Been craving a trip to the Big Apple? Here is a good reason to justify it to your accountant, boss or spouse. The 10th International Cloud Expo is scheduled for June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. This will be the playground for leading cloud industry players.
Eval-Source has compiled a list of 12 technology trends and predictions that they believe will come to realization this year. They based these on what they see with their customers and their concerns.
Hitachi Data Systems has aligned their product and portfolio around a three-tiered strategy that focuses on the cloud. This consists of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud to provide a single virtualization platform for all data.
Early Internet communications were based on telephone long-distance switches, which became ports allowing computers to connect with modems. Remember Compuserve? They were one of the pioneers in indexing the huge amounts of data that were generated in the early information superhighway, that was really more like a county road at the time compared to the data created and transmitted today.
We have all been there at one time or another. You are waiting for a page to load, a photo to appear or an application to respond. The little circle just keeps rotating but nothing ever appears. You jiggle the mouse – as if that ever helps – and wait some more. Is there a problem with the clouds where all your precious data is stored? Or have they become like the mall at Christmas time and are just too full and busy to be efficient?
Alfresco has released their latest community version of their platform at JaveOne, Alfresco Community 4, with many new features. Among those features are an improved user interface and tooling to allow support of popular technology trends, such as cloud computing and social media.
Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS) has opened a new office in Rome, New York to better meet the growing needs of its main customer in the area, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Oracle has announced a new public cloud service that includes business applications, database software and a Java development platform. The applications are customer relationship management (CRM) and human capital management (HCM) and are based on Oracle's Fusion application range – and an internal social networking system.
IBM South Africa has announced new cloud solutions to help clients drive efficient and scalable computing services. It seems an increasing number of organizations are attempting to leverage the scale and flexibility of public cloud, but don’t want to lose control of resources that exist outside their brick and mortar facility. Enter the hybrid or shared services cloud model.