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Grazed from Stuff.  Author:  James Scollay.

There’s good news in the latest MYOB Business monitor for businesses who want to boost their chances of success.  The survey showed just 34% of Kiwi small and medium-sized companies have a website and only 16% use cloud computing for business. That means almost two-thirds still have scope to take up these technologies and enjoy the benefits.

Companies that do this have been outpacing their competitors. Those who used cloud computing were 16% more likely to have experienced a revenue increase last year.  In addition to supporting the bottom line, the cloud has helped businesses build a platform for growth…

Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.  The Immersion Data Center: The New Frontier of High-Density Computing – Geoscience specialist CGG has filled an entire data center with tanks of servers submerged in a liquid coolant similar to mineral oil. Here’s a look at this unique data center in Houston and its implementation of immersion cooling technology from Green Revolution Cooling.

Rackspace Bringing Hybrid Cloud to CERN – Rackspace Hosting has been pushing the hybrid computing message, and CERN is kicking the tires. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, will be relying on Rackspace’s Open Hybrid Cloud to help it discover the origins of the universe…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Talygen’s newest release of its industry leading Business Management Automation application has given Business Owners and Managers multiple new ways to communicate with their Employees and Clients. Talygen offers advanced features that are not available anywhere else in the marketplace. With Talygen this entire suite of advanced business productivity applications are available, fully integrated, in just one easy to use application.

Talygen is a Software as a Service (SaaS) web application with a very easy to use touch friendly interface and easy scalability. There is no other Business Management Automation application with Talygen’s advanced features and rich customizable work flows.  Talygen also offers Smartphone apps for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry to help users on the go.Talygen’s mobile application is designed to help managers supervise tasks and employees at multiple levels…

Grazed from Internap.  Author: Andrew Boring.

In our previous post, we described IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service). Today we’ll discuss how Software as a Service (SaaS) fits into the stack and explore which type of infrastructure makes sense in different scenarios. Various combinations of these services can help meet your needs for flexibility and resource control so you can manage and create applications as desired.

SaaS
Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service, over the Internet. Salesforce.com and Google Apps are two common examples of this. However, many SaaS applications can provide services to other applications, usually via a SOAP or RESTful API over the Internet. A good example of this is how Yelp integrates Google Maps into its mobile application – Google is the SaaS provider, and the Yelp application becomes the consumer of the software service…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

“As organizations grow, they find they need to migrate to new storage hardware” noted Yury Borukh, CEO of IT at Once. “This transition typically involves a significant investment of both capital and staff resources. Now, we can provide cost-effective solutions with cutting edge technology.”

According to Borukh, IT at Once cloud servers meet the need for connectivity and storage through web/database hosting and file storage.  “We created more innovative backup and recovery solutions to facilitate clients’ productivity and expansion,” he said. “Our initiative in this respect now provides enterprises a securer way to manage databases and a more dependable disaster recovery solution.”…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Rebecca Wetzel.

Software as a Service (SaaS) providers face one critical objective: They must deliver an optimal end-user experience or risk languishing.  "SaaS providers face serious performance challenges," warns SaaS industry expert Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of Wellesley, Mass.-based consultancy THINKstrategies and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, an online directory of cloud providers. "SaaS vendors must match the response times and availability of on-premises software applications offered by traditional ISVs in order to continue to satisfy end users and displace legacy applications."

But is it reasonable for customers to expect SaaS applications to offer equal performance of on-premises software? "Absolutely," says John Essex, marketing director at New Relic, a San Francisco-based application performance monitoring vendor that delivers its core product as SaaS. "If a SaaS vendor continuously monitors the end-user experience from pre-production on, the information gathered can be used to improve performance to meet the same performance standards as on-premises software."…

Grazed from Mobile Commerce News.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Recent studies have found that there is an acute shortage of qualified applicants for cloud computing jobs.  This shortage is forecasted to continue as cloud related positions are expected climb 26% annually through 2015.  In fact, a recent IDC white paper found that the biggest reason 1.7 million cloud-related positions remained unfilled in 2012 was because job seekers lacked the training and certification needed to work in a cloud-enabled world.

There has never been a better time to land that dream job in the cloud computing industry. The jobs are already there. It’s up to you to provide the required skills, education and experience to take advantage of this opportunity.  Job hunting is never easy, but here are a few things you can do to improve your chances:…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing underpins an important part of economic activity today, and has the potential to make a major contribution to future growth.To deliver its anticipated benefits, it must be easy to use and cost-efficient. This means that enterprises and individuals must be able to use cloud products and services as far as possible “off the shelf”.

The products and services should work together, and minimal effort should be needed to incorporate them into a user’s systems.  This is the case for the basic Internet, but not yet for the additional components that constitute the cloud. Lack of portability of and interoperability between these components could mean that the potential of cloud computing is not fulfilled…

Grazed from ScientBlog.  Author: Editorial Staff.

A six-month study conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Northwestern University with funding from Google has found that moving common software applications used by 86 million U.S. workers to the cloud could save enough electricity annually to power Los Angeles for a year. The study is summarized in a report is isued today (June 11). The report looks at three common business applications — email, customer relationship management software, or CRM, and bundled productivity software (spreadsheets, file sharing, word processing, etc.).

Moving these software applications from local computer systems to centralized cloud services could cut information technology energy consumption by up to 87 percent — about 23 billion kilowatt-hours. This is roughly the amount of electricity used each year by all the homes, businesses and industry in Los Angeles. A primary goal of the project was to develop a state-of-the-art model that both researchers and the general public could use to analyze the energy and carbon impacts of cloud computing…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

EVERTEC Inc., the leader in electronic transaction processing in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced today that it was recognized by Cisco as the Cisco Cloud Partner of the Year for the CANSAC (Central America, North of South America and the Caribbean) region for its innovation, leadership and best practices in developing the market for cloud services in this region.

“We recognized the successes of our partners within its geographic region. Cisco is deeply committed to supporting our partners to build their business, and to recognize those that have demonstrated outstanding achievement, like EVERTEC, which has been instrumental in expanding the market for the VBlock™ Systems in the CANSAC region”, explained Alexis Cervoni, Partner Account Manager of Cisco for the Caribbean…