TurnKey Internet launches TurnKey Cloud – Managed Cloud Solutions for Businesses
Web solutions provider TurnKey Internet today announced the launch of their new cloud service infrastructure, TurnKey Cloud, which provides scalable, reliable and cost-effective access to information technology anytime from anywhere. TurnKey Cloud enables businesses to reduce the need for expensive in-house staff, reduces infrastructure costs and moves complex IT infrastructure out of the office and into a green-friendly secure data center.
Marketing Industry Migrating to the Cloud
IBM announced today that it is seeing a growing adoption of IBM cloud services with a variety of its clients venturing into its enterprise marketing management services. IBM’s Global CIO Survey showed that 60 percent of chief information officers are preparing for cloud computing, which is double the interest level of two years ago.
"Companies are migrating to the cloud," observes Michelle Eichner, product management leader for IBM’s enterprise marketing management group. "It really helps open up the opportunity for companies to take advantage of what they wouldn’t otherwise consider."
On demand cloud computing solutions to take off worldwide
Businesses around the world are ready to embrace the benefits brought by on demand cloud computing solutions, according to an international survey completed by IBM.
A study of more than 3,000 chief information officers (CIOs) in companies around the world showed that 60 per cent were preparing to move to cloud computing technology over the next five years.
The figures almost doubles that from the same survey in 2009, when only a third of CIOs said they were thinking of turning to cloud computing.
Call centre solutions could help to give better customer satisfaction
Contact centres which are concerned over recent statistics showing that customers are dissatisfied with the service they receive could consider turning to call centre solutions for help.
Almost two-third of respondents told the Avaya Contact Centre Consumer Interest that they found dealing with call centres "constantly problematic," while 76 per cent said they would not be happy to interact with a customer service representative they knew to be in another country.
VMware unveils new cloud application sign-on service
In the hopes of simplifying cloud operations for organisations, VMware has launched a federated sign-on service for cloud applications. The service can extend internal user directories to cloud services without disclosing user names or passwords, the company contends.
Speed-to-Market Is Biggest Benefit Of Cloud Computing
Speed-to-market beats all the other benefits of cloud computing, according to executives from BNY Mellon, Barclays Capital and Knight Capital Group who were speaking at the Wall Street & Technology Capital Markets Cloud Symposium.
While executives noted that cost savings and the ability to scale up and down are attractive cloud propositions, they were swayed to move to the cloud primarily by the desire — and ability — to push products to the market much more quickly.
Traditionally, IT server provisioning takes 6-8 weeks, they noted. But the cloud enables them to speed up the process to a matter of hours.
Radian6 Sees Cloud Computing As Future of Marketing
Radian6’s Social 2011 user conference opened in Boston shortly after news of the Salesforce acquisition broke. Though many were curious to hear what Radian6 had to say about the Salesforce acquisition, CEO Marcel LeBrun said the companies would speak more about their plans together at Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2011 user conference in San Francisco August 30–September 2.
TechEd 2011: Cloud Computing, Devices and Developers
The Changing Nature of the CIO
There’s been a lot of talk over the years about how much impact the CIO needs to have on the business. Opinions of the role CIOs play in the company have ranged widely from being mere stewards of IT to serving as the catalyst for major business process innovation.
Against that backdrop, it’s interesting to delve a little deeper into the numbers behind a recent global survey of 3,018 CIOs. IBM asked those CIOs to describe their mandate, with the results breaking out as follows: