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Flirting with disaster
Peter Groucutt of Databarracks asks if you might be wasting money on disaster recovery technologies, simply because you don't have the appropriate practices in place around them
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Take your partners
Innovative use of cloud technology can transform your partner relationships, argues Dave Taylor, CMO of Impartner
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Cloud printing - the write stuff?
Printing via the Cloud has significant business benefits to offer when done correctly: but complex infrastructures and security concerns can mean that organisations are simply replacing one problem with another, argues Arron Fu, CTO of UniPrint
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Leveraging the cloud to target cancer
US-based biomedicine pioneers H3 are making vital genomics data more easily accessible via the Cloud - allowing them to explore multiple scientific approaches to developing new drugs
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OpenStack comes of age
Knowing the benefits of OpenStack cloud technology - but recognising that few businesses have the in-house skills or knowledge to access these benefits - Finnish-based CSP Datalounges used the SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5 platform to build a managed cloud services environment for companies of all sizes
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Comment
This issue of the Cloud Hosting e-newsletter includes a thought-provoking piece from Dave Taylor of Impartner, which focuses on how innovative cloud technologies can revolutionise the way that businesses of all shapes and sizes work with their partners. Partner portals designed in the early 2000s are no longer up to the job, argues Taylor, and SaaS is the obvious solution – in fact, he claims, internally developed software solutions are often a ‘decelerator’ for businesses. To quote the piece: “Many companies remain mired in the mistaken belief that they know their unique requirements and technology platforms better than anyone else and no one else could ‘build it like they could.’”
The Cisco Cloud Index 2014-19 found that by 2019, 56 percent of cloud workloads will be SaaS. The conclusion, says Taylor, is clear: companies must stop believing their IT challenges are unique to them and that their needs for scalability and interoperability are exclusive. He goes on, “Thanks to the increasing “lego-isation” of IT, the modular SaaS model is replacing the final bastions of custom developed IT infrastructure as a better way to allow a business to grow and - crucially – allow partners to grow with them.”
David Tyler
Editor
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