Cloud Computing News & Articles

The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over.

Google Apps has made a big splash in the enterprise market, with businesses moving their apps to the web. But even as emails, calendars, IM and online storage have increasingly gone cloud-bound, the service has been limited by the languages and domains supported. In its latest update, Google Apps has opened its domain registration to country-based top-level domains (ccTLD), and is offering support for new Arabic input tools.

Custom links -- a must have feature? When you are all about sharing content, as Box surely is, making links customizable seems like something the company should have done a long time ago.

Yesterday we took a look at the first part of the Forrester Wave: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012, report where we saw that many enterprises are concerned about the feasibility of using online collaboration services, Today, we will take a brief look at the companies and products that made it into the this Wave.

Alfresco announced its next generation Records Management 2.0 platform, and the updated system now fully integrates with Alfresco Enterprise 4 including more granular controls, mobile access and email features.

The newest version of the open source digital asset management (DAM) platform Razuna is now available.

It’s not often the words transparency and citizen engagement are used in the same sentence, but they are essential elements if you really want to innovate and evolve your community into taking meaningful action. Which is why the folks at Granicus announced new features aimed at empowering its Citizen Participation Suite users to better collect and analyze feedback from their community.

There are a number of surprising takeaways from a new Forrester Wave report that should force many collaboration vendors to think through their development strategies twice. Not least of these is that despite all the progress that has been made, many IT leaders are still questioning the feasibility of cloud-based collaboration tools.

Rackspace has rebranded its Critical Sites service to Critical Application Services. With the rebranding it has extended the service to the open cloud and to its Adobe CQ web content management customers.

There is much talk of consumerization in the enterprise software market. Workers are increasingly bringing their own mobile devices to work, and enterprises are granting access to a multitude of mobile and desktop-bound devices. File sharing and collaboration can be done from literally anywhere. A study by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) looked into the habits of enterprise users and offers a few words of advice to IT managers and CIOs.

In all the talk of emerging technologies, there is often the suspicion that much of it is just hype. Gartner has been observing these technologies and since 1995 measuring the level of hype against the reality of those technologies. Among the fast moving technologies in this year’s studies are cloud computing, Big Data and media tablets.

Microsoft has revamped SkyDrive with a new UI and updated the website's design in preparation for the Windows 8 launch, with a SkyDrive Android App launch imminent. 

Secure cloud services provider Perimeter E-Security today released a new hosted version of its Archive Anywhere mailbox archive solution for Microsoft Office 365. Archive Anywhere is a cloud-based service designed to make it easy for users to view and search their entire mailbox archives anywhere, on any device.

Earlier in the summer, Salesforce announced that it was buying social media marketing vendor, Buddy Media. This week it announced that it closed the US$ 669 million deal and that from here on in, Buddy would be part of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

More and more enterprise companies are cluing into the importance of mobile app development platforms and ecosystems, and new player AnyPresence just might have the right mix of security and agility for many businesses.