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Bandwidth Bottlenecks – A Limit of Enterprise Cloud Computing?

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More and more enterprises are transferring their data into the cloud and excitement about scalability, cost-saving, improved data and customer management. With increasingly improved security management, cloud computing seems to be the ultimate solution of any IT problem.

The limiting factor for data transfer from Local Area Networks (LAN) into the cloud is b bandwidth.

Network bandwidth, or digital bandwidth, is defined as “computer network’s net rate” which is the amount of data transfer, channel capacity or maximum throughput of a logical or physical communication path. It is measured as “bytes per second (bps)” for digital services or Hertz (Hz) for analog devices. Continue reading “Bandwidth Bottlenecks – A Limit of Enterprise Cloud Computing?” »

Migrating the Cloud

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Moving a software application to the cloud merely means running it in the web rather than on the traditional data center infrastructure.
The main advantages to migrate data and software operations to the cloud include Continue reading “Migrating the Cloud” »

Dissecting the Cloud V – Storage Clouds

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Data volumes are growing daily along with the fact that the capability to handle countless file formats becomes more and more difficult. This makes it necessary to develop new, Continue reading “Dissecting the Cloud V – Storage Clouds” »

Dissecting the Cloud I – Public Clouds

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The prospective advances of the cloud computing market are anticipated to be astonishing. A recent report by Forrester in 2011 is projecting that the global cloud computing market will grow to $241 billion by 2020 with the public cloud market reaching a value of $159 billion and Continue reading “Dissecting the Cloud I – Public Clouds” »

Cloud Deployment Models

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Cloud computing has ben consistently increasing in popularity by taking advantage of third-party computing resources and networks to reduce costs and extend organization’s IT capabilities. It offers effective and innovative ways to deliver software solutions, data storage capabilities and computing services.
The National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) currently defines four main cloud deployment models including Continue reading “Cloud Deployment Models” »