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Grazed from HostAway.co.uk.  Author: Kevin Jenson.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) see the ability to work in a flexible and mobile way as the biggest advantage of adopting cloud technology, research shows.

In a recent IBM study, 39 per cent of senior managers said that a more adaptable and flexible workforce was their number one reason for implementing cloud computing in the workplace, followed by the cost efficiency of this type of service.

This can be largely attributed to the increasing proliferation of smart mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, so that the workplace no longer needs to be defined as a static, physical place…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, today announced it is hosting the sixth RightScale Conference on June 13 in New York. From large enterprises to start-ups, companies today are looking to gain business agility and scale with cloud computing. Whether companies are developing or evolving their cloud strategies, they are looking to leverage public, private and hybrid clouds in their IT architecture. At the upcoming RightScale Conference, industry luminaries, cloud experts and customers will share their multi-cloud strategies as well as discuss best practices for achieving success in the cloud.

The RightScale Conference, hosted in conjunction with the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo 2012 (Cloud Expo), will showcase a top-tier lineup of speakers, including RightScale co-founder CEO Michael Crandell and RightScale customers Fox, Pearson and CareCloud. Registration for the RightScale Conference automatically registers participants for both events…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Technology Management Concepts, a leading ERP provider is proud to announce they will be attending SuiteWorld 2012 in San Francisco, CA from May 14-17th. NetSuite, the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financial and ERP software is the basis for the annual conference. SuiteWorld 2012 will be the second global conference for NetSuite’s customers, partners, developers, and system integrators. It is the largest event for the NetSuite community, which will include more than 12,000 companies and subsidiaries using the NetSuite business management site.

Jennifer Harris, President of TMC said "We are excited to meet many of our colleagues in San Francisco to further grow our relationships with our customers and fellow partners". She also noted that "TMC is an established NetSuite Solution Provider based in Los Angeles, CA that has 25+ years in the ERP business and will continue to enhance our knowledge and specialities at this years SuiteWorld."…

 

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

AppsCare are proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the fourth annual Cloud Computing World Forum, presenting the major players within the Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) industries on 12-13th June, London.

The two day conference, consisting of over 4,000 senior IT decision-makers from around the globe, will focus on the latest cloud topics, including security, mobile, applications, communications, virtualization, CRM and more. The event hosts more than 150 seminars across 8 theatres, including the new Google Theatre and Microsoft Theatre…

Grazed from Cisco Newsroom.  Author: Steve Wildstrom.

The federal government, like the private sector, sees great opportunities in moving its IT infrastructure in the cloud. A 2011 white paper by then-Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra estimated that $20 billion of the government’s $80 billion in annual IT spending could move to the cloud. A study by the MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange estimates that the government could save $12 billion a year through greater use of cloud services, which promote efficiency through elimination of duplication and higher utilization of equipment. But the reality is that because of complex regulations, especially those covering security and procurement, that move will be slow and painful.

Cloud computing is often a vague concept, but the feds at least have a precise definition to work with. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, it is "a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e g , networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Informatica Corporation,  the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced Informatica MDM 9.5 which provides breakthrough capabilities in master data management (MDM) for social media, Cloud computing, mobile and big data. Key elements include delivering on the vision of the social customer master, and introducing master data timeline for effective date versioning.

"Informatica MDM 9.5 aligns industry-leading master data management technology with all four megatrends that are redefining the industry and propelling growth: big data, social computing, cloud computing and mobile computing," said Dennis Moore, senior vice president and general manager, MDM, Informatica. "With Informatica MDM 9.5, the door is open for organizations to engage in effective social ecommerce, take MDM to the cloud, enable the mobile workforce and scale MDM for today’s big data realities."…

Grazed from CanadianBusiness.  Author: Navneet Alang.

Google Drive, the company’s solution to storing files online, has been rumoured for so long that Google itself compared it to the Loch Ness monster when announcing its release. But if, after years of waiting, we expected grand things, what we got felt underwhelming, with little to differentiate it from market leader Dropbox.

However, users of Drive quickly discovered a significant quirk. In addition to the functionality you’d expect—having, say, a spreadsheet you save to your Drive folder at work automatically appear on your laptop at home—any file you create in Google Docs, the company’s online office suite, is also saved to Drive. Though these files appear to exist on your own computer, you can actually only access them through a web browser. And that seemingly tiny detail suggests that Drive isn’t so much a competitor to Dropbox but a preparatory step in Google’s plan to move all our computing online…

Grazed from ITWeb.  Author:  Valerie Carmichael-Brown.

Computing is undergoing a seismic shift from client/server to the cloud, a shift similar in importance and impact to the transition from mainframe to client/server. Speculation abounds on how this new era will evolve in the coming years, and IT leaders have a critical need for a clear vision of where the industry is heading. What are the economics driving the long-term trend?

Triniti Business Solutions, a PPPM (portfolio, programme, and project management) and software solutions provider, recently underwent the transition as an organisation, providing cloud optimised platforms (platform as a service) and aligned its solutions as a SaaS (software as a service) offering…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

The amount of data created and held by companies is increasing exponentially, and keeping it safe continues to be a major cause for concern. At the same time, cloud computing, rather than remaining a theoretical concept, is now a reality for many organizations. Data loss continues to be a huge problem for companies across North America that are looking to cloud–based platforms for a solution, according to a survey commissioned by CA Technologies, “Insights: Data Protection and the Cloud.”

The study of 300 companies across North America (200 in the U.S., 100 in Canada), which was conducted by Coleman Parkes Research, found that 55 percent of U.S. organizations expect their use of the cloud to increase as part of their business-continuity strategy over the next year. The study is a follow-up to a previous CA Technologies survey, “The Avoidable Cost of Downtime,” which found that the cost of outages to a company over a year is in the range of $160,000…