Cloud enables interactive e-mail archiving
Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Admire Moyo.
Cloud computing has disrupted traditional on-premise e-mail archiving, paving the way for interactive archiving. This is the view of Grant Hodgkinson, product director for unified e-mail management at Mimecast, who says e-mail is still the dominant form of communication in businesses today. “The interactive archive is a technology platform that fulfils two important business objectives,” says Hodgkinson. “Firstly, it archives content and data relevant to the organisation so that it can be discovered for compliance purposes later. Secondly, it is accessible to knowledge workers, generally making them more productive.”
According to Mimecast, interactive archiving, driven by the cloud, is a more useful and valuable platform for business users as it allows them to leverage the archive and data therein for business intelligence, end-user productivity, ubiquitous access, and the corporate governance and compliance requirements that underpin the archive itself…
Many of those who know me think I’m a bit paranoid when it comes to computer security. I appreciate the benefits of the cloud and take full advantage of what cloud computing offers, but I’m wary. All of my data — everything from documents to digital photos, music, e-books and movies — is backed up on physical media, multiple times and in multiple locations. I shop online (taking whatever precautions I can) and, as someone who’s invested heavily in the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) ecosystem, I buy much of my digital content through Apple’s iTunes.
Platform-as-a-service Heroku spent two years misleading customers because it was so focused on building a new product that it didn’t bother to update old documentation – this is unacceptable. The Salesforce-owned company admitted on Wednesday that customers using its ‘Bamboo" application automation technology could have spent two years paying for a service that used different tech to that found in Heroku’s docs, and that this tech entailed poor app performance that was nearly impossible for both Heroku and Heroku analytics partner New Relic to detect.
Cloud-based technology services company Green Cloud Technologies has closed on $5.6 million in new equity financing. The Greenville, S.C. company said that Millry Corporation, an existing investor and Green Cloud’s largest backer, led the series C round. The round also included other existing investors and an unnamed new strategic investor. In a February securities filing, the company reported raising $1.3 million in a round targeting up to $6 million. Since its 2011 founding, Green Cloud says it has raised $9.6 million.
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The Apache Software Foundation announced in late March that CloudStack is now a top-level project. This is a promotion from CloudStack’s incubator status, where it had lived after being released as open source by Citrix. This promotion provides additional encouragement to companies and developers looking to contribute to the project, because it validates the CloudStack community and demonstrates ongoing support under the Apache Software Foundation.
ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, now offers the industry’s largest virtual server instance sizes, enabling customers to run true High Performance Computing environments in the cloud for the first time. By offering variable instance sizes, which now tip the scales at 62 cores and 240GB of RAM, ProfitBricks continues to define Cloud Computing 2.0. ProfitBricks customers can now run massive computational processes at a lower cost while taking advantage of better speed and performance. It also enables users of databases and big data software to scale their virtual servers vertically rather than horizontally.