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The distinction between an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform and a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform used to be clear and consistent. You would deploy services on an IaaS that you would otherwise deploy on your own servers, whereas you would produce custom applications to be run from a PaaS.
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Ouch! It takes only four letters to describe the sting that line of business users feel about the rate at which their IT departments bring new applications to market.
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The question for most organizations today is not if they will be moving all or part of their business to the cloud, but when and how.
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After nearly two years of attempting to redefine “cloud” to mean “the hodgepodge of services IBM has cobbled together,” IBM this week put forward a clear and respectable vision of a viable software-defined data center that organizations can actually, finally put to use.
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“The times they are a changin’.” For anyone who’s not a fan of rock music history that quote may not resonate, but it comes from a song that Bob Dylan wrote in the 1960s.
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Larry Ellison is confident in Oracle Corp. Just listen to what the CEO just said as the company posted fiscal 2014 fourth quarter numbers: Oracle is now the second largest Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company in the world, ... In SaaS, we're in front of everybody but Salesforce.
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Enterprise computing needs some new mojo — and if Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz and his crew have their way, it will first be built — and then found — atop their brand of Cloud Foundry.
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Unless you’ve had your ears plugged and your eyes closed for the past few years, you know that we’re quickly moving away from computing’s 2nd Era and onto the 3rd.
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IBM has upped the stakes in the cloud space with its announcement of a new set of cloud packages that will put it ahead of more traditional cloud offerings from competitors like Amazon and Microsoft.
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For better or worse, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) will continue to pull business workflows into mobile and personal devices. Efforts to keep business functions in their traditional channels have largely failed and according to analysts, we should expect sharp double-digit growth to continue.
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When it comes to hosting SharePoint on premises or moving it into the cloud, there is never one right answer. Companies need to understand every hosting option available to them and find the one that best fits their available resources and technical needs.
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Private cloud computing is going mainstream. It has moved from a technology limited to a handful of innovative enterprises to a technology that has been prioritized for development in the next 12 months by more than half the enterprises surveyed, according to new Forrester research.
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Cloud computing provides tremendous value for businesses of all types. But as we can see from the number of products that shut down in 2013, it isn't all a silver lining.
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After more than a year in preview, Google has finally made its Google Compute Engine (GCE) Generally Available (GA). The GA release also comes with a 10 percent price cut for standard instances and a guaranteed uptime of 99.95 percent.
The announcement, which appears in a blog post by Ari Balogh,
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