The Enterprise Cloud

Archive: 02-2013

• Sweat the details: The customer-centric path for SaaS providers

  Guest blogger Dan Miller offers advice to SaaS product teams about adapting work processes to ensure better customer satisfaction.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | February 26, 2013, 6:00 AM PST

• The CloudOS arrives: Map your cloud journey with real tools

  John Joyner lays out the benefits of Microsoft’s CloudOS, which consolidates all the tools needed to manage a modern hybrid cloud platform.

  Posted by John Joyner | February 22, 2013, 6:00 AM PST

• The myth of the always-on cloud

  Thoran Rodrigues advises caution when considering uptime claims for cloud services and software. Realistic expectations will lead to a better experience when moving to the cloud.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | February 21, 2013, 8:06 AM PST

• Managing your databases in the cloud: How Cloudant does it

  Cloudant provides database-as-a-service — something that some companies may want to consider for management help and cloud-size scaling ability. Nick Hardiman describes how DBaaS works.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | February 14, 2013, 6:00 AM PST

• Get easy cloud backup option with System Center 2012 SP1

  John Joyner tells you how to sign up for a preview of the new option in SC 2012 SP1 that allows you to select a “backup to cloud” feature. Here’s how the feature works.

  Posted by John Joyner | February 12, 2013, 6:30 AM PST

• How the cloud has enabled the consumerization of applications

  Thoran Rodrigues looks at how consumers are not only driving the BYOD trend, but also a similar trend, enabled by the cloud, in bringing apps into the workplace.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | February 8, 2013, 7:34 AM PST

• BYOD, the cloud, and backups: Meeting the data-everywhere challenge

  Nick Hardiman explains how Asigra is meeting the enterprise challenge of backing up data when it exists on multiple devices, in the cloud, and on the network.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | February 5, 2013, 6:00 AM PST

• Leveraging the cloud for IT innovation

  No matter the size of the company, the cloud is the key to IT innovation. Thoran Rodrigues explains why.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | February 1, 2013, 6:00 AM PST