Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Sajjad Masud.

Cloud computing might be commonplace now, but it is still revolutionizing many traditional industries. One of those sectors is the hiring and recruiting space, where cloud computing has made it easier for your company to connect with candidates.

With your recruitment management system in the cloud, you can add and view candidate profiles at any time and from anywhere with an Internet connection. This allows team members to participate in the hiring workflow from anywhere and even recruit on the go using a mobile device. Cloud computing makes finding and organizing information for making critical recruitment decisions easier and faster than ever. Getting the most from your recruitment process now often means leveraging the cloud. Here are a few ways cloud computing can enhance your hiring:…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

SAP had a turbulent start in the cloud computing space. In 2010, it launched Business ByDesign as a SaaS offering to resounding yawns from the cloud computing industry. Vowing to improve, SAP did what all big companies do when they want to move quicker into a market. Innovate? Nope — it bought other companies. The shopping spree included SuccessFactors, a human resource management SaaS provider, and HANA, a sexy in-memory database and analytics engine that also serves as SAP’s big data strategy.

In its move to the Web, SAP’s actions have been a bit confusing. Months ago, SAP placed its All-in-One ERP app on Amazon Web Services as a public cloud SaaS offering — kind of. Now, it is making HANA available from its own cloud, as well as from partner public clouds…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

S4i Systems is widely known for its service to the IBM System i market with their EDMS solution, S4i Express. Driven by innovation, S4i Express is now available as a Cloud or SaaS offering. This provides organizations with the same stable and robust document distribution and content management solution without regard to the organization’s hardware infrastructure. Susanne Moore, Director of Marketing and Client Services at S4i Systems, states, “Over the past couple years, we have seen an increasing demand from our customers for a solution that will work with a variety of business server platforms.

Organizations want assurance that we can support them, not only today, but into the future regardless of the path that their core business applications take them. Additionally, organizations with limited IT resources are looking for more options that will allow for varying levels of support for managing business applications and servers. This has opened up a whole new market for us, which we feel we are well equipped to respond to. So when it comes to EDMS, we can respond with a proven application on a proven server platform that scales beautifully!”…

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Pedro Hernandez.

A booming software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is causing some in the industry to turn their attention toward managing and security enterprise cloud application data. PerspecSys, a cloud data protection firm whose U.S. headquarters is located in McLean, Va., announced today that it had secured $12 million in round of Series B funding, led be Paladin Capital Group and Ascent Venture Partners. Chipmaker Intel returned contributed to the round. To date, the company has raised $20 million.

PerspecSys’ flagship product is the Cloud Protection Gateway. The technology, which sits inside the firewall or at a managed service provider, allows organizations to add an extra layer of security to public cloud applications and meet compliance requirements. Supported applications include Oracle CRM On Demand and Fusion, Salesforce.com and Xactly Incent, among several others…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Hampton.

When I say “Cloud Broker”, don’t confuse it with the official definition which is – an agent who assists cloud consumers choose or migrate to single or multiple cloud platforms. There’s a new set of software which sits on top of the Cloud stack and adds value by providing new solutions on the Cloud, migrating enterprise systems along with the data or migrating between different cloud services. Much like the stock brokers, cloud broker software is acting as an enabler and a catalyst in Cloud adoption.

HHS (Health and Human Services Department) recently floated a RFI to determine detailed requirements for Cloud broker software. In this article I will discuss some of the key requirements laid out in the document…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Karen Goulart.

When it comes to navigating new cloud territory, many CIOs tend to stick with what they know. But that might not always make for the most beneficial outcomes. There’s a sense of safety — and practicality — in entrusting a move to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to the same vendor they’ve partnered with for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). A recent TechTarget survey bears this out. Among respondents to the 2013 Tech Target Cloud Pulse Survey who indicated that they’re using some type of PaaS, the top four providers they chose were Google AppEngine, Microsoft Windows Azure, Salesforce.com’s Force.com and Amazon Beanstalk.

Choosing a well-known provider is understandable, said Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst with Stamford, Conn-based Gartner, Inc. But while these big names have the benefit of history and established reputations on their side, CIOs who overlook smaller PaaS providers could be missing out on better service and greater, faster innovations. In this SearchCIO.com tip, Natis discusses the relative benefits and reasons companies choose smaller PaaS providers, as well as how to guard assets when working with a startup that may be here today, gone tomorrow (or in a few years)…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy.

Intelligent Memory is available for any of the current Teradata workload-specific platforms running the Teradata Database. Analytic data solutions specialist Teradata announced the launch of Intelligent Memory, a database technology that extends memory space beyond cache to help increase query performance and enable organizations to leverage in-memory technologies with big data.

Intelligent Memory is available for any of the current Teradata workload-specific platforms running the Teradata Database. For organizations looking for departmental solutions, Integrated Data Warehouse or Active Data Warehouse, Teradata Intelligent Memory is designed to deliver the performance required to offer the required set of data analytics…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy.

Built on the Vblock platform, CloudCompute offers businesses secure, private network access and connectivity from the business to the IaaS environment. Network operator Sprint announced the launch of CloudCompute, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that integrates CSC’s virtualized, utility-based cloud computing solution with Sprint’s cloud-aware Global MPLS network.

Built on the Vblock platform, which combines virtualization software from VMware, unified networking, security and computing from Cisco, and storage, security and management technologies from EMC, CloudCompute offers businesses secure, private network access and connectivity from the subscriber’s business into the IaaS environment through a scalable and flexible network…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: James Stirling.

Proper governance procedures are key to successful cloud strategy, organisation claims Information security association ISACA has outlined five questions boards of directors need to ask about cloud governance in order to ensure a successful implementation.

The advice is delivered as part of the organisation’s Cloud Governance: Questions Boards of Directors Need to Ask whitepaper, in which ISACA urges directors to view cloud computing like any other investment and implement proper governance for it…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: David F. Carr.

Software-defined networking (SDN) has been in the "coming soon" category for many years, but an Interop keynote panel discussion on the topic showed room for debate over what it ought to look like when it finally gets here. SDN is too often spoken of as a single event that will wipe away all current networking technologies, when in fact "the underpinnings are already in place," said moderator Eric Hanselman, chief analyst at 451 Research.

The point of SDN is to make networks easy to configure and reconfigure in software rather than hardware, with many more networking functions migrating from being embedded capabilities of a network appliance to being defined in software. Network systems are migrating incrementally in that direction as networks follow the same path toward virtualization as servers and storage, he said. Ultimately, the goal is to provide every data center with the flexibility associated with cloud computing…