Cloud Computing: Enterprise Asset Management as a Service
SaaS / BpaaS Adoption
This is a continuation of my series of articles on industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS’ can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS,’ which means a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need, is stressed for a broader attention, as the term BpaaS has yet to mature with a clear definition…
iTunes Match Goes Live, Brings Music to iCloud
Apple on Monday quietly released iTunes Match, an optional paid subscription service that’s part of the iCloud cloud computing services. Originally expected by the end of October, iTunes Match allows subscribers to access music they haven’t purchased from iTunes via the cloud…
ADP AdvancedMD readies cloud health apps for HIPAA 5010
ADP’s AdvancedMD unit has essentially brought its entire client base of small physician practices a significant step closer to HIPAA 5010 compliance via a software update announced on Tuesday…
Replicon Introduces Cloud Clock, the Industry’s First Fully Cloud-Connected Device for Tracking Employee Time
Replicon Inc. today introduced Cloud Clock, a first-of-its-kind, 100 percent cloud-based time clock. When combined with Replicon’s Web-based time and attendance application, the Cloud Clock provides a unified cloud solution that eliminates the hassles and overwhelming expense of managing traditional time clocks…
ScaleXtreme Introduces Dynamic Server Assembly™ for On-Demand Cloud Server Control
ScaleXtreme, Inc., a web-based server management company, today introduced Dynamic Server Assembly™, a new product update that gives ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert users the ability to quickly create highly structured servers. With Dynamic Server Assembly, organizations will now be able to model, provision and launch servers with a variety of cloud computing providers. This new technology enables IT professionals to create specific structures, or templates, and then easily apply them to new machines, across cloud and server systems – allowing customers to create automated and repeatable systems to help scale their cloud deployments…
Cloud technology in a healthcare setting
Grazed from Healthcare IT News. Author: Geoff Webb.
The healthcare industry is under constant pressure to streamline the sharing and availability of information, while at the same time maintaining ever-more rigorous controls over patient privacy, and of course, reducing costs at the same time. Therefore cloud computing offers some significant opportunities, perhaps even more significant than in many other industries…
Skytap Introduces Hybrid Cloud Capabilities for Increased Simplicity, Security, Visibility and Control
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced the addition of new cloud computing capabilities that deliver on enterprise demand for simplicity, security, visibility and control. Recently recognized as a "Best of VMworld 2011" award winner in the public and hybrid cloud category, Skytap is building upon its product leadership by introducing advanced notification services, self-healing automation capabilities for robust virtual private networking, and support for Open Virtualization Format (OVF). Together, these new features enhance Skytap Cloud’s ease of use for business users, while offering the visibility and control required by IT professionals…
Cloud Channel Opportunities Abound, If You Take Them
Cloud computing is scary. It changes channel business and forces solution providers to adopt new methods and models.
But the fear that the channel will be disintermediated by the cloud and that there are no opportunities for partners in a cloud computing world are straight up false, according to a panel of four cloud industry experts during the COMDEXvirtual session "Cashing In On The Cloud."…
Heading To The Cloud? A Security Roadmap
Cloud computing is gaining popularity within the alternative investment space as firms look to capitalize on the efficiencies, resiliency and cost advantages cloud-based services can deliver. From application hosting to delivering a firm’s complete information technology infrastructure via the cloud, this technology delivery model is here to stay…
Supercomputer in the cloud: Amazon lands on Top500 list
Here’s a surprising name on the new list of the world’s fastest supercomputers: Amazon Web Services…