Many companies continue their push for storing data in the cloud. Most do it for the cost-effectiveness of the solution, saving precious capital by getting rid of physical storage centers and moving everything to a cloud service provider. However, pitfalls remain when garnering the other possible benefits from the cloud.
Cloud computing continues to be a top priority for many companies. Two sectors of economy – healthcare and finance – are finding larger uses for the enterprise cloud.
Given the numerous public and private cloud service options available to businesses today, it can be difficult for industry observers to determine which model has the upper hand in the current market.
Many companies are moving to the enterprise IaaS cloud, however, not all of them know how to properly use it. Once they get the proper tools and learn how to correctly manage their clouds, they will be able to get the most value out of the cloud.
A few years ago, private clouds were just starting to be deployed. Now, private clouds are almost the norm in cloud computing.
When companies move to the cloud, they have numerous options regarding cloud service providers, including public, private or hybrid solutions. One key area companies look at in the cloud is security.
When hardware goes down, companies can find out just how much the enterprise cloud already matters for them. Industry professional Eric Knorr wrote on InfoWorld that his MacBook’s hard drive died in the middle of a meeting earlier this month, leaving him with no way to recover any of the information on it.
The adoption of the enterprise cloud has meant something different to the organizations bringing it in. Some recent reports, one from Verizon and one from Dimensional Research, have shown that the cloud has become popular for both storage and business intelligence for the enterprise.
The rise of VAR cloud providers is a good thing, according to Matt Prigge on his Information Overload blog on Info World. Although middlemen can be seen as negative in many cases, those working to deliver an improved enterprise cloud can help save time, money and stress, facilitating fitting the product in where it needs to be within an organization.
At a recent forum featuring executives from multiple industries, Jeffrey Kaplan, an enterprise cloud consultant, said he spoke with many different CIOs and business decision makers who said they were being pressured into adoption of enterprise-class cloud computing.
