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Posted by Margaret Dawson on August 25, 2011 at 7:36 am
These events are also good reminders of the need for strong due diligence when selecting a cloud vendor. The biggest names in the industry are not necessarily the best suited to meet your needs. At the end of the day, any cloud solution is still running on somebody’s data center, so you need to understand that environment. Also, we are starting to see many cloud service layers, where a SaaS application or eCommerce app is running on a different company’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Make sure you understand the layers, SLAs and capabilities across a cloud service chain.
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Posted by Hayden on August 3, 2011 at 10:25 am
During July, cloud computing continued to create hype and hope among IT and business audiences, while on the integration front, companies are starting to realize the need to think about integration as a critical part of the overall cloud ecosystem. This edition of the month in review looks at articles that address the questions: how can the cloud help our planet and just how important is integration?
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Posted by Margaret Dawson on July 14, 2011 at 8:13 am
IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts the amount of data being stored will more than double every two years, and could grow by 50 times by the year 2020. The survey also found that the amount of data created and replicated is expected to top 1.8 zettabytes, or 1.8 billion TBs, in 2011, up from just over 1 zettabyte in 2010. We have also seen this trend first-hand, with a massive increase in not only transactional volume but message size from our community of some 20,000 B2B connections.
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Posted by Jim Flack on July 12, 2011 at 7:18 am
This kind of paradigm shift takes time and no company should suddenly make the leap to the cloud without the proper due diligence or planning. At Hubspan, we provide managed services to address each and every contingency and concern to make transitions like this seamless. And as companies realize how much they are saving in resources and IT costs, they may wonder what took them so long to make that important first step. And of course, we provide Web-based reporting and analytic tools, so you can still feel like you have control over your “stuff”.
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Posted by Integration Man on July 6, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Often times, finding good information on the internet is like picking a snow flake out of an avalanche. With thousands of websites, blogs, and social media accounts floating around out there on the internet, it’s hard to know where to turn. There are many renowned experts that love cloud computing and integration solutions as much as we do. Luckily, these fine people have taken to sharing their insights with the world on the Twitter, making it a fantastic place to find great cloud computing information. Just as long as you know who to follow, that is.
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Posted by Jim Flack on July 5, 2011 at 7:50 am
The cloud should not be viewed as replacement for FTEs but more of an advanced tool to increase efficiency and on-demand IT capability. Hubspan discovered in real-life cases that IT personnel were not eliminated from their positions. They were often moved to different areas of the company because of their valuable skill sets and insight into their legacy systems which integrate with cloud-based solutions.
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Posted by Hayden on July 1, 2011 at 1:55 pm
This blog takes a look at the big news in integration, cloud computing and general IT over the month of June. Last month brought a big birthday, exciting new product releases, and coverage and opinions of how integration fits into cloud implementations, including a blog by Gartner’s Benoit Lheureux.
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Posted by Shiva on March 1, 2011 at 3:17 pm
In the month of February, a key media theme was what can cloud computing do for you? We reviewed the top stories in Februaryand pulled out blogs and stories that discuss three of the most important cloud benefits and how companies can achieve them.
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