Category: News

May 16, 2012 Off

RightScale Drives Business Success in the Cloud; Hosts 6th Conference on June 13 in NYC

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, today announced it is hosting the sixth RightScale Conference on June 13 in New York. From large enterprises to start-ups, companies today are looking to gain business agility and scale with cloud computing. Whether companies are developing or evolving their cloud strategies, they are looking to leverage public, private and hybrid clouds in their IT architecture. At the upcoming RightScale Conference, industry luminaries, cloud experts and customers will share their multi-cloud strategies as well as discuss best practices for achieving success in the cloud.

The RightScale Conference, hosted in conjunction with the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo 2012 (Cloud Expo), will showcase a top-tier lineup of speakers, including RightScale co-founder CEO Michael Crandell and RightScale customers Fox, Pearson and CareCloud. Registration for the RightScale Conference automatically registers participants for both events…

May 16, 2012 Off

TMC Taking Their Cloud Computing Expertise to SuiteWorld 2012

By David
Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Technology Management Concepts, a leading ERP provider is proud to announce they will be attending SuiteWorld 2012 in San Francisco, CA from May 14-17th. NetSuite, the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financial and ERP software is the basis for the annual conference. SuiteWorld 2012 will be the second global conference for NetSuite’s customers, partners, developers, and system integrators. It is the largest event for the NetSuite community, which will include more than 12,000 companies and subsidiaries using the NetSuite business management site.

Jennifer Harris, President of TMC said "We are excited to meet many of our colleagues in San Francisco to further grow our relationships with our customers and fellow partners". She also noted that "TMC is an established NetSuite Solution Provider based in Los Angeles, CA that has 25+ years in the ERP business and will continue to enhance our knowledge and specialities at this years SuiteWorld."…

 
May 16, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing and Mobile Processing Saves Small Business

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing, put broadly, is a term used to describe any service available on the internet. More specifically, cloud computing refers to a hosting environment that leverages pooled computing resources by way of virtualization. Cloud computing takes existing physical servers and creates virtualized servers to exist on top of them. The virtual servers leverage the computing power of the entire infrastructure without necessarily being dependent on any given hardware. This makes the servers more powerful and more reliable.

Not only does cloud computing make your servers more dependable, but recent studies have shown that they also prepare small businesses for disaster. Physical servers are vulnerable and there are many things that can happen to harm them (including but not limited to environmental issues and natural disasters). A study by Symantec Corp. has found that cloud computing can improve a company’s ability to recover from a disaster by allowing access to imperative information in the cloud. Of those surveyed, 40% are using public clouds, with 43% using private clouds. The cloud is used for offsite storage and backup and allows for an easier disaster recovery process. Whereas a physical server may be destroyed, the cloud server will still be intact…

May 16, 2012 Off

AppsCare Demonstrates Power of Cloud at Cloud Computing World Forum London, 12th-13th June

By David
Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

AppsCare are proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the fourth annual Cloud Computing World Forum, presenting the major players within the Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) industries on 12-13th June, London.

The two day conference, consisting of over 4,000 senior IT decision-makers from around the globe, will focus on the latest cloud topics, including security, mobile, applications, communications, virtualization, CRM and more. The event hosts more than 150 seminars across 8 theatres, including the new Google Theatre and Microsoft Theatre…

May 16, 2012 Off

Government and Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from Cisco Newsroom.  Author: Steve Wildstrom.

The federal government, like the private sector, sees great opportunities in moving its IT infrastructure in the cloud. A 2011 white paper by then-Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra estimated that $20 billion of the government’s $80 billion in annual IT spending could move to the cloud. A study by the MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange estimates that the government could save $12 billion a year through greater use of cloud services, which promote efficiency through elimination of duplication and higher utilization of equipment. But the reality is that because of complex regulations, especially those covering security and procurement, that move will be slow and painful.

Cloud computing is often a vague concept, but the feds at least have a precise definition to work with. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, it is "a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e g , networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."…

May 16, 2012 Off

Informatica Brings Master Data Management to Big Data, Social, Cloud and Mobile Computing

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Informatica Corporation,  the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced Informatica MDM 9.5 which provides breakthrough capabilities in master data management (MDM) for social media, Cloud computing, mobile and big data. Key elements include delivering on the vision of the social customer master, and introducing master data timeline for effective date versioning.

"Informatica MDM 9.5 aligns industry-leading master data management technology with all four megatrends that are redefining the industry and propelling growth: big data, social computing, cloud computing and mobile computing," said Dennis Moore, senior vice president and general manager, MDM, Informatica. "With Informatica MDM 9.5, the door is open for organizations to engage in effective social ecommerce, take MDM to the cloud, enable the mobile workforce and scale MDM for today’s big data realities."…

May 16, 2012 Off

Google Drive accelerates shift to cloud computing

By David
Grazed from CanadianBusiness.  Author: Navneet Alang.

Google Drive, the company’s solution to storing files online, has been rumoured for so long that Google itself compared it to the Loch Ness monster when announcing its release. But if, after years of waiting, we expected grand things, what we got felt underwhelming, with little to differentiate it from market leader Dropbox.

However, users of Drive quickly discovered a significant quirk. In addition to the functionality you’d expect—having, say, a spreadsheet you save to your Drive folder at work automatically appear on your laptop at home—any file you create in Google Docs, the company’s online office suite, is also saved to Drive. Though these files appear to exist on your own computer, you can actually only access them through a web browser. And that seemingly tiny detail suggests that Drive isn’t so much a competitor to Dropbox but a preparatory step in Google’s plan to move all our computing online…

May 16, 2012 Off

Cloud computing – Microsoft Windows Azure

By David
Grazed from ITWeb.  Author:  Valerie Carmichael-Brown.

Computing is undergoing a seismic shift from client/server to the cloud, a shift similar in importance and impact to the transition from mainframe to client/server. Speculation abounds on how this new era will evolve in the coming years, and IT leaders have a critical need for a clear vision of where the industry is heading. What are the economics driving the long-term trend?

Triniti Business Solutions, a PPPM (portfolio, programme, and project management) and software solutions provider, recently underwent the transition as an organisation, providing cloud optimised platforms (platform as a service) and aligned its solutions as a SaaS (software as a service) offering…

May 16, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing Key to Fighting Data Loss

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

The amount of data created and held by companies is increasing exponentially, and keeping it safe continues to be a major cause for concern. At the same time, cloud computing, rather than remaining a theoretical concept, is now a reality for many organizations. Data loss continues to be a huge problem for companies across North America that are looking to cloudbased platforms for a solution, according to a survey commissioned by CA Technologies, “Insights: Data Protection and the Cloud.”

The study of 300 companies across North America (200 in the U.S., 100 in Canada), which was conducted by Coleman Parkes Research, found that 55 percent of U.S. organizations expect their use of the cloud to increase as part of their business-continuity strategy over the next year. The study is a follow-up to a previous CA Technologies survey, “The Avoidable Cost of Downtime,” which found that the cost of outages to a company over a year is in the range of $160,000…

May 16, 2012 Off

Veeva Systems Announces New Cloud-Based Customer Interaction Repository for the Global Life Sciences Industry

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Veeva Systems introduced Veeva Network today to over 700 industry leaders at the Veeva Global Customer Summit, being held this week in Philadelphia, PA. Veeva Network is a cloud-based customer interaction repository (CIR) that spans all sales and marketing channels, standard data formats supported by the leading multichannel marketing companies and complete service offerings from the life sciences industry’s leading business consultants.

Powered by the very latest in cloud computing and big data technology, Veeva Network provides the customer interaction data required to better analyze the return from multichannel investments. It’s already being characterized by pharmaceutical leaders as ‘revolutionary’ for its promise to easily capture, store and disseminate consistent data across life sciences companies and their outsourced partners and agencies…