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CIO Strategy / Cloud Computing / IT Strategy — Comments Off on ZDNet – Here’s how Intel plans to thread the cloud vs. enterprise data center needle
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Dec 15

ZDNet – Here’s how Intel plans to thread the cloud vs. enterprise data center needle

Plenty of interesting graphics in this article about the changes in cloud services.

For Intel, being an arms dealer for both the cloud and enterprise data center has its privileges.

At its annual investor meeting, Intel outlined its outlook and walked through how it’s going to grow in the years ahead. For Intel to hit its targets, it’ll need its data center unit to deliver enough growth to offset sketchy prospects for PCS.

Luckily for Intel, its processors are used in enterprise data centers as well as public cloud providers and other key as-a-service players. Either way, Intel wins. Toss in how networking is being virtualized via commodity servers and Intel may gain there too.

More of the ZDNet post from Larry Dignan

CIO Strategy / Cloud Computing / IT Strategy / Uncategorized — Comments Off on IT Business Edge – IT’s Role in an Automated, Software-Driven Enterprise
10
Dec 15

IT Business Edge – IT’s Role in an Automated, Software-Driven Enterprise

“Forget about hardware, forget about software, forget about infrastructure in general and start thinking about achieving key tasks that help your business grow.”

It’s been said that in the near future the enterprise won’t need to worry about hardware – data productivity will be driven by software-defined architectures sitting atop dumb, commodity boxes.

It’s also been said that before too long the enterprise won’t have to worry about architectures or middleware either – just push everything into the cloud and let someone else deal with service provisioning.

And now we have knowledge workers accessing enterprise resources through their own preferred client devices, easing up on the requirement to supply everyone with a PC.

So if these trends continue, what exactly will the enterprise be responsible for when all is said and done?

More of the IT Business Edge post from Arthur Cole

CIO Strategy / Cloud Computing — Comments Off on Computing.co.uk – Amazon Web Services and its mammoth-sized inferiority complex
09
Dec 15

Computing.co.uk – Amazon Web Services and its mammoth-sized inferiority complex

Are scale and price the only concerns of your business?

We’re great! Not just great, really really great! Honestly, let me tell you again how truly great we are!’

If, like me, you were at the Amazon Web Services Enterprise Summit recently, these words might clang a horribly dissonent bell for you.

It’s inevitable that these sorts of events will feature some back-slapping and self-aggrandisment, but this took the biscuit, cake, and most of the rest of the bakery too.

You expect some shiny toothed VP to stand up and go on at great length about why they feel that their products and services are at the top of the tree, and then exhort everyone present to hand over oodles of cash at the earliest opportunity. You expect it because it’s just what tends to happen at these things, but is it at all productive?

I don’t believe these keynote speeches are useful for anyone. Why? Because ‘company says that its products are great’ doesn’t make for particularly interesting listening, and it’s certainly not something many journalists will want to cover.

More of the computing.co.uk post by Stuart Sumner

Cloud Computing / Get Better — Comments Off on CIO.com – Why companies are switching from Google Apps to Office 365
05
Nov 15

CIO.com – Why companies are switching from Google Apps to Office 365

Microsoft’s increasingly strong Office 365 performance is coming partly at the expense of Google Apps. Motorola’s recent decision to move from an elderly version of Office to Google’s cloud service bucks the more common trend of companies who have been using Google Apps switching to Office 365.

It’s not just Microsoft saying that Office 365 is growing (COO Kevin Turner claims that four out of five Fortune 500 companies use the service). Last year, cloud security company Bitglass said traffic analysis gave Google twice the market share of Office 365 among its customers, with 16.3 percent of the market; that went up to 22.8 percent this year as more companies switched to cloud services. However, over the same year, Office 365 grew far faster, from 7.7 percent to 25.2 percent. Google has a slight advantage with small businesses (22.8 percent to Microsoft’s 21.4 percent) but in large, regulated businesses (over 1,000 employees), Microsoft’s 30 percent share is twice that of Google and growing fast.

Office 365 is even more popular with the 21 million customers of Skyhigh Network’s cloud security services, where 87.3 percent are using Office 365 services, with each organization uploading an average 1.37 terabytes of data to the service each month.

More of the CIO.com article from Mary Branscombe

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