Author: David

Case in Point
A few months ago, a midsize Australian organization decided it needed to either upgrade or replace one of its legacy enterprise applications. This organization, with about 3,500 employees, has upward of 20,000 system users across its customer base. The organization approached a number of local and global suppliers, and some responded with on-premise offerings (meaning the application would be loaded onto the business’s servers), while two responded with software-as-as-service (SaaS) solutions (in which the application would be hosted by the provider and accessed through a browser). Surprisingly (to the organization, at least), what was expected to be a relatively straightforward exercise was not, due to the nature of SaaS pricing…

This is the tenth in a continuing series on startups raising funding.  The series continued…Read the previous post/s

Today, there are two startups in focus – Nivio and Clio.

Nivio (http://us.nivio.com/)

Palo Alto, California-based cloud startup Nivio recently announced the raising of $21 million from Indian consumer products giant Videocon and American private equity firm AEC Partners. While AEC Partners has a record of tech investing, this is the first such move by Videocon. In addition to the potential of this company founded in 2004, there’s a family connection at play – Saurabh Dhoot, one of Nivio’s founders, is a nephew of Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot, one of the richest men in India with a personal fortune of $2 billion…

Not a week goes by without reports on security gaps, data theft or hacker attacks. Both businesses and private users are becoming increasingly uneasy. However, when it comes to technologies like cloud computing, trust and security are essential if we intend to use data and applications that are flexible, cost-effective and above all, mobile. That’s why Fraunhofer researchers are working on a series of security solutions that they will present in Hall 26, Booth E08…

If you are an IT decision maker and your job is to determine the best route your organization should take to fully reap the benefits of the cloud, you might be considering a Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure solution as one possible method of working in the cloud.

VDI will help you move your current IT to the cloud via the virtualization of your current desktop. Yes, it works, but finding a more-comprehensive solution that truly delivers on all of your cloud computing objectives should be an even more important goal. A better solution? Web-based desktops, also known as Webtops…

A LEGISLATOR has asked the House of Representatives’ Committee on Information and Communications Technology to conduct an inquiry into the use of offshore cloud-computing services for government data and networks.

This after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) sealed a partnership with IP Converge Data Center Inc. (PSE ‘CLOUD’), the local re-seller of Google Apps and other cloud-based office productivity tools in January 2012…

Google has cut the price of its Cloud Storage, a hosted service designed for enterprise developers who want to store their applications’ data in the cloud, as opposed to in their own servers.

The fees, based on monthly usage, have been cut between 8 percent and 15 percent, depending on the amount of data involved, said Navneet Joneja, product manager for Google Cloud Storage.  "We’re committed to building extremely high availability storage in the cloud," he said. The price cuts will be applied retroactively to March 1st, Google said on Tuesday…

A recent IBM study showed that the number of enterprises turning to cloud computing is expected to double by 2015.

At its IBM Pulse 2012 conference here, IBM released the findings of its study, which indicated that businesses that embrace the transformative power of the cloud will have a significant advantage in the race to introduce new products and services and capture new markets and revenue streams.

Indeed, to better understand the shift in how organizations use the cloud today and how they plan to employ it in the future IBM, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, surveyed more than 500 business and technology executives worldwide. The findings were compiled in the new study, titled "The Power of Cloud: Driving business model innovation."…

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced the availability of the Wyse T10 client, based on the ultra-secure Wyse zero framework*. The Wyse T10 broadens Wyse’s portfolio of clients and can help cut the cost of delivering a seamless user experience for virtual desktops based on Citrix, Marvell, Microsoft, Quest Software and VMware technology with unparalleled security, ease of use and zero management. The Wyse T10 will be demonstrated at CeBIT in the BITKOM pavilion, hall 4, Wyse booth A04, from March 6th to 10th, 2012 in Hanover, Germany…

The budding surge of cloud computing in businesses is only just beginning, according to a study released today by IBM. Over the next three years, the study found, the number of businesses that will adopt cloud computing is expected to more than double as business leaders look to capitalize on the rapid availability of data and the growing popularity of social media.

Collaborating with the Economist Intelligence Unit, IBM surveyed over 500 business and technology executives from around the world in hopes of not only understanding more about how organizations use cloud today, but how this emerging model will affect the future of business…