Cloud Computing: The New Strategic Weapon

whitePaper | February 15, 2023

The popularity of integration platform as a service (iPaaS) started with business users wanting to gain control and share data among their increasing number of SaaS apps without relying on IT. iPaaS is now being adopted by IT to support business users to ensure security is being maintained and to provide more of a self-service environment.

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

Organizations often adopt a hybrid cloud strategy when deploying their first analytical solution to the cloud. The cloud combines sheer infinite scalability with consumption-based pricing. These are desirable attributes for analytical environments that require scalability and can be very expensive when scaled for maximum capacity over an extended period.

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

Salesforce Experience Cloud lets you create branded digital experiences to share information and collaborate with people who are key to your business processes, such as customers, partners, or employees. Whether you call it a portal, help forum, support community, or something else, an Experience Cloud site is a great place to connect with the important folks in your life.

whitePaper | September 27, 2022

Businesses once doubted the long-term benefits of moving their traditional, on-premises workloads to the cloud. But those doubts didn’t last long. The ROI of cloud migration was realized quickly and decisively. Businesses eagerly shifted their workloads to the cloud and realized the financial benefits of doing so. However, in the rush to the cloud, clarity on security — and who is responsible for it — is often lost.

whitePaper | February 7, 2020

Enterprise campus networks are undergoing profound changes to support ever-increasing bandwidth demands on the access layer while moving toward supporting Wi-Fi 6 and the rapid growth of powerful endpoints. With access layer bandwidth moving from speeds of 1G to 2.5G, 5G, and 10G, higher bandwidths such as 25G, 40G, and 100G will become the de facto speeds in distribution and core layers to maintain a similar over subscription ratio.

whitePaper | January 22, 2020

Record numbers of businesses are investing in as-a-Service (XaaS) infrastructures and moving parts (or all) of their IT infrastructure to public clouds. Many of these same businesses are moving their databases to the cloud as part of this trend. Why? The promise of the cloud is easy setup, simplified management, guaranteed availability, and on-demand scalability all at a knowable price with no surprises. In the minds of companies moving their database to the cloud, this translates to a one-and-done decision that comes with a low overhead: database instances, on demand, with little to no oversight or hassle. You probably can even reduce the number of DBAs on staff! But is it true? In reality, cloud providers provide an excellent resource for creating and maintaining cloud database infrastructure, but do not provide the necessary technical expertise that gets the best business value out of your database. It is a company’s responsibility to develop, implement, and optimize the architecture that most serves their business goals.