Cloud Computing News & Articles

With Sapphire Now, SAP’s annual gathering coming to a close later today, it’s hardly surprising that there is a bit of something for everyone. There’s cloud, mobile and databases, with the ERP king announcing the release of around 70 apps that do different things with different systems.

You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a great intranet.

Some interesting announcements in the GRC space this week, among them the release of e-Discovery services onto AWS by X1 Discovery, Symantec releases its annual disaster preparedness report, Agilance upgrades its Federal offering with FedRAMP Content Pack and Logic Buys Quantum.

Consolidated cloud-services system stalwart Zoho has launched a website builder to go along with its suite of other tools for CRM, DAM and mobile apps. Zoho Sites is available now in the Google Apps Marketplace, and the two main levels are a free version, and a US$ 40 per year option for up to six websites.

Adobe kicks off its EMEA Digital Marketing Summit today with some updates to its online customer experience platform and some new cloud capabilities that go that extra mile to support marketers.

Social, mobile and cloud technology are each having an enormous impact on enterprise computing. But the technologies aren’t just having big effect independently: they are converging and providing organizations new opportunities to deliver information and services. With the many benefits also come challenges.

Amazon's CloudFront has long let users host and distribute the static content elements for websites. Now the service can play host to dynamic content as well, adding support for the full scope of a dynamic, content-rich site or service with access to EC2 applications.

Actively engaging enterprise teams is something Jive is proving to be quite good at, and now its investors can see the proof in the company's latest earnings results.

Google App maker BetterCloud has debuted a new domain management tool to go along with a collaboration tool it released in February, and the company raised US$ 2.2 million in new seed funding to keep building even more.

Evernote, the cloud-based service that helps users remember everything through note-taking and clipping, is expanding to new regions. But, with plans to set up datacenters in China, should users be concerned about privacy amid Chinese regulations toward censorship and data access?

Do you have a company issued Blackberry? Perhaps your iPhone or Android device is connected to work systems via a “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) program? Maybe you’re a real road warrior with a ruggedized laptop or a corridor warrior with an iPad, but the big question is -- why?

It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition -- SharePoint 15.

Microsoft must be in a mood to rename things this month. First, the company re-branded its small and medium business advertising site and eliminated Windows Live branding. Now it’s moved on to Azure. Will any of these changes have a positive impact on revenue or just result in confused customers?

Every year, the TechStars Boston Demo Day produces some interesting new companies. This year was no exception. One of the companies that particularly caught our eye was DocTrackr, which offers a service that enables users keep track of their documents wherever they may be. Hence the name DocTrackr.

OpenText has been busy this week. Leaving aside the US$ 233 million EasyLink buy, it has also announced a partnership with ConceptShare that will make it easier for business users to collaborate, annote and mark up creative work across a while bunch of assets from documents to images to time-based video and web pages.