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As cloud computing becomes more sophisticated and mainstream, the shift to the public cloud is gaining tremendous traction. With big-brand clouds (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure) fast evolving, more and more enterprises are moving away from private clouds. However security is justifiably a top concern when moving applications and data into the public cloud. Some of the questions foremost on everyone's mind are - How secure is my data? What will happen is there is a breach with the public cloud vendor? How do I ensure that my data is properly protected in this case?
More and more companies are making moves to the cloud, thanks to its predictable billing cycle, routine upkeep handled as part of a contractual arrangement, and other amenable features. Yet even here, there's an opportunity to save money on cloud provision, and a new report from the 451 Research Cloud Price Index says that huge savings could just be a matter of using more than one provider.
In this data-driven society it's hard to believe we still have difficulty finding the information we need. In fact, employees spend an average of 1.8 hours every day, 9.3 hours per week, searching and gathering information. SearchYourCloud (SYC) CEO, Simon Bain, realized this years ago after conducting a survey that found 20 percent of knowledge work is time wasted looking for stuff.
GENBAND has signed enterprise IT giant SAP as a global reseller for its collaboration platform, which supports chat, videoconferencing and other real-time communications. The deal allows SAP to integrate a range of customer engagement channels for sales, service and business professionals directly into its customer relationship management (CRM) business applications.
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