April 23, 2013
Apple iCloud Has Service Issues, Again
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.
Apple’s iCloud experienced technical problems for several hours early Tuesday morning, although the extent of the outage remains unclear due to lack of information from Apple.
Some of the issues appear to have been resolved, but Apple’s Game Center showed problems with user sign-ins reoccurring at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time, after issues earlier in the morning had been resolved.
Although Apple improved its Services, Stores and iCloud status page late last year, the company still does not publish much detail about the cause of service outages or the number of affected customers…
Converting a virtualized data center to a software-defined data center enables automation and self-service. In practice, VMware’s software-defined data center concept restructures the data center’s software and the virtualization admin’s role to provide Infrastructure as a Service.
"There aren’t just skill gaps among technologists," Tom Clancy, vice president of EMC Education Services at EMC, says. "They also exist at the business leader and manager level." "Implementing transformational IT strategies, such as cloud and [IT as a Service] ITaaS, or data science and big data analytics, isn’t just about the technology," he adds. "At EMC, we say ‘transformation transcends IT,’ because transformation requires new business models, new roles, new skills, new organizational alignment and, most importantly, a new mindset."
CoreMatrix(R), a leading cloud computing consulting company, today announced that the healthcare industry is increasingly adopting cloud solutions to help meet many of the new IT challenges it faces in an era of healthcare transformation.
Taulia Inc., the market-leading SaaS platform for dynamic discounting, announced the addition of one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers to their rapidly growing client portfolio. Taulia will provide its entire Business Exchange Suite to the auto, motorcycle and power-equipment manufacturer, which will include its innovative dynamic discounting and supplier self-services solution.
Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider best known for its CRM platform, has unveiled what it is terming the third pillar of its Marketing Cloud offering, Social.com. The new service, which joins Radian6 and Buddy Media to make up Marketing Cloud, will allow brands and advertising agencies to build social ad campaigns for Facebook and Twitter that are both proactive and reactive, the company claims.
CA Technologies today announced CA Clarity Playbook, an innovative mobile application that uniquely empowers CXOs to strategically manage their organization’s technology investments in the context of their high-level business goals and objectives–right from their iPads.
WSO2 today announced that two of the company’s executives will discuss cloud implementation trends and best practices at the Computerworld Open Business Conference (Computerworld OSBC). WSO2 Vice President of Technology Evangelism Chris Haddad will present, “A New IT Plan: Enterprise DevOps PaaS, APIs, and Ecosystems.” WSO2 Vice President of Product Marketing John Mathon will join other product marketing leaders in a panel discussion on the factors driving and inhibiting cloud adoption. WSO2 is a Platinum Sponsor of Computerworld OSBC, which will run April 29-30, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, CA.
Today, CipherCloud, the leader in cloud information protection, announced Cloud Data Discovery, an important new addition to its cloud information protection platform, which enables organizations to rapidly adopt SaaS and cloud applications while ensuring that their compliance policies are fully met and their sensitive information is always protected.