Cloud Services
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APIs Aren’t the Whole Meal but They’re a Key Ingredient in the Digitization Recipe
Read moreIt would be nice if a company could piece together its entire IT landscape with cloud APIs—DIY style—but this image of a “composable enterprise” that is occasionally conjured up will remain wishful thinking for the foreseeable future.
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Public Cloud Continues Rapid Growth
Read moreBy 2020 it is expected that more than $195 billion will have been spent on services in the public cloud, according to market researchers at IDC.
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Cloud Washing or Software as a Service? It’s all Relative
Read moreEven if it has cloud written all over it, software is only seldom truly provided as a service. This is the core finding of a recent study by PwC.
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Constant availability raising employee stress levels
Read moreThe excitement of having a chic new company smartphone can quickly turn sour, when you realize that you will have to pay for it with your constant availability.
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IT Budgets Continue to Shift into the Cloud
Read moreThe market researchers and consultants at Gartner estimate that over the next five years the shift towards cloud computing will directly or indirectly impact on more than a trillion dollars of IT expenditure.
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Outsourcing? Sure, but now not only for the sake of cutting costs
Read moreThe trend towards outsourcing is still on the rise according to Deloitte – but far from just looking to cut costs, companies are now focusing on bringing more innovation into their businesses.
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Thanks for the fiber-optics revolution, Mr Kao!
Read moreThis month marks the fiftieth anniversary since Charles Kao had a brainwave without which today’s broadband communications would be inconceivable – and Retarus, too.
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Email is not just here to stay, but growing from strength to strength
Read moreMarket researchers are predicting that the number of email users around the globe is set to rise from 2.6 billion today to over 3 billion by the year 2020. And this calculation does not even include mobile usage.
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Businesses are increasingly going cloud-first
Read moreCloud first has long since become more than a marketing buzzword: ever more companies are now first asking whether they could use the cloud for their technology projects, rather than investing in their own costly infrastructure.