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With the rise of “Cloud” computing, there will inevitable be an increase in IT service contracts that are entered into online with very little and sometime no negotiation or contact between the customer and the supplier.
So what are the things to look out for when signing up to an on-line contract? More…
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Will 2010 be the year when “the cloud” finally delivers on the promise?
What in fact is cloud computing and is it really “the next big thing”? If you ask any number of IT professionals you are likely to get a variety of different answers! More…
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There has been a lot of virtualisation vendor marketing directed towards persuading everyone that connecting internal and external data centre “clouds” together using a new term “federation” is the thing to be doing. If we believe what is being said it will be very easy to move your application workload around the “cloud” between internal and external resources while keeping the performance within your SLAs.
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The Cloud definitely has a lot to offer plenty of organisations, some applications, like email are simply utility now, so I would recommend looking to the cloud for them. You would be hard pressed to provide the same for less than hosted and managed service providers are, considering the assured security, SLAs, backup, DR, mobile device support, anywhere access, the list goes on… What you should realise though is that your WAN and Internet connections become more important in the service chain.
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