Oracle Takes the High Road with CRM On Demand
In terms of application software battles, customer relationship management (CRM) software is one of the most hotly contested, especially when it comes to software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. Usually when it comes to anything involving software, Oracle is usually in the thick of things. But interestingly enough, Oracle seems content to keep is its CRM-as-a-service ambitions limited to the high end of the enterprise IT space.
Data ownership becomes fuzzy in the cloud
If Facebook has taught us nothing else, it is that people can be cavalier about protecting their data.
The social networking giant has forced consumers to think differently about their data: have I just handed over the rights to the photos of my kids? Am I going to appear on my friends’ pages endorsing fashion leggings thanks to a throwaway remark about “legging it” to catch a bus?
In the same way, cloud computing forces companies to re-evaluate what data ownership means.
Unified communications to push mobile cloud sales to $39bn in next five years
Mobile cloud services sales are expected to reach $39bn by 2016 as businesses increase spending on cloud-based unified communications, according to Juniper Research.
Cisco Offers New Cloud Capabilities in UCS, WAAS Products
Cisco Systems is rolling out new offerings to make cloud computing more efficient, scalable and secure.
Will Citrix-branded Cloud.com offer solid support for KVM?
Even as its Xen brain trust has departed, Citrix is moving ahead with an open source cloud IaaS strategy.
On Tuesday, the Ft Lauderdale, Fl virtualization company announced it has completed its purchase of Cloud.com and its CloudStack product line. Terms were not disclosed.
Focus on Architecture First Before Moving to the Cloud
The point of enterprise architecture is to look beyond the silos and create a blueprint for the business’ big-picture strategy.
As I’ve shared before, I’m somewhat confused about why, exactly, a discipline that originated in IT expects to be accepted as a sort of mastermind for designing business strategy. Isn’t that what CIOs were supposed to be doing?
Twitter uses Acquia to provide Drupal-based development community site
Twitter has launched a new developer community site using open source content management system (CMS) Drupal, provided by Acquia.
Twitter used Acquia’s products, cloud infrastructure and support services with the free Drupal CMS to create a new site to support 750,000 developers.
VMware PXE Manager
How to set up VMware PXE Manager and its additional features. VMware expert Mike Laverick tells of his favourite ‘fling’ – Massimiliano Daneri’s PXE Manager.
VMware Labs serves as a portal for various engineers and enthusiasts to let their virtualisation pet projects out into the wild. These "Flings" as they call them are generally not supported by VMware officially, but you might find some of them very useful.
VMware intros vSphere 5 and cloud infrastructure suite
VMware has upgraded its vSphere platform and introduce a new complex cloud infrastructure suite to its already burgeoning catalog of virtualization and cloud computing solutions.
Speaking at a media event in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, VMware CEO Paul Maritz spoke broadly about the evolution of virtualization, noting that his company is “taking the next step in the journey to this more automated world.” However, to continue on this path, Maritz said that cloud computing needs to “become easier to manage” and “less costly to operate.”