Cloud Computing and its Effects on the CAD Industry
Over the years it has been observed that every new technology is first looked at with skepticism. Not all the technologies that are newly brought into the market affect the market and their functioning dynamics. Some fail to create the desired impact and are easily forgotten than noticed and taken into consideration.
Cloud Computing is the new talk of the technology town. Will it stay or be rejected and slip away as fast as it came?
Companies have to look at Cloud Computing as the next big Technological revolution changing the rules and the platform of business. In a country like India, the companies will now have to start exploring and researching on utilizing cloud computing…
Cloud and the evolution of the enterprise architect
Enterprise architects have been a staple of corporate IT departments for well over a decade now, starting in earnest with the advent of service-oriented architecture and corporate data modeling. The need for enterprise architecture was spurred by the need to gain control over an increasingly complex computing environment, and an increasingly large backlog of data and feature needs. But those needs are changing, and so is the job of the enterprise architect.
The use of the term “architecture” in this context comes, in part, from the idea that one can create a “blueprint” for how a business can run on technology. The “architect” is someone who looks at the materials available, interviews the “client” (aka the business) about desired form and functional outcomes, and engineers solutions to meet those needs…
Shut up and ‘Drive’: Could Google’s new cloud computing service be the next big thing?
Google has announced the arrival of its latest project and dubbed the cloud computing service "Google Drive."
Drive allows users to access their files at anytime, on any platform and starts users off with 5GB of free storage. The new service will ultimately replace Google Docs once an account switches over to Drive, but will retain many of the same features that Google Docs provided.
Users of the service simply install an app for their Windows PC or Mac and can then sync their files with their Drive account so no matter what, the files will be updated in real time and can be accessed from your tablet, phone, work, or anywhere for that matter…
‘Cloud’ Computing’s Substantial Footprint
Leading tech companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are now offering unprecedented amounts of data storage and access to “apps” on huge Internet-connected servers, saving consumers and businesses the hassle of installing and running programs and storing information on their own local computers.
This emerging trend, dubbed “cloud computing,” means that these providers have had to scale up their power consumption considerably, as they are increasingly responsible for providing more and more of the computing horsepower required by the world’s two billion Internet users. No doubt, sharing such resources on centralized servers is more efficient than every individual and business running their own versions separately. In fact, the research firm Verdantix estimates that companies off-loading data and services to cloud servers could save $12 billion off their energy bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85 million metric tons within the next decade. But for the greenhouse gas savings to be realized, the companies offering cloud computing services need to make the right energy choices…
Sonian is named a Premier Partner at Cloudcor’s 4th Annual Cloud Slam’12 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo
Cloudcor(R) today announced that Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered archiving and search, is a Premier Partner at Cloud Slam’12 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo taking place May 30 — June 1, 2012 in San Francisco and broadcast online.
Sonian will showcase (at booth #16) its archiving service, which is a cloud-powered subscription-based service that eliminates the need for costly and time consuming ‘on premises’ archiving solutions. By delivering industry leading email archiving on a disruptively low ‘per mailbox per month’ pricing model, the service is available for all email users whether they have 50 or 50,000 mailboxes in use….
Cloud Computing: Four Steps for Transforming Enterprise IT
With the growth in cloud service offerings, and the increasing adoption of private, public, and hybrid cloud computing strategies and practices within the enterprise, many people have begun discussing the future of the CIO and corporate IT.
Will the IT department simply become a purchasing organization managing a bunch of service contracts at the behest of finance and the lines of business? By the time 2020 rolls around, will there be any need for a CIO? After all, if, as Nick Carr predicted in his 2004 book Does IT Matter? IT truly becomes a utility, like, say, electricity, conferring no competitive advantage, well, we don’t have a CPO (Chief Power Officer), do we?…
USC and iChartsMD Partner to Bring the Cloud to Med School
The cloud has come to medical school. Cloud computing, of course, where organizations can store and manage data over the Internet.
It’s coming now to the University of Southern California (USC)’s Keck School of Medicine through a partnership with iChartsMD, which will provide its cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) software for the school and its medical students, according to a story by Steve Campbell.
USC will have the ability to integrate a Drummond ONC- ATCB certified solution into its curriculum as well as the software tools the medical students will need to incorporate into their medial futures. The Drummond solution helps organizations develop and use electronic health records and then demonstrate “meaningful use” to qualify for federal financial incentives…
Case Study: Making Cloud ROI a Reality
IT managers at enterprises of all sizes are exploring cloud computing and virtualization as a way to address conflicting demands within their organizations. These mounting pressures include a lack of internal resources, mandates from the CFO to lower costs, and the struggle to complete key initiatives while also performing mundane server maintenance and application storage tasks. These same IT professionals are also being asked to build and implement battle-tested disaster recovery and business continuity plans that not only reduce data loss and downtime, but present a recovery time objective that prevents the organization from further interruption in the wake of an outage.
You may have read some controversial articles in the early days of cloud computing stating that there is no such thing as ROI for cloud computing. These early cloud pundits believed that buying into cloud services is not an investment, but an avoidance in an investment – therefore, ROI cannot be measured…
Meeting data privacy, residency and security requirements in the cloud
In the Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study published by Network Instruments in March 2012, 74% of the survey respondents indicate that their top concern about cloud computing is "security for corporate data." This survey is consistent with many others that always seem to identify data security concerns as a leading inhibitor to the adoption of cloud computing.
Actually, I think "security" is a catch-all phrase that also encompasses concerns about data residency (i.e., where is the data?) and data privacy (i.e., who can see our personally identifiable information, or PII?). Many organizations are fearful of or prohibited from placing data in the cloud due to restrictions on access to data or compliance with government or industry regulations…
Survey Addresses Sales, Income Tax Nexus Cloud Computing, Deal-of-the-Day Vouchers
The states are reacting to the growing use of new technologies such as cloud computing by adopting disparate nexus tax policies, Bloomberg BNA’s 12th annual Survey of State Tax Departments shows.
The survey this year focuses on how the states are taxing the new technologies and transactions that have emerged as the U.S. economy continues to shift from bricks and mortar of Main Street to the web-based world, which mostly operates independent of state or local borders. Most of the questions in the annual survey aim to clarify each state’s positions on the gray areas of corporate income and sales and use tax administration. Every state, except Alaska, participated in the survey…