Cloud Computing News & Articles

Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.

Three years ago Google acquired Postini providing email security and archiving services. Now they take those services a step further with their new Message Log Search. Here's what it does.

Adobe (news, site) launched LiveCycle ES2, their platform for document-centric business process management in October of last year. At that time, they talked about a cloud ready version of LiveCycle in the works. Today, that cloud version has become available, and here's a look at what it can do for you.

Business processes are at the heart of every organization and the ability to design and deploy them quickly is always in demand. Enter Salesforce.com (news, site) with their new Visual Process Manager for Force.com. Let's take a look.

The official launch of the Windows Azure (news, site) cloud is now upon us. It's been in the works for a few years, and well tested -- even if Microsoft does not fully utilize it themselves.

In the world of Document Management two of the hottest topics are cloud computing and security. Interestingly, however, it seems that according to a report from Forrester we're not taking to cloud storage at all, and we also discovered that data security is increasingly troublesome. Could it be that there's a link between the two?

CaseCentral (news, site), a provider of on-demand eDiscovery software has announced a new connector that will help eliminate manual exports and uploads, saving time and processing fees.

It’s raining cloud solutions, folks. LTech’s (news, site) latest baby is a tool called LTech CloudMove, which automates moving SharePoint documents to the cloud.

Are your skies a little too cloudy? Cloudkick is here to help. The application visually unifies the deployment of seven different providers, including EC2 and Rackspace.

We continue our weekly SMB Tech Rollup this time with the news that many SMBs are getting worried about IT security, but are happily embracing the cloud.

In addition, Microsoft and Intuit are getting together in the cloud, HP and Cisco could be helping SMBs with new pricing arrangements, and Spigit is focusing on better collaboration tools.

Amongst the many releases from Autonomy (news, site) this week is a consolidated email management and archiving solution that will cover all the email requirements of small and large enterprises in terms of management, eDiscovery and governance.

Want more proof that cloud computing is becoming very popular? Bamboo Solutions (news, site) has started up a new division focused on providing hosted solutions based on SharePoint.

The cloud is becoming a popular place, not everyone wants to deal with the licensing and deployment issues related to on premise solutions. Bamboo Solutions obviously sees an opening in the SaaS market that they can easily fill.

With SharePoint Online opening its doors to extensibility when it upgrades to SharePoint 2010, Bamboo has a potentially burgeoning market for its Web Parts, accelerators and applications. And there's room to develop even more. But that doesn't mean they should stop there.

The newly formed Bamboo Online Applications Group will develop and offer SharePoint based solutions themselves. The first of these Bamboo SaaS-based offerings will come sometime before the end of January in the form of collaboration solution. Called the Bamboo Requirements Manager (BambooRM™), it enables geographically dispersed teams to collaboration and communicate on demand.

Requirements Manager is just the start of a number of hosted solutions Bamboo will offer to small to medium sized businesses on a subscription basis. PMCentral, their flagship application, will also be offered as a hosted service at some point.

If you like SharePoint and you like the idea of someone else providing the application and platform for you, get ready to take Bamboo Online Applications for a trial run (they will offer trials).

Up and coming Irish company Goshido, found a smart way to raise funding to prep for the forthcoming launch of its focused project collaboration tool.

Next month will see the first of Salesforce.com’s 2010 releases with the launch of Spring ’10. Of the changes, a new interface will combine much of the old with an updated look and feel that is designed to make it easier for users to find what they are looking for.

Cloud computing has been the hot new thing on the market for a while now. It’s what has the enterprise buzzing and apprehensive. It’s what has those in charge of governance concerned. Overall, working in the cloud is the best and worst thing that ever happened to the enterprise.

How one uses the cloud is most dependent how compliant you intend to be. Once you understand the individual compliance regulations and specific requirements, it’s likely that you (and your data) can live comfortably on the cloud.