Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Iron.io, a leading provider of event-driven computing solutions, is pleased to announce that its core products, IronWorker and IronMQ, are now available as Application Services within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Iron.io products and solutions are architected to power workloads at scale for a wide range of application use cases through industrial-strength message queuing and asynchronous task processing.

With the rise of Internet of Things applications, and the popularity of the microservices architectural style, more and more communication and computing occurs asynchronously. Users of Azure can now directly leverage Iron.io within their applications to respond to application events, decouple components as independent services, offload individual workloads, and schedule regular occurring jobs…

Grazed from MarketPlace. Author: PR Announcement.

Accenture announced today it is collaborating with Salesforce to extend the complete AccentureCASsoftware suite to the Salesforce1 Platform. By bringing the solution to the cloud it will combine the market leading suite of customer management and mobility software of Accenture CAS with the built-in mobile, social and analytics capabilities of Salesforce’s leading CRM and enterprise cloud platform.

Accenture and Salesforce will offer consumer goods companies a single system of engagement for sales and trade marketing processes. In the first phase of the rollout, which is scheduled for release in calendar year 2016, Accenture CAS Trade Promotion Management and Retail Execution products will be made available on the Salesforce1 Platform. This will enable consumer goods firms to leverage Salesforce’s leading CRM capabilities in sales, service, marketing and analytics…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: David Auslander.

One of the basic tenets of cloud computing is the ability to provide access to resources across a geographically dispersed cloud environment. This makes the cloud ideal for global distribution of applications and data. But what about those geographies that have highly restrictive data sovereignty laws or practices, such as Germany, Austria and South Korea? What about governmental bodies attempting to protect information while utilising the cloud?

An interesting example is the German government which, in certain circumstances, will require that data on German companies and their employees never leave German soil and that only German citizens be allowed to administer said data. These data sovereignty (DS) scenarios and many others present a challenge for organizations in terms of protecting the data entrusted to them while cutting costs and gaining efficiencies associated with the cloud…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Rachel Delacour.

In today’s ever-changing business environment, it’s essential that employees at all levels have access to the information they need, when they need it. Whether employees are on their computers, tablets or mobile phones, they need access to the information and resources that will enable them to make important business decisions in real-time and complete tasks efficiently, wherever they are. This is the type of access that only cloud-based business tools can provide.

In addition to ease of access, cloud-based tools help businesses do more with less. They help reduce costs, allow for flexibility and scalability as a business grows, and enable automation, removing the need to invest in IT support to keep information updated and maintained. There has never been a better time than now to take advantage of the cloud…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Thor Olavsrud.

C-suite executives in mid-market firms are increasingly involving themselves in technology decision-making, and they are focusing on cloud and analytics, according to a new report by Deloitte Growth Enterprise Services. "In the middle market, technology really has become a C-suite issue," says Stephen Keathley, national technology leader of Deloitte Growth Enterprise Services and principal of Deloitte Consulting.

"The numbers are way up for executives that are actively involved in their company’s technology decisions." Between May 29 and June 15 of this year, market research firm OnResearch polled 500 executives at mid-market companies on Deloitte’s behalf. The poll focused on the role and value that technology plays and how it influences business decisions in the middle market…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

In a digital economy business models are constantly in a state of flux. Other than the fact that they generally involve some form of subscription revenue no one is ever quite sure how to best price a particular good or service. As a result, there tends to be a lot more reliance on analytics applications to make sense of the overall digital economy.

Aria Systems today announced that it is making it a lot simpler to take advantage of those analytics by embedding Aria Revenue Analytics software inside its cloud service for managing billing. Designed to make it simpler to support multiple types of billing models, Adeeb Shanaa, senior vice president of products and engineering for Aria Systems, says Aria Revenue Analytics will provide a way for organizations to more easily discern, for example, which customers have the greatest lifetime value…

Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: Tenko Nikolov.

Containers have made quite the splash of late, with the rising popularity of Docker, the formation of the Open Container Initiative, and the launch of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. However, with alternative options like virtual machines dominating the cloud industry, the landscape of what technology should be used when and in partnership with what can become confusing.

Enterprises must fully understand each piece of technology to effectively decide which solution is the best fit for its needs. This means answering questions such as: What does the technology involve? How is the technology used? Who uses the technology?…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

While there are many advantages to cloud computing, there are also drawbacks, including shadow IT. Driven by cloud’s low-cost, as a service model, shadow IT shifts traditional IT and CIO functions to a business’s line departments. And while shadow IT risks have been discussed before, a new risk is emerging, specifically within hybrid clouds.

To many companies, shadow IT is a way of decoupling a business’s response to a problem or opportunity from a high-inertia IT world. A line department buys compute services from a cloud provider, and adjusts the services to fit business needs. The shadow IT model may not work for every application, but it works well for at least some applications in every enterprise — and it’s only going to expand as cloud adoption grows…

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Michael Brown.

Cloud computing has become such an integral part of the average consumer’s life, and the technology is quickly becoming a mainstay in the workplace. Because of the growing expectation of convenience, the workforce is turning to public cloud solutions for greater access to company data. The public cloud puts your valuable data at risk of malicious threats, but the issue is inevitable. While cloud-based file sharing presents limitless scalability, unparalleled flexibility, and greater agility, you need to be prepared for the security concerns you’re bound to encounter.

What’s so bad about the public cloud? The common thought throughout the business world is that the public cloud presents major security issues. Speaking about the complexities of the cloud, Former U.S Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield once said: There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know…

Read more from the source @ http://mspmentor.net/infocenter-cloud-based-file-sharing/extending-enterprise-cloud-security

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Molly Bernhart Walker.

The vast majority of federal IT workers value security over employee convenience, and even though many believe cloud computing improves employee productivity, it’s not enough of a benefit to trump the related security challenges. According to a new survey from Dimensional Research and Dell, 89 percent of survey respondents said they valued security versus 11 percent of employees who said they prized convenience.

Seventy-one percent think cloud improves productivity, while 79 percent think the cloud’s security challenges prevent greater adoption. The poll, published Sept. 9, surveyed 150 federal IT professionals with more than 1,000 employees at their organizations. It was part of a broader global IT study that included public and private sector IT professionals…