Cloud Application provider Zoho adds accounting to cloud suite
Zoho Books includes the usual features such as invoicing, reminders, payment gateways (including PayPal, Google Checkout, and Authorize.net), expenses, cheque and credit card accounts, and reporting.
Less common features include multi-currency capabilities, real-time collaboration (two users are included in the $US24/month subscription; additional users cost $US5/month).
Still Chasing Those Elusive Cloud Skills
In the scramble to stay current with technology and remain employable, a lot of folks are asking how they need to shape their careers with the advancement of cloud computing.
Cloud computing switch ‘needs proper planning’
Businesses that are planning to make use of cloud computing applications should make sure they have the right structures in place for such changes to be carried out in a successful manner.
James Hall, marketing director at infrastructure optimisation company Teneo, told the Channel Web site that organisations need the correct strategies when moving to the cloud.
"Enterprises that transfer some of their IT infrastructure on to the cloud without proper planning will find they have merely spread their IT problems beyond their own office walls," he said.
Government IT to the cloud: private-sector lessons
With his “25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management,” in December 2010, federal CIO Vivek Kundra sent shock waves through the IT world by announcing a “cloud-first” policy for the federal government.
Writing in clear, non-bureaucratic prose, Kundra showed that a new era is dawning in federal government IT.
Could a new breed of DOS attacks make the cloud unaffordable?
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
“DOS is the next battleground,” Bryan Sullivan said Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference being held in Arlington, Va. “That’s where the future is going.”
Reliability remains Asia’s SMB cloud worry
In an interview with ZDNet Asia, Serguei Beloussov, chairman and CEO of Parallels, noted that the extent of cloud computing adoption among SMBs in the Asia-Pacific region is related to the spread of Internet connection. "If you look at Singapore, every SMB has a Web site. However, if you look beyond Singapore to Indonesia, for example, that would not be the case," Beloussov said.
GoGrid Fuses Cloud Capabilities to Dedicated Servers
Groupon Chooses the Vertica Analytics Platform to Gain Insight into Subscriber and Customer Behavior
Groupon, a shopping Web site that offers daily deals on the best local goods, services, and events, has chosen the Vertica Analytics Platform for analyzing subscriber behavior and to scale its business intelligence capabilities.
Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2011 hits the cloud
The CRM software, which is being released first as a hosted service through Microsoft, hits 40 different markets in 41 languages today, with an on-premises and partner-hosted version of the software to follow on February 28. That delay can be chalked up to extra testing on Microsoft’s part to make sure it will work outside of the company’s data centers.