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By George Constantopoulos – Cloud Practise Director at SBR Consulting In the fast-paced environment of the high technology industry, consultative sales is becoming the occupation of the future. However, the future is here today. Now you’re wondering, how does that fit in? Well, let’s take a look at how the rapid change and evolving trends
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By Daniel Steeves, Director at Beyond Solutions and Partner with James Caan at HB Prime Advantage I tend to agree: this cloud thing isn’t as secure as some think it is, simply because all clouds are not created equal. To be fair, though, I would have said the same thing about more than a few business and Government IT systems
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By Chloe Clarke – Head of Global Business Development at Razor Thorn Security The launch and continued rise of the Cloud in recent years would be difficult to miss, yet surprisingly widespread apprehension towards this new service exists within our business culture. The Cloud holds so much potential due to its flexibility, accessibility and cost saving
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By Luke Wheeler, Chairman of ComparetheCloud.net There’s been a lot of commentary and criticism in the news recently about IBM’s business strategy when it comes to cloud computing.  A recent example of this is Seeking Alpha’s published article entitled “IBM: a Disaster in the Making”. Whilst it’s true that most criticism towards IBM’s cloud strategy
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By Simon Mohr, CEO at SEM Solutions This is the final part in a three part series, taken from ‘The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Migration’ by Simon Mohr and Databarracks.  Did you miss Part One or Part Two?  Alternatively you can download the full whitepaper here. What good looks like Migration is a complicated process, but it’s no dark art,
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By Simon Mohr, CEO at SEM Solutions This is the second part in a three part series, taken from ‘The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Migration’ by Simon Mohr and Databarracks.  Did you miss Part One?  Or you can download the full whitepaper here. A to B in Six Easy Steps 1. Planning Planning for a migration is not significantly
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By Simon Mohr, CEO at SEM Solutions This is the first in a 3 part series, taken from ‘The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Migration’ by Simon Mohr and Databarracks. Next time we’ll break down the six easy steps of the migration process. You can download the full whitepaper here. The pace at which we’ve come to regard cloud technologies
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Compare the Cloud Interviews Tim Ayling, UK Channel Director of Trend Micro CTC: Tim tell us your all about yourself? I’ve been in the IT security game for over 15 years now (where’s that time gone?!), working for software vendors & consultancies in various roles. I’ve got a couple of kids, lived abroad for several years,
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By George Knox, CEO of Flexiant Yesterday, Dell announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management capabilities. As a fellow Gartner Cool Vendor this year in the 2013 Cloud Management report, we want to congratulate Enstratius. This acquisition is proof that the biggest IT companies
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By Brendon Higgins, of the Virtual Machine User Group (VMUG) At 14 years old, I picked computing as a career option and have continued on that course ever since. One of the key factors in my professional growth has been both knowing ‘who’ to ask for help and more importantly, having something of value to offer
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