Hybrid clouds have become increasingly popular among enterprises, but their complex infrastructure, combining public and private clouds, as well as dedicated servers, can make security more challenging. With data loss having potentially catastrophic consequences, including downtime, reputational damage and substantial financial penalties, organisations using hybrid cloud systems must be fully aware of how to protect …
6 Ways Enterprises Use AI Today
6 Ways Enterprises Use AI Today
Artificial intelligence (AI) is, arguably, one of the greatest technological achievements we have witnessed. Indeed, in terms of its impact on human society, it’s up there with the wheel, the printing press, antibiotics, the internal combustion engine and the internet. And though it’s still in its infancy, it’s already being widely used in industry. Here, …
How Digital Transformation is Changing Enterprise Websites
How Digital Transformation is Changing Enterprise Websites
As enterprises embrace digital transformation and make greater use of advanced technologies like the cloud, data analytics, AI and ML, websites brought within the wider business ecosystem are empowered to play a much wider and more critical role. In this article, we examine how that role is evolving in today’s digital landscape. Reshaping customer relationships …
What Enterprises Should Look for in a Cloud Vendor
What Enterprises Should Look for in a Cloud Vendor
The public cloud has become an integral part of most enterprises’ IT solutions – and for good reason: it reduces the need for capital expenditure, outsources IT management, delivers unparalleled scalability and puts the latest technologies, like AI, ML, automation and big data, at their fingertips. However, while public cloud might be the ideal environment, …
Key Features of Enterprise-Class Cloud Backup Solutions
Key Features of Enterprise-Class Cloud Backup Solutions
Such is the reliance that enterprises have on IT that the loss of websites, applications and data due to hacking, malware, hardware failure or human error can bring their organisations to a standstill. A fundamental requirement for ensuring recovery and business continuity is having a backup solution in place. Enterprises, however, need enterprise-class solutions and …
Current Trends in Enterprise Cloud Usage
Current Trends in Enterprise Cloud Usage
As 2022 gets underway, we are seeing the first published reports on how the cloud landscape has evolved over 2021. These paint an interesting picture of how enterprises are using the cloud and how their needs, priorities and cloud use change. In this post, we look at some of the important findings now being made …
Major Cloud Challenges for Enterprises 2022
Major Cloud Challenges for Enterprises 2022
According to recent studies, the main cloud challenges enterprises will face during 2022 include security, governance, compliance, finance and talent. Here, we take a closer look at the state of today’s enterprise cloud environment and give insights into these and other challenges. Top challenges Research shows that enterprises face eight major cloud challenges overall. In …
How the Cloud Helps Enterprises to Innovate
How the Cloud Helps Enterprises to Innovate
Cloud migration offers so much more than just a way to cut costs. Though it can eradicate the expense of running an in-house data centre, beyond that, it has the capacity to help enterprises innovate like never before. Here, we look at the innovative opportunities that cloud adoption presents. Wider collaboration One advantage of using …
The Benefits of the Cloud for Fintech Firms
The Benefits of the Cloud for Fintech Firms
Fintech is a thriving sector, boasting more unicorns than any other. But what is it that enables these innovative and disruptive startups to gain such traction in the market? One technology certainly playing a valuable role is the cloud and here we examine the benefits that the cloud brings and how it can shape the …
The Advantages of Private Cloud for Enterprises
The Advantages of Private Cloud for Enterprises
The cloud has quickly become the solution of choice for enterprises wanting to unify and process large quantities of data. With decision making reliant on analytical insights, the cloud provides the storage, processing power and scalability required and does so in the most cost-effective way, without the need for heavy capital investment in on-site infrastructure. …