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STRATO Enters into Cloud Appli...

Posted by on Jul 6, 2011
Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class email and groupware for cloud providers, announced an agreement with STRATO, a web host and services provider, bringing integrated online communication and teamwork to hosting customers in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain,...

A Better Path Toward Legacy In...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
More organizations are facing user demand for cloud-based services. With its promise of greater agility and more media-rich services, the cloud has plenty to offer enterprises. Beneath that promise, however, is a problem that is plaguing IT teams. The issue of legacy...

What Is the Business Impact of...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
Financial services tend to be the early adopters of most technology and have forward-thinking developers on staff. However, only 30% of financial services data centers have been virtualized. Meanwhile, those prolific developers are either already using public cloud...

Case Study: How Cardinal Healt...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
This enterprise case study discussion focuses on how software as a service (SaaS) is impacting the application lifecycle through the experience of Cardinal Health. SaaS is a service offering, not just for testing and for development, but as a simple service offering,...

The Big Win: Stop Playing Smal...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
Many enterprises are struggling to develop a cloud computing strategy. Cloud computing seems like it ought to be a game-changing technology, but so often when the initial proof of concept is finished, it appears to have simply rearranged the deckchairs within a titanic...

The Inevitability of an Open C...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
The advantages of using the cloud are apparent, but the approaches to the cloud are still in a heated industry debate. Renting cloud space from a vendor, private clouds, open clouds – just what is the best choice and where is the industry heading? While renting cloud...

zCloud – A Better Busine...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
The value of cloud computing is the availability of technological infrastructure support that is always available, comprehensively useful, highly scalable and attractively priced. By this modern definition of cloud computing, System z has been an internalized cloud for...

Why the Cloud Computing Acquis...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
OpSource, a privately held, SAS 70 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 Cloud Service Provider headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with 150 employees worldwide has been acquired by Dimension Data, a $4.7 billion ICT services and solutions provider and wholly owned subsidiary of...

Top 110 Cloud Computing Enable...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
Happy 4th of July! I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend (if you happen to live in the U.S.) Today we take a look at the first half of 2011 to see which Cloud players are gaining mind share. In addition to the “Top 110 Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share,” I have...

Disruptive Clouds: Imagine If ...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
First, just let me say I was never one to get caught up in the hype-cycle of cloud computing because I'm old school. We called it network services in the early '90s, then it became managed services by the late ?90s, then it became Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),...

War in the Clouds: Are You Rea...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
As cloud application adoption becomes pervasive throughout the enterprise, concerns around cloud data privacy, residency, and security continue to grow. A number of enterprises are slowing, and even reversing, their cloud application adoption until they can address the...

Cloud Computing: Legal Quagmir...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
Even if you are willing to take on the risks of the Cloud, you must still do whatever you can to mitigate those risks. And unfortunately, risk means liability, and that means lawyers. To help make sure you and your lawyer are up to speed on all the legal ramifications...

OpSource Gets Bought

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
OpSource, the cloud house, has been bought by Dimension Data, a $4.7 billion global ICT services and solutions provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Holdings headquartered in South Africa. As it happens NTT is an investor in OpSource, or was. Dimension Data...

Seven Questions (and Answers) ...

Posted by on Jul 5, 2011
BSS in the cloud offers telecom the prospect of higher revenues, increased efficiency, and decreased customer churn. For as much buzz as cloud computing is generating in the telecom industry these days, it has created an equal number of questions. Many of these have...
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