Overall, about half (47%) said that their company is currently involved as a cloud user while 21% said their organization is involved as a cloud service provider.
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The company said that Omnifone, a cloud music service provider, is providing the back-end for the service, including content management, music hosting and reporting functions.
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When a company has a business opportunity that demands more processing capacity, or new applications, or adding hundreds of new users, they can dial it up through their cloud computing service provider with slightly more effort than it takes to get lunch delivered.
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IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
If that is a concern, then they do need to work with their internet service provider, and perhaps with a cloud-specialty anti-DDoS provider, because those organizations have infrastructures and massive amounts of internet bandwidth which can actually absorb gigantic attacks, filter out the majority of malicious traffic, and then send the good stuff through to the end user.
Cloud.com has successfully penetrated the service provider market with its OpenStack-based solution and racked up some solid wins in the enterprise to boot.
Instead, you need to plan for alternatives should these components or services fail, using both using redundancy within the main cloud provider, and, when possible, fallbacks to alternate service providers.
The company is a global IP business that is pioneering advancements in the cloud, the network, and the home to enable the desired IP Connected Home and future service provider revenue streams.
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Dr. Riskin is the CEO of Health Fidelity, provider of a commercial-grade, cloud-based natural language processing (NLP) service, and is also a Consulting Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford University.
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