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3 reasons to move to SaaS and leave behind legacy COTS Previously, organizations were required to buy, build, and maintain their IT infrastructure despite exponential costs. SaaS has given many companies an easy alternative. Using cloud SaaS, customers can plug in and subscribe to services built on shared infrastructure using the internet.

February 1, 2017 by Naveen Joshi

The cloud SaaS model has flourished in recent years to cater to businesses of all sizes and types. CIOs must now leave their on-premise COTS mindset behind and focus on…

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How to evaluate cloud brokering platform vendors for SaaS? SaaS has consistently been the largest category of cloud service spends. This has given rise to a large and consistent demand for Cloud Brokering Platform Vendors (CBPs) and Cloud Service Brokerage Vendors (CSBs) that enable the delivery and management of cloud solutions.

January 23, 2017 by Naveen Joshi

Cloud brokering platform vendors act as intermediaries between cloud providers and cloud consumers that assist companies in choosing the services and offerings that best suits their needs. Most of the…

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How to deliver a quality cloud communication? Most businesses today are using some sort of cloud platform. Some studies indicate that “by 2020, 80% of large enterprises will have migrated communications and collaboration infrastructure to cloud architecture, whether UCaaS, private or a hybrid cloud, up from 35% in 2016”.

December 23, 2016 by Naveen Joshi

Cloud communications is an entirely new way to build, deploy, and scale enterprise communications systems. It offers users with an array of sophisticated features such as edge traffic shaping, lower…

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Are you spending too much on IaaS? (Part 2 of 2) In our last blog post – Are you spending too much on IaaS (Part 1) – we discussed the issue of cost governance in IaaS and how we can reduce the expenses spent on IaaS using CSEM tools.

December 9, 2016 by Naveen Joshi

In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of CSEM tools, its risk and evaluation factors. I&O leaders can benefit from CSEM tools as they help in determining: Whether…

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7 reasons you should move vendor management to the cloud Organizations across the world are seeking for opportunities to create an efficient and increased collaboration across buyer and supplier groups by implementing cloud solution.

December 1, 2016 by Naveen Joshi

IT leaders for procurement and sourcing applications are turning towards cloud service delivery for evaluating new solutions. Cloud solutions have seen a steady growth as enterprises today require scalability, agility,…

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Devising a long-term cloud strategy with independent scaling Organizations and enterprises today are showing great interest in cloud. Companies are moving their social and line-of-business applications to SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments. This means that there will be greater demand from enterprises over time to migrate database and analytic workloads to the cloud. This is the reason that enterprises and organizations now are seeking new cloud-based approaches to accommodate their growing requirements.

November 5, 2016 by Naveen Joshi

One such approach is called Independent scaling. Independent scaling is also called as separation of storage and computing resources. It has enabled data and analytics leaders to solve scalability and…

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5 questions you must answer before choosing your IaaS cloud strategy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has enabled organizations to rent IT infrastructure from a service provider rather than purchasing the technology and hosting it internally. IaaS cloud has moved ahead of the general cost-benefit upsides and has allowed organizations to develop and host highly voluminous consumer-facing and B2B content.

October 22, 2016 by Naveen Joshi

According to Gartner, using IaaS cloud, we can also develop enterprise applications, enable disaster recovery and create high-performance computation solutions. source: www.blogs.msdn.microsoft.com Implementing IaaS cloud can be a challenging task….

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