Platform as a service (PaaS) remains to be the core element of cloud computing in any personal or business solutions. Any changes, therefore, to its make up will definitely affect cloud vendors and users according to the research analyst Gartner. Vice president and Gartner analyst, Yefim Natis said, “With large and growing vendor investment in…
Cloud computing is taking a pace that is faster than anyone in the IT industry has ever imagined. That is why it now requires quicker issue response time and flexible options to handle new opportunities and manage adoption issues. In the IT industry, what turn out to be successful are enterprises that are able to…
Alfresco prepares for the cloud through its Alfresco Enterprise 4.0, which will be the platform to run its content management software (CMS) in open-source. The release of Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 will allow the enterprise the ability to handle multiple clients at the same time and to allow them to improve their CMS services. This upgraded…
One of the best features of cloud computing is its ability to summon other compute-based business services. Cloud computing effectively allows enterprises to decide on acquisition and deployment cloud facilities. It provides them control over peak migration and requirement loads from consumers. This allows them to plan ahead the workload distribution requirements plus the cost…
Mark O’Neill, director for innovation and delivery of Government Digital Services (GDS) recently announced that the new cloud public administration services will be released in spring 2012. He made the announcement in the last Cloud Expo event in London. The G-Cloud catalogue is expected to be released this February as the development and design of…
Cisco recently presented the result of a global survey conducted in 2011 on the perception of IT managers on the significance of enterprise presence of the tablet-mobile devices. Cisco partnered with Redshift Research to do the study on 1500 IT manager and executive respondents from the US, UK, Canada, France, Spain and Germany. They were…
Businesses are nearly reaching IT tipping point as businesses and enterprises become dependent with workers and staff from the cloud and mobile platforms. The cloud and mobile business solutions are clearly making great waves that are way beyond expectations and what business owners have expected. The bigger question to ask is where traditional IT will…
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…
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…
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…