Lawyers and businesses gravitate to private enterprise clouds
While security is still a sticking point for many would-be cloud adopters, IaaS and similar services have already conferred many benefits even to regulated industries like law.
While security is still a sticking point for many would-be cloud adopters, IaaS and similar services have already conferred many benefits even to regulated industries like law.
The enterprise cloud market appears set for strong growth through the middle of this decade.
Many businesses that adopted an IaaS cloud originally believed that their investments in remote resources would trim their personnel ranks in tandem with their IT expenditures.
IaaS clouds offer organizations the ability to virtualize their big data structure and security needs.
Enterprise clouds enable insurance claims professionals to better systematize the claims process for increased productivity, collaboration and accuracy.
Less popular than SaaS, PaaS or IaaS clouds, database-as-a-service may still provide benefits to businesses handling large quantities of data and seeking to improve the energy and cost efficiencies of their cloud architectures.
In the shadow of government sequestration and shrinking private IT budgets, adoption of enterprise-grade cloud computing has picked up steam.
One current and one former official of the Defense Information Systems Agency spoke to the benefits of enterprise cloud computing for the defense industry.
Software defined networking solutions like IaaS clouds will continue to offer increased scalability and agility for enterprise users, and solutions provider Brocade is emerging as an industry leader.
Regulated industries like finance and healthcare may have much to gain from an IaaS cloud that can support highly targeted vertical services.