Grey sky thinking
As explored in a recent Special Report in these pages, cloud computing is no mere trend or fad. Life in the cloud is here to stay for businesses, individuals and legal practitioners alike…
AMD debuts 16-core Opteron chips to power the cloud
AMD has officially unveiled its next-generation Opteron chips, featuring up to 16 processor cores to meet the requirements of cloud computing and enterprise customers with highly virtualised datacentre environments, according to the firm…
Compliance in the cloud is important
Google Drive App Released
Moving to cloud computing used to mean abandoning the desktop, but with Syncdocs, it is now possible to get the best of both cloud and desktop worlds…
Real Time Data Services Offers ATX Tax Software Hosting On Cloud
Real Time Data Services provides hosting solution for many business applications or software on cloud along with managed IT support services. Real Time Data Services is well known for offering cloud hosting solutions for various accounting software (QuickBooks, Peachtree), customer relationship management software (ACT! CRM), MS SQL Server, Windows Server, MS Project, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, ProSeries tax software, Drake tax software, Lacerte tax software, and many others. ATX Tax software hosting on cloud spruces up this tax software significantly…
Wyse CEO to Discuss Leading Trends in Cloud Computing for Sustainable Economic Growth at the WEF in Mumbai, India
Tarkan Maner, President and CEO of Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will join the World Economic Forum (WEF), India Economic Summit’s distinguished panel, Building a Digital Economy, on Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 10:45am…
Get Thee To The i Cloud, IBM’s Kugler Says
IBM i shops should take a long, hard look at cloud computing and see if it makes sense for them, IBM‘s director of business development for the IBM i business, Ari Kugler, said in a webinar last week. During his presentation with IBM i cloud service provider Symmetry, Kugler said that the security and scalability of the IBM i platform, coupled with the price/performance of the Power7 servers, has opened new opportunities for cloud computing. "The time for cloud is now," he said…
Cloud gazing: what to consider with online IT
Cloud computing is wispy and mysterious, one of the latest hot ideas for business about which many top executives are dubious. In Harvard Business Review, Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT’s Center for Digital Business, shares these points for senior execs to consider when weighing whether to move more information technology online to servers hosted by other organizations:…
The Essence of Cloud
The industry roils with definitions and explanations of cloud. These definitions come from product vendors cloud-washing their products, cloud providers positioning their cloud infrastructure, IT teams attempting to cloud-paint their efforts in virtualization, and even from consultants writing articles like this…
Cloud Computing For Small Businesses
Cloud computing services include Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS, Platform as a Service or PaaS, and Software as a Service or SaaS. Resource cloud or Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS delivers managed and scalable resources as services. Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS offers enhanced virtualization capabilities. Service cloud or Software as a Service or SaaS or application cloud delivers applications using a cloud infrastructure or platform. Software as a Service or SaaS does not provide cloud features themselves. Platform as a Service or PaaS delivers computational resources through a platform upon which various types of applications and services can be developed and then hosted…