Cloud IS the next big thing!
Think cloud isn’t the next big thing in the evolution of IT? By 2015, experts predict cloud traffic will grow 12 times to reach 1.6 zettabytes—yes, zettabytes. That’s more than four days of business-class video for every single person on the planet.
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Why You Should Care: The Cloud Transforming How and How Well You Run Your Business
Cloud computing is going to change how and how well you run your business. This may seem like a strong claim, and many find it ridiculous. Companies already have technology; it’s not as if they are operating without hardware, software, and databases. A move to the cloud is just a shift in where this equipment is located and this sounds like a classic job for the IT staff, and shouldn’t concern the rest of the company.
But it should, and it will. To see why, we can look back over a century ago. Manufacturing industries were in the midst of electrification; replacing steam turbines with electric motors. Factory owners generally saw this as a simple substitution, ignoring the broader possibilities offered by electric power. Eventually, this included putting a separate motor on every machine in the plant; setting up overhead cranes, conveyor belts, and assembly lines. Factories were converted from tall, narrow buildings to long, low ones.
These advances were still invisible at the start of electrification, and they only became apparent after time due to experimenters and innovators. This same dynamic will play out around cloud computing. The cloud offers benefits at every level: the individual, the group, the data, and the application. And those are just the ones that are visible right now.
Technology has finally caught up with workers who don’t sit at the same desk all day, every day. Many employees now have laptops, notebooks, tablets, and smartphones and use them as they move around during the work day and are on the road for business trips. Thanks to the cloud, data, applications, communications, and social networks can come along with employees no matter where they are.
Without the cloud, mobility and the proliferation of devices would lead to severe fragmentation and frustration. With it, employees can be productive everywhere.
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Where Does Your Business Fit in the Cloud? (and 4 reasons why it should)
As a business executive, you may have noticed that cloud computing is becoming real; it’s not another over-wrought marketing phenomena, and as a leader of your company, it’s important to recognize how important it is, what it means to your organization, and what you should do to get on board.
The Cloud represents a fundamental change in computing-much like the rapid take-off of the internet in the 90s. Businesses quickly learned what the internet meant to commerce and how it could help in day to day business activities.
Gartner’s predictions for 2012 include the Cloud as a top strategic technology along with the increasingly mobile workforce (by 2013, there will be 1.3 billion mobile workers throughout the world!) Here are some business benefits to getting your company in the Cloud:
1. Reasons to convert to a Cloud-based company primarily involve cost benefits; lower capital expenditures because hosting your business applications in the cloud is cheaper than purchasing, running, and maintaining physical servers and the pay-as-you-go model of Software-as-a-service provides lower costs & distributes payments throughout the year.
2. The more business applications that you host in the Cloud, the easier it will be to accommodate the increasingly mobile workforce.
3. The Cloud enables collaboration. Meeting with colleagues is no problem thanks to a range of virtual meeting services like GoToMeeting and WebEx.
4. Unlike legacy desktop counterparts, Cloud-based applications can usually integrate with one another, streamlining all of your business functions and allowing for more efficiency. For example, I can send e-mails from my Outlook account through the Salesforce application.
These are just a few of the many ways in which the Cloud can impact your business for the better. Visit Covisia’s website to learn more about how to get started.
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Citrix Receiver’s Role in BYOD Trend
Desktop virtualization continues to be a major technology trend in 2012, with Gartner predicting that 60% of enterprises will deploy desktop virtualization in 2012 (up from 10% in 2011). The implementation of a desktop virtualization strategy aims to solve the problem of bringing together various applications and devices, including Microsoft, Apple iOS, and Android.
In 2012, more users will be using Windows applications on devices that do not primarily run Windows. The Citrix Receiver is one tool that enterprises can use to deliver Windows applications to non-Windows devices, while also incorporating some of the best features from the device itself. For example, on the iPad, the Citrix Receiver arrays the Windows applications in a grid-like format, just like the native Apple applications are arranged on the screen. The Windows applications are also used with touchscreen capabilities, as are all the Apple applications.
One of the heightened concerns for many companies looking to deploy virtualized desktops is security. Citrix is prepared for this, and provides enhanced security features with the Citrix Receiver.
To learn more about how Citrix is enabling many enterprises to enter the world of desktop virtualization, read the full article here!
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Cloud Computing: Looking Ahead
2011 was an energizing year in terms of the advancement of cloud computing. The cloud approach was adopted by many organization. In 2012, the cloud will simply become the accepted way of acquiring IT services and new applications. Regardless of tight IT budgets, companies will be able to see the value.
Cloud will begin to fade as a differentiating term, because it will just be the way we do things. Cloud is now the delivery platform for applications and services, and will keep coming on stronger than before. Ironically, it may also begin to seem more routine than the grand paradigm shift of 2011.
Cloud-first policies will come into play as many businesses will follow the federal government’s example of a “cloud-first” policy. Last year, as part of its effort to streamline its $80-billion-a-year-plus IT budget, the government decreed that all agencies consider a “cloud-first” option where feasible. Seeing such an effort succeed on such a massive scale will nudge companies to adopt their own “cloud-first” approaches when considering new systems purchases.
Stay tuned for more of the 2012 trends in technology.
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