SMB Cloud Adoption Trends

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Maximizing IT Investments March 19, 2012 Five Cloud Application Adoption Trends Results from a survey conducted by Dell Cloud Business Applications and Techaisle shows adoption of cloud business applications is on the rise among small and medium businesses (SMBs). The SMB Cloud Application Trends Survey measured the benefits and challenges faced in migrating applications to the cloud and found IT decision makers have critical roles in the success of cloud application decisions and implementations, and in choosing the right IT vendor. Read more > Build vs. buy white paper. Learn the top 7 IT infrastructure challenges. Find ways to minimize capital and risk. Plan with CyrusOne data centers. > Blogs Arthur Cole Infrastructure PCIe: The New Storage Tier or the New Storage Network? Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Big Data and Analytics Combine to Alter Consumer Behavior Rob Enderle Unfiltered Opinion Google, Evil and Choosing the Right Vendor Two-Factor Authentication: It's All About Trust   Right now, someone's logging into your network and accessing proprietary information. Do you know who it is? This technical brief explains why two-factor authentication is superior to using passwords only. Read it now > BYOD Faces Many Challenges BYOD is a fact of life, not a go/no-go decision made by the IT department or upper management. Whether IT likes it or not, the ultimate decision is made by the employee. Symptom of March Madness: Increased Printing Costs Create and implement a policy to control printing practices and costs in your company by downloading Info-Tech's Printer Policy template, available in the IT Downloads library. Pentaho Focuses on Connecting Big Data to BI Tools Pentaho is best known for its business analytics tool and open source heritage, but it also is one of the few BI vendors that focuses on solving integration problems. Featured White Papers Open Source: The Next Generation of Virtualization Read this IDC white paper to learn about several factors priming the virtualization market to be more competitive in the near future. •  What You Need to Know to Upgrade Your Phone System •  IT Process Automation: Analysis and Vendor Comparison •  The IP Phone Guide: 29 Comparison Points "While opening up Big Data is a major goal for vendors like Pentaho, what may impact organizations more is the opportunity to finally abandon hand-coding and embrace data integration tools and platforms." Excerpt from Loraine Lawson Integration Latest White Papers Your Blueprint for Successfully Managing the Extended Enterprise The App Performance Almanac: A Year's Worth of APM Guidance When PDFs Attack — Malware Infections on the Rise Combatting the New Challenge of Virtual Server Sprawl This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise