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Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: GetApp.

SaaS applications are a double-edged sword. On one hand, they offer benefits like low cost and anywhere computing. However, their siloed nature can be a problem for management and productivity. This week we will take a look at a solution that lets companies and employees manage all of their corporate SaaS applications in one place to provide a seamless work environment and enhanced user functionality. Bitium is a SaaS app that lets you access, manage, and control SaaS apps in your organization. In this Bitium Review, we will look at its features and interface, and see how it can be of use to you.

An Operating System to Manage Your Apps

According to its website, Bitium functions like a SaaS operating system. Much like an operating system, Bitium is a place to manage and control different SaaS apps from a single application. Thus, you do not need multiple logins or credentials; by using Bitium’s Single-Sign-On functionality, you can check your social media accounts, send important emails, administer your website, or respond to customer service requests through SaaS customer relationship apps, without having to remember any of the underlying passwords. More importantly, from a management standpoint, administrators can easily assign and revoke employee access to SaaS apps from one place and save substantial time onboarding and offboarding employees. They can also view reports on app usage, integrate with authentication systems like Active Directory or Google Apps, and organize apps into groups for convenient management…

Grazed from 24x7PressRelease.  Author: PR Announcement.

Your request to automate the company’s AP process has been approved. Now how do you go about finding the right provider to match your company’s needs? Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and e-invoicing solutions, shows how to distinguish true SaaS providers from the imposters in its most recent blog. The Corcentric blog is a knowledge center for accounts payable professionals to explore automation best practices along with the latest trends and news in financial process automation.

SaaS solutions have become prevalent in a variety of disciplines including sales, HR, marketing, and accounting. The Corcentric blog defines what SaaS is and how prevalent it is in most people’s everyday lives. It then details what the advantages are to implementing SaaS rather than in-house solutions. According to the blog, the real challenge is trying to distinguish between true SaaS providers and those that purport to be SaaS, but are, in fact, imposters…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Louis Columbus.

Gaining insights into cloud computing hiring trends is invaluable to understanding the competitive landscape and direction of new application and platform development. It’s also invaluable for any company looking to recruit cloud computing professionals. For qualified job seekers, staying on top of these trends can and does lead to well-timed career moves, higher salaries and greater chances for professional growth.

Real-time business intelligence of the talent marketplace is a fascinating area to track. Wanted Analytics is a leader in this field, and their analytics applications and advanced data sets are used for competitive analysis, sourcing new hires, analyzing employment and economic trends, and lead generation. I’ve never worked for Wanted Analytics and they’re not a client. They were kind enough to provide a test-drive account for this analysis. The Wanted Analytics platform is based on 25,000 employment sources that together account for 950 million job posts.  Here are the key take-aways from an analysis of cloud computing job opportunities:…

Grazed from Telepprise.  Author: Marko Spremo.

Transitioning to cloud computing, applications, storage, and infrastructure makes IT management’s job infinitely easier. While many business leaders focus on the cloud’s low cost or on its flexibility, IT managers know its real benefit: The cloud eliminates most of the hardest parts of their jobs.

High Stability Rates

A rate of 99.9 percent reliability may sound like an excellent real-world goal for a corporate network, but a network that spends one entire business day per year down is actually more than 99.9 percent reliable. IT leaders live in fear of downtime, especially during business hours. Even well-managed corporate IT departments frequently lack the staff, the equipment, or the scale to properly prepare for disasters or handle system utilization spikes…

Grazed from Genesis10.  Author: Joe Sclafani.

Ask most information technology (IT) specialists and they’ll tell you that choosing to include “cloud computing” services is more about finance than technology.  Imagine that you acquired an apartment building or an office tower and you rented the entire thing to one tenant.  Their rent would have to cover all of your costs including debt service, maintenance, operations, insurance, and a reasonable profit for you.

If the building contained, say, 70 rentable units you could split that cost 70 ways and charge each 1/70^th of those costs.  Simple.  The exact same analysis can be applied to cloud servers.  Originally when a company purchased a “server” it was to run one operation that all employees could share.  There was a server that enabled users to share files, another to share communications, another to share email, others to share specific software applications…

Grazed from Qubole.  Author: Moran Altarac.

Scalability of cloud databases and the potential of big data cloud computing is the most challenging aspect when designing an elastic data architecture. It is technically complex to scale data storage and computing. At the same time premature optimisation for potentially superfluous scalability carries a sizeable economic risk and opportunity cost. 

Today, technology firms and departments contemplating scalable database architectures have numerous database management systems and options of running them. Specifically NoSQL systems with flexible, de-normalized data schema have gained increasing market share with the rise of big data. Cloud and virtual computing resources and particularly Hadoop as a service are a paradigm shift. They introduced flexible architectures with managed technology and they transformed capital expenditure to operational one. Together NoSQL and cloud computing promise to bridge the gap between cheap and scalable data architectures…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author:  Zeeshan Naseh.

Enterprises today are reeling from unprecedented disruption to their business models and effects of globalization that inflict new competitive and pricing pressures. These dynamics have put CIOs under the gun to meet twin goals that would seem to form a paradox:

• To construct and operate an agile IT infrastructure capable of scaling quickly and securely to meet evolving business demands.
• To reduce IT operating costs and total cost of ownership.

In response to these competing demands, CIOs are turning from old computing resources – resource-intensive on-premises data centers that often are duplicated, siloed and underutilized – to the Cloud. Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service models can help achieve some goals, especially related to cost…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Joe Panettieri.

When a Hosted Exchange cloud service provider (CSP) suffers an outage, a lot of channel partners and customers can get left in the dark. It’s painful. And there’s nothing you can do until the cloud service is restored. Right? Absolutely wrong.

Rich Forsen, president of Network Depot and one of the minds behind Virtual Administrator, walked Talkin’ Cloud through one potential solution that could keep channel partners — and their customers — productive even if a cloud email service like Hosted Exchange suffers an extended email outage…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing is being adopted at a faster rate among growing firms that need to do more with less. The cloud is an on-demand solution that offers the increased productivity they seek. Nonetheless, according to industry professionals, adoption of the cloud is not always voluntary.

Pushed to the Cloud

As reported in CRN, solution providers are finding that more midsize firms are indeed moving their applications and data to the cloud but that the switch is being prompted by pressure from industry as well as business partners and enterprise customers who prefer cloud technology to run their businesses. The cloud providers addressed the trend at a recent VAR Roundtable. According to one vendor, 75 percent of financial companies are focused on making cloud computing a foundational component of their business model. CRN’s report says this trend can be seen in other industries such as healthcare where smaller practices must be in the cloud to work with larger hospitals and clinics…

Grazed from Cloud Security Alliance.  Author: Event Announcement.

The CSA Congress, to be held on December 04-05, 2013, is the industry’s premier gathering for IT security professionals and executives who must further educate themselves on the rapidly evolving subject of cloud security. In addition to offering best practices and practical solutions for remaining secure in the cloud, CSA Congress will focus on emerging areas of growth and concern in cloud security, including standardization, transparency of controls, mobile computing, Big Data in the cloud and innovation.

Building on the success of the 2012 event, this year’s Congress is not to be missed! Six dynamic tracks, featuring some of the most distinguished experts in cloud security and privacy will offer attendees valuable and practical information on the most critical aspects of cloud computing:…