Why data analytics powered by the cloud, holds the key to avoiding stock shortages

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has fundamentally impacted every single business this year, with some coming out of the situation ahead, but many understandably struggling. Whereas with financial crashes, there are tremors before the big event, disruption like this is difficult, if not impossible, to predict. As such, many companies were caught out by seismic changes to their usual processes, …

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What to consider when migrating to the cloud

This year has seen an unprecedented number of businesses migrate to the cloud – either transitioning a greater volume of data than before or migrating for the first time. With remote working here to stay in one form or another, it’s clear that cloud technology will continue to play an important role in businesses’ data management as we enter 2021 …

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Why the cloud isn’t just the IT department’s responsibility

Technology has been a saving grace over the last 12 months; allowing businesses up and down the country to continue operating – by facilitating remote working and in the shift from high street to online stores. It’s fair to say we would have been lost without it. And while many wouldn’t have been able to cope without their IT departments, …

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Building a DevOps culture for the hybrid cloud

The tumult of 2020 has seen many companies accelerate their transition to the cloud. Along with the usual challenges that accompany a cloud migration, many organizations have found that the reality of their cloud journey has markedly differed from their original vision. In particular, many organizations have found that a pure-play public cloud does not solve all their infrastructural challenges …

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The sky’s the limit: using cloud to thrive in the ‘new normal’

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed countries into recession and transformed the way businesses operate.  As governments continue to encourage remote working and social distancing, organizations have tasked their CIOs with implementing a wide range of digital tools to facilitate communication, collaboration, remote access, and enterprise backends. To maximize productivity and efficiency in this digital environment, organizations will need to combine …

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How cloud can help accountants go paperless?

We organize and store our most important documents in the form of paper. Paper documents have been around since the inception of accounting. But this doesn’t mean that it is the best way to deal with data. Complete dependency on paper exposes firms to various complications related to employee productivity and document storage cost. The desire for a paperless accounting …

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Cloud native versus hybrid infrastructure

Businesses were forced to react quickly and adapt to both working practices and infrastructure in the wake of government enforced lockdowns, restricted travel and market uncertainties. The dramatic shift to mass remote working was a change some companies found harder than others. In fact, according to some recent research from Riverbed, 69 percent of business decision makers were not completely …

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China cloud market growing, but still smaller than Microsft Azure

After the cloud’s big three – AWS, Azure and Google Cloud – all of the attention usually shifts to Chinese vendors. Canalys’ fresh reports are stating that cloud providers from the far East grew by 65 percent in the third quarter of the year, raking in approximately $5 billion in revenue for the period. The market analysts are saying the …

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Why the cloud is a competitive advantage in the age of Covid-19

Before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, the lower administration costs, flexibility, scalability, and other advantages of the cloud were already leading many organizations to move more of their data and applications to the cloud. For example, in 2018 research firm Gartner predicted that 75 percent of organizations would deploy a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud model by the end of 2020. And …

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Google wants cloud services to be more open and transparent

Google wants businesses to be able to manoeuvre easily between public clouds, using the infrastructure they want, when they want it – and without getting locked into a single vendor or having trouble accessing data elsewhere. The firm calls this the “open cloud” approach.   According to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, the company has been working open cloud for …

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