Category: News

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

iSpaces launches its new cloud storage solution today, FileSpace, offering the first and only service allowing users to seamlessly access their favorite online storage providers all together in one place. Users can simply drag and drop files between Dropbox, Box, iSpaces storage and their local hard drive from one easy to use interface.

"With so many cloud storage providers available, people tend to have multiple accounts with documents in various places," said Sunne Justice, president and co-founder of iSpaces. "FileSpace makes it infinitely easier to manage your files from one easy location. Think of iSpaces as your portal into the cloud."…

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

Chuck Price has been a CIO, and has spoken with many other chief information officers about cloud computing. So when he began building his own cloud computing operation, he and his team set out to create an IT infrastructure offering “for CIOs, by CIOs,” Price says.

Price is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ajubeo, a Boulder-based cloud provider which is launching today, with a focus that seeks to bring together enterprise hardware, software and networking technology packaged for either direct sales to end users or as a private-label Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud platform for channel partners. Ajubeo is backed by Grey Mountain Partners, a Boulder-based private equity firm with more than $400 million in assets under management…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced its participation in the eLearning Africa conference and exhibition. As the event’s platinum sponsor for the second year running, Wyse will discuss how advanced cloud client computing can help African educators meet their goals for widening access to technology-enhanced education, development and training. eLearning Africa runs from 23rd – 25th May 2012 in Cotonou, Benin, under the patronage of the Government of Benin.

Working across the continent with its local technology partners, Wyse has developed and deployed a range of solutions that are ideally suited to widening access to IT-enhanced education and training in Africa. The technologies involved are tailored to the continent’s requirements for classroom ICT that is exceptionally reliable, affordable and energy efficient while not compromising on access to the latest applications and data for teaching and learning…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing company Salesforce.com said Tuesday that it will add more than 750 employees in Europe to boost growth in that region.

The company provides remote computer processing services — also known as cloud computing services — to businesses in Europe including Burberry and BMW Group. Salesforce.com said its business in Europe has increased 32 percent on a year-over-year basis, and it now has about 20,000 customers in the region.

The company said it will hire employees in its sales, marketing, and IT support divisions across Europe.

A call to the company to find how many workers it currently had in Europe was not immediately returned.

Shares of Salesforce.com rose 33 cents to $149.38 in late afternoon trading. The stock has traded between $94.09 and $164.75 over the last year.

Grazed from MSPMentor.  Author: Joe Panettieri.

Sophos, the security software company, is preparing to promote cloud solutions to managed services providers (MSPs) later this year, according to Emmanuelle Skala, VP of global channels and sales operations as Sophos. It’s the latest example of a potential MSP land grab among anti-virus and endpoint security companies.

Skala briefly mentioned Sophos’s MSP partner strategy today during the Sophos Partner Connections 2012 conference in Las Vegas. Toward the end of this year, as Sophos begins to more aggressively promote cloud-oriented security services, the MSP strategy will also become clearer, Skala told attendees. (Skala succeeded former Sophos Channel Chief Steve Hale about a month ago.)…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Shreesha Ramdas.

Cloud computing is a very trendy term nowadays in the marketing world. It’s useful to review the definition of the term and to understand its significance for our profession.

Although cloud computing broadly encompasses many types of services delivered from the Internet, I’m only discussing those that automate business functions in an immediate and scalable manner. All the other good services we often hear about (e.g., infrastructure as a service, platform as a service) are useful but not relevant in this context.

There are five critical things a marketer needs to understand about cloud computing…

Grazed from Wired.  Author: Eric Johnson.

Cloud computing holds great promise as one of the key methods available to IT professionals to enable cost reduction in operations for enterprises; large, small and medium sized business across nearly every market vertical. However, as it is currently being implemented, the cloud is in danger of establishing constructs that will cause it to fail to meet its potential.

This could subsequently cause it to fail to deliver on productivity increases and profit margin contributions to the levels that cloud computing should natively attain. For cloud service providers to attain service delivery levels for which enterprises will continue to subscribe in ever increasing amounts, and for service which yields increasingly profitable transactions, cloud service providers will need to make a fundamental change in their current strategies…

Grazed from Investors Business Daily.  Author: Amy Alexander.

Want to innovate tomorrow? Put your head in the cloud today.

• What is it? Cloud computing is the online storage of information within a network of data centers. A decade ago, businesses had to buy and maintain a block of their own in-house servers. The process was expensive and tough to plan.

Now firms can get as much or as little computer storage as they need from Internet companies such as Amazon (AMZN) that have built banks of servers to rent out streaming data processing power. Software can run off-site…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Kenneth Wong.

SAP AG (SAP), the largest business- management software maker, agreed to buy Ariba Inc. (ARBA) to add a cloud-computing applications maker in a transaction valued at about $4.3 billion.

SAP offered $45 a share for Ariba, whose board of directors has unanimously approved the deal, Walldorf, Germany-based SAP said in a statement today. The transaction will probably be completed in the third quarter subject to approval by Ariba shareholders and regulators, it said…

Grazed from The Huffington Post.  Author: Willo O’Brien.

We take our jobs everywhere these days. With laptops, we can file sales reports from home, conference from a hotel room, and (regrettably) update spreadsheets on vacation. What’s becoming increasingly common, however, is that many of these tasks can be accomplished from your smart phone.