White Papers: SaaS

Outsourcery is a hosted solutions provider based in the UK and offers a broad range of cloud services, including software applications, virtualised infrastructures and unified communications. Find out how it provided a managed end-to-end communications and collaboration solution, expanding the business fivefold!

Nemertes research has found that IT organizations making use of a broad selection of systems sourcing options have the highest level of success in delivering services. If both IT and cloud service providers can meet the challenges of delivering a secure environment, more IT organisations will feel confident in expanding their sourcing spectrum. Click for more!

Reinvent business with speed and innovation. Learn about how IBM SmartCloud Solutions provide the power of cloud to reinvent business by transforming business processes so that organisations can better engage with employees, citizens, customers and extended communities. Read more.

The enterprise computing landscape has changed dramatically. Virtualisation, outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing are creating fundamental changes, and ushering in an era in which enterprises distribute increasingly critical IT assets and applications across multiple service providers.This paper explores today’s computing trends and their monitoring implications in detail. In addition, it reveals how a new monitoring paradigm architecture, that uniquely addresses the monitoring realities of today’s and tomorrow’s enterprises—whether they rely on internal platforms, external service providers, or a combination of both.

This paper provides a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of cloud computing. What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What does it mean to a business owner or executive? How does it affect the workplace? What are the payoffs and the pitfalls? Is it really ready for "prime time"?