The Promise of the Cloud—Delivered Simply and Securely Accelerating and strengthening cloud development and operations Unparalleled agility, superior speed, streamlined business services—the promise of the cloud is catnip to organizations ready to deliver stellar IT applications and services. But with great flexibility comes the need for effective governance, and the need for speed can come

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Imagine you’re responsible for provisioning a large team of users with all the software they need to be productive, including enterprise-scale systems, web apps, mobile apps, and desktop office tools. These solutions may reside on your network, in the cloud, or on client machines. Fortunately, you have a single system of record for quickly provisioning

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The cloud is all about agility and innovation. It delivers resources on demand, simplifies application deployment, and dramatically reduces infrastructure costs. That’s why more and more enterprises are moving their critical workloads and business services into public, private and hybrid clouds. It’s the way of the future. However, ask yourself this. Is your IT organization

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Cloud-based database management provides organizations with database expertise when it is needed, where it is needed, and at the scale needed. Having experienced database professionals continuously available, both for ongoing issues and urgent projects, provides organizations with cost-effective solutions and valuable flexibility. While using an external provider for remote database administration services may be new

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Nearly all companies need database administrators–but not all companies need a full time DBA. Sometimes you might need “half a DBA.” Sometimes it’s for a one-time need, such as during a transition to a new platform or a surge in overflow work. Other times there’s a persistent need for such fractional services, such as providing

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Microsoft SQL Azure and Amazon RDS are marketed in remarkably similar ways. Both companies claim that their cloud database product makes it easy to migrate from on premise servers to their database-as-a-service cloud offerings; simply migrate your schema and data to the cloud, and then change a connection string in your application. They also emphasize

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Cloud computing offers endless benefits to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). The world of cloud computing is currently dominated by three popular cloud-computing services: Windows Azure by Microsoft, AWS (Amazon Web Services) by Amazon, and Google Cloud by Google. These three services have their own pros and cons as well as unique features, which lead

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.. general manager of cloud computing at Kaseya, based in Waltham, Mass. … Services will add a cloud-management-as-a-service offering this fall, he said.

Businesses running older versions of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, or running Citrix on top of Windows Server 2003, have hard choices. You can’t ignore the problem, which will likely require large-scale upgrades of the existing application delivery farms, which in turn often require replacing the entire software stack—and perhaps the hardware, too. Once the need

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This paper provides guidance for selecting and purchasing a digital workspace solution to enable your totally mobile workforce. Five buying decision considerations that directly impact the success of your mobile workspace strategy are discussed in detail. Download this whitepaper to access recommendations for the most critical specifications to help you in defining an effective digital

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