The white paper discusses the benefits of moving from an internal fax infrastructure to a cloud-based fax service model. It notes that maintaining an internal fax server infrastructure is costly, requiring investments in hardware, software, support personnel, and regional telecom providers. For global enterprises, an internal model adds complexity and expense. Meanwhile, cloud fax services provide the same level of quality and control at lower costs through economies of scale. The paper outlines five key benefits of cloud fax services, including dramatic cost reductions, a simplified infrastructure, platform agnosticism, flexible integration capabilities, and access to more extensive services. It also explains how cloud fax services address challenges like managing a global infrastructure, ensuring security and compliance,
1) The survey found that financial services firms are adopting cloud technologies faster than other industries, with almost half already using private clouds.
2) Financial services firms see cloud adoption not just as a new IT delivery method, but as a key enabler for business model innovation and new revenue streams.
3) The survey identified workloads that are well-suited for financial services cloud projects, including ERP applications, desktops, help desks, and data analytics in private clouds, and conferencing, communications, and storage in public clouds.
This document discusses how cloud computing has redefined the need for wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions. It finds that organizations using on-premise solutions focus on WAN optimization as a cost-cutting measure, while those using cloud platforms prioritize improving the user experience to address latency issues. The total cost of networking per employee is significantly lower for cloud environments, but latency introduced by cloud migration negatively impacts applications that require real-time delivery like voice and video, negating potential cost savings. WAN optimization providers have developed products tailored for different cloud architectures like private, public, hybrid and more.
The document discusses how datacenter networks are evolving from fixed, hierarchical designs optimized for client/server transactions to dynamic networks better suited to cloud computing and big data needs. This requires flattening network topologies, converging server and storage networks onto high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and introducing more intelligence and flexibility at the network edge to support virtualized, application-driven workloads. The network must be able to quickly and reliably handle increased server-to-server traffic within the datacenter in order to enable real-time analytics across massive and diverse data sources.
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This document discusses finding the right cloud solution for businesses' needs. It defines cloud computing as having four categories: Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Managed Services. Good cloud solutions give small and medium businesses access to technology capabilities without large upfront costs. They can pay for the level of service needed and easily upgrade resources. This allows SMBs to streamline operations and scale in a cost effective manner.
Shared services are gaining popularity among government agencies as a way to improve efficiency and reduce costs. The document summarizes that 39% of Canadian government agencies surveyed in 2005 had already implemented or were implementing shared services. It describes shared services as a business approach that allows agencies to share infrastructure, applications, and business processes. The benefits outlined include economies of scale, higher constituent satisfaction, focus on core competencies, and knowledge transfer. HP provides solutions to help agencies implement shared services in areas like ERP, payroll, procurement, and IT consolidation.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
- Outsourcing IT infrastructure to the cloud can significantly reduce capital costs (up to 50%) and operating costs (up to 40%) for organizations compared to owning an on-site data center. This is especially beneficial for organizations where technology is not central to their core mission.
- Cloud computing offers various service models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS that allow organizations to outsource different aspects of their IT needs to cloud providers and reduce costs.
- Transitioning to cloud computing can free up resources that can be reallocated to an organization's core mission rather than spending on physical IT infrastructure and support.
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This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. It argues that fully populating shipping containers with thousands of commodity servers and delivering them as ready-to-run modules could significantly reduce data center costs through lower acquisition, deployment, and management costs compared to individual servers. This approach aims to address challenges from the rapid growth of internet services relying on large numbers of inexpensive, commodity servers in data centers.
1) The survey found that financial services firms are adopting cloud technologies faster than other industries, with almost half already using private clouds.
2) Financial services firms see cloud adoption not just as a new IT delivery method, but as a key enabler for business model innovation and new revenue streams.
3) The survey identified workloads that are well-suited for financial services cloud projects, including ERP applications, desktops, help desks, and data analytics in private clouds, and conferencing, communications, and storage in public clouds.
This document discusses how cloud computing has redefined the need for wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions. It finds that organizations using on-premise solutions focus on WAN optimization as a cost-cutting measure, while those using cloud platforms prioritize improving the user experience to address latency issues. The total cost of networking per employee is significantly lower for cloud environments, but latency introduced by cloud migration negatively impacts applications that require real-time delivery like voice and video, negating potential cost savings. WAN optimization providers have developed products tailored for different cloud architectures like private, public, hybrid and more.
The document discusses how datacenter networks are evolving from fixed, hierarchical designs optimized for client/server transactions to dynamic networks better suited to cloud computing and big data needs. This requires flattening network topologies, converging server and storage networks onto high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and introducing more intelligence and flexibility at the network edge to support virtualized, application-driven workloads. The network must be able to quickly and reliably handle increased server-to-server traffic within the datacenter in order to enable real-time analytics across massive and diverse data sources.
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Shared services are gaining popularity among government agencies as a way to improve efficiency and reduce costs. The document summarizes that 39% of Canadian government agencies surveyed in 2005 had already implemented or were implementing shared services. It describes shared services as a business approach that allows agencies to share infrastructure, applications, and business processes. The benefits outlined include economies of scale, higher constituent satisfaction, focus on core competencies, and knowledge transfer. HP provides solutions to help agencies implement shared services in areas like ERP, payroll, procurement, and IT consolidation.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
- Outsourcing IT infrastructure to the cloud can significantly reduce capital costs (up to 50%) and operating costs (up to 40%) for organizations compared to owning an on-site data center. This is especially beneficial for organizations where technology is not central to their core mission.
- Cloud computing offers various service models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS that allow organizations to outsource different aspects of their IT needs to cloud providers and reduce costs.
- Transitioning to cloud computing can free up resources that can be reallocated to an organization's core mission rather than spending on physical IT infrastructure and support.
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This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. It argues that fully populating shipping containers with thousands of commodity servers and delivering them as ready-to-run modules could significantly reduce data center costs through lower acquisition, deployment, and management costs compared to individual servers. This approach aims to address challenges from the rapid growth of internet services relying on large numbers of inexpensive, commodity servers in data centers.
With rapid business expansion through acquisitions and organic growth, City and County Healthcare Group wanted to redesign its IT infrastructure. Local servers at branch offices were becoming harder to manage as the company's geographical reach expanded, so the lean IT team wanted to find an easier way to maintain availability and performance for core business applications by developing on a robust and scalable centralized platform.
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IBM Global Financing can tailor financing solutions to your specific IT needs. For more information on great rates, flexible payment plans and loans, and asset buyback and disposal
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and New Business Models
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This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. The key points are:
1) Shipping containers can house thousands of commodity server components and be delivered as fully operational modules, eliminating the need for on-site assembly and maintenance.
2) These container modules reduce costs associated with component shipping, installation, power/cooling infrastructure, and hardware administration over the lifetime of the systems.
3) The modular approach provides flexibility to rapidly deploy new capacity globally and to later relocate data centers cost-effectively if needed.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
This jointly authored white paper examines how organizations are confronting
the challenges of integrating cloud-based services into a traditional managed
services model. General considerations around industry- and company specific
objectives are outlined, and case studies are used to illustrate a range
of scenarios, strategies and benefits achieved.
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This document discusses the evolution of data centers and cloud computing. It notes that the workforce is increasingly mobile, the nature of work is transforming to be more collaborative both within and outside organizations, and budgets are under pressure. It discusses how colocation services and cloud computing address these trends by providing scalable, on-demand infrastructure and applications at lower costs. The basic building blocks of cloud services are software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Enterprises see potential benefits but also have concerns that need to be addressed for cloud adoption.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
IBM offers private cloud services to help organizations transform their business models by providing flexible, on-demand access to IT resources behind a firewall. These services include strategy and design consulting to help develop a private cloud roadmap, workload analysis to identify good candidates for migration, and implementation services to build out a private cloud infrastructure on-premises or hosted. IBM's portfolio is designed to support every stage of the private cloud transition from planning to ongoing management.
Juniper Networks' QFabric is an innovative data center fabric that provides a flattened, single-tier network architecture with any-to-any connectivity between devices. This allows for rapid deployment of services by eliminating bottlenecks and simplifying network management. QFabric also improves cost efficiency by reducing complexity, scaling more easily, and lowering power consumption and space needs compared to traditional hierarchical network designs. The document examines the business benefits of QFabric, such as rapid service provisioning, lower costs, increased efficiency, and improved resiliency and security for data center networks.
This short paper discusses technical and financial advantages of server virtualization. The concepts in the paper are illustrated by two case studies which analyze the net present value of virtualization projects based on potential power savings.
The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded in 1993 by producer Quincy Jones that predominantly features R&B and hip-hop artists. After shutting down in 2009, Vibe was purchased by private equity firm InterMedia Partners and relaunched as a quarterly publication with an increased online presence. Vibe's target audience is young, urban followers of hip-hop culture. While InterMedia would be a suitable publisher given its experience with similar magazines, pursuing another magazine in the same genre may not be as successful due to competition. Bauer Media, which publishes music magazines like Mojo and Kerrang but none focused on hip-hop, could be a better publisher as it has not yet tapped this market and would offer V
1) The focus group consisted of 2 males and 2 females aged 16-18 to provide feedback on magazine name and content ideas.
2) They preferred the name "STEREO" and felt the orange title design with the AR Darling font stood out more.
3) Suggested content included celebrity interviews, pictures, tour dates, and horoscopes.
IPC was formed in 1963 following the merger of three leading UK magazine publishers and has been publishing magazines for around 150 years. Over the years, IPC has been associated with magazines targeting women's lifestyles, sports, home improvements, music, men's lifestyles, and more. IPC would be an appropriate publisher for a new music magazine as they have experience in the music genre and publishing new types of magazines could provide a new selling point.
RnB/Hip Hop is a genre that blends elements of RnB, hip hop, funk, disco and jazz. It originated from DJ Kool Herc mixing songs using two copies of the same record. RnB, which stands for Rhythm and Blues, had its origins in blues and jazz and influenced various 20th century music styles like rock and roll. Popular artists in the genre include Jay-Z, Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Drake and Lil Wayne.
The document evaluates the student's music magazine and how it uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines.
The magazine's title uses a bold, colorful font that challenges conventions while still standing out. Images use plain backgrounds and posed styles typical of the genre but with quirky expressions. Costumes follow genre conventions of baggy clothes for boys and revealing styles for girls. The people featured are younger than normally seen but still solo artists. The layout and written content similarly follow conventions while adding unique elements. The contents page includes standard sections with an atypical large featured image.
The document discusses the evaluation of a media student's documentary project. It describes how the student researched conventions of documentaries like Super Size Me to inform their own documentary. They analyzed techniques like camera shots, voiceovers, and interviews. They also created an accompanying radio trailer and magazine spread. Feedback showed the reconstruction scene was effective but the magazine design could have been more engaging. Overall, the student learned how audience research and applying documentary conventions helped the project, but their magazine design may have benefited from more work.
With rapid business expansion through acquisitions and organic growth, City and County Healthcare Group wanted to redesign its IT infrastructure. Local servers at branch offices were becoming harder to manage as the company's geographical reach expanded, so the lean IT team wanted to find an easier way to maintain availability and performance for core business applications by developing on a robust and scalable centralized platform.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
IBM Global Financing can tailor financing solutions to your specific IT needs. For more information on great rates, flexible payment plans and loans, and asset buyback and disposal
Confronting the Data Center Crisis: A Cost - Benefit Analysis of the IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) Cloud Offering
Reducing TCO and Enabling New Capability, Faster Time to Results,
and New Business Models
An Architecture for Modular Data Centersguest640c7d
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. The key points are:
1) Shipping containers can house thousands of commodity server components and be delivered as fully operational modules, eliminating the need for on-site assembly and maintenance.
2) These container modules reduce costs associated with component shipping, installation, power/cooling infrastructure, and hardware administration over the lifetime of the systems.
3) The modular approach provides flexibility to rapidly deploy new capacity globally and to later relocate data centers cost-effectively if needed.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
This jointly authored white paper examines how organizations are confronting
the challenges of integrating cloud-based services into a traditional managed
services model. General considerations around industry- and company specific
objectives are outlined, and case studies are used to illustrate a range
of scenarios, strategies and benefits achieved.
VMware Cost Savings Through Virtualizationhypknight
This document discusses how virtualization with VMware can help organizations reduce IT costs and improve efficiency during an economic downtime. It outlines the challenges facing CIOs with decreasing budgets while still needing to do more. Survey results are presented showing virtualization is a top priority and VMware is gaining share of IT spending. The document then provides examples of how VMware has helped customers consolidate servers, reduce data center costs, improve operational efficiency through features like automated patching and migration. It estimates the tangible savings customers have achieved in areas like infrastructure, support staff, energy usage and avoided downtime through high availability and disaster recovery. Overall it aims to demonstrate how VMware delivers the highest ROI and lowest TCO among virtualization solutions.
This document discusses the evolution of data centers and cloud computing. It notes that the workforce is increasingly mobile, the nature of work is transforming to be more collaborative both within and outside organizations, and budgets are under pressure. It discusses how colocation services and cloud computing address these trends by providing scalable, on-demand infrastructure and applications at lower costs. The basic building blocks of cloud services are software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Enterprises see potential benefits but also have concerns that need to be addressed for cloud adoption.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
IBM offers private cloud services to help organizations transform their business models by providing flexible, on-demand access to IT resources behind a firewall. These services include strategy and design consulting to help develop a private cloud roadmap, workload analysis to identify good candidates for migration, and implementation services to build out a private cloud infrastructure on-premises or hosted. IBM's portfolio is designed to support every stage of the private cloud transition from planning to ongoing management.
Juniper Networks' QFabric is an innovative data center fabric that provides a flattened, single-tier network architecture with any-to-any connectivity between devices. This allows for rapid deployment of services by eliminating bottlenecks and simplifying network management. QFabric also improves cost efficiency by reducing complexity, scaling more easily, and lowering power consumption and space needs compared to traditional hierarchical network designs. The document examines the business benefits of QFabric, such as rapid service provisioning, lower costs, increased efficiency, and improved resiliency and security for data center networks.
This short paper discusses technical and financial advantages of server virtualization. The concepts in the paper are illustrated by two case studies which analyze the net present value of virtualization projects based on potential power savings.
The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded in 1993 by producer Quincy Jones that predominantly features R&B and hip-hop artists. After shutting down in 2009, Vibe was purchased by private equity firm InterMedia Partners and relaunched as a quarterly publication with an increased online presence. Vibe's target audience is young, urban followers of hip-hop culture. While InterMedia would be a suitable publisher given its experience with similar magazines, pursuing another magazine in the same genre may not be as successful due to competition. Bauer Media, which publishes music magazines like Mojo and Kerrang but none focused on hip-hop, could be a better publisher as it has not yet tapped this market and would offer V
1) The focus group consisted of 2 males and 2 females aged 16-18 to provide feedback on magazine name and content ideas.
2) They preferred the name "STEREO" and felt the orange title design with the AR Darling font stood out more.
3) Suggested content included celebrity interviews, pictures, tour dates, and horoscopes.
IPC was formed in 1963 following the merger of three leading UK magazine publishers and has been publishing magazines for around 150 years. Over the years, IPC has been associated with magazines targeting women's lifestyles, sports, home improvements, music, men's lifestyles, and more. IPC would be an appropriate publisher for a new music magazine as they have experience in the music genre and publishing new types of magazines could provide a new selling point.
RnB/Hip Hop is a genre that blends elements of RnB, hip hop, funk, disco and jazz. It originated from DJ Kool Herc mixing songs using two copies of the same record. RnB, which stands for Rhythm and Blues, had its origins in blues and jazz and influenced various 20th century music styles like rock and roll. Popular artists in the genre include Jay-Z, Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Drake and Lil Wayne.
The document evaluates the student's music magazine and how it uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines.
The magazine's title uses a bold, colorful font that challenges conventions while still standing out. Images use plain backgrounds and posed styles typical of the genre but with quirky expressions. Costumes follow genre conventions of baggy clothes for boys and revealing styles for girls. The people featured are younger than normally seen but still solo artists. The layout and written content similarly follow conventions while adding unique elements. The contents page includes standard sections with an atypical large featured image.
The document discusses the evaluation of a media student's documentary project. It describes how the student researched conventions of documentaries like Super Size Me to inform their own documentary. They analyzed techniques like camera shots, voiceovers, and interviews. They also created an accompanying radio trailer and magazine spread. Feedback showed the reconstruction scene was effective but the magazine design could have been more engaging. Overall, the student learned how audience research and applying documentary conventions helped the project, but their magazine design may have benefited from more work.
RnB/Hip Hop is a genre that blends elements of RnB, hip hop, funk, disco and jazz. It originated from DJ Kool Herc mixing songs using two copies of the same record. RnB, which stands for Rhythm and Blues, had its origins in blues and jazz and influenced various 20th century music styles like rock and roll. Popular artists in the genre include Jay-Z, Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Drake and Lil Wayne.
The document provides 10 timeless productivity hacks that will make you more productive. Some of the key hacks include: defining your most important tasks each day; focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking; creating a morning routine; limiting distractions like social media; prioritizing important work; batching similar tasks; eliminating unnecessary tasks; and doing the task you are most likely to procrastinate first. Following these simple habits can improve overall productivity without needing a complex system.
This document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and examples. It makes the following key points:
1) Cloud computing allows on-demand access to shared computing resources like servers, storage, databases and applications over the internet.
2) Major benefits include reduced upfront costs, flexibility to scale resources up or down as needed, and a pay-per-use model.
3) Examples show how companies use cloud computing to save costs, improve efficiency and flexibility, and develop new business models.
This document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and examples. It makes the following key points in 3 sentences:
Cloud computing allows on-demand access to shared computing resources over the internet and is growing rapidly. It offers flexibility, scalability, and reduces the need for large upfront capital expenditures. While primarily used for email, storage and testing currently, the document predicts more widespread enterprise adoption of cloud computing for additional applications and services in the coming years as standards improve around data security and storage.
Cloud computing offers organizations scalability, flexibility, and speed while reducing costs. However, issues around security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance need to be addressed. While some organizations are piloting cloud computing services, widespread adoption is still 1-2 years away as only 10-30% of IT budgets are expected to be used for cloud services in the near future. Overall cloud computing has the potential to significantly change how IT services are delivered and used by businesses.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
Read how cloud telephony ensures businesses have scalable and reliable access to unified business communication without any burden of setting up infrastructure or additional CAPEX. Move your business communication to the cloud today.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
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business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
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How Businesses are Navigating the Transition to Cloud Computing - eFax CorporateeFax Corporate®
As cloud computing becomes common place for many businesses today, some are still working to understand which components of their core business to move to the cloud, and which applications or services to use, so that they can stay competitive with others. For example, some law firms, financial institutions and manufacturing firms are landing on the hybrid model of cloud computing and finding opportunities to greatly streamline their operations, using applications like Office 365, cloud-based disaster recovery services and cloud-based faxing.
In this webinar we will discuss:
How businesses are leveraging cloud computing today with use cases from legal, financial, manufacturing and real estate.
Common misconceptions about cloud computing.
Cyber Hacking and Compliance Risks inherent with older fax infrastructure.
How businesses can sunset their fax Infrastructure with no downtime.
How cloud faxing improves efficiency, confidentiality and responsiveness.
The Cloud Computing model is replacing the traditional IT model for many organizations that have not been able to keep up with the tremendous rate at which technology is changing, the challenges of disparate IT systems inherited through acquisitions and mergers, and decreasing internal resources available for IT commitment.
Cloud Computing models range from public cloud services that bill companies for access to IT infrastructure; the private cloud provider that hosts resources for the sole use of its own organization; dedicated external hosting to non-shared resources; and hybrid hosting, a mixed solution of cloud computing and dedicated hosting.
Schneider Electric consulting experts use their Cloud Assessment Checklist to help potential clients identify the computer services needs that best meet their IT challenges. It is not uncommon to find that an organization would optimize operation with a hybrid hosting solution in which a secure, single-tenant database would be stored with a dedicated host and the front-end would be hosted in the public cloud. Similarly, cloud bursting functionality enables the organization to automatically deploy new applications within the public cloud as needed. Such hybrid hosting models allow scaling capability to accommodate an increase in the number of users in the organization and meet peak traffic demand.
Careful examination of business and security characteristics can determine the proper cloud and hosting model that meets the needs of any particular enterprise and, as a result, help increase the organization’s IT capabilities and productivity while adding value to the business.
NEC Backup as a Service reduces administrative tasks, helping it departments...InteractiveNEC
This document discusses NEC's Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering which reduces administrative tasks for IT departments. It notes that cloud solutions have matured, allowing more workloads to be deployed through cloud. NEC partners with Intel, Iron Mountain, and Commvault to deliver a suite of backup and disaster recovery services. Customers can choose between self-managed or fully managed options depending on their needs. The document argues that modernizing backup solutions is important as outages become more costly for digital businesses.
Cloud computing services cover a vast range of options now, from the basics of storage, networking, and processing power through to natural language processing and artificial intelligence as well as standard office applications.
The document summarizes an IDC white paper on converged infrastructure. The key points are:
1) IT infrastructure has become highly complex over time, leading to rising management costs as organizations have had to integrate different systems. Server virtualization has helped contain hardware costs but not management overhead.
2) Converged infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking and management tools into a single system. This simplifies deployment and lowers management costs through automation.
3) Converged systems represent the natural evolution of IT infrastructure as different technologies gradually integrate over multiple technology cycles. Convergence enables more dynamic, efficient "private cloud" environments within organizations.
This document discusses how cloud computing can benefit insurance companies by helping them reduce costs and increase agility. It provides an overview of cloud computing models and services. Insurance companies can use cloud computing to more efficiently scale resources for workloads that fluctuate, develop products faster, and reduce IT operating costs. Functions like development/testing, virtual desktops, collaboration, and analytics are good candidates to move to the cloud. The document examines how different parts of insurers' operations, such as the front office, back office, compliance, and investments, could utilize cloud applications and services.
The document discusses how cloud computing provides companies flexibility and efficiency during tough economic times. It allows companies to rapidly scale computing resources up or down as needed without large capital investments. This enables companies to innovate faster, bring products to market quicker, and improve operational efficiency. Cloud computing provides automated provisioning of services, virtualized infrastructure, security, and standardized offerings to help companies work smarter and be more responsive to changing business needs.
Mobile devices and cloud computing are transforming how businesses operate as more shift to remote work. Virtualization allows companies to eliminate server farms and reduce costs. Telework and virtual offices let businesses increase productivity while cutting overhead through remote network structures. Alternative productivity applications like videoconferencing and business intelligence help optimize processes and efficiency as companies pursue new methods of improving productivity in a virtual environment.
This document discusses IBM's perspective on cloud computing. It defines cloud computing, outlines some potential benefits like cost efficiency and flexibility, and differentiates between public and private clouds. It then describes the key technologies behind cloud computing like scalability, automation, and standardized user experiences. The document also highlights examples of IBM's leadership in developing both cloud infrastructure and cloud-based applications and services. Finally, it considers some common questions around how cloud computing can help drive innovation, optimization, and competitive advantage.
- CIOs are facing mounting pressure to do more with less as IT spending decreases and more technology spending occurs outside the IT department.
- Unified Computing combines outsourcing managed services with cloud computing to provide IT departments agility and lower costs while allowing them to become strategic enablers of the business.
- This approach provides all the benefits of cloud infrastructure alongside application skills and delivery from a large systems integrator. Companies like UEFA have adopted this model to dynamically scale their systems and lower costs.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
This document discusses the promises and realities of cloud computing. It outlines some of the key promises of cloud computing such as cost savings, increased computing power and automation, and infrastructure simplification. However, it also notes that while technology continues to evolve, users' experiences with the cloud vary and some organizations still question if the cloud can deliver on its promises. The document explores both the positive drivers for cloud adoption as well as areas like data control, performance, and security that are still works in progress.
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Five Reasons to Eliminate Your Internal
Fax Infrastructure
The operational efficiencies of moving enterprise fax services into the cloud