Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Enterprise And Cloud Providers: What To Do If The Marriage Doesn’t Last

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By Kevin Linsell, head of service development, Adapt

Many businesses are attracted to the cloud as a means to improve costs and flexibility, but finding the right Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to form a relationship with can be a challenging and time consuming process.

The ideal CSP should be able to customise and flex services to meet your requirements, provide the level of security you require, and have the ability and desire to move forward at your pace – all while offering the usual cost savings and increase in resilience and reliability.

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Five Reasons Why You Need a Cloud Services Brokerage

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By Will Rowley, Cloud Evangelist, Cloud Direct

According to Gartner research, a cloud services brokerage is defined as a company that adds value to another by offering a combination of technology, people and methodologies to implement and manage cloud related projects. There has been a great deal of curiosity about this new cloud business model and how it benefits business. The essence of a cloud services brokerage is that it helps you do business better. To pin this down, here are five reasons why a cloud services brokerage can benefit your business:

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Why Broadband Is Mission Critical For Business

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By Trefor Davies, Chief Technology Officer at Timico

Up until a year or two ago broadband was considered important to a business. This was reflected in the type of packages being offered by ISPs – less contention/congestion that that provided to consumers and less likely to be traffic shaped. This was important because a business didn’t want delays in email delivery or issues with running VoIP services. The bigger the business the more services that were likely to be run over that broadband connection and there came a point where that business would need to invest in more reliable uncontended Ethernet connectivity to operate.

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Cloudy thinking: Why concerns about the cloud don’t translate into caution for most firms

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By Christian Toon, head of information security for Iron Mountain Europe

It’s 3 a.m. do you know where all your company data is? The chances are that some of it is in paper format around the office; some is stored electronically on PCs, shared drives and servers; and probably more than you expect is being carried around on employees’ personal devices or in their homes. However, for at least three quarters of you[1], a growing proportion of your business data will be offsite ‘in the cloud.’

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Private vs. Public- why private offers more advantage

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By Darren Briscoe, Technical Director at Comms-care

 

Not a day goes by without another story about cloud computing. With so many companies looking to outsource their IT maintenance to save money, cloud offers a flexible and cost effective way to run an organisation. But cloud computing is a business model that few organisations understand fully. For a start, the ‘cloud world’ is a divided one, in that there are two different types of cloud environments: private and public. Both offer many benefits, but there are big differences between the two – particularly when it comes to data protection. Continue reading →

10 Benefits of Cloud Computing for SMEs

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By Jonathan Richards, CEO, BreatheHR

 

It seems hard to remember a time when businesses didn’t rely on computers, email, software and databases to run and facilitate the majority of their core business processes.

The emergence of cloud computing offers businesses a new set of tools and services through which their can streamline and improve the way in which they work. However, many businesses are still a little wary of the idea of storing and retrieving business critical data and documentation in the cloud. Continue reading →

Simple and practical ways cloud computing can help your business

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By Peter Gradwell, founder of award winning VoIP and Internet provider Gradwell

 

Search google for cloud and you’ll turn up a lot of tech industry buzz phrases that end in “as a service”, or worse, their acronyms; SaaS; HaaS; Paas; and so on. Soon, what should be a fairly simple concept feels a lot more complex for business owners.

For those who don’t have the word “Technology” in their job title, we can simply think of cloud as being able to access files and applications over the internet. If we cut through the jargon and think in those terms, then it starts to become easier to see some of the business and lifestyle benefits of could computing. Continue reading →

Mikogo Launches First-Ever Cloud Desktop

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By Abigail Phillips

 

Today marks the launch of the world’s first Cloud Desktop that enables users to access their own computer in the Cloud from any location.

Global porvider of online collaboration solutions, Mikogo, has invented an innovative way of hosting an entire computer system in the Cloud. The revolutionary browser-based system, built on HTML5, makes it possible for users to access their very own computer system, from any computer, smartphone or tablet directly from within a web browser without any software downloads or plug-in installations. Continue reading →