SAP users are continuously facing challenges and difficulties in their move towards cloud computing. This is the result of the complexity brought about by the cloud licensing structure for hybrid environments. Chairman of the UK & Ireland SAP User Group, Alan Bowling mentioned this in his message at an IT conference he attended at Birmingham….
by: Jelle Frank van der Zwet, marketing manager cloud segment, Interxion There’s no doubt cloud computing is officially engrained in today’s business landscape. With Gartner estimating the cloud services market will reach $150.1 billion by 2013, there’s tremendous market potential and companies of all sizes in all industries are taking advantage of it. Have you…
While the SaaS model has made aggressive advances in a number of software sectors, including CRM, Human Resources, and Productivity Tools, it has been slow to gain a foothold in other, important parts of the tech world. One of the last bastions of the on-premise world is Business Intelligence. Resistance to cloud BI is seen…
This week Adobe unveiled six applications designed with a touch interface that will run first only on tablets using Google’s Android operating system. The Touch Apps for the Android market, which include the first touch version of Photoshop, are bound together by a service called Creative Cloud that synchronizes creative work across a broad range…
The IBM’s 2011 Tech Trends Report was released this week which highlights “significant enterprise technology trends” for the year ahead. Around 4,000 IT professionals were surveyed from 93 countries and 25 industries to garner their views on future IT trends. The report studied how businesses are adopting, using and planning to use cloud computing, mobile…
Yesterday Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service provider, agreed to purchase consulting services concern and partner Model Metrics for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is inline with the company’s goals for padding its mobile, social and cloud-computing portfolio. Model Metrics advises companies on the deployment of mobile and social software in cloud or Web-based computing environments. Model Metrics…
Cloupia, a leading provider of cloud and data center automation and management software, today announced the opening of a London office to expand the company’s reach into the European market. The new office opening coincides with Cloupia’s participation in the NetApp’s Insight Conference – Nov 14 -17, 2011 in Rome, Italy. Cloupia solutions enable IT…
One of the most difficult problems faced by today’s designers is figuring out how to leverage pay-as-you-go-clouds to build optimal data management platforms. Modern hardware trends and economics combined with cloud/virtualization technology are radically reshaping today’s data management landscape, ushering in a new era where many machine, many core, memory-based computing topologies can be dynamically…
The tight integration of Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SANs and VMware vSphere virtualization software helps organizations enhance IT efficiency, expand virtualization throughout the IT infrastructure, and set the stage for cloud computing. Growth is a good situation for organizations to experience, but growth is not easy and presents challenges. Today, virtual environments in many industries…
Ovum released its latest analysis this week stating the trends that will impact 2012, which include data analytics, cloud computing and agile developments. According to the report many establishments including government agencies will turn to data analytics, cloud computing and agile developments to deal with the failing economic situation. Ovum research director, Dr Steve Hodgkinson…