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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Bluewolf, a leading global business consulting firm, today announced it has achieved Salesforce FullForce Master Program Certification for both Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. This elite recognition is granted to salesforce.com partners who have proven expertise in delivering industry and cloud-specific services and solutions to sales and customer service teams, thus providing clients unprecedented success.

Bluewolf earned its Salesforce FullForce Master Program Certifications based on overwhelming success in implementing Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, sales and customer service expertise, and ability to offer differentiated solutions that optimize customer moments and drive business results…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: David H. Deans.

Here’s the challenge. Your CEO won’t accept anything less than a world-class IT infrastructure that meets the expectations of his most informed Line-of-Business leaders. If you’re the CIO and you don’t want to rely upon public cloud service providers, then are you ready to deliver the caliber of IT services that they can provision? Take a moment. Consider the implications. Ponder the impact of your actions.

All the leading public cloud services providers routinely design and assemble their own data center infrastructure components, due to their extreme needs for scale and cost control. Regardless of the cloud services company, a common element among all these devices is a requirement to run an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and various other purpose-built open-source software components. Gartner, Inc. refers to this trend as the Web-scale IT phenomena…

Grazed from InsideCounsel. Author: Linda L. Rhodes.

The economics of cloud commuting are compelling, and cloud solutions offer customers the flexibility to rapidly provision and release computing elements. As a result, use of cloud services is clearly growing. However, buying cloud services is different from buying traditional outsourced services. Cloud providers are able to offer low cost, flexible solutions because they standardize their offerings for multiple customers.

Accordingly, cloud providers are less likely than traditional outsource providers to adapt their solutions to the customer’s needs or negotiate contract terms to meet the customer’s requirements. The key to successful cloud computing is to find the right fit between the cloud solution and your business needs…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced that Altera, Chelsio Communications, DataCentred, Imagination Technologies and Travelping are joining the organization.
These companies illustrate that Linux continues to rapidly grow its footprint globally across a wide range of industries and applications.

Data centers with massive operations are increasingly common. From cloud and embedded computing to analytics and hardware customization, enterprises are struggling with how to efficiently and cost-effectively handle new types and amounts of data. Today’s new members understand the pull Linux has in the data center and support the collaborative work underway to solve today’s scalable server, network and storage challenges…

Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Editorial Staff.

Nearly half of UK organisations are ready to adopt software defined networking (SDN) even though they don’t understand it. A survey of 200 IT decision makers found that 40% of businesses are planning to deploy SDN, which promises to make the network more flexible, easier to manage and more secure, within the next five years.

Another 34% said they are planning to adopt Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) during the same period, with 27% keen to do so before 2018. However, 37% of decision makers admitted that they did not fully understand the concept of SDN, while 45% said the same about NFV…

Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Patrick Hoge.

Salesforce.com, a pioneer in cloud computing, has usually been an early adopter of new computing and related services trends, launching an app store for integrated applications, embedding social networking in its products and transforming its technical base for smartphones.

Now the trend du jour is wearable computing, and Salesforce has jumped on the bandwagon in a big way, as shown by recent investments in wearable startups and an initiative to get developers to build applications that connect devices worn on the face, wrist and body with Salesforce’s technology…

Grazed from Business-Technology. Author: Joanne Frearson.

It’s an unusual comparison, admittedly. But “cheap” and “chic” are two terms Beighton feels are appropriate when it comes to describing the cloud – it is cost effective, and it has the capacity to serve millions or billions of people very quickly, then change equally quickly. Beighton certainly knows a lot about the cloud, and has a varied background when it comes to technology, becoming part of the government’s programme to switch off analogue television and move over to digital after a spell as CTO of lastminute.com.

One area where he believes cloud computing is chic is in the internet of things (IoT). In order for the IoT to work, he says, devices need to be able to talk to each other. Classifications have to be agreed upon as to how to define these devices, which in turn needs to be put into context as to how they are being used…

Grazed from NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq:TECD) today announced the introduction of a new cloud-focused education and enablement program through Tech Data’s TDCloud business unit. Offered as part of TDCloud Academy, the program offers customized education tracks for solution providers focused on launching, expanding, and maximizing cloud businesses.

TDCloud Academy is Tech Data’s tiered cloud education program for solution providers, designed to accelerate adoption of cloud solutions and identify new cloud opportunities. The announcement was made in conjunction with Tech Data’s TDCloud Partner Summit, taking place this week in Miami, Florida…

Grazed from GPSWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

Spectra Precision introduced a new cloud computing service for Spectra Precsion applications. The company also announced new road modules for version 5.5 of its Survey Pro software and for Spectra Precision Survey Office. The announcements were made at InterGeo 2014, being held this week in Berlin.

Spectra Precision Central. A dedicated cloud computing service for Spectra Precision survey applications, Spectra Precision Central offers survey teams in the field and office the ability to rapidly exchange survey and project data with team members when and where it is needed…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Dave Hart.

If I asked you to name a multi-billion dollar market that’s getting a long overdue cloud makeover, would field service management be at the forefront of your mind? It should. This $15 billion industry has only just begun to dip its toe into the huge pool of possibility thanks to software as a service, the tablet and smartphone revolution, and senior management’s recognition that service is indeed strategic.

Add to this the commercial insight into addressable revenue-generating opportunities and the resulting top line growth, and you’ve got a new cloud darling. Service businesses represent around 70% of the world’s economy, yet to date, only about a third of the world’s large service businesses currently use field service management solutions…