Cloud – Page 26 – Taxodiary

Automation is a Good Thing

By Melody Smith | July 8, 2011

A new partnership of Alfresco and Ephesoft will combine enterprise content management and cloud-ready capture. This will be a significant change as most capture technologies have not been given the benefit of automation. This new automated work flow element will help to capture processes. Documents that have been captured electronically via the use of imaging will be also provided improved intelligence.

The Future of Cloud Technology

By Melody Smith | July 7, 2011

Along with the amount of data, the monetary investment in digital technology to capture and store that data has grown relentlessly in the past decade. And it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any. Leading the “shopping spree’ in the technology world will be cloud computing. While cloud computing accounts for less than 2% of IT spending today, an EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe study estimates that by 2015 nearly 20% of the information will be “touched” by cloud computing service providers — meaning that somewhere in a byte’s journey from originator to disposal it will be stored or processed in a cloud.

Addressing the Challenges of Cloud-Based Applications

By Melody Smith | July 5, 2011

Recent IDC research shows that worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded $16 billion in 2009 and is forecasted to reach $55.5 billion in 2014. I think it is safe to say that cloud services are here to stay.

Data Integration Requires Finesse

By Melody Smith | June 23, 2011

Known as a provider of open source middleware for data and application integration, Talend has added cloud support to its integration platform. Using a shared metadata repository complete with administration and development tools, they can address problems resulting from the distribution of data across many different systems.

Defining the Clouds

By Melody Smith | June 3, 2011

Cloud computing is a hot topic these days. But for some, it is still ambiguous in definition. Here is a quick, easy-to-remember way of explaining cloud computing. Starting at the most basic, there is an infrastructure cloud which includes the physical components that run applications and store data. Next is content cloud. It implements metadata and indexing services over the infrastructure cloud to provide abstracted data management for all content.

Autonomy’s Latest Purchase Maximizes Data

By Melody Smith | May 27, 2011

Autonomy plans to purchase certain assets of Iron Mountain Digital which, when combined with Autonomy’s operations, has the potential for building a very large data cloud.

Security Everywhere, Even in the Cloud

By Melody Smith | May 25, 2011

N-able Technologies unveiled its Security Manager | Anti-spam as an enterprise-class anti-spam management solution that is capable of proactively blocking spam and guard against viruses at the client site, at the network operations center, and in the cloud.

CloudDocs Releases eGistics

By Melody Smith | May 18, 2011

eGistics has released CloudDocs, a cloud-based e-document storage management solution for businesses of any size, in any vertical market.

Small Business Embracing Cloud Back-Up

By Melody Smith | May 6, 2011 |

Cloud-based backup and storage solutions are finding a following among their smaller business clientele. It seems that virtualization advances have improved backup and disaster recovery options and that there is strong desire among small businesses to simplify data management. We found this interesting topic on Search IT Channel in their article, “Tech Watch: Cloud backup…

Juggling Many Clouds

By Melody Smith | May 5, 2011

One of the things that will become more apparent as cloud computing continues to evolve is that each cloud service is going to become a centralized hub for managing information. This brings the challenge of managing multiple information hubs, both on the premises and in the clouds.