Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

LeadMaster, the SaaS Lead Management / CRM solutions company, and Jamcracker, the cloud services brokerage enablement company, today announced that LeadMaster will be distributed through the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN).

LeadMaster’s on-demand customizable SaaS solutions combine sales lead management software, lead tracking solutions, sales force automation tools (SFA) and customer relationship management features (Sales CRM) in a seamless easy-to-use online application. This powerful web-based application has helped companies large and small from virtually every industry increase sales. The LeadMaster solution makes it easy to increase sales revenue by helping to qualify, track and convert leads…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Larry Dignan.

Grazed from FederalNews Radio.  Author: Jason Miller.

The chief technology officer of the CIA isn’t overly concerned about securing the spy agency’s data in the cloud.

In fact, Gus Hunt said cloud computing may be more secure than the typical client-server approach to technology.

And Hunt wasn’t alone Tuesday in promoting the security of cloud computing and in telling an audience dominated by federal employees to overcome their cyber fears…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Steve Hughes.

For the CIO today, perceived barriers to cloud computing remain security, regulation and compliance. The danger that data loss poses to brand equity, customer trust and share price is just the same whether data is stored in a cloud computing or traditional infrastructure model.

This is reflected in legislation which gives the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) authority to levy fines of up to £500,000 on organisations who recklessly lose confidential or personal information…

Grazed from SmartData Collective.  Author:  David Menninger.

Oracle made several announcements at its recent Open World event demonstrates its strengths in the business computing market but also that it is standing on the shoulders of giants. The company has developed the expertise, processes and market share to scale out the ideas and innovations of others. Don’t get me wrong: That statement is not an indictment. Large organizations often have challenges with innovation. They are not as nimble as their smaller competitors. On the other hand, small organizations often have challenges scaling out their successes. In an earlier post I characterized the software market as a sort of ecosystem, and this is how it works. Large organizations often look to imitate or acquire smaller firms for their innovations…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Leslie Muller.

Everybody agrees that automation is key to enabling the cloud. It’s what makes the cloud’s scalability and low cost possible. But if automation isn’t done properly it will actually result in more work for IT staff. Just like the automotive industry evolved from the days of the industrial revolution – when automation was cookie-cutter and cars all looked alike – to the 21st century, where customization is built into the system and buyers can personalize vehicles to their heart’s content, the cloud needs to adopt modern IT automation technologies and practices. Unfortunately, most cloud management tools mimic automation solutions from the early 1900s…

Grazed from EE Times India.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

A group of Cornell University researchers, with the support of NSF and Microsoft, develops methods to improve the reliability of cloud computing and are testing their work in a piece of real cloud.

Cloud computing is a cheaper alternative for storing and processing quickly vast amounts of data. However, as cloud computing applications become larger, potential errors of the system also grow. A Cornell University research team, composed of Ken Birman, professor of computer science; Hakim Weatherspoon, assistant professor of computer science; and research associate Robbert van Renesse, is working on strengthening cloud reliability in hopes of minimising these errors…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 spending of $2.6 trillion, according to research from IT analytics firm Gartner. While enterprise IT spending growth is slowing (from the expected 5.9 percent increase in 2011), analysts said it’s important to note that despite the global economic challenges, enterprises will continue to invest in IT…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

As people are getting their heads around the economic benefits of cloud computing–pay just for what you use servers and services–I’ve been hearing a lot of people say they’d use the cloud if only they could move their existing servers to the cloud without a lot of blood, sweat, and toil. This is where Racemi, a cloud-services company, comes in with its easy server migration program…