Choose Your Cloud Service Providers Wisely Different cloud service providers offer different benefits to you and your business. Your cloud service provider is essential to your business because this provider holds, manages, and provides safety for your company’s delicate data. […]
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By now it would be no surprise that a significant share of your personal and business data and applications are running in the giant clouds of Amazon, Google or Microsoft. Microsoft alone claims about 10 trillion objects are stored using
The World is Cloudy Read More »
I know from my days working in the IT trenches that there are always a few users–users who do not actually work in IT–who know just enough about technology to be dangerous. When users want (or need) something and IT
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According to a Gartner prediction cloud adoption will rise to $250 billion by 2017. 42 percent of IT leaders plan to spend more on cloud this year as per a ComputerWorld forecast. These statistics prove how the cloud is becoming
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Companies are moving servers, applications, and data to the cloud to take advantage of the increased resiliency, availability, and scalability–it only makes sense to move directory services to the cloud as well. JumpCloud launched a new Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering to
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When the topic of cloud storage comes up, Box is usually mentioned as one of the chief players along with rival services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, SugarSync, and others. However, storing data in the cloud is one of the
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SaaS (software-as-a-service) and cloud services are still a relatively nascent industry. There is a strong temptation as companies evolve to try and do it all, but trying to be all things to all customers typically leads to doing none of
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The very concept of the cloud is daunting for many businesses. The tech buzzword is seemingly ubiquitous, but understanding the options available, and separating hype from reality are Herculean tasks that most IT admins simply don’t have time for. The
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