The Real Business Benefits Of Cloud Computing
Grazed from Nasdaq. Author: Stefan Topfer.
The ever-shifting world of business can result in great years followed by periods of stagnation, with previous market leaders slipping out of favour, as they have to adapt and follow the trends set by upcoming movers and shakers.
Cloud computing is one technology that is regularly touted as the next big thing in business innovation, allowing businesses to keep pace through benefits, which are often little understood. But how is it that this kind of IT system can manage to make a difference?
I have outlined the four key components that make cloud computing such an important development, each of which will apply to your company irrespective of its size or budget. You can then use this to analyse the suitability of any cloud platform that you might consider, to make sure that it is a suitable long-term solution for your business…
Alfresco Launches Cloud Content Management Offering
Grazed from Talkin Cloud. Author: Brian Taylor.
Content and collaboration firm Alfresco is launching its cloud service, stepping up to a SaaS version of its document management offerings.
Describing the new service as “scalable, transactional document management and collaboration,” Alfresco’s cloud service is a SaaS version that extends the company’s document management capabilities across the firewall. “Alfresco in the cloud” permits customers to use mobile devices without a VPN to access content, and also can be used as an online file-sharing and collaboration app. In conjunction with Alfresco Enterprise, Alfresco cloud service can be implemented on-premise in a hybrid cloud model…
The “Clouded Datacenter” Needs Intelligent Visibility
Grazed from EON. Author: Editorial Staff.
At a networking industry technology event this week, cPacket Networks will discuss the importance of Pervasive Network Intelligence™ for more detailed and real time situational awareness into the “clouded datacenter”.
“The cost of these problems can be very high in terms of time, resources, and degraded user experience”
“Datacenters and cloud computing are increasingly being deployed worldwide,” said Rony Kay, cPacket CTO. “But the increasing complexity and volume of data make them ‘cloudy’ to the professionals chartered with maintaining them.”…
Are scare tactics deterring you from putting data in the cloud?
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Michelle Boisvert.
Let’s face it: When you commit to a public cloud provider, your data is out there. Somewhere. This basic fact of life has cloud adopters, as well as the cloud curious, grappling to understand exactly who can access their data. Is it safer to store data with cloud providers in certain geographic locations rather than in other areas? Is Big Brother really watching?
Christopher Wolf, co-director of Privacy and Information Management at Hogan Lovells
In a recent study by Hogan Lovells, a global legal practice for corporations, financial institutions and governmental entities, Christopher Wolf, co-director Privacy and Information Management, examined the extent to which governments in various jurisdictions can access data in the cloud — regardless of where the cloud provider is located. “A Global Reality: Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud” details the truths, user misconceptions and some downright dirty advertising tricks of some cloud services providers.
Does the Patriot Act really give the government the right to tap into your cloud data? Or are cloud providers outside the U.S. misleading customers for their own gain? SearchCloudComputing.com sat down with Christopher Wolf to find out…
Cloud Computing: Google Ventures-Backed Cliqr Brings Old-School Business Apps To The Cloud
In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there’s one area of enterprise technology that’s been sitting out the transition — business applications. The cloud has led to an explosion of new apps, but (to pick two random examples) chip design and medical imaging apps are still running on old-fashioned servers.
Naturally, that’s a problem that Manglik is trying to solve with Cliqr, which is coming out of stealth mode today. The company has raised a seed round of just under $1 million from Google Ventures and Foundation Capital, and it’s raising a Series A now.
Cliqr is supposed to take the headache out of moving these business apps onto the cloud. Manglik says that as business apps are doing more and more computation on more and more data, they’re straining against the resources of on-premise servers. On the cloud, those enterprises could scale their computing resources as needed, but there are still obstacles, like the complexity and cost of the migration…
Cloud computing, who’s doing it?
Grazed from Dynamic Business. Author: Gerald Chait.
Accounting is just one of the software programs you can take into the cloud, and a major one for small businesses. Here’s how some SMBs are using it.
Over the last couple of years, cloud computing has become a hotly discussed topic. A countless number of applications and software programs that can operate online, on any device, have become available and more are being offered all the time.
Small businesses are certainly primed to benefit from cloud technology. It offers more agility, greater flexibility and improves how information is shared with stakeholders. One of the most vital tools for any SMB is accounting software, and many businesses throughout Australia have benefited enormously from moving their accounting software into the cloud…
How data could save cities from outgrowing themselves
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
According to physicist Geoffrey West, the world’s cities have what one might call a growing problem. As they grow bigger, their problems grow worse at a super-linear pace, which means it takes an ever-faster pace of innovation to keep things in check. We can either figure out a way to innovate faster, watch our cities crash and burn, or — perhaps worst of all for capitalists — figure out a way to live without constant economic growth. West says the scientist in him doesn’t see us being able to innovate fast enough, but I think big data might be the key to making that happen.
The problem is cities themselves
I heard West espouse his theory at The Economist‘s Ideas Economy: Information event in early June, but you can read about it in this in-depth interview he did with Edge last year. Here’s a very simple explanation for a very complex theory that involved analyzing lots and lots of data…
Cloud Computing Failures and the Impact on SMBs
Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.
The cloud isn’t as reliable as some researchers would like it to be. New reserch found that cloud failures cost more than $70 million dollars over the past five years, along with more than 500 hours of downtime. This has a direct impact on enterprises, as well as SMBs.
Unreliable Cloud?
In an article featured in Computerworld, the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) indicated that there were a total of 568 hours of downtime at 13 well-known cloud services since 2007. This downtime sometimes lasted for days or even weeks, which affected millions of users, including smaller companies that implement cloud services. The downtime had an economic impact of more than $71.7 million.Cloud computing types…
Addressing security in a cloud-enabled organization
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Pallavi Anand.
The adoption of cloud computing is rapidly gathering momentum, as more companies use this technology to store data and access applications online. However as cloud computing becomes more mainstream, security concerns are being raised.
A recent Robert Half survey of 150 CIOs and CTOs in Asia Pacific revealed that security was the most prevalent concern among the respondents when migrating their technology functions to the cloud.
In fact 44% of those surveyed in Hong Kong were concerned most about security. Other concerns included data integrity (26%), lack of internal knowledge on cloud computing (18%) and migration cost (8%)…
Cloud Services & Consumerization Driving Competition with Internal IT
Cloud Services & Consumerization Driving Competition with Internal IT
There are two market forces that are fundamentally changing the nature of enterprise application delivery and consumption:
- delivery of enterprise applications as a service via the cloud
- the rapid shift of accessing enterprise applications on mobile devices
IT organizations are facing stiff competition from Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud providers who are delivering enterprise applications as a service that are faster, cheaper and accessible anywhere, on any device.