Cloud Computing News & Articles

While there are many different flavours of cloud computing, with hybrid cloud deployments currently the flavour of the day, IBM is muscling its way to the top of the cloud heap through the acquisition of cloud providers. Today, it continues that push with the announcement that it is buying SoftLayer for a reported US$ 2 billion.

Ektron has joined the list of WCM providers offering a hosted version of its own web content management platform.

Office 365 has been gaining momentum. Last week Office 365 Home Premium Edition passed the 1 million subscription mark. Before that it was reported that one in five of Microsoft’s enterprise customers have now subscribed to Office 365, up from one in seven a year ago. With more companies embracing Office 365, IT departments are likely to face additional challenges of deploying, supporting and managing access to cloud hosted versions of Office's server platforms. Enter Centrify for Office 365.

Microsoft released earnings for Q3, 2013 recently and the numbers for its online services clearly indicate that it pays to bet on cloud-based services.

If you're reading this, you probably think you know at least a little something about technology, mobile and the collaborative efforts being undertaken by the most digitally advanced among us. Mary Meeker and her cohorts at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers have released their 2013 Internet Trends report, and it is primo research no member of the knowledge workforce should be without.

When it comes to the mobile enterprise, issues related to BYOD are at the forefront. In their recent report, AIIM found that while more companies are developing BYOD policies, there are still those who are putting their systems at risk, resulting in increased costs. But what if BYOD didn’t need to be complicated or expensive?

Icenium 1.5 features integration with Kendo UI DataViz for creating charts, dashboards

Telerik has updated its cross-platform Icenium development platform. The new incarnation, version 1.5, is designed to simplify mobile app development by adding cloud-based services, eliminating the need for supporting infrastructure. 

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space is shifting again. Research just published by AIIM shows that enterprises are still looking for a one-system-fits-all approach, even if the evidence shows that information consumers are accessing data in numerous ways that traditional ECM deployments are finding difficult to cope with. Content chaos, it seems, still haunts enterprises.

Mobile devices are a main way of getting in touch with companies' contact centers, and Oracle has updated its Service Cloud and released a mobile agent iPad app to address these complex events.

The amount of tools available to users of file sharing platform Box has been added to with the company’s recent acquisition of Folders, an iOS cloud storage client.

Mobile app provider Thumb Labs has announced it's been acquired by Adobe, a move that the company hints is connected to its continued relationship with the Behance application.

More big data goodness on the IBM SmartCloud. This time, the result is an increase in the speed of reporting and analytics as well as the availability of SAP’s in-memory database the SAP High Performance Analytics Appliance (SAP HANA), and at the core of the announcement, its new BLU Acceleration technology.

Oracle may have outlined how the inability to break-down information silos was negating many of the positive benefits of the cloud yesterday, but today Forbes highlights yet again the business value of the cloud, particularly in facilitation with effective enterprise collaboration.

 While concerns over cloud deployments are now a thing of the past, the cloud is still proving difficult for many enterprises. In fact, new research form Oracle shows that the dual promise of business efficiency and IT agility is still eluding many enterprises.

Mobile security is one of IT’s biggest headaches, especially in this age of Bring-Your-Own-Device. To help out, online storage/content sharing service Box has undertaken a new partnership with mobile security provider MobileIron and launched a new mobile app, Box for MobileIron AppConnect.