Captain Nemo’s Data Centre Under the Sea

by Bobby JagdevArticles, Cloud Computing, Sustainability, TechnologyPosted on 0 comments

Enthusiasts have been water-cooling PCs and even enterprise servers for years.  So surely water cooling an entire data centre by dropping it into the ocean, can’t really be that ridiculous of an idea?… can it? Well, it’s not. Because that’s exactly what Microsoft did when they deployed Project Natick Phase 2 off the coast of …

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Unclouding – Do you need a cloud exit strategy?

by Bobby JagdevArticles, Cloud Computing, TechnologyPosted on 2 comments

The CEO of a leading cloud provider was recently quoted as saying, that organisations not transforming their business to adopt the cloud were defying gravity and by not being “all-in”, toe-dippers were risking giving their competitors the edge. The benefits of cloud computing for ERP are immense and well publicised. However I do feel as …

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Launching your ERP into the clouds

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The words “digital” and “cloud computing” seem to be embedded throughout every ERP presentation today. You can’t get away from promises of reducing risk, cost and faster deployments to enable your “digital transformation”. But when you lift the lid – what does this really mean? When a mission critical SAP/ERP implementation undergoes a major technology …

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