Cloud
Cloud technologies are gaining momentum everyday in the largest data centers and the smallest businesses, offering services that encompass everything from the infrastructure down to the software level. There are many potential benefits as well as risks, but market leaders like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, and Microsoft are bringing the cloud from the bleeding edge to the center of the IT landscape.
Articles about Cloud
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The big data challenge: Extracting actual business value
You've got the tools and the power of the cloud to capture big data, but figuring out what you want from it and how to extract it is the final, crucial challenge.
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Private vs. public cloud: Why the supposed debate is really no debate at all
Hybrid cloud solutions are popular for organizations who want cloud benefits but want to retain some control. Here's one perspective that argues that the public cloud is the way to go.
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How the cloud fits into the big data technology stack
Nick Hardiman peers into the technology stack that makes big data work.
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Why everyone wants a private cloud
Concerns about security and control make the "private" cloud a more palatable model for many companies. How sound is this kind of thinking?
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5 ways cloud accounting increases financial efficiency and accuracy for the enterprise
Cloud-hosted SaaS solutions open the doors to sophisticated tools that many, if not most, businesses could not have accessed in the past.
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Outsourcing: Not dead, but evolving thanks to the cloud
Outsourcing isn't going away any time soon, but new technologies and business needs are altering the way it is used.
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Quickly search all your clouds with a single app
Find out why Jack Wallen recommends CloudMagic to quickly search for content that lives on multiple cloud services from your Android smartphone.
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Non-tech execs break IT's grip on enterprise project purse strings
With the balance of power between IT and the business shifting, new research spells out some aspects of that change.
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Amazon's market dominance in IaaS: The consequences for innovation
Amazon Web Services is the dominant player in the IaaS market, which could have significant consequences for further innovation and future entrants into the space.
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Cloud computing and the rise of big data
The cloud enables big data processing for enterprises of all sizes by relieving a number of problems, but there is still complexity in extracting the business value from a sea of data.
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Peter ffoulkes, Part 2: Effective change management in cloud adoption
451 Research has released its semi-annual TheInfoPro report on cloud computing. In the second part of the interview, analyst Peter ffoulkes speaks with TechRepublic about effective change management i...
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Stallman celebrates 30 years of Free Software by decrying SaaS
To the GNU project founder, it doesn't matter whether the cloud is using a free software stack, as it is still evil.
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Peter ffoulkes: Cloud growth explodes, non-IT roadblocks on the rise
451 Research has released its semi-annual TheInfoPro report on cloud computing. Analyst Peter ffoulkes speaks with TechRepublic about the increasing non-IT roadblocks that the survey uncovered.
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IBM's Linux investment signals move into cloud and big data market
Scott Reeves looks at a recent announcement by IBM of a USD $1billion investment in Linux and Open Source on Power Systems.
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Infographic: Cloud apps and knowledge workers
This infographic breaks down a recent survey of workers, executives, and IT about the adequacy of their tools for remote access and the role of cloud apps.
Topic Contributors
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Nick Hardiman
Nick Hardiman builds and maintains the infrastructure required to run Internet services. Nick deals with the lower layers of the Internet - the machines, networks, operating systems, and applications. Nick's job stops there, and he hands over to the designers and developers who build the top layer that customers use.
You can also find Nick Hardiman on and Google+ .
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Thoran Rodrigues
After working for a database company for 8 years, Thoran Rodrigues took the opportunity to open a cloud services company. For two years his company has been providing services for several of the largest e-commerce companies in Brazil, and over this time he had the opportunity to work on large scale projects ranging from data retrieval to high-availability critical services.
