Cloud computing where it began

January 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 single resource was the solution that made financial sense.

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Cloud Architecture Best Practices: Using the Right Tools

whitePaper | December 29, 2022

Building a cloud application is like building a house. If you don’t at least acknowledge the industry’s best practices, it may all come tumbling down. In the construction industry, principles to ensure a building is constructed effectively are documented in the International Building Code. In the realm of cloud infrastructure, Amazon has pioneered the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The Framework is something like a building code

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Optimizing highspeed market analysis in the cloud with infrastructure as code

whitePaper | May 9, 2022

As the financial markets move faster and remain volatile, quantitative analysts grapple with evergrowing data sets and the complex infrastructure needed to generate alpha and manage risk. With the need to process more data and act on opportunities faster, increasing compute speed, performance, and scalability in the cloud is crucial to gaining a competitive advantage

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Why Multi-Cloud is Imperative to Any Modern Data Strategy

whitePaper | September 7, 2022

Today, organizations are increasingly seeking technologies that simplify the deployment of their application workloads in a multi-cloud design to get lower TCO, build best-of-breed solutions, and avoid vendor lock-in. Whether to optimize the costs of running and managing private cloud or to enable developer velocity to efficiently build the modern, intelligent applications of tomorrow, the benefits of multi-cloud offerings are an attractive proposition for enterprises.

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Virtual Desktop Services (VDS) : NetApp Solutions

whitePaper | August 12, 2022

The NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) orchestrates Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in major public clouds as well as on private clouds. VDS supports Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) on Microsoft Azure. VDS automates many tasks that must be performed after deployment of WVD or RDS, including setting up SMB file shares (for user profiles, shared data, and the user home drive), enabling Windows features, application and agent installation, firewall, and policies.

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Building the Cloud Metro: Heavy Reading Survey Analysis

whitePaper | June 14, 2022

The acceleration and convergence of IT and communications innovations are unlocking new revenue opportunities for service providers. In 5G, the biggest differentiation will come from the introduction of standalone 5G cores and 5G Advanced capabilities, much of it aimed at enterprise use cases and much of it just beginning.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform Overview

whitePaper | March 2, 2020

This document provides an overview of features and enhancements included in release Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and to plan your I.T. projects.

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