Software-as-a-service solutions ‘enabling enterprise collaboration’
Software-as-a-service solutions are allowing companies to work more effectively while also cutting IT costs.
This is the suggestion of IT Pro Portal columnist James Nixon, who stated that such cloud-based services are helping to "revolutionise" technology for both personal and business users.
"Hosted apps known as ‘software-as-a-service’ … enable workers to collaborate, sharing documents and spreadsheets online," he pointed out.
Mr Nixon added that such offerings frequently have an impact on a company’s bottom line.
Heterogenous Mobile Computing Meets the Federated Cloud
Most people fail to realize that cloud computing was made for mobile computing devices. Just about every user of a mobile computing device touches a cloud service somewhere.
But all those cloud computing services are silos of data. Syncplicity, which offers a file-synchronization service for mobile computing devices, heralds a future when this issue will be overcome because files can be synchronized using a Syncplicity service hosted on an Amazon cloud and with GoogleDocs applications.
Your Options for Cloud Integration
A recent blog post at ERP Software at Your Service nicely sums up two key choices you have to make when you want to integrate with anything – hardware or application services – via the cloud:
Rethinking Storage for the Private Cloud
Recent events have added further credence (if more was needed) to the growing body of evidence that — despite the boundless hype — cloud computing is a game-changing phenomenon that is having an impact on how people think about enterprise storage.
BMC buys Neptuny Software
Business service management software provider BMC has acquired the software business of Neptuny Software, a provider of capacity management and IT performance optimisation software, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
BMC will fold Neptuny’s Caplan line of capacity management software into its own BSM portfolio and cloud management offerings. Neptuny’s Consulting Services business unit was not included in the purchase. That unit has been re-established as an independent company under the new brand Moviri.
Understanding, Evaluating Your Cloud Options
Another Wave of Infrastructure Apps
Recently, I took a look at the arrival of infrastructure apps. In the past, application developers often had to build a host of additional supporting functions, many of which required their own physical infrastructure. Today’s cloud computing platforms give rise to a new class of web-accessible application support functions, aka infrastructure apps, that replace costly integrated hardware and software.
For this round, I’ll look at companies that share these common themes:
Utilities Turning to WiMAX for 4G Smart Grid Now
AWS Launched Read Replicas for its Database Service
Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon announced it’s launching Read Replicas, a new feature for its relational database service, RDS. The new feature would make it easy to scale MySQL deployments, and would make it a breeze for Amazon customers to create one or more copies of a MySQL database instance.
Zimbra Executive Heads To Hot Storage Startup
Scott Dietzen, co-founder President and CTO of Zimbra, is headed to a hot stealth-mode startup, PURE Storage, a company started by John Colgrove, a veteran of storage industry and founding engineer at Veritas, a storage software company.
PURE Storage, according to industry sources, is said to be working on an SSD-drive-based network attached storage and has developed unique software to enhance the performance and dependability of these expensive storage systems.