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By Matt McLarty
As I mentioned in my last blog post, the promise of cost reduction is compelling many enterprises to move their workloads into the Cloud but many IT leaders are reluctant to do so, for fear of compromising the security and availability of their services. These concerns are well-founded...
May. 17, 2012 02:00 PM EDT  Reads: 516
By Don MacVittie
Throughout history there has been a cycle that ebbs and flows where new technology makes production more efficient and reduces the need for manpower in a particular space, thus forcing those in charge into the difficult position of deciding who stays and who goes. This is normally re...
May. 17, 2012 07:45 AM EDT  Reads: 663
By John Treadway
Okay – this is easy… or is it? Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true ...
May. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 831
By Adrian Sanders
20th century customer service consisted of packed call centers, phones ringing off the hook, and large, convoluted databases of information to manage a never-ending stream of support requests. Cloud computing, and the introduction of powerful, business-specific software solutions, has ...
May. 17, 2012 05:30 AM EDT  Reads: 338
By Pankaj Taneja
Overuse tends to a suck a phrase of meaning, and the same may be said of “collaboration”. As an executive, you’ve probably been inundated with articles on “collaboration software” and its business possibilities. But it seems to mean different things at different times. Sometimes it mea...
May. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT  Reads: 856
By RealWire News Distribution
Partnership to Leverage World Record Data Speeds and Intuitive Business IntelligenceLondon, UK - 17th May 2012 - DSCallards Ltd, leading UK provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, has signed a reseller partner agreement with Actian Corporation, pioneers of the record-breaking...
May. 17, 2012 04:50 AM EDT  Reads: 209
By RealWire News Distribution
Almost half of companies fail to track social mediaOver half of companies have no way to respond to customers on social mediaB2B desperately lagging behind B2C in social media adoption with 75% not measuring social mediaLondon, May 17, 2012 - New worldwide research published today by S...
May. 17, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 235
By Bob Gourley
The mission of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET increases awareness between builders, buyers, researchers and investors in the Cybersecurity do...
May. 16, 2012 05:42 PM EDT  Reads: 382
By App Man
Last week I flew into Las Vegas fully suited and booted in my big blue costume (no joke). I’d been invited to speak in a vendor debate on User eXperience (UX): Monitor the Application or the Network? NetScout represented the Network, AppDynamics (and me) represented the Application, an...
May. 16, 2012 02:13 PM EDT  Reads: 440
By Bob Gourley
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: U.S. Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark said that the legal frameworks are not keeping pace with cyber operations and said that claims of “cyber war” do not qualify as war defined by international l...
May. 16, 2012 11:42 AM EDT  Reads: 349
By RealWire News Distribution
London, UK, May 16 - Continuing to offer consumers a no-compromise choice in home printers, Kodak today introduced the KODAK ESP 1.2 and ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printers combining advanced features, quality and affordability. Offering more ways to connect and print from mobile devices, Koda...
May. 16, 2012 10:42 AM EDT  Reads: 289
By Hovhannes Avoyan
In our previous articles, Introduction to SQL Server 2012 and Windows Azure Overview, we made references to Microsoft’s SQL Azure service. In this article we will take a closer look at its main features in more detail. SQL Azure is a relational database solution with the capability to...
May. 16, 2012 09:18 AM EDT  Reads: 542
By Gilad Parann-Nissany
As part of our cloud strategy, we’ve recently released a VMware version of our cloud security offering. It allows cloud providers using VMware, as well as the cloud users themselves, to create an encrypted environment within minutes, while eliminating the complexity around encryption k...
May. 16, 2012 08:37 AM EDT  Reads: 425
By Paul Miller
The global CloudCamp movement continues to grow, with events over the next few weeks in Denmark, Germany, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and across the United States. And now, I’m very pleased to announce that the English city of Leeds is joining the party. CloudCamp events have been tak...
May. 16, 2012 08:10 AM EDT  Reads: 288
By Cloud Ventures
When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data. So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their servi...
May. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 885
By Lori MacVittie
It’s really easy to quantify some of the costs associated with a security breach. Number of customers impacted times the cost of a first class stamp plus the cost of a sheet of paper plus the cost of ink divided by … you get the picture. Some of the costs are easier than others to calc...
May. 16, 2012 07:41 AM EDT  Reads: 535
By Bob Gourley
Early adopters have been evaluating TwitPolls for the last several weeks. I’ve tested it out with our @CTOvision account and see great promise for this easy to use engagement tool. TwitPolls is powered by the technologies and leadership team of WayIn, so it is based on a great/scalab...
May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 624
By Kevin Benedict
The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Global mobile location-based advert...
May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 322
By Nicos Vekiarides
All the buzz surrounding OpenStack over the past few months may beg the question of whether Openstack can repeat for Cloud what Linux has done for server operating systems over the past several years. With an enthusiastic following and a compelling, if not industry-leading set of funct...
May. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,390
By RealWire News Distribution
Record quarterly revenue of $24.0 million, up 52% year-over-year Record quarterly gross profit of $17.2 million, up 54% year-over-yearRecord Q1 Bookings[1] of $24.0 million, up 67% year-over-year Quarterly gross margin of 71%, consistent year-over-year, and Non-GAAP gross margin[1] of ...
May. 16, 2012 05:46 AM EDT  Reads: 233
By RealWire News Distribution
Rapid data analysis is key to providing meaningful insights on marketing campaign effectiveness and online user activity which creates more fruitful relationshipsLondon, UK - 16th May, 2012 - Actian Corporation today announced that Badoo, the world's largest and fastest growing social ...
May. 16, 2012 05:29 AM EDT  Reads: 276
By Aditya Banerjee
I finally gave up on the Android dead end (no ICS upgrade) that was my Galaxy S i9003 and decided to jump to the ICS bandwagon. The only options for an out of the box ICS experience in India at this time are the HTC duo – One X & One V. Of these, the One X was beyond my budget, and s...
May. 16, 2012 04:44 AM EDT  Reads: 667
By Peter Silva
I welcome our partners and customers to Shanghai for the F5 Agility Summit with a special thanks to our sponsors: VMware, BlueCat Networks, BroadHop, Cenzic, Oracle, ServiceSource, Splunk and WhiteHat Security.
May. 16, 2012 03:31 AM EDT  Reads: 188
By Max Katz
Wednesday and Thursday this week the Tiggzi team will be at AnDevCon conference in San Francisco. Stop by our stand and learn how to build Android apps, connected to any REST API using Tiggzi app builder. What’s really nice is that you can build an app in Tiggzi, export the Andro...
May. 15, 2012 04:49 PM EDT  Reads: 467
By Security Gateways
You may have heard this term recently and wondered what it meant. When it comes to security, everyone thinks of Firewalls, Proxies, IPS, IDS, Honeypots, VPN devices, email security and even Web security, but most people don’t think in terms … Continue reading →
May. 15, 2012 03:46 PM EDT  Reads: 476
By Jonas Jacobi
Watch Ron Renwick, Sr. Product Marketing Manager discuss Kaazing’s cloud offering. The webinar also features a walk-through showcasing the steps of registering with Amazon EC2, launchnig, configuring, and accessing the Kaazing WebSocket Gateway in the cloud. And here you can dire...
May. 15, 2012 02:52 PM EDT  Reads: 382
By PR.com Newswire
Chicago, IL, May 15, 2012 --(PR.com)-- An increasingly popular buzzword among business owners in Chicago, cloud computing is essentially describing a service, not a product. Similar to other professional service vendors, cloud computing companies are trusted partners who can be relied...
May. 15, 2012 02:22 PM EDT  Reads: 107
By Scott Morrison
On May 15-16 2012, I will be at the Privacy Identity Innovation (pii2012) conference held at the Bell Harbour International Conference Center in Seattle. I will be participating on a panel moderated by Eve Maler from Forrester, titled Privacy, Zero … Continue reading →
May. 15, 2012 01:18 PM EDT  Reads: 175
By Mark O'Neill
I've written before about the relevance to Cloud of the famous Leslie Lamport quote that "a
May. 15, 2012 12:24 PM EDT
By James Colgan
There is an interesting article over on Cloud Times that begs the question of, “why isn’t there more usage of SaaS as a percentage of overall software use/revenue?”. The cognitive dissonance in the market between “SaaS is going to be everywhere” and “...
May. 15, 2012 12:11 PM EDT  Reads: 239
By RealWire News Distribution
The Bunker, provider of Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe's most secure data centres, is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Bindley to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will be responsible fo...
May. 15, 2012 10:35 AM EDT  Reads: 403
By RealWire News Distribution
Latest version of cloud orchestration software powers new revenue streams and productivity gains for service providers while reducing the cost and risk of delivering cloud servicesLivingston, Scotland - 15 May 2012 - Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software...
May. 15, 2012 06:40 AM EDT  Reads: 132
By RealWire News Distribution
Complimentary events in London, New York, San Francisco and Toronto bring VoC best practices and actionable insight to a worldwide stageLondon, UK and Oslo, Norway and New York, NY: May 15, 2012: Confirmit, the leading global software provider for Customer Experience, Employee Engageme...
May. 15, 2012 05:06 AM EDT
By RealWire News Distribution
London, 15 May 2012: Dialogue Communications, specialist in global messaging solutions, will showcase its SMS for Eloqua application at this week's Eloqua Experience Europe 2012 (16-17 May), demonstrating how marketers can enhance their communications via text messaging. As sponsors of...
May. 15, 2012 04:37 AM EDT  Reads: 450
By RealWire News Distribution
London - May 15th 2012 - Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has achieved certification to ISO27001:2005, the global Information Security Management System standard.With information se...
May. 15, 2012 04:36 AM EDT  Reads: 371
By PR.com Newswire
San Francisco, CA, May 15, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Digtial Menu Me has just partnered with Cloudtise an advertising platform which creates new streams of revenue where other advertisers have never dared to before. Cloudtise is partnering with Digital Menu Me to allow for cross-platform sale...
May. 15, 2012 12:01 AM EDT  Reads: 245
By Jerry Huang
Earlier this week, HP announced the public beta of its cloud services. Since then, we published a series of demo video about how to leverage HP Cloud Storage for different use case. For example, use HP Cloud Storage as a network drive for access and
May. 14, 2012 11:15 PM EDT  Reads: 247
By Kevin Benedict
The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market tren...
May. 14, 2012 11:10 PM EDT  Reads: 479
By Cloud Ventures
Canada boasts yet another start-up with the potential to be a heavyweight player in the global Cloud Computing industry. Cloud Dynamics is a uniquely powerful formula for this market, given two particular key founding strengths: An executive team with comprehensive, real-world experien...
May. 14, 2012 07:43 PM EDT  Reads: 222
By Kevin Jackson
Late today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). These companies are accredited to perform initial and periodic assessment of cloud service provider (CSP) systems per FedRAMP requirements, provide eviden...
May. 14, 2012 05:41 PM EDT  Reads: 490