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Private cloud may be inevitable, but diving into cloud without a plan is a terrible idea. And even with a technology plan, there are also two massive cultural problems to overcome: the buy-big syndrome and the belief that servers are not software.
One of the great promises of the mobile device explosion is increased productivity. But productivity is in the eye of the beholder, and many mobile users still haven't caught on to the notion that you can sign documents digitally, with a legally binding signature, from a mobile device. Whether the goal is paperwork reduction or expedience, DocuSign combines the power of digital ink and a slick, cloud-enabled document-handling framework to put an end to the likes of scanning and faxing. And now, those of us with Android devices can use DocuSign, too.
When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately, many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed's new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed's calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.
Cloudstack 3.0 adds support for XenServer 6.0 with tighter integration with the hypervisor and tight integration with Citrix's Netscaler application delivery controller.
On Jan. 18, eWEEK published a slide show entitled "Cloud Computing: Don't Build Your Own Private Cloud in 2012: 10 Reasons Why." Talk about a lightning rod for comment: Passionate opinions pro and con came fast and furious via email. This topic is on everybody's mind right now, and the idea was simply to spark a conversation about the topic. With that background, eWEEK offers the other side of the argument in the following slide show: why enterprises should indeed consider using a private cloud system. If the CEO doesn't understand why a company should be leveraging cloud computing, its important to articulate the benefits of delivering cloud-based services, in addition to creating awareness about the investment and payback. Here are 10 steps that will help get a CEO on par with the rest of the company when it comes to the cloud. An expert resource for this slide show is Jason Cowie, vice president of product management for Embotics, which provides plug-and-play cloud management hardware and software. Were keeping the slide show free of product information. - ...
Cloud app enables employees inside an enterprise to securely access an entire corporate knowledge store, yet the service intelligently syncs only relevant documents onto their desktop and mobile devices using keywords and personal document-use histories. - U.K.-based enterprise
collaboration provider Huddle, which has established itself in Europe during
the last five years with its cloud-based content management service, Feb. 21
launched a private beta program for
Huddle Sync, a new file-synchronization tool.
Huddle Sync enables
employees inside...
There was a time when it was okay to have one consumer electronics company specialize in building one product and another company building another, with both businesses working together yet apart to keep the technology sector humming along. Thanks to Apple's unbridled success the companys stock passed $500 this week and it is worth more than Google and Microsoft combined it has become fashionable for high-tech giants to develop and nurture a whole ecosystem. Take Apple's approach to mobile. The company builds its own hardware and software, and controls the supply chain and component pipeline for its iPhones, iPads and other devices like no other tech company in the history of the industry. Increasingly, Amazon and now Google are following in Apple's footsteps. Amazon, once solely an e-commerce and Web services provider, has spent the last several years building Kindle e-readers. Then, Amazon added the Kindle Fire tablet to bite off a chunk of the consumer Web market Apple triggered with the iPad. Not to be outdone, Google is building a home entertainment system, and the company is borrowing heavily from the ideas that Apple and Amazon have already set in motion. What is Google up to in its quest to control the living room? eWEEK explores the possibilities. - ...
When adopting a cloud service--whether it's software as a service or platform as a service--enterprise IT organizations frequently make the assumption that the provider's security will be an improvement over the security of their own on-premise systems. Verifying that this is true, however, is tricky, and, in the end, there are no guarantees.
Cloud computing is evolving to the point where unique clouds will be developed for specific industry verticals, such as healthcare, government and financial services, predicts a Cisco Systems executive speaking at the CloudConnect 2012 conference this week in Silicon Valley. This runs contrary to what some have called the Coke versus Pepsi rule--that companies would not want to be in multitenant cloud environments with their competitors.
Rackspace said it can help further accelerate adoption of SharePoint, one of the fastest growing applications in the business productivity segment. - Cloud computing specialist Rackspace Hosting announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, a provider of SharePoint consulting, training, and quot;JumpStart quot; services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver SharePoint hosting solutions along with ser...
