Posts Tagged ‘IaaS’

As we continue our series on maintaining regulatory-compliant cloud systems, let’s touch on a few key terms. Below are explanations of the primary cloud-hosted offerings available in the market. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) When you purchase a software system and opt to have a vendor host it for you instead of installing it on servers you own, […]

If your company makes drugs, medical devices, or biologics (vaccines, blood and blood components, allergenics, somatic cells, gene therapy, tissues, and recombinant therapeutic proteins), it is regulated. If your company is regulated, then every IT system you use to design, develop, conduct trials, manufacture, package, label, store, distribute, install, or service your products is also […]

The benefits of cloud hosting – including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – are very clear: less upfront capital, faster implementations, scalability and elasticity, and no need for individual companies to maintain physical space, hardware, and/or technical staff for support. But there are also several risks to consider, including physical and technical security, […]

Infrastructure is a key part of every IT department before cloud or DevOps is even considered. Serving as the backbone of IT, it’s these components that keep every system running. In recent years, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has become a competitive and popular space, led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their affordable and reliable offerings. Nonethelss, […]

Gartner recently put out a press release that is quite memorable. It begins with: “By 2020, a corporate ‘no-cloud’ policy will be as rare as a ‘no-internet’ policy is today.” The chances are low that many companies maintain such success-hindering policies, but there are plenty of companies out there that are slow adopters, especially in […]

  With the rising trend to move the infrastructure into the cloud, more enterprises are looking forward to building or migrating their IT hub into the cloud space. There are several obvious advantages of cloud computing that explain its wide-spread popularity: 1. Cost of infrastructure– Having to build an entire network for data storage, processing units, clustered-network […]

While most technologies continue to evolve, one thing that CIOs can always rely on is the trusty Enterprise Resource Planning system. Made famous through companies like Oracle and SAP, these systems are the glue that bind enterprise planning, purchasing, sales, finance, and human resources operations. For enterprise IT, much of their workload is concentrated here. […]

America’s tech forecast for 2017? Plenty of clouds, says Forrester Research. The independent technology and market research firm recently issued Predictions 2017: Customer-Obsessed Enterprises Launch Cloud’s Second Decade, which outlines key factors expected to shape cloud computing in the coming year. In the report, Forrester said, “the cloud market will accelerate faster in 2017 as […]

Predicting the future is easy. Nailing down those predictions – well, that’s something else entirely. But if there’s one thing that corporate infrastructure and operations leaders can expect in 2017, it’s this: The silver lining around enterprise cloud computing will shine even brighter. “The cloud market will accelerate faster in 2017 as enterprises around the […]

Predicting the future is easy. Nailing down those predictions – well, that’s something else entirely. But if there’s one thing that corporate infrastructure and operations leaders can expect in 2017, it’s this: The silver lining around enterprise cloud computing will shine even brighter. “The cloud market will accelerate faster in 2017 as enterprises around the […]

Bratt Swaim, Technical Consulting Manager of Liferay, Inc., presented “Building for the Cloud – Architecting Liferay in IaaS/PaaS Environments.  The session provided the approach, techniques, considerations and best practices for deploying Liferay to Amazon Web Services (AWS.) The highlights follow. When does moving to the cloud make sense? The following are drivers that are scenarios […]

Gartner recently put out a press release that is quite memorable. It begins with: “By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today.” While I personally have never encountered a company that has such a success-hindering policy, I’m sure there are companies out there who are ultra-slow adopters, […]