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Is your head in the cloud?

The IT industry loves the cloud, but despite enthusiasm among professionals, it seems the general public have been left baffled by this increasingly popular buzzword. In fact, they don’t even know what the cloud is when they’re using it – despite the popularity of services such as iTunes and Gmail, the vast majority of people don’t know they are powered by the cloud. So is it time the IT sector ditched one of its favourite buzzwords to ensure the public know how things work? Read on to find out the full extent of the public’s ignorance about cloud.

Jan 31, 2013 4:03am

Social, Customer Experience, and the Cloud

Jan 30, 2013 2:42pm

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud, or DRaaS: Revisited

The idea of offering Disaster Recovery services has been around as long as SunGard or IBM BCRS (Business Continuity & Resiliency Services). Disclaimer: I worked for the company that became IBM Information Protection Services in 2008, a part of BCRS.

Jan 29, 2013 5:17am

What’s driving the Cloud for Developers? IaaS or PaaS?

Cloud
computing providers offer their services according to three fundamental models:
infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software
as a service (SaaS) where IaaS is the most basic and each higher model
abstracts from the details of the lower models. Here is a nice visual
representation that I got from the Wikipedia entry for IaaS.

Jan 25, 2013 12:30pm

Making virtual to cloud migration analysis easier

In many organizations the use of cloud operational models is on the rise. Many of them see the opportunities in this but the migration of existing physical and virtual workloads into clouds becomes complex and time-consuming without the right planning.

Jan 24, 2013 3:42am

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud —The Logical Choice for Running Business Applications on your Private Cloud

Jan 23, 2013 8:00am

How BYOD affects security in the cloud

Since bringing your own device - also known as BYOD – is starting to become widely adopted by companies of all sizes, a lot of contradictory discussions have appeared around this topic. Eliminating hardware purchasing and maintenance is a great advantage for reducing company costs.

Jan 22, 2013 4:53am

Oracle's CloudWorld Kicks off in Dubai

January 15th 2013 saw
the first stage of Oracle’s global CloudWorld tour kick off in Jumereiah, Dubai, with the first event
attracting more than 1,500 IT and business decision makers from across the
Eastern Europe, Middle East and African regions to learn about and discuss the
latest developments and trends in cloud computing technology.

Jan 18, 2013 9:42am

Cloud adoption statistics

Cloud adoption decisions will be taken in the near future by employees who do not have an IT background. That’s an interesting shift in the IT world!

Jan 18, 2013 2:51am
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