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...]
Microsoft increases its cloud computing R&D budget
April 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
It‘s official: Microsoft is planning to put a large majority of its R&D budget into cloud computing this year. According to a Bloomberg interview with Microsoft International President Jean-Phillipe Courtois, Microsoft will spend 90 percent of its $9.6 billion research and development budget on cloud strategy in 2011. This commitment shows the tremendous effort and determination that Microsoft intends to put into cloud computing. While the large budget share is somewhat surprising, … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing Frees Companies from the Burden of IT
April 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
For companies today, IT is a means to an end. According to Gartner, by 2013 more than 70 percent of all organizations will no longer own IT-assets. The new solution for companies is to purchase the functionalities they need and not the hardware. Five issues and observations for companies to consider as they make this change. include: The definition of cloud computing is cloudy: Ask ten people about the definition of cloud computing and you will get ten different answers. The most important … [Read more...]
Mobile cloud computing and smartphone security
April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From a security standpoint, it seems inevitable that the mobile cloud is going to be an important enabler. Mobile device platforms, especially open-source smartphone platforms and tablets , are under increasing pressure from hackers and potential virus threats. The first security threats became visible in the mobile domain in 2004, but have been growing ever since. Earlier, mobile phones had limited feature sets and were relatively protected within the operators “walled gardens.” With the … [Read more...]
Enterprise & Cloud: The Main Decision Points
April 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Most agree that cloud computing is an evolutionary technology concept rather than revolutionary. Cloud computing‘s predecessors include both grid computing and utility computing and perhaps SaaS to a certain degree. All are necessary parts or foundations of cloud computing. Capex and Opex Cloud computing is still in its early stages and most enterprises are still in the learning phase trying to understand how the cloud can best suittheir needs. Enterprises with considerable investments … [Read more...]
The Amazon Cloud Turns Five
April 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) turns five years old. As a leader in infrastructure as a service (IaaS), its impact can hardly be overestimated especially as an cloud enabler for SME‘s, new SaaS providers and, increasingly, an option for large companies that want to migrate infrastructure and services to the cloud. In retrospect, it’s amazing to see the number of services that AWS has added to its portfolio in the past five years. The original offering that provides basic compute … [Read more...]
iSpaces provide an interesting cloud-browser service
April 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
An Irish startup called iSpaces has launched a beta-version of a „cloud-based browser“ product called CloudBrowser. In its first phase, it provides an interesting option for users to work in a browser that is run from the cloud, i.e. a "browser within a browser". This enables a seamless usage experience as it becomes irrelevant from what computer the user accesses his browser sessions. The user can open any number of browser windows or tabs and log into any Web application as needed that … [Read more...]
HP’s Cloud Strategy and WebOS
March 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
It’s becoming increasingly clear that with last year’s purchase of smartphone maker Palm and its WebOS, HP is going to develop its own cloud offering. HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced this week that HP wants to provide the platform of choice for cloud services and connectivity and that HP will launch a public cloud offering in the near future. Apotheker also says everything HP will do in the future will be delivered as a service. HP also intends to install WebOS on a variety of devices, … [Read more...]
The Growth of Cloud-Based Music Streaming
March 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
Cloud computing is gradually revolutionizing the music industry and the way digital music is being consumed. Instead of buying and downloading (digital download) songs over the internet, consumers are accessing to them via the cloud in the form of on-demand streaming services. This also brings new services that helps users to create playlists and receive recommendations for songs and bands according to their music interests. Cloud-based music services Due to its enormous penetration and … [Read more...]
