In a move to beat the competition and join the Cloud movement, Microsoft is moving its flagship applications, like Word and Excel, in the cloud for the first time. We had expected this move for a long time. The new product, known as Office 365, is Microsoft boldest attempt so far to join the trend…
ZL Technologies is moving its enterprise software applications to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model using Enterprise Cloud Services from SunGard Availability Services. By moving to a cloud-based, multi-tenant platform, ZL is breaking a major price barrier and reshaping the economics of enterprise records management, archiving, and e-discovery enterprise applications. SunGard Availability Services news release on ZL…
Opscode, the leading player in cloud automation sector, announced today at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, the general availability of Hosted Chef, its hosted platform to automate cloud infrastructure. Hosted Chef was released with new features which include “Quickstarts” that automate the deployments of Java Tomcat and Ruby on Rails for the two leading cloud…
The power shifted a bit in favor of publishers last week on Monday when Apple made an unannounced change on its earlier policies. Apple made a huge move when it made a 360 degree turn on the controversial rules it previously made requiring publishers to sell content in iPad and iPhone apps through the iTunes…
Cloud Expo is the only Enterprise IT Event in 2011 covering the Entire Scope of the Cloud Computing Spectrum. 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 6 – 9, 2011,…
LinkedIn (LNKD: NYSE) and its investors are selling $352.8 million worth of stock in its IPO, marking the Facebook-for-work as the biggest U.S. Internet IPO since Google. According to data provider Capital IQ, the amount of money LinkedIn is raising makes it the fifth-biggest-ever U.S. IPO in the Internet software and services sector. Just for…
An ERP system is an all encompassing software system that touches (read – integrates) all the business functions of an organization. Integration is the keyword, and removing silos is the objective. The very first ERP systems were mainframe based, and were quickly discarded around the turn of century for various reasons. Around the same time,…
At Convergence 2011 in Atlanta on April 11th, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced the upcoming launch of the Dynamic ERP solutions in the cloud. Windows Azure Cloud platform is going to host Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL ERP Solutions. According to Kirill Tatarinov, Vice President for Microsoft Business solutions said in this context that applications…
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) will announce the acquisition of Skype, the online telephony and video communications giant, on Tuesday morning. This will be Microsoft’s most aggressive acquisition in the digital space, an $8.5 billion deal, counting in the Luxembourg-based company’s debt. Buying Skype — a service that connects millions of users around the world via Internet-based…
The Cloud may be a unsafe place, especially when there are multiple entities running different (read – weird) kind of software and you don’t know what’s going on at different locations/ systems/ disks/ partitions etc. Since someone else is managing all this for you, your suspicion only goes up. The number of Cloud Computing users…