Cloud News, Resources and Information
I was interested in this week’s ZDNet piece, Cloud computing’s real creative destruction may be the IT workforce. The piece discusses a presentation at last week’s Gartner Symposium that posited cloud computing will be a net destructor of IT jobs…
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Matt Hamblen.
Citrix Wednesday is set to unveil a prototype sub-$100 system-on-a-chip with a so-called "zero client" at its Synergy conference in Barcelona.
The prototype HDX Ready System-on-a-Chip, made by NComputing, was previewed by Citrix Tuesday during a Web conference…
There are many benefits in Cloud Computing, butwhen I talk to business owners 3 big benefits stand out above all others.
1. Cloud Computing Removes The Servers From Your Office
With Cloud Computing the central network resources move out from your office into the Cloud. There is no need for bulky, noisy, heat producing, electricity consuming servers occupying the corner of your office…
Today at Citrix Synergy(TM), the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualization meet, Citrix announced the next stage of its strategy for Citrix CloudGateway(TM), the industry’s first unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers Windows, web, SaaS and mobile apps to any user on any device. The CloudGateway product line empowers end users with self-service access to all of their business apps, and gives IT unmatched control over apps and data from public cloud environments, accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and mobility…
To employ new technologies effectively, such as cloud computing, organizations must understand what exactly they’re getting. With this in mind, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its 16th and final version of The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing…
Cloud computing has given organizations worldwide on-tap access to compute power, storage, and applications, resulting in a huge boost in flexibility coupled with cost savings. A new study foretells that the IT workforce soon may become the next on-tap resource thanks to the cloud, which could mean even greater agility and lower costs for companies — but it could also hurt job security and breed resentment among tech pros…
There’s been a small cluster of hysterically big funding rounds lately exemplified by Dropbox’ $250 million B round last week.
On Monday six-year-old Workday, which logically enough does a SaaS version of PeopleSoft’s HR, payroll and financial management widgetry since it was started by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his trusty lieutenant Aneel Bhusri, said it got a handsome $85 million in Series F financing led by cloud-struck new investors including T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment arm of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos…
PreAxia Health Care Payment Systems Inc. introduces their automated platform for managing Health Spending Accounts (HSAs) in Canada. This follows three years of development to create the first fully integrated HSA solution for Canada’s brokerage and broker community. Through the use of Cloud Computing technologies, PreAxia allows HSA brokers to more easily offer and manage HSA accounts. PreAxia technology simplifies fund-management, claims adjudication, transaction processing and on-line health benefit administration, through a broker’s own web site. This automation results in cost savings for both HSA brokers and the companies that purchase these services…
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Jim Morin.
Today’s typical broadband virtual private network (VPN) connections to cloud applications will prove insufficient for tomorrow’s cloud infrastructure services.
The reason is that infrastructure workloads demand more from the network than software services…
Dell (NSDQ:Dell) Boomi has added enhanced data mapping, more transparency and predictive analysis to its cloud and SaaS application integration solutions.
The AtomSphere Fall 11 version of Boomi should simplify the move to cloud computing with easier integration and more VAR-friendly tools for monitoring and maintenance, said Rick Nucci, founder of Boomi and CTO of Dell Boomi…