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Consumer technology solutions have, for the most part, maintained a healthy distance from enterprise IT operations. Sure, executives in the mid-2000s all needed help getting their Blackberry synced with your Outlook server, and company laptops have been a relatively standard thing for longer than that. By and large, however, most consumer solutions haven’t created too many issues for IT. The release of iCloud and iOS5, however, might prove to be a different story. Starting with security One of the biggest concerns enterprises are going to have with the use of iCloud for business purposes is security. Meeting compliance requirement can get a little bit more challenging, given this new technology. That being said, there are a number of important features in iOS 5 that should alleviate some of the concern. There are three major areas of security to think about with iO... (more)

Three Prerequisites for the Private Cloud

You can’t ignore cloud computing today, but it can be a challenge to sift through the sheer amount of information out there. Choosing the right cloud technologies for your organization can be a bit of a struggle. While utilizing public cloud technologies can be appealing, there are some applications for which it doesn’t make sense, or for which your organization isn’t comfortable having in a public environment. This has given rise to more and more data center-based private cloud solutions. If you’re looking for private cloud technologies for your data center, there are three spe... (more)

Data Center Outsourcing

According to recent studies, more and more companies are relying on colocation services in order to handle the capacity issues of their own data centers. Rather than building brand new facilities (which come with a significant capital price tag as well as plenty of operational costs) they are outsourcing their data center capacity needs. The data is stark: more than one third of large companies expect that they will have at least one data center run out of capacity within the next year and a half. That means they need to boost capacity. There are, of course, a number of ways to b... (more)

Businesses Choosing Private Clouds Over Public

Cloud computing has made great inroads when it comes to businesses. More and more, companies are recognizing the power of the cloud to maximize their IT efficiency, and guarantee the kind of service levels that their users are demanding. However, most IT professionals currently consider private cloud services preferable to public cloud services by a margin of four to one. This is according to a recent survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals, and it paints an interesting picture of where we’re really at when it comes to utilizing the public cloud. There were, essentially three... (more)

IBM Makes More Cloud Moves

Not only has IBM been a leader when it comes to powering large businesses with their private and public cloud endeavors, IBM has now turned their efforts toward small and midsized businesses. IBM has recently moved to encourage its partners to market their PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions to potential customers in those ranges. They believe that small and midsized businesses are more likely to deploy cloud solutions, and want to take full advantage of that opportunity. IBM is now offering the option to partners and integrators to be able to resell their SmartCloud Services... (more)