Cloud computing is on the rise within organizations, as 39 percent of organizations report that they are implementing or maintaining cloud solutions – up from 28 percent in 2011, according to CDW’s recent “State of the Cloud 2013” survey. The report, based on a survey of 1,242 IT professionals familiar with their organization’s plans for the cloud, found...
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If the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is right, mayhem may be coming soon to a cloud near you. In a new report, the CSA highlights the top nine cloud-computing threats for 2013 that are related specifically to the shared, on-demand nature of cloud computing. CSA experts identified the following nine critical threats to cloud security: Data Breaches Data...
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When Netherlands-based publishing house Brill decided its legacy communications platform wasn’t robust enough to support its employees around the world it chose Mitel to take it to the cloud. Brill, a scientific and scholarly works publisher founded in 1683, knew the time had come to bring its communication systems into the 21st century. “Our system was...
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Microsoft’s rollout of three new business-focused versions of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud packages aims to make it easier to collaborate and to deploy the cloud-based suite without an IT staff, according to an article in InformationWeek.com The story, by InformationWeek.com Assistant Editor Michael Endler, points out that each of the three new packages...
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Growth in hosted private cloud services (HPC) is expected to skyrocket to more than $24 billion worldwide over the next three years, according to new research by International Data Corp. (IDC). Businesses and IT providers will further embrace the cloud model because it allows them to deploy infrastructure services in a more efficient and scalable manner. ...
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I was browsing LinkedIn this weekend, catching up on the news that LinkedIn suggested for me. I came across a recent post from Richard Branson, and decided to pause and read the excerpt. I mean, how can you pass up reading what Richard Branson has to say? Here is the link to the post if you are interested in reading it yourself. First of all, of...
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