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Andy Johnson
Managing director
GTT
Cloud is a hot topic today, for several good reasons. Buying services as utilities offers enormous benefits to enterprises in terms of productivity and operating efficiency. Cloud-based applications and services are more cost efficient, scale more easily and deploy faster than traditional product or in-house solutions. It’s easy to adopt the cloud gradually. Individual applications or entire work-streams can be outsourced to the cloud piece by piece, to see which ones perform best and gain a good understanding of performance characteristics. Infrastructure resources are available 24/7. Managed cloud providers assume hardware and software responsibilities for the service, so valuable enterprise IT employees have more time to focus on other business priorities. Cloud applications are accessible anywhere, any time and from any device, which means employees can be productive inside and outside the office. More and more businesses now recognise that adopting cloud solutions is not an option – it’s a competitive necessity.
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Simon Hansford
CTO
Skyscape Cloud Services
For businesses across the board – whether in the public or private sector – the many benefits of the cloud are significant, enabling rapid and flexible deployment of solutions, little or no upfront investment in infrastructure, and lower costs where the consumer only pays for what they need when they need it. The benefits can be realised without the consumer needing to be tied into lengthy and inflexible contracts. This level of flexibility means that business consumers can respond rapidly to the needs of their customers, and to changes in their markets. In the UK we therefore expect cloud to underpin the growth in the UK’s digital economy, where the UK has aspirations to be a world leader. Security and data privacy are understandably a top priority for businesses today, and reputable cloud suppliers will be assessed against rigorous accreditation frameworks, providing customers with confidence that a move to the cloud can be achieved without compromising on data security.
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Nigel Moulton
EMEA CTO
VCE
Cloud computing can be a significant benefit to your business as it has the potential to lower your overall IT costs while, at the same time, delivering increased agility, customer satisfaction and new revenue opportunities. Sound too good to be true? Well read on. Deploying your business applications in the cloud means you spend considerably less time focused on traditional IT tasks such as maintaining infrastructure, upgrades and so on. This provides an opportunity to focus valuable resources on important tasks which directly benefit your relationships with your customers. This can lead to new revenue streams, increased levels of customer satisfaction and the ability to more proactively engage in changing market dynamics that can have a significant, positive effect on your business.
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Pravin Kothari
Founder and CEO
CipherCloud
In the past five years, the cloud has transformed into the preferred delivery model of how enterprises and consumers access and share information. This shift produced many innovations that have made businesses more competitive and people more connected. The cloud has also expanded the attack surface by connecting millions more devices and platforms to the vast stores of data now available online. Certainly, the record-breaking breaches and surveillance leaks of the past year highlight the security and privacy risks to sensitive data. But just as the cloud has fostered innovations for productivity, entertainment and cyber-crime, it has also inspired new ways to protect information. Security innovations such as extending data-level protection and visibility into cloud applications complement network and device security tools. Extending this approach to the cloud protects information from hacks, breaches and accidental exposure. Just as importantly, cloud information protection also enables organisations to comply with data privacy and residency regulations.
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Anthony Foy
CEO
Workshare
The cloud is dramatically impacting the way people work, allowing them to be more productive anywhere, on any device. With technology analysts such as Gartner predicting that, by the end of 2017, nearly half of large enterprises will have cloud deployments, for businesses that want to stay competitive in a mobile workplace, moving to the cloud is a necessity. Cloud collaboration applications for the enterprise make working with multiple parties easy. We’re seeing businesses turn towards applications that offer more than the usual file synchronisation and sharing capabilities, to those that offer valuable productivity features. These include being able to compare multiple document versions from a mobile device to instantly see what’s changed, or being able to strip sensitive information from a document before it’s shared. By allowing secure access to content at any time, businesses benefit from an empowered workforce that is no longer confined to the walls of the office.
+44 (0)20 7426 0000 www.workshare.com
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