First Social Cloud Management Tool Aims to Lessen Impact of Cloud Silos

Grazed from Huffington Post. Author: Kevin Ducoff.

While plenty of enterprises have now stored their information in the cloud, data silos still loom as a major problem. According to a recent Oracle survey, 54 percent of IT executives have experienced downtime in the past six months after being forced to stop working when cloud applications were not properly integrated with other apps across the enterprise.

Cloud silos emerge when data is stored in separate servers or data centers and can’t interact with other systems. The reduction in efficiency means enterprises may be failing to meet their potential, but a new cloud management tool aims to change that…

CloudAware recently announced the launch of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution — the first socially-enabled cloud management tool for the enterprise. CloudAware aims to eliminate cloud silos and allow employees to collaborate via social tools, making IT services and everyday business operations run more socially and smoothly…

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