This ROI study is based on data gathered from structured in-depth interviews with representatives from 10 IT organizations that are using Red Hat Network Satellite Server to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. Find out in this Red Hat white paper how the IT organizations in this study experienced strong positive returns on their investments, yielding an average 338% ROI over a three-year period – over three times the initial investment.
Why Every IT Organization Should Consider Cloud-Integrated Storage
You’ve probably already heard that storage capacity needs are growing rapidly, with IDC projecting the digital universe will exceed 40,000 exabytes (40 billion terabytes) by 2020. According to Gartner, organizations are on average growing their capacity 40% to 60% year over year. On the other hand, disk storage densities of SAN and NAS storage arrays are not keeping up with the growth of data, resulting in a looming storage capacity sprawl for many organizations. The potential impact is measured not only in additional floor-space, but also cooling, management and increases in maintenance staff. As a result, many organizations will eventually find themselves trapped in a situation where their storage needs exceed their existing on-premise capabilities – the unenviable position of facing additional investments in infrastructure and people.
In fact, a recent survey we took indicated that a full 60% of users feel that they are «always running out of storage» – a clear indication that this «future» problem is already being felt on the ground.
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In this hypercompetitive era faced with multiple technology transitions, businesses must change the game and transform how they engage customers to promote future growth. See Cisco unveil the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Enterprise Networks Architecture, a game-changing technology that helps you capture new business opportunities by creating innovative experiences with greater IT simplicity and investment protection.
Hear customers discuss how they use innovative networking technologies to solve IT challenges and impact business.
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Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Webinar Now Online
In this hypercompetitive era faced with multiple technology transitions, businesses must change the game and transform how they engage customers to promote future growth. See Cisco unveil the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Enterprise Networks Architecture, a game-changing technology that helps you capture new business opportunities by creating innovative experiences with greater IT simplicity and investment protection.
Hear customers discuss how they use innovative networking technologies to solve IT challenges and impact business.
Watch Rob Soderbery and Inbar Lasser-Raab introduce next-generation technology architecture unveiled at Cisco Live Orlando.
Learn about breakthrough networking solutions that will help you to stay ahead of technology transitions.
451 Research: Platform-as-a-service fastest growing area of cloud computing
The majority of cloud computing revenue in 2012 was generated from vendors with sales over $75M (66%) and who are privately held (77%), with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) projected to attain a 41% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2016.
Market Monitor, a service of 451 Research, is also predicting 36% CAGR in cloud computing, growing from $5.7B in 2012 to $20B by the end of 2016 in their Cloud-as-a-Service overview report. Other research firms including Gartner have much higher forecasts for cloud computing in general and IaaS, PaaS and SaaS specifically.
Market Monitor relies on a bottoms-up forecasting methodology that includes revenue analysis and forecasts from 309 cloud-services providers and technology vendors across 14 sectors. Their taxonomy defining Cloud as a Service is shown in the following graphic:
Here are the key take-aways from the report:
- The cloud computing market will grow from $5.7B in 2012 to $20B in …
Amazon cloud “in league of its own” – and why it may never change
Two separate pieces of research released this week have found its way to CloudTech HQ, and both have come to the same conclusion: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is miles ahead of the competition in terms of providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) services.
This isn’t surprising in itself, but let’s not forget these companies Amazon is skinning are among the biggest on the planet.
Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant, on IaaS, unsurprisingly put Amazon in its leaders category, well ahead of its competitors in both ability to execute and completeness of vision.
The analyst house cited AWS’ product portfolio and pricing structure in particular, and estimated that its operations are five times larger than a dozen of its major competitors combined.
Want more proof? Q2 data from the Synergy Research Group painted a similar picture, putting AWS’ quarterly revenue at over $600m …
Implications of NSA’s Violation of Privacy Rules for US Cloud Providers
New reports show that when the NSA was conducting its surveillance programs, perhaps including XKeyscore and PRISM, the agency was not following its own legal guidelines. These reports, based on internal NSA audit reports leaked via the “Snowden leak”, showing the NSA violated its own privacy rules and overstepped its authority thousands of times in the past few years, will serve to further unsettle many enterprises abroad, even leading some to conclude that utilizing U.S. cloud applications is not worth risking unauthorized data access by the government and others.
Recent reports estimate this new hesitation to use U.S. cloud applications may cost providers more than $35 billion in the coming years. With new revelations that the NSA broke its own privacy rules, enterprises globally may find even more reason to hold back from U.S. cloud providers, potentially making the size of the impact even worse for U.S.-based cloud providers.
As we stated in a recent press release on the topic, when enterprises allow fears of surveillance to slow down or stop their adoption of U.S. cloud applications, it has the potential to put those enterprises at a competitive disadvantage to others in their industries – specifically in cases where they are “forced” to adopt a less beneficial/efficient cloud service for managing their business.
Managing Disruptive Challenges Through Innovation
Business are adding innovation as a core component of their strategy.
With an historic transition underway to an information-based economy, organizations are increasingly investing in innovation. While disruptions across industries have happened for a long time, the recent capability to quickly leverage technology that launches disruptive movements brings a significant increase of such occurrences. At every opportunity, start-ups who experience disruptions can now develop and release expedient pioneering solutions. Strategists at legacy businesses face the challenge to keep up with industry transformation by developing new solutions at a break neck pace and adopting new business models.
Five Benefits of Unified Cloud Communications
Modern technology has enabled businesses to evolve beyond the four walls of an office and have more autonomy and flexibility when it comes to how they communicate with each other. With Unified Cloud Communications, a business can have homeworkers, office workers and team members who aren’t even in the same country as each other and they will be able to have just as much communication with each other as they would have if they were all in the same room.
How is this possible? The internet.
Cloud communications are internet-based voice and data communications that have increased a business’ range in terms of reach and communications by having telecommunications applications hosted, run and accessed via a web infrastructure. It was originally just data based, but voice communication is now possible and has taken off and evolved the technology even further.
Five Benefits of Unified Cloud Communications
Modern technology has enabled businesses to evolve beyond the four walls of an office and have more autonomy and flexibility when it comes to how they communicate with each other. With Unified Cloud Communications, a business can have homeworkers, office workers and team members who aren’t even in the same country as each other and they will be able to have just as much communication with each other as they would have if they were all in the same room.
How is this possible? The internet.
Cloud communications are internet-based voice and data communications that have increased a business’ range in terms of reach and communications by having telecommunications applications hosted, run and accessed via a web infrastructure. It was originally just data based, but voice communication is now possible and has taken off and evolved the technology even further.