Category: News

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Jane McCallion.

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.

Gordon Evans, global senior director of product marketing at Salesforce, told Cloud Pro: “We believe this is the first truly social marketing platform. As well as offering campaign creation, optimisation and automation, Social.com also has two features we believe are unique: listening integration and CRM integration.”…

Grazed from The Wall Street Journal. Author: PR Announcement.

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.

Delivered via a SaaS model, CA Clarity Playbook also makes it easy for CXOs to quickly collaborate with key process stakeholders and respond more quickly to changing business needs anywhere, any time. "IT and the business have to work hand-in-hand to create new revenue streams and deliver a differentiated brand experience–even in the face of finite structural and human resources," said Lokesh Jindal, general manager, Service and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. "CA Clarity Playbook enables this critical coordination by giving executives the ability to nimbly adapt plans, activities and priorities."…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

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.

Presentation: A New IT Plan: Enterprise DevOps PaaS, APIs, and Ecosystems

Today, organizations are implementing open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, APIs, and open ecosystems to accelerate agility and empower developers to enable innovative business strategies. This session will explore how enterprise DevOps PaaS technologies can increase developer velocity and reduce iteration times, focusing on how open APIs are delivering significant business building blocks…

Grazed from Globe Newswire. Author: PR Announcement.

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.

With the addition of Cloud Data Discovery to the CipherCloud platform, organizations can now discover and gain full granular visibility into all of the information their users are sharing across all of their cloud applications. An organization’s data loss prevention and compliance policies can be effectively applied to all discovered information delivering full visibility to an organization’s content in the cloud. Easy to read and insightful dashboards deliver detailed visibility to all of the information that is going into an organization’s cloud applications, including Salesforce.com and Box…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have to track the needs of the workers they support, but they don’t always do that successfully. According to enterprises, mobile SaaS applications change for one of the following reasons, in increasing order of likelihood: changes to regulations governing the application, changes in mobile device policy, changes in worker activities and changes in mobile OS features. There is no perfect strategy for making mobile SaaS apps Agile with so many drivers of change, but picking the right SaaS provider, customizing the SaaS service for mobile use or even creating your own SaaS can help.

Evaluating SaaS agility

Whatever forces drive mobile application users and their SaaS providers in different directions, the ability of a SaaS provider to respond to regulatory changes that impact an application is a key indicator of their determination to track the market. One of the questions every SaaS evaluator needs to ask is how rapidly the application has accommodated changes driven by regulations. A response measured in months will almost certainly create issues with regulators, and it also suggests that the provider isn’t able to change the application quickly. That same inertia will likely impact the SaaS provider’s response to other demands for change, so it may be wise to pick a different provider…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Steve Pate.

It’s 10:00 PM. Do you know where your data is? Is it nestled securely within the firewalls of your data center, or is it more adventurous, spanning the boundaries of various public clouds? Cloud adoption continues to grow at unprecedented rates, raising concerns about data privacy and also about data residency, especially for organizations considering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a public cloud.

I recently attended a presentation by a large cloud service provider (CSP), who proudly explained that they immediately make three copies of customer data, placing them in disparate data centers to ensure availability and disaster recovery. Because he was speaking to a room full of security people, it’s safe to say the audience quickly became more concerned than comforted…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

Translating time into dollars matters far more to many CEOs I’ve spoken with versus what platform their applications are running on. What matters most is getting all they can out of every hour their business is operating. They are all focused on getting beyond the constraints that held their growth back in the past – everyone wants a growth accelerator today.

For manufacturers especially, this includes applications with depth of functionality that can be quickly deployed regionally, and in more cases than ever, globally as well. Line-of-business leaders want applications that make an immediate impact on their entire value chain…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Eucalyptus Systems, the leading provider of AWS-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing software, today appointed Dr. James Gosling, known as the father of Java, and former Sun Microsystems VP and Fellow, as a strategic advisor. Gosling’s deep programming and software architecture experience will be essential in furthering Eucalyptus’ industry leadership, and driving product design, performance and scalability.

James Gosling is recognized as the original designer of the Java programming language. He was awarded the Economist Innovation Award in 2002 for driving leadership and innovation in computing, and is currently the Chief Software Architect at Liquid Robotics and writing software for the Waveglider, an autonomous ocean-going robot. Gosling was with Sun Microsystems for 26 years before it was acquired by Oracle…

Grazed from The Huffington Post. Author: Drew Hendricks.

Cloud computing has experienced serious growth in recent years–even the Department of Defense is jumping on board. However, some people are a little concerned about giving up hard copies and going completely virtual. Big change is always difficult to deal with. However, getting on this bandwagon is a great idea that can save money and time (assuming the cloud server chosen has a solid reputation). Here are 5 of the biggest reasons cloud computing is gaining in popularity.

1. It Saves Money (and the Environment)

Keeping paper copies, updating them, making more copies to distribute, shredding them, ordering more paper and ink–it’s a vicious cycle. Many companies waste serious cash on this process, not to mention the leg work of employees whose sole responsibility is to keep up with the filing. Switching to cloud computing can save a lot of money and trees, which is why many companies are going green and upping the bottom line at the same time…