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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…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Veeva Systems introduced Veeva Network today to over 700 industry leaders at the Veeva Global Customer Summit, being held this week in Philadelphia, PA. Veeva Network is a cloud-based customer interaction repository (CIR) that spans all sales and marketing channels, standard data formats supported by the leading multichannel marketing companies and complete service offerings from the life sciences industry’s leading business consultants.

Powered by the very latest in cloud computing and big data technology, Veeva Network provides the customer interaction data required to better analyze the return from multichannel investments. It’s already being characterized by pharmaceutical leaders as ‘revolutionary’ for its promise to easily capture, store and disseminate consistent data across life sciences companies and their outsourced partners and agencies…

Grazed from BetaNews.  Author: Ed Oswald.

Red Hat celebrated the 10th anniversary of its flagship Enterprise Linux product, but reaffirmed the decision to shift focus to cloud computing, pledging that open-source roots would be key to success in the new business venture.

The company plans to release Enterprise Linux 7 in in late 2013, but offered little during a Tuesday press conference on what to expect. What may play a large part in the new release is a focus on the cloud. For all intents and purposes, Red Hat believes Linux is in the past and the cloud is the future…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Dan Worth.

The UK is the number one market for the future growth of cloud computing services having lagged behind the US for many years, according to leading executives at Netsuite.

Speaking at the firm’s SuiteWorld event on Tuesday, Netsuite European managing director Paul Auffermann said the UK market had taken longer to reach mass adoption because most major vendors were reluctant to talk about cloud computing before they had systems in place to sell.

"If you look at the incumbents – Sage, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle – it was not a message they wanted to propagate because they didn’t have a solution they could put behind the message."

However, chief executive Zach Nelson added that because all vendors had become cloud enthusiasts over the past few years, UK businesses were now ready to move fast…

Grazed from DongA.com.   Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, a cloud computing service that allows companies to borrow servers from Amazon.com instead of buying such expensive network equipment, has entered the Korean market.

 

Companies can save on computer facility investment through the service. For instance, an online game developer had to purchase high-priced equipment to service its games. Unable to forecast how many users it will have, the company just bought servers to accommodate hundreds of gamers.

 

AWS comes in handy for such companies. The service charges a company for usage by users who have played games. This is beneficial to companies because they need not make an excessive investment…