Node4 brings total flexibility to businesses with new cloud computing service offering
Data centre and communications firm Node4 will broaden its range of services by launching nCloud – a brand new cloud-based infrastructure. nCloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations ultimate IT flexibility by allowing them to build a bespoke solution that works hand in glove with business requirements.
Cloud comparison: Apple iCloud vs. Google vs. Windows Live
“The cloud” has long been a buzzword in the tech scene but it has become an ever-important part of our daily computing lives and Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango all have deep integration with the cloud, but use it in slightly different ways. Let’s take a look at how each of the major operating systems bring the cloud into your lives…
Amazon Reportedly Negotiating for webOS
Amazon is in serious talks with HP about buying webOS according to VentureBeat, which claims to know from a well-placed source at HP, known for leaking like a sieve.
HP got the mobile operating system as part of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm last year, stuck it in a TouchPad tablet, tried selling the thing for six weeks, abandoned it in mid-August, and now reportedly wants to dump Palm ASAP. HP initially suggested it would sell or license the platform…
Is a Cloud Computing World Flatter, Faster, and More Fun?
What’s so compelling about cloud technology?
When I was a kid, my first computer was an Apple I. Every application ran locally. Now, with broadband, you can deliver exponentially more computing power and run exponentially more apps. The scale of the capabilities is what makes cloud computing compelling…
Asure Software Acquires ADI Time
Asure Software, Inc. (nasdaq-cm:ASUR), a leading provider of workforce management software solutions, today announced that it has acquired ADI Time(R), a Warwick, R.I.-based leading vendor of cloud computing time and attendance software and labor management services…
Savvis Launches Cloud-Based Database Platform
Savvis, a CenturyLink company /quotes/zigman/203112/quotes/nls/ctl CTL -2.11% , today announced the launch of Savvis Symphony Database, a cloud-based database platform. Symphony Database, which was unveiled at Oracle Open World 2011 in San Francisco, brings the advantages of cloud computing to Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments…
Cloud Adoption Uneven Across Countries in Europe
Last week Friday we looked at two surveys about the scope of cloud acceptance — a survey by CA Associates that found that 93 percent of companies are using the cloud, and another one by SWC Technology Partners that concluded that less than 4 percent of companies are using applications hosted in the cloud. The conclusion was that there is currently a huge split between what different segments of companies are doing. segments. It’s not clear exactly what the parameters are that make up the profile of a cloud-adopter company versus the cloud-abstainer ones, but both the location and size of company seem to play a significant factor…
Concern moves its humanitarian workers to the cloud
Concern Worldwide has signed a cloud computing deal with EMC that will allow its humanitarian staff and volunteers to access data remotely across the world.
Concern will use a private cloud model to migrate servers from the organisation’s operations centre in Dublin to a virtual environment. The operations centres is a hub for more than 2,000 Concern workers worldwide…
Cisco’s Considerations for Cloud Computing
It is imperative that organisations understand the base requirements behind cloud-based services before taking the leap towards the next evolution of the online environment.
The existence and effect of cloud computing on both the enterprise-based and private online environments has been more profoundly felt in 2011 than ever before…
Cloud Communications Company 8×8 Wins New Patent for Cloud Computing Solution
8×8 (News 
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The patent number 8,027,332 relates to call routing to user communication devices. The technology uses a call-routing switch arrangement that uses data in a programmable database to associate or match incoming calls with destination user-communication devices for users employing two or more user identifiers…