Informatica’s SVP, Juan Carlos Soto, sees hybrid Clouds being the norm well into the future, and is pitching Cloud Spring 2013 as the Cloud AND on-premise integrator
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Cost efficiency remains the key driver of Cloud investment in the Western European government sector, according to a new study by global research firm IDC.
"Exactly what our customers tell us they desire, a compatible, high quality, secure and resilient hybrid Cloud platform" - VMware's President has some clear goals for 2013.
Caxton FX has chosen Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 Enterprise data management software for a hybrid Cloud configuration. The foreign exchange specialist wanted a secure database platform for its trading system - combining real-time replication, reporting services, and data warehouse capabilities.
Forum’s Cloud user survey shows the trend for next year is hybrid, and that despite slipping into the Trough of Disillusionment, Cloud delivery is now well established and growing.
Many existing on-premise applications won’t disappear but will transition into Cloud-delivered services so we’ll all have to work out what Cloudy licences look like.
There’s a growing interdependence between usage of the PHP language, faster speed of development and deployment of applications to the Cloud as Cloud application development becomes more mainstream.
While it is true that some enterprises are investing in Cloud services, most of these services only store a fraction of the content enterprises hold today.
The vast majority of their content is stored behind the firewall.
Cloud take-up is increasingly healthily among UK organisations with barriers to adoption being overcome and Big Data providing a fresh driver for assessment.
Many enterprises face the issue that a mix of Cloud services are an important part of the applications, services and resource provision required by their particular business mix. Many more are likely to be in the same boat but still do not yet know, or are still unsure, quite what their particular business model might require in terms of Cloud services, be it private, public or hybrid. This begs the obvious question for all of them – how on earth do we manage this?
US vendor Virtustream has announced one solution to this problem, xStream 2.0.