April 14, 2014 Off

Global Mobile Computing Devices Market Report

By David

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Mobile computing devices have made headway in the Electronics industry in the last decade. Devices such as smartphones and tablets have become indispensable to most people across the world. Companies are increasingly encouraging their employees to work from home or other remote locations to ensure that employees are accessible during work hours.

On a similar note, there are organizations that are also implementing bring your own device policies, allowing employees to bring their personal mobile devices and connect them to the company’s network. All of this has been facilitated by mobile computing devices. The analysts have conducted an in-depth research on select mobile computing devices and forecast the respective markets to grow at the following CAGRs during the period 2012-2017…

April 14, 2014 Off

Tips for Healthcare Organizations Migrating to the Cloud

By David

Grazed from HealthDataManagement. Author: Joseph Goedert.

Many healthcare organizations migrating information systems to a cloud-hosted service struggle developing an appropriate strategy for the task, says Ed King, managing director of healthcare consulting services at disaster recovery and cloud-hosting vendor Sungard Availability Services. The Wayne, Pa.-based company split from software and processing services vendor SunGard in March and became an independent entity.

Moving to the cloud is not just a new way of doing computing-on-demand; it’s also a new way for personnel in an organization to use the technology. Almost always, not every system moves to the cloud, particularly legacy systems, King notes. There are a growing number of electronic health records systems and newer ancillary products being cloud-hosted by a remote vendor, while older secondary systems–back-office, financial, pharmacy and laboratory, for instance–may tie to cloud-based systems but remain in-house…

April 14, 2014 Off

Databerry Responds to Google Cloud Price Drop

By David

Grazed from PRLog. Author: PR Annoucement.

Databerry, a Boca Raton-based web marketing and cloud computing provider, has weighed in on Google’s recent decision to slash prices across the board on its cloud computing services. In late March at an event near its San Francisco headquarters, Google announced that it would be making huge drops in its pricing model for a variety of cloud services. Google Compute Engine, a virtual computer service offering users raw computing power, will see a price drop of 32 percent.

The Google App Engine, a similar service, will have its pricing reduced in kind. Google Cloud Storage, the company’s cloud hosting and storage platform, will be 68 percent cheaper, with Google BigQuery, a well loved analysis tool for mass data, receiving the biggest cut of 85 percent…

April 14, 2014 Off

Cloud Computing: IBM adds disaster recovery services to SoftLayer

By David

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

IBM on Monday outlined a set of business continuity and disaster recovery services for its SoftLayer cloud customers. Should your business retain its in-house datacenter or outsource itr? What are the drivers and barriers when it comes to cloud infrastructure? We look at recent research on key IT architecture questions.

Big Blue has had managed disaster recovery services for years, but is now looking to extend them to its infrastructure as a service customers on SoftLayer. The company added that it will open two disaster recovery centers in Raleigh, N.C. and Mumbai, India. Those facilities will join SoftLayer’s 15 planned locations and 150 resiliency centers…

April 14, 2014 Off

Cloud Computing: Unlocking the power of mobile workspaces with digitally savvy workers

By David

Grazed from TheBorneoPost.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The cloud and mobile era is marked by the exponentially increasing number of digitally savvy workers, impacted by the ongoing trends of IT consumerisation, and Bring Your Own (BYO) devices and apps.

According to IDC, 2014 will see the reality of tablets replacing laptops in the enterprise1. In addition, the Citrix Mobility in Business Report last year revealed that nearly one-third of the global workforce is believed to be utilising their own mobile apps for work purposes, such as employee intranet portals, file sync and sharing platforms…

April 13, 2014 Off

Imperva goes to the clouds against rivals F5 and IBM

By David

Grazed from TheMalayMailOnline.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Shlomo Kramer, the Israeli entrepreneur who made his name by co-founding the world’s second-largest security networks maker, is seeing investor support vanish for his latest cyber venture.  Imperva Inc, the Redwood Shores, California-based company that builds security systems for data centers, sank 44 per cent last week after scaling back its first-quarter revenue growth outlook to a third of its previous forecast.

Almost all of the declines came in a single day, April 10. The rout erased US$584 million (RM1.9 billion) of market value and sent the stock to a 20-month low.  Imperva, one of six Israeli online-security firms that Kramer has founded or financially backed over the past two decades, is facing growing competition from global powerhouses including International Business Machines Corp and F5 Networks Inc, Kramer, who is also the chief executive officer of Imperva, said the company missed its sales projection as competition for larger deals delayed orders, according to an April 9 statement…

April 13, 2014 Off

Cloud Computing Accounting Software Considerations: Part 1

By David

Grazed from RandGroup.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Switching to a cloud solution from your desktop application is more like going from driving a car with an automatic transmission to riding a motorcycle. It is a major shift in how you operate.

Recently, a CFO group I’m a member of went through a conversion from the desktop to cloud version of the same software and our treasurer had major challenges with the process. This is an organization of financial executives so you can only imagine what the average business owner or small business Controller’s experience might be…

April 13, 2014 Off

PhotonVPS Makes Cloud Hosting Affordable For Everyone With New Unbeatable Deals

By David

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

PhotonVPS make virtual private servers available with top spec builds for rock bottom prices, opening up the next generation of computing to more people than ever.  Virtual Private Servers offer a plethora of uses from website hosting, virtual private networks, script development, VoIP, software development and increasingly as a gaming server.

These virtual servers often offer greater processing power, increased storage and the ability to access the data from anywhere in the world from any device. However in the past these services have previously been expensive or unreliable…

April 12, 2014 Off

Cloud Computing: Salesforce Inks San Francisco’s Biggest-Ever Office Lease

By David

Grazed from NBCBayArea.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Welcome to Salesforce city.  The cloud computing giant will make its name on the San Francisco skyline, after signing the biggest-ever lease of office space in city history, according to reports.  Salesforce has inked a deal to occupy 714,000 square feet of the Transbay Tower once the 1,070-foot office building is completed in 2017, according to the San Francisco Business Times. That’s half of the building.

The Transbay Tower, the largest skyscraper west of the Mississippi, will be renamed the Salesforce Tower, the newspaper reported.  Luminaries such as Mayor Ed Lee and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi were on hand Friday for the announcement.  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff touted the lease of 30 floors of office space — which begins in 2018, and could be worth as much as $560 million over 15 years — as a landmark achievement for his company, which was founded 15 years ago in San Francisco.

April 12, 2014 Off

Cloud Computing: The Facts and Fiction of In-Memory Computing

By David

Grazed from Utlizer.com.  Author: Nikita Ivanov.

In the last year, conversations about In-Memory Computing (IMC) have become more and more prevalent in enterprise IT circles, especially with organizations feeling the pressure to process massive quantities of data at the speed that is now being demanded by the Internet. The hype around IMC is justified: tasks that once took hours to execute are streamlined down to seconds by moving the computation and data from disk, directly to RAM…

Through this simple adjustment, analytics are happening in real-time, and applications (as well as the development of applications) are working at-pace with this new standard of technology and speed…