Cloud Computing News & Articles

Open source digital services provider Acquia has released Drupal Commons 3.0 to help with the creation and management of customer communities and social-driven applications.

Customer service and contact center technology provider Genesys is acquiring cloud-based self-service applications specialist Angel from business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy. Genesys says it is trying to expand its arsenal of cloud-based customer service solutions.

The nature of how we collaborate has evolved.

Last week, we discussed how to create a successful BYOD policy. It involves focusing on the people using the devices and the sources of information they want to access from their device, rather than the device itself. Further emphasizing this need, Centrify has released a set of integrated capabilities that goes well beyond mobile device management. The new platform can deliver secure, enterprise-class mobility while improving security and increasing productivity in the enterprise.

Way back when, in the days when Microsoft starting talking up Office 2013 critics of the Redmond giant made some pretty pointed comments about slow-coach Microsoft and the cloud. There may have been reasons to suggest that the company was behind the times with a desktop office suite, but the recent issues around licensing of Office 2013 shows exactly where it is putting its money.

In December, Support.com released Software as a Service (SaaS) licensing options for its Nexus service delivery platform. Since then they’ve been able to examine the ways providers are using the suite of cloud-based applications, foundation services and business analytics to learn from their behaviors and improve the technology support experience.

Email attachment assistance company, Attachment.Me has announced Attachments Everywhere, a new collection of tools to improve the file sharing experience.

IT solutions provider Barracuda Networks has released Copy, a cloud- based file storage and sharing tool. With Copy, users are able to share, view and sync files from any device, at any time.

As pervasive as technology has become in people's daily lives, it should come as no surprise that nearly everything around us is available online. Outsourcing of many types of jobs has been a popular practice for 25 years, and now Lionbridge, a company known for providing testing and translation technology, has built a cloud based outsourcing platform.

Executive teams who collaborate the most across the board room, and include IT, are four times more likely to be top performers, a Pricewaterhousecoopers report has found.

The latest Gartner's Business Intelligence and Analytics Magic Quadrant portrays a mature market that has a wide variety of vendors mostly working on getting companies to move up from descriptive analytics to the next step of diagnostics.

File sharing service, Dropbox has announced new features for its Dropbox for Teams which gives administrators better visibility and control over collaborative projects. 

Marketing automation is a hot buzzphrase right now, but what exactly does it mean and why should marketing professionals care? Cloud-based marketing automation software provider Marketo attempts to provide answers to these and other questions in its latest guide.

As a precursor to its upcoming conferences in the US and Australia on actionable analytics, Gartner has just published a new research report that identifies three trends that will push users towards analytics adoption in the medium term.

Cloud-based social collaboration and productivity platform Kona has expanded its file sharing capabilities through an integration with Box, Google Drive and Dropbox.