Significance of cloud computing in workforce management
Cloud services have grown in popularity over the past couple of years. Cloud computing is the number one strategic trend in the recently released top 10 strategic technologies from Gartner. According to Gartner’s report, Cloud Computing is a computing model in which providers remotely deliver a variety of IT-enabled, on-demand capabilities to consumers…
RSA promotes trust in the cloud
Some of the major barriers to the adoption of cloud computing involve trust and security. Part of the problem is that even if the parties are prepared to exchange information, the many-to-many relationships mean a lot of work…
High-tech Storage Raises Questions
The technology to store emails, business records and even government files in computer warehouses often far away — and access the data over the Internet — has triggered great innovations and, in Washington, complex policy challenges…
Security worries cloud Web migration
Federal agencies — ranging from the Defense and State departments to the National Institutes of Health — are having second thoughts about moving government secrets and essential functions to the Web in the face of a growing number of cyberattacks from online assailants…
What do puffy white clouds really say about information technology contractors?
Local information technology contractors have taken the federal cloud-first policy quite literally.
Since the government announced last year that it would give priority to cloud — or Web-based — computing, contractors have been overloading their Web sites with images of puffy white clouds and blue skies…
LITEBI Presents Its New Cloud Computing Business Intelligence Platform
The company will make an overview of the different modules that compose the platform that offers advanced analytics, dashboards, data integration, alarms and scorecards. This allows the company to offer a full-featured business intelligence suite, pursuing a constant and transparent evolution to the customer. Among this range of new features one can find the new interface, easy and user-friendly and the new LiteSCORECARD module which allows users to define and monitor the company’s strategy and detect possible deviations following the Balanced Scorecard methodology…
Gmail Now Credible Rival to Microsoft Exchange: Gartner
Gmail application commands only 1 percent market e-mail market share in the enterprise, but that’s enough for Gartner to proclaim the application has become a credible competitor to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Exchange Online and other Web-based e-mail services, proclaimed Gartner…
The Economic Benefit of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing, as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a model for enabling “… convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” NIST is implying the economies of scale that go with cloud computing when it refers to a pool of configurable computing resources…
Evolving Data Center Management and Virtualization Technologies Drive Cloud Computing Adoption
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing trends in the Information Technology world. It is a simple concept in which shared resources, including software and applications, are consumed by organizations on-demand from a cloud-based service provider. They are paid for according to consumption in much the same way as water or electricity is bought from a public utility company…
Cloud computing market is starting to look a lot like one big data center
An interesting thing has been happening on the way to the fully cloud-ified IT universe in which every company is able to call on as much computing power as it needs, of whatever kind, using whatever software, then return it to the vast, immutable ether, paying later only for what the used of this vast and magical power without being responsible for creating, training, feeding or protecting anything at all…