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Escaping the 'print trap'
KYOCERA Document Solutions' Cloud Evangelist, Eddie Ginja, analyses the business benefits of the latest addition to the growing portfolio of cloud services: managed cloud printing
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End of the road? The announcement that support and security updates for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 are to end this year provides the impetus for change, argues Dave Leyland, head of Architecture Data Centre and Cloud at Dimension Data
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Flexibility is the key
Martin Warren, Cloud Solutions Marketing Manager at NetApp argues that a hybrid cloud approach offers the ideal solution for enterprises looking for agility, flexibility and cost effectiveness
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A software-defined future
Tim Bury, Managing Director EMEA at Masergy, discusses the real-world applications and benefits of Software-Defined Networking
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Backup Everything
In a world where we are all creating large volumes of data - at sometimes alarming speeds - it is more important than ever to make backup as automatic and 'idiot-proof' as possible, or else people simply won't do it
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Sweet dreams
Bed retailer boosts online sales thanks to managed cloud service
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Freed up for flexible working
A hosted desktop solution has meant the freedom to work flexibly for Chase Solutions' field staff, combined with secure and manageable IT systems.
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Make mine a double
Iconic wine merchant Oddbins is using Rackspace Managed Cloud services to power its website as it aims to double online sales by improving the shopping experience of its e-Commerce customers
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Comment
Welcome to the June 2015 Newsletter.
It is generally accepted by analysts and consultants that the hybrid cloud market is maturing, with 2015 set to be a pivotal year for the technology. Even so, hybrid has its limitations - because the majority of enterprises still deploy an on-premise infrastructure in addition to their cloud solution, IT teams are still subject to the same procurement issues: expense, lengthy build times, and the on-going costs required to maintain, manage and update equipment when necessary. In an Opinion piece in this e-newsletter by NetApp's Martin Warren, he argues that consultancy services have a large part to play in ensuring that public and private IT solutions are properly integrated with legacy on-premise infrastructure
According to Warren: "By adopting a hybrid cloud solution, which is designed and architected in a bespoke manner to align with business needs, an enterprise can take advantage of the flexibility of cloud, with rapidly scalable resources and decreased provision times, coupled with the data security and compliance benefits of an on-premise solution." Improved data management technologies allow an enterprise to store sensitive data on-premise, but deploy analytics in the public cloud. Analysis of that data can still take place in the public cloud, despite the source data residing on-premise, as the data management software makes the infrastructure act as a single entity rather than two separate solutions knitted together. It is an argument we are hearing from lots of different quarters these days - what do our readers think? Feel free to let me know via the email address below.
David Tyler,
@cloudhostingmag.co.uk
Editor
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