Software-as-a-service company working in NZ changes its name
A software-as-a-service company which provides services for New Zealand and other countries around the world has changed its name this week.
StepStone Solutions, which provides software-as-a-service solutions in talent acquisition and talent management, will be known as Lumesse from today, Tuesday, 10 May, the Grapevine Online reported.
The rebranding has been sparked by rapid growth in the company, which now has around 1,700 clients, including Heineken, PSA, Peugeot Citroen and Virgin Atlantic.
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The early stirrings of cloud computing are beginning to take place, with mixed results. Totally contained cloud services, such as salesforce.com, Concur and Transversal show how full-service functions held in the cloud can facilitate a business’s processes without costly hardware – but is this going to be the case going forward?
BT to become a public sector network service provider
BT Wholesale is set to become a key supplier to Government Conveyance Network (GCN) services which will interconnect the Cabinet Office’s Public Sector Network (PSN) programme.
The GCN will be one of the enablers for shared services, cloud-based services and datacentre rationalisation, which will deliver benefits to the public sector while reducing cost and complexity.
According to a survey conducted by Cisco, the PSN could cut government IT costs by over 6%.
Understanding Application Workloads Is the Key to Cloud Computing
Time again, when the discussion turns to whether cloud computing is a worthwhile endeavor, the conversation usually ends with it all depending on the type of application workload involved.
Unfortunately, that’s not much in the way of practical help, so the folks at CiRBA have come up with the Data Center Intelligence Tool, an analytics application that allows IT organizations to analyze the nature of any application workload and the systems required to support it.
Citrix CEO: We’re Moving From the PC Era to the Cloud Era
Apple isn’t the only vendor that thinks we’re moving into the post-PC era. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton took the keynote stage at the Interop conference today detailing his vision of the post-PC era.
Cloud computing top priority for business executives in New Zealand
A report has shown that cloud computing is one of the top priorities for chief information officers in companies in Australia and New Zealand.
Gartner conducted research which showed that many companies were looking into ‘lightweight’ computing solutions such as cloud computing in a bid to cut costs in hard economic times, which have seen many companies increase budgets by as little as 1.7 per cent for 2011.
The Desktop Is Turning Mobile
In many ways mobile technologies are derivative of their desktop brethren. Your iPhone’s e-mail app is like the e-mail client on your desktop, for example. The mobile world is the desktop world in miniature, a "lite" version.
But the mobile world is no longer just following; it’s leading. PC sales are sagging, while sales of mobile devices—smart phones and tablets—are on the rise. As the operating systems that power these devices become the new norm, we can expect to see certain aspects of desktop and laptop operating systems start imitating the little upstarts that had initially imitated them.