A new InfoWorld and PhoenixNAP white paper explores whether the private cloud will evolve quickly enough to keep up with the mass adoption of the public cloud. According to The State of Cloud Computing, “2013 could be the year when … we’ll see a number of large enterprises move core...
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Even in a highly regulated industry, shifting resources to an on-demand model can significantly help IT departments cut costs and improve productivity. IDC Canada weighs in
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TechRepublic and ZDNet have joined forces to provide a variety of resources on cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS). According to TechRepublic, “[i]n five years, cloud computing has gone from a pariah in IT circles to one of IT’s favorite plays to run in certain situations. TechRepublic and...
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A Gartner Webinar about the "Nexus era of IT" looks at how personal technologies are creating new expectations in IT departments, and how they'll need to adapt.
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The president of the Canadian Cloud Council reflects on the recent conference in Banff, Alta
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Webtorials released the “2012 Cloud Networking Report – Part 2: Data Center LANS Networking”, which outlines how “data center LAN technology and design has evolved and to identify the factors that are currently driving the vast majority of IT organizations to rethink how they design their...
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Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in network security, cloud and more:
The 2013 Cisco Annual Security Report revealed that global data centre traffic is expected to quadruple over the next five years. This trend is driven by the cloud, as cloud traffic will make...
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The Data Centre Alliance is warning that construction standards need to be set to keep server farms clean and free of contamination. Because they're certainly not free of contamination now
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Agreements to host software and infrastructure, along with service level agreements, can be vaguely worded and leave you with little indication of your true risks and responsibilities. Watch for these things
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Welcome to today’s edition of the IP news roundup. Here are the latest headlines in convergence, big data, network security and more:
A report by Accenture revealed that companies that adopt technologies such as cloud and virtualization are better positioned to take advantage of new business...
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