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Steve Pailthorpe, 
03 May 2012

The greatest benefit of cloud computing is the reduction in costs that can be attributed to moving a company’s data away from a physical server environment to the cloud. McKinsey’s recent study in 2011 found that Fortune 500 companies reduced their costs by an average of 40% by moving to a hosted cloud computing infrastructure.

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Steve Pailthorpe, 
22 March 2012

Commensus are proud to announce that our Secure Cloud Platform has achieved  VMware vCloud Powered status, demonstrating that our cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and hybrid cloud computing technology. Commensus is now listed in the top UK virtualisation service providers to have obtained this accreditation which sets us apart from our competitors.

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Steve Pailthorpe, 
22 March 2012
Following the success of the first Commensus breakfast seminar at The Connaght Hotel in January, Commensus invited Hedge Fund Managers from across the City of London to attend a second session yesterday morning.  The event was hugely successful with over ninety funds and alternative investment firms in attendance. Commensus, VMware and Bloomberg spoke on the subject of ‘The Future of Cloud Computing’ and gave a high level overview of how Fund Managers could leverage the benefits of the Cloud to gain business agility and increased performance.
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Steve Pailthorpe, 
15 February 2012

Amazon's "availability zones" were a key protective concept for the cloud, but they failed to protect access to data when EC2 went down. It has been almost a year since AWS took a massive hit with its North American Data Center Outages, as the annivesary of this event draws closer it is a good time for all of us to reflect on how important it is to mitigate risk in IT. Whether you are an advocate on premise solutions or focused on the Cloud for IT resources, both come with there unique sets of risks.

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Steve Pailthorpe, 
02 November 2011

According to our sources at the Chamber of Commerce, downtime is estimated to have cost British companies between £1.4 - £1.6 billion pounds over the last financial year and the shocking statistics seem to point towards a significant rise again this year!

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Antoine Ubaghs, 
25 October 2011

Partner and Alliances Manager, Antoine Ubaghs, talks through his experiences taking software solutions to the Cloud:

As an ISV, you need to be flexible and responsive to customer demands and trends in the market.  Your customers are reading and hearing about Cloud as the future of IT.  Responding to client demand you’ve taken the time and invested valuable development resources to redesign your server/client based software to a multi-tenanted offering to meet expectations for SaaS and cloud based solutions.

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Steve Pailthorpe, 
10 October 2011
The turbulence of the current economic climate combined with the equally unsettling scenes of the summer riots, could point towards companies requiring a more stringent business continuity strategy. You could be forgiven if you thought I was scare mongering - because more often or not, it’s the more basic day to day issues such as flood, fire and theft that affect 90% of firms. The old case of data security on increasingly aging hardware remains a significant factor for many businesses in the fight against downtime.
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