IT hasn’t necessarily had a tradition of extraordinary customer service. Typically, requests took too long – and the black box by which the technology was delivered was a mystery to all but the most entrenched individuals. Technology takes time. That was the message. Enter cloud computing. Whether or not your company is virtualized or automated or even living in the modern age, business users are now seeing alternatives in the market that promise speed, agility and lower costs. All of a … [Read more...]
Fujitsu Rolls Out Global Cloud Platform in North America
May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Fujitsu today announced the North American roll-out of its proven Global Cloud Platform, already launched in Japan, Australia, Singapore and UK. The Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform will be launched as a free beta trial of the Fujitsu Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, beginning May 31 and ending on August 31. As the world’s third-largest IT services provider, Fujitsu is well positioned to provide enterprise class, secure and highly available compute,storage, and network capacity via a … [Read more...]
Will the Skype deal pay off for Microsoft?
May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s deal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion is the largest acquisition in the history of the company. After reportedly outbidding Google and Facebook, Microsoft has a number of solutions that can potentially benefit from this acquisition. But does Microsoft have the right strategy? Skype Has Terrific Exposure Skype has almost 700 million registered users globally, most of them using the free chat, voice and video services from PC-to-PC, or from one Skype account to another. … [Read more...]
Half of IT Executives Foresee Possibility of MSPs Managing 100% of Their Environment
May 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Nimsoft today released the results of its Enterprise Requirements for MSPs 2011 survey, which reveals the growing embrace of Managed Services Providers (MSPs) by large and mid-sized companies nationwide. The survey, conducted in association with Enterprise Management Associates™ (EMA), collected responses, experiences and opinions from executives, mid-level managers and individual IT contributors. All participants were currently engaged with an MSP, planning to engage an MSP, or had … [Read more...]
The Mobile Cloud: Why it’s so important
May 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A new survey of mobile cloud computing does a good job in defining mobile cloud computing and how it is going to impact cloud computing in general. Firstly, mobile cloud computing is defined as cloud computing extended by mobility and a new ad-hoc infrastructure based on mobile devices. In essence, mobile users are provided with data storage and processing services on a cloud computing platform rather than on the mobile devices themselves. A branch of cloud computing According to the … [Read more...]
Highlights From CloudSlam 2011
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The third edition of CloudSlam, a virtual annual conference about cloud computing presented by CloudCor, was held from April 18 to 22. The conference provided a fresh outlook on cloud computing, covering all the latest trends and innovations in the space. Since the first event in 2009, CloudSlam has been growing in prominence with partners like Microsoft, CA, Rackspace, AMD and many more endorsing the conference. The conference hosted many innovative demonstrations and interesting … [Read more...]
