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A small tech company from Croydon, south London has been building a cloud-based phone system connected to a company's customer relationship management (CRM) system for the best part of a decade. Computerworld UK spoke to Natterbox's CEO Neil Hammerton about where the company goes next ...

We hear a lot about the pros and cons of a multi-cloud strategy, but a surprising number of organizations don't think they need to worry about it. They do. This Article Covers. Data security in the cloud. RELATED TOPICS. Cloud computing standards and compliance · Cloud governance. Looking for ...

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Cloud computing is a growing trend in all industry verticals. Multi-tenant solutions often provide cost savings while supporting digital transformation initiatives – but what about the security considerations? Are cloud architectures inherently less secure than systems we build within our own datacentres?

Cloud computing has been developing rapidly since the term was coined in 2006. It's played an integral role in the transformation of many businesses over the last decade, particularly valued for the reliability, scalability and versatility that cloud technology brings compared to traditional dedicated servers.

First, while IT has always been a rapidly changing field, change seems to have picked up speed considerably with the move toward cloud computing. With change of course comes additional stress — the stress of learning new skills and the stress of retooling your business — and for some consultants ...

What's also clear is that despite its growth, cloud computing remains shrouded in mystery for too many business leaders. Unfortunately, this makes it difficult for these leaders to confidently and effectively evaluate cloud computing, and prevents their organizations from fully leveraging its tremendous ...

And during a keynote speech at HIMSS18 on Monday, Eric Schmidt, former executive chairman of Google, outlined his vision of a truly connected, fully AI-assisted learning healthcare system, and how cloud technology is a foundational building block to that. “I'm going to start with, get to the cloud, run to the ...

India has been speaking of leveraging cloud technology in a big way for government and private service delivery. In fact, the original Digital India presentation from 2014 mentions "shareable private space on a public cloud" as a core goal of the programme, along with providing a private space for citizens ...

Security is a complicated debate with healthcare and cloud computing, particularly public cloud platforms. Healthcare IT managers ... When considering healthcare and cloud computing, Venkatesan predicted a struggle between vendors and providers about who owns health data. In Venkatesan 's mind, ...

Decentralized cloud computing sounds like a beautiful combination of buzzwords used to hype up a product, doesn't it? Don't worry, iExec has substance to back up the buzz, and if this is the first time you've heard about the project, that makes sense–the team isn't big on hype. As this guide's title spells out, ...

AWS, Google, Microsoft — these are the three giants of the cloud computing universe, and their collective efforts made 2017 a great year for cloud computing in general. It's expected that the Big 3 will increase their combined market share to 76 percent in 2018, and to 80 percent by 2020. The global public ...

South Africa has been ranked 15th out of 24 leading IT economies in the 2018 Global Cloud Computing Scorecard released yesterday by BSA | The Software Alliance. According to the study, which assesses cloud computing policies around the globe, SA has dropped from a ranking of 14th in 2016, a sign ...

Using the cloud computing service Microsoft Azure, researchers and clinicians received access to cloud-powered genomic processing services. This is important since one whole genome takes up 200 gigabytes of space, said Lee, speaking at the Microsoft booth on the crowded exhibit hall floor. Genome ...

British data protection laws make the UK one of the best places in the world to adopt cloud computing services, according to new research. A report by BSA, the trade body for the global software industry, ranks the UK fourth out of 24 leading IT economies in terms of cloud computing policies. The UK fell to ...

Alec Chattaway is committed to getting the most out of cloud — and lowering the costs of cloud computing. The director of cloud infrastructure operations at Informatica is increasing the efficiency of cloud infrastructure use at the data management software company. He's doing that by almost eliminating ...

Microsoft will soon make it possible for government clients to run its cloud technology on their own servers. The pairing of Azure Stack and ... The cloud computing market is forecast to grow to $74.7 billion in 2018, up nearly 36 percent from 2017, according to research firm Canalys. Amazon Web Services is ...

Not so long ago I went to the opening of a gigantic new datacentre on the outskirts of London. It was a cold day and, despite a few heaters scattered around the hall, most of the heat was lost straight to the ceiling of the vast space, which would soon be filled with endless racks of servers. One of the ...

So, to align with that demand, Microsoft has decided to offer a cloud computing service specifically for students. Azure for Students is a service that gives verified users access to over 25 free Azure products along with a $100 credit toward Microsoft's products. Azure for Students, announced Thursday, ...

A wave of tech companies are harnessing cheap components of the mobile phone era and cloud computing to better predict weather. 09:40 ... But a wave of tech startups is opening up weather predictions, thanks to cheap components and cloud computing power, which could make forecasting much more ...

Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET) stock has been under pressure in recent days, but the sell-off in the shares could present an entry into the cloud computing market. That's according to E*TRADE, which made the case for why investors may want to take a look at the networking and cloud computing company as ...

The allure of getting cloud computing certified is strong, as is anything in IT that's new and shiny. Virtualization administrators need to evaluate the growth of their companies and how their careers fit alongside the certification paths available to them. What is your company's cloud strategy? If your company is ...

After Microsoft signed a deal to test Windows 10 on Xiaomi devices in 2015 and then Xiaomi bought a trove of patents to help run other Microsoft services on its devices in 2016, today the two companies announced another chapter in its collaboration. Xiaomi and Microsoft have signed a Strategic ...

They can then manage their multi-clouds as one single cloud. Yet this means, he explains, that they can only use a “subset of features from each cloud; that is, take the “least common denominator” approach.” He therefore advises you to focus on what cloud technologies do, and not on what they are called.

Others use cloud computing software in their own data centers, as a means of increasing resources and working faster. ... As cloud technology improves, however, it is becoming easier for companies to create products and services within the cloud, or model new products or marketing campaigns as ...

Cloud computing has been developing rapidly since the term was coined in 2006. It's played an integral role in the transformation of many businesses over the last decade, particularly valued for the reliability, scalability and versatility that cloud technology brings compared to traditional dedicated servers.