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Cloud Adoption is Growing. So What Now?
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There is no denying it cloud has moved beyond buzzword and become a key foundation element for over 40% of enterprise organizational strategies. Making the decision to “go cloud” is the easy part. Figuring out how to optimize and deliver on your cloud strategy is another discussion. The “first wave to cloud” was focused on operational […]
Organizational Dexterity with Private Cloud Automation
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The world is experiencing a digital revolution that is rapidly changing your business landscape. This revolution is not only connecting people with digital technology; but it has made this technology ubiquitous in all of our lives. The result is tech-savvy employees and customers with new expectations how to interact with your business. Meeting these expectations requires […]
Application Ready Stacks at Will
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Application architects and developers are the life blood of your business. They are responsible for analyzing, designing and developing commercially viable solutions to drive revenue for your business. These teams keep up-to-date on the latest technology, drive development activities and are responsible for the design and day-to-day functioning of non-production environments. What they are not […]
Take a Stand on Private Cloud
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The cloud has become inescapable. Email about it clutters your IN box, headlines about it adorn your magazines, colleagues chatter about its merits in the hallways, and meeting after meeting is held to determine just what—if anything—should be done about it at your company. Should you be using public cloud? Building a private one? Going […]
Policy Driven Infrastructure to Transform Your Microsoft Cloud, Apps, and Operations
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Please join us Thursday Sept 24, 2015 11:00AM ET for a WindowsITPro virtual event. We have an information packed agenda planned for you encompassing: The cloud, the hybrid cloud, and the private cloud. Software-defined networking and policy-based automation. The idea of application policy in next generation networking technologies and how they differ from the networks of today. […]
Cloud Adoption Today: A View of Cloud Maturity for IT Organizations
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By Robert Mahowald, IDC Program Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services We recently surveyed more than 3,450 executive-level IT decisionmakers in 17 countries to find out their future plans and current state of cloud adoption. What we discovered is pretty remarkable. According to IDC’s CloudView Survey, 57% of organizations are already using or planning to […]
Better Management for Private Clouds
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Whether you call it digital disruption or the age of the empowered customer, business models are being disrupted; and at the center are our customers. Customers are driving new consumption models that focus and align the way they want to consume technology: faster, cheaper and with a higher degree of service. Accommodating our customers requires […]
Accelerate Private and Public Clouds
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The pace of business is accelerating. As consumers, the internet has changed our expectations for how to order products, services or information as well as how fast it is delivered. Think about it. We access a web page, order what we want and complete the transaction. In some cases, our orders are delivered within hours. […]
Overcoming Cloud Jargon
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These are three conversations that I had recently with a partner, a customer, and a Cisco executive (not necessarily in this order): “Cloud refers to only private and hybrid cloud, right?” “I thought infrastructure-as-a-service is public cloud, not software-as-a-service.” “We know how much public cloud we are using because we know what infrastructure-as-a-services we are […]