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A survey of CIOs we carried out earlier this year found that while half was planning to increase their investment in cloud computing, barely one in five viewed their network as a critical element when formulating their Cloud strategy. I find this trend deeply concerning, as it says to me that companies just arent thinking through the implications of the Cloud in enough detail.
As data which was previously confined to the LAN suddenly begins criss-crossing the corporate network and even the public Internet there will be huge strains on the network, which will lead to end-users experiencing big drop-offs in performance for fairly mundane tasks. I think networking and comms experts have a vital role to play in showing how contingency planning...
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