AT&T recently announced its new cloud computing solutions that will help enterprises to unify their communications systems. This is done through an entirely cloud-based platform, meaning there will be no need for an in-house software or hardware to do the task. AT&T’s unified communications (UC) will leverage any business in terms of productivity, ease of…
Fujitsu currently launched its ValueCENTER(TM) gift card cloud management technology. The release of this ValueCENTER card will provide cloud solutions to gift cards and other stored value cards, plus this software will seamlessly integrate with on-premise and hosted enterprise systems through Fujitsu Hybrid Cloud Services for Windows Azure. This move will benefit consumers for it…
Salesforce.com announced recently that the former US Federal Government author and CIO of the Cloud-First policy, Vivek Kundra has joined the company as Executive Vice President to leverage their cloud social enterprise. Kundra is a popular figure in the IT technology and has been coined as an enterprise innovator. Kundra’s track record as CIO of…
CloudTimes is proud to announce the sponsorship of the upcoming GigaOM Structure:Data conference in New York in March 2012. Making Big Data Work For You Are you sitting on unmined gold? As the volume of enterprise data created has moved past terabytes and into the petabyte scale, companies need to determine the best way to store,…
Performance testing company SOASTA is extending its cloud testing platform to mobile devices. On Monday, the Mountain View. Calif.-based company plans to update its CloudTest Platform to enable automated mobile application testing and analysis. TouchTest – a testing tool that captures all user actions and gestures such as tap, type, swipe, two finger, pinch, pan — whatever real people…
Cisco, EMC, IBM and TOSCA recently communicated their support to back up setting the standard and specifications for hybrid cloud portability. This is to stand true to cloud’s promise of ease of access and portability in service migration from one cloud provider to another. There are, however, obstacles to face with this set up because…
OpenStack OS developer Piston Cloud Computing announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Piston Enterprise operating system, pentOS, to the general public. OpenStack is the fastest-growing open source project in the world, with over 2,321 contributors and 147 participating companies including Rackspace, NASA, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, AT&T, Arista Networks, Microsoft and Dell. OpenStack is proven and…
KLAS recently conducted a survey of small clinics and hospitals and surprisingly found that 55% are already using cloud-based apps. It was from their storage, clinical applications, e-mail, communication systems and file or picture archiving. About 25% of the respondents said that they are already using remotely accessed health records. 58% of the respondents said…
CloudTimes is proud to announce the sponsorship of the upcoming Cloud Expo in New York in June 2012. Globally, cloud computing is on course to become $120BN market. The surest way to get yourself and your company fully “Cloud-ready” is by attending Cloud Expo New York – being held June 11-14, 2012, at The Javits Convention Center…
Oracle mounted on its Big Data, Hadoop last October, this was after everyone thought that Larry Ellison, CEO will announce their roll up of their open-source elephant. It turned out, however, that everyone’s assumptions were wrong. The truth is, Oracle had made an OEM agreement with Cloudera, the largest commercial Big Data appliance reducer and…