FEATURE: INTRANET VS. CLOUD
‘COUPLED WITH THE
FACT THAT THESE DATA
CENTRES HAVE TO GO
THROUGH REGULAR
AUDITS TO KEEP THEIR
CERTIFICATIONS
CURRENT, CLOUD
ADOPTION WITH
FURTHER LAST MILE
DATA SECURITY ASPECTS
LIKE DATA ENCRYPTION
ETC. ACTUALLY
PRESENTS THE CIOS
TODAY AN EFFECTIVE
COVER AGAINST EVEN
INTERNAL RISK.’
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Collaboration
In this age of talent, organisations
are willing to acquire the right talent
irrespective of the location in their
pursuit of excellence. And putting the
talents together to work towards a
common goal has been a challenge
for many business leaders and CIOs.
This also necessitates effective
collaboration and real time
communication within the
organisation. Often times, this
called for extensive investments
in secure internal networks and a
communication/collaboration tools
and the typical office productivity
applications, making the whole
process an expensive affair. When
you combine the time factor to
this where such collaboration may
be short term in nature or project
centric, these investments leads to
fair amount of redundancy as well.
Leading organisations today
are consciously adopting cloud
applications like ‘Office 365 from
Microsoft’ that includes applications
like outlook and Sharepoint, Google
Apps to break away from the
shackles of a monolithic on-premise
deployment of such applications and
benefit from the latest technology
without having to bother about
building internal maintenance and
support skills. The cost effective
technology upgrades in these cloud
model also helps businesses leverage
latest features and functionalities
without having to incur heavy
investments.
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