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Why Your Neck Is On The Line
Companies often worry about the consequences of slow economy. In such a scenario, companies can take into account its talented in-house designers, sales tracking system, and intensive sales and service training. But, there is still a hidden fear that whether the aforesaid elements will be able to save companies from...
Tags: Cloud, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
Case studies 2003-12-01
Create a Word Cloud
For your next presentation, here's a simple way to make an interesting graphic of the topics you're going to talk about. Input the text of your talk into Wordle.net and you'll get what's known as a word cloud back in return; the biggest words in the cloud are the ones...
Tags: Cloud, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2008-08-14
Cloudlet Adds Tag Clouds to Google Searches
Every once in a while I'll run across something so simple yet powerful that I wonder how I ever managed to get along without it. Case in point: Cloudlet is Firefox plug-in that adds a tag cloud to Google and Yahoo searches. Using Cloudlet, you can refine...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Search, Cloud, Cloudlet, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-01-09
Information: the Real Cloud Computing
With all the talk of cloud computing from this vendor and that analyst, it is easy to naturally confuse the cloud with a series of scalable technologies interconnected via the Internet. But that really misses the point. Technology is just the miss. The real thunder and lightning comes from the...
Tags: Cloud, Internet, RSS, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-03-12
Cloud Apps for the Small Business | BTalk Australia
(15min 23) Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie looks at a suite of on-demand applications aimed at the small business user or telecommuter. Mike Mansbach, the head of global sales and marketing for Citrix, and HR Shiever, the head of Citirix Online for Asia Pacific, talk about the range of...
Tags: Home PC, PC, Adoption, Citrix Systems Inc., Citrix GoToMyPC, Small Business, Cloud, Shiever, Internet, Desktops, Telecommuting, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-03-17
Fog Is Lifting On Cloud Computing
If you're tired of everyone and their mother claiming that theirs and theirs alone is the true incarnation of The Cloud, hope is at hand. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has produced a working draft that defines various aspects of cloud computing, which may finally put a...
Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Fog, Hardware, Infrastructure, Management, Michael Hickins, NIST, Strategy, Virtualization
Blog posts 2009-05-15
Syncplicity Aims to Help Businesses Manage Their Data in the Cloud
Syncplicity, a startup based in San Francisco, today launched a turnkey solution for managing data across multiple platforms in the cloud, with one centralized data management service and a very high degree of encryption protection. by David Weir
Tags: Cloud, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-11-10
Get 3GB of Free Online Backup, File Synchronization, Sharing, Sausages
The cloud is the new floppy disk. Unfortunately, it's hard to find a cloud with the right mix of features, capacity, and price. Now I've got a new option that has DropBox's integration, more capacity, and other conveniences as well. by Dave Johnson
Tags: Online Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Backups, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-11-16

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SpringSource Acquires Cloud Foundry, Launches New Cloud Platform
Coming off of its own acquisition by VMware, SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management software, has announced its acquisition of Cloud Foundry and a new SpringSource cloud offering based on the Cloud Foundry technology.Coming off of its own acquisition by VMware, SpringSource, a provider of Java application...
Tags: Java, VMware Inc., Java Application
News items 2009-08-19
When is a cloud not a cloud?
The answer to the question I've posed in my title is blindingly obvious, yet it seems to be one of those things that never hits you between the eyes until one day, something makes you stop and just think it through. For myself, I've been giving this a lot of...
News items 2009-08-28
How to avoid the amateur cloud
Someone this week asked me, what's the cloud equivalent of SoSaaS? What do we call it when people take outdated data center management practices and label them as cloud computing, even when they fall far short of what's required? We already have the name, I replied, thanks to the events...
Tags: infrastructure, Data Center, cloud computing
News items 2009-10-18
Amazon`s Head Start in the Cloud Pays Off
Amazon Web Services has leveraged its head start in the cloud space to address a nagging barrier to greater cloud adoption in the enterprise -- the ability to bridge internal corporate IT infrastructure with the cloud in a secure, reliable and cost-efficient way.SEATTLE -- Amazon Web Services has leveraged its...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
News items 2009-08-26
IBM Launches Cloud Platform for Developers
IBM has announced new solutions for developers to create and deliver software in both public and private cloud environments.IBM has announced new solutions for developers to create and deliver software in both public and private cloud environments.These solutions, announced on Nov. 5, include IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud...
Tags: IBM Corp.
News items 2009-11-05
What's the definition of cloud computing?
What's the definition of cloud computing? I keep asking myself that question and hearing different answers. Despite the frequent use of the term, it still means different things to different people. That was evident at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo this week in Santa Clara, where I thought I...
News items 2009-11-06
11 Top Open-source Resources for Cloud Computing
Open-source software has been on the rise at many businesses during the extended economic downturn, and one of the areas where it is starting to offer companies a lot of flexibility and cost savings is in cloud computing. Cloud deployments can save money, free businesses from vendor lock-ins that could...
Tags: open source, cloud computing
News items 2009-11-09
Understanding the Cloud | BTalk Australia
(14min 53) A recent survey of 500 senior executives has shown that Aussies are more likely to understand the concept of cloud computing but less likely to have adopted it. Does your company utilise only cloud computing, only internally owned IT systems or a combination of both?...
Tags: Australia, Organization, Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-02-24
Study: Developers Pick Google, IBM as Top Cloud Platforms
Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud setting and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that...
Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Evans Data Corp.
News items 2009-10-06
Open Group forms Cloud Work Group to spur enterprise cloud adoption and security via open standards
This guest blog comes courtesy of Dave Lounsbury, vice president of government programs and managing director of research and technology at The Open Group, where he leads activities related to government research, adaptive and real-time system software, and cloud computing. He can be reached here. Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey...
Tags: cloud computing, The Open Group
News items 2009-08-17
Amazon Bridges Corporate IT with the Cloud via New Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service
Amazon Web Services AWS LLC, an Amazon.com company, has announced a limited public beta of its new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Amazon VPC service, a secure and seamless bridge between a company?s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. The service helps enterprises overcome a major obstacle to adoption of...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services
News items 2009-08-26
Enterprises Embracing Cloud Computing, F5 Survey Says
In a survey conducted over the summer, F5 Networks found that enterprises are rapidly embracing the idea of both private and public clouds, with 99 percent saying they either had implemented compute clouds or were in discussions about it. About 80 percent said they had at least started trials of...
Tags: cloud computing, F5 Networks Inc.
News items 2009-08-25
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