Accessibility from anywhere is the most-often cited reason (by 69%) for moving to a cloud-based productivity suite.
Companies large and small are moving to these cloud-based services to save costs and to make working remotely more efficient.
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This growing adoption of outsourcing services is seen as a first step toward moving to a cloud-based model, as companies become more comfortable with the concept of remote services delivery.
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For now, the workers labour in a cloud of red dust, stirred up by the earth-moving equipment.
The NVIDIA GRID Platform builds on this capability by moving high-end gaming to the cloud, eliminating the need for consumers to manage game discs or fit game consoles next to flat-screen TVs.
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But a growing number of my clients are either moving towards cloud based applications or having their client-server applications hosted externally and connecting remotely.
Driven by the influence of venture capitalists prioritizing investments in these areas, publically-held companies are experiencing increasing interest from institutional investors who see them as less risky than start-ups yet just as able of moving into cloud computing.
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But the cloud, and even Big Data, are still unfocused, fast-moving and protean marketplaces.
Other stalwarts rush to a future of cloud-based computing, with most of our business and personal lives moving into huge, remote data centers accessible via Web browsers.
Business-side executives overwhelmingly agree that the purpose of moving to cloud computing is to realize greater value, the survey finds.
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One-third of respondents said the costs of moving to the cloud were higher than expected, and a similar number noted significant implementation challenges.
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Just as Major League Baseball is moving to shake off its steroid cloud under the warmth of spring-training sun, one of its biggest former stars continues to cast a shadow over the sport.
Competition for Rackspace comes in four flavors: in-house IT departments, IT outsourcing companies, telecommunications companies and technology companies moving into cloud.
For organizations with well-functioning SOA, it may be easy to answer the above questions in favor of moving forward with cloud.
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