Kategorie: Analysis
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Find your return on investment (ROI) of cloud computing
Companies are encouraged to determine the value of any investment with the return on investment (ROI). For new technologies / concepts such as cloud computing this is not trivial, since there is currently a little to no experience. Startups are more unbiased, as they have no comparative figures with classical systems, established companies, however, are…
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Your cloud computing strategy: The use case is the starting point
What are the key elements of a cloud strategy? This question is not easy and can usually only be answered in general because there is not „the“ master plan for a cloud strategy. Which nor exists for a corporate strategy or IT strategy. The use case is the center point An IT strategy always has…
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Amazon acquires Eucalyptus cloud – It's merely a matter of time
In the public cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the undisputed leader. Regarding private or hybrid cloud solutions providers such as Microsoft and HP are in a better position. AWS itself has currently no own offering in this area. Instead, an exclusive partnership with Eucalyptus Systems was received in March 2012. Eucalyptus is some…
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Cloud marketplaces are the future of cloud computing
In recent months, more and more cloud marketplaces have appeared. These include, inter alia the AWS Marketplace, the Chrome Web Store, the internet4YOU Cloud Marketplace or the Business Marketplace of Deutsche Telekom. Here, companies and also end-users can assemble their own productivity portfolio from a catalog of services and therefore have a selected overview of…
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“Infrastructure-as-a-Platform” – More convience in the cloud
The future of enterprise IT is x-as-a-service. Especially infrastructure-as-a-services enable quick access to computing and storage resources and are becoming more and more popular. However, what many IaaS do lack is the convenience, the comfortable configuration of the infrastructure. With infrastructure-as-a-platform (IaaP) especially small-and medium-sized businesses that do not have the necessary IT expertise get…
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My five cloud computing, mobile and big data predictions for 2013 and one wish
This year I actually didn’t want to participate in any speculation. But a request from Cloud Expo’s Jeremy Geelan I could not reject and have written down my own personal predictions for the cloud computing, mobile and big data market for 2013. Of course I would like to publish them here as well and also…
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When do we see a Microsoft Cloudbook?
With Windows 8 Microsoft put many things in the center of the cloud. As it is known from other systems a central Microsoft account can be used to synchronize settings, apps from the marketplace and data across devices. Production and media data can be integrated into the system via SkyDrive. Office 365 and Office 2013…
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Lessons learned: Amazon EBS is the error-prone backbone of AWS
In a blog article awe.sm writes about their own experiences using the Amazon Web Services. Beside the good things of the cloud infrastructure for them and other startups you can also derived from the context that Amazon EBS is the single point of failure in Amazon’s infrastructure. Problems with Amazon EC2 awe.sm criticized Amazon EC2’s…
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Cloud Computing: It is about agility and flexibility and secondarily about the costs
The German Computerwoche discussed in their article „How much is the Cloud“ the costs of cloud computing. In this case, the piece focuses on the topic of software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and does not consider the bandwidth of the cloud area. The general result of the article is, driving an on-premise solution for five years is cheaper…
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Cloud Computing is the backbone of the mobile world
The market of mobile devices and solutions is growing constantly. Recently the German BITKOM predicts a thriving tablet boom. Accordingly, more than 3.2 million units are sold in 2012. This is an increase of 52 percent. Sales are expected to rise to 1.6 billion euros. And also the trend towards mobile office and collaboration solutions…