, performance, and security profiles offered by a range of cloud options ...

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This paper explains how Nutanix enables government agencies to transform their static and complex IT environments into more dynamic and easily managed datacenters, bringing a cloud-like experience to IT.

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Cloud computing has been available for a number of years, and IT organizations are benefitting from having the ability to enable their users to spin up workloads on demand. Now, we are seeing IT travelling down the path to transform internal resources to mirror public cloud resources.

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The data requirements of today’s businesses are more demanding and complex than at any time in the past. Today, businesses are experiencing unprecedented levels of data growth. IDC has predicted that overall digital data requirements will double in size every two years.

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The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform simplifies the DevOps journey, ensuring your infrastructure has the required agility and flexibility at all layers. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud ives your on-premises infrastructure the agility of the public cloud while helping your team reduce costs and maintain co...

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The world of IT and the datacenter remains in the midst of a massive structural shift built on a foundation of mobile, social, big data, and cloud services.

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As trends such as cloud computing and DevOps become the de facto standard, organizations are increasingly looking for next-generation analytics tools and services that provide continuous intelligence to help them build, run, and secure modern applications, and to accelerate their journey to the clou...

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Enter Microsoft Azure, the industry leader’s solution for going to a partially or totally cloud based architecture. Below is a detailed look at what Azure is, the power of partnering with Microsoft for a cloud or hybrid cloud solution, and the best way to get full and actionable visibility int...

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Veritas has developed a Storage Streamer API for Enterprise Vault (EV) which archive storage vendors must integrate with to allow Enterprise Vault to archive files/emails/etc. to their storage systems. Dell EMC has developed the ECS Storage Streamer driver to allow Veritas Enterprise Vault to archiv...

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Digital Transformation is changing today’s business landscape, w ith technology helping organizations provide customers w ith new services and products. Digital Transformation offers an opportunity for strong, long-term grow th through new business-models, new revenue streams, and ultimately m...

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Datrium DVX is VM aware. This means you are managing your resources at the virtual machine level rather than at the storage level. This approach provides you with granularity to snap, clone and replicate at the virtual machine and file level with Datrium Data Cloud.

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Datrium DVX is an open converged infrastructure system that delivers high-performance primary and cost-optimized space-efficient secondary storage for private clouds with built-in VM-based data protection and  efficient RPO and RTO.

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Over 90 percent of enterprise organizations have deployed, or plan todeploy, server virtualization technology within their data centers. In spite of this ubiquity, many organizations struggle with cloud security.

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Encryption is a powerful tool to ensure that data remains private. Its use has traditionally been reserved for special circumstances and selected hosts. The fact that data processing and storage is now moving to the cloud has changed the demand for dataNprivacy and the need for encryption in substan...

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This paper examines how the ClearSky architecture and its Smart Tiered Caching map to the Splunk architecture and deliver the high performance of local storage with cloud based economics. Using ClearSky, companies can use machine data analytics to full advantage and get the maximum return from their...

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The ClearSky architecture is comprised of four key components: the ClearSky Edge Cache, PoPs, Backing Cloud and redundant dedicated fibre lines.

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For almost every organization cloud is a component of their IT strategy, yet many are wrestling with how fast and how far to go.

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Complicating multi-cloud deployments is the fact that most organizations are required to comply with an ever-expanding regime of increasingly stricter industry- and government-mandated regulations across all cloud environments. Unfortunately, many organizations have not adequately addressed these re...