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CIMTrek, founded by industry veteran Jon Pyke, is concentrating initially on Lotus Notes, as Pyke sees that as the leading enterprise application worldwide.
There's a tremendous buzz today about cloud computing, but before outsourcing your critical business systems to the cloud let's review some security concerns.
Read more..The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) has developed a new special interest group called Cloud Backup and Recovery (BUR) aimed at vendors exploring that particular area of technology.
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No one can argue that cloud computing is on the rise. But exactly how these Internet-based IT services are going to storm the enterprise market – as public clouds shared by all or as private clouds operated by organizations to serve their own employees – is up for debate.
Read more..Dell on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire virtualized storage provider 3PAR for about US$1.15 billion (Rs.5418 crore), a move that will boost its capabilities for building public and private cloud computing environments. The deal is expected to close later this year.
Read more..Box.net, a cloud storage provider, recognized that users on the go are often unable to connect with the cloud--often when access to the data stored in the cloud is most urgent. To solve that problem, Box is updating its iPhone and iPad apps to sync files for offline access.
Read more..Which vendor excels more than any other at getting critical applications back online after failures?
Read more..The "everything going to the cloud" mantra is also going to have a significant effect on traditional IT service providers
Analyst and report author, Timothy Stammers, said the shift of data storage services to the cloud is creating a new generation of storage capability.
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Companies don't think they use security-as-a-service or "cloud" security. Yet, many do, in the form of messaging security: e-mail antispam and antivirus.
Read more..Most public sector agencies need to urgently coordinate and integrate the various e-government functions, according to a newly released report by IDC Government Insights.
Read more..How long will it be before Facebook's new check-in service, Places, starts sharing your movements with the world?
Read more..When it comes to cloud-based e-mail, there are four major vendors vying for your IT dollars: Microsoft, Google, IBM and Cisco. Each has its pros and cons, but no matter which vendor you choose the price of e-mail will be roughly the same: $5 per user per month.
Read more..In an interview with IDG India, Thomas Heiser, Chief Operating Officer for RSA discusses how embedded security and compliance can help CIOs combat the security challenges thrown up by a cloud environment. He outlines how virtualization could facilitate the adoption of cloud computing.
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A contract negotiation between Amazon and Eli Lilly highlights some growing pains in cloud computing
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While it may be tempting to think (and market) that the cloud will eliminate data center storage as we know it in one fell swoop, this isn't likely.
The Novell Cloud Security Service software is intended to be used inside a provider's data infrastructure to enable the equivalent of a single-sign-on function to multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) options
Read more..Companies that are considering using IaaS ranked virtualization security as the top barrier to adoption, Yankee found. But companies that have already started using IaaS ranked five other issues as more important than security.
Read more..How can a business protect against inadvertent disclosure of proprietary information and the possibility of loss of data and service due to an overeager sheriff? Having the right contract is certainly a good start.
Business agility, not cost savings, is the leading reason U.S. companies are interested in cloud computing, according to a survey of 500 senior-level IT and business-unit managers.
Read more..An economy that continues to stagnate could prove a boon to an increasing number of providers of on-demand supercomputing capacity.
Read more..IBM and health-insurance giant Aetna Inc. introduced a cloud-computing offering that analyzes patient data stored in electronic medical records (EMRs) and administrative data systems and sends updates on treatment progress, drug interactions and best practices to physicians.
Everyone knows the big virtues of using cloud computing services: They're cheap, you can scale them on demand, and they're fault-tolerant . What a lot of people have been missing, though, is that there's another real problem with cloud computing: legal liability.
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By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".