Fujitsu launches Australian cloud services portal
According to Fujitsu, the ready accessibility of the portal overcomes the challenges otherwise blocking the adoption of cloud services at the enterprise level: security, border controls compliance issues, lock-ins and restricted licence options. Fujitsu claims the portal enables customers to adjust services and usage in real-time with actual pay per use.
Fujitsu claims to be the only vendor currently operating a true cloud environment for Australian customers with a single point of customer interaction for the provision and coordination of every type of cloud service.
Centrica plumbs into SaaS service desk
Gas and electricity utility Centrica has switched on an cloud-based service desk system from supplier Service-now.com.
The Service-now.com system was implemented with support from Fujitsu, which called it one of the most complex single phase implementations of the technology. Centrica already outsources application management to Fujitsu.
Indian outsourcer Tata offers cloud computing services
India’s Tata Communications is offering cloud based computing infrastructure services in India, with plans to extend the services to other markets including the US, Europe, Singapore and South Africa. The new InstaCompute service, launched on Thursday, takes advantage of Tata Communications’ investment in global communications infrastructure, managed services, and data centres, Vinod Kumar, president and COO of Tata Communications said at a press conference in Mumbai.
Ubuntu 10.10 desktop reaches through the cloud
The software, also known as Maverick Meerkat, will be versions 10.10 of the Linux distribution, the company said on Thursday. They will be available for free download from 10 October, sidestepping the usual Thursday release window to tie the launch in with the 10/10/10 date stamp.
Software-as-a-service solutions ‘enabling enterprise collaboration’
Software-as-a-service solutions are allowing companies to work more effectively while also cutting IT costs.
This is the suggestion of IT Pro Portal columnist James Nixon, who stated that such cloud-based services are helping to "revolutionise" technology for both personal and business users.
"Hosted apps known as ‘software-as-a-service’ … enable workers to collaborate, sharing documents and spreadsheets online," he pointed out.
Mr Nixon added that such offerings frequently have an impact on a company’s bottom line.
Heterogenous Mobile Computing Meets the Federated Cloud
Most people fail to realize that cloud computing was made for mobile computing devices. Just about every user of a mobile computing device touches a cloud service somewhere.
But all those cloud computing services are silos of data. Syncplicity, which offers a file-synchronization service for mobile computing devices, heralds a future when this issue will be overcome because files can be synchronized using a Syncplicity service hosted on an Amazon cloud and with GoogleDocs applications.
Your Options for Cloud Integration
A recent blog post at ERP Software at Your Service nicely sums up two key choices you have to make when you want to integrate with anything – hardware or application services – via the cloud:
Rethinking Storage for the Private Cloud
Recent events have added further credence (if more was needed) to the growing body of evidence that — despite the boundless hype — cloud computing is a game-changing phenomenon that is having an impact on how people think about enterprise storage.
BMC buys Neptuny Software
Business service management software provider BMC has acquired the software business of Neptuny Software, a provider of capacity management and IT performance optimisation software, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
BMC will fold Neptuny’s Caplan line of capacity management software into its own BSM portfolio and cloud management offerings. Neptuny’s Consulting Services business unit was not included in the purchase. That unit has been re-established as an independent company under the new brand Moviri.