by cloudtweaks on December 23, 2010
in Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Email, Google Cloud, Google OS, Microsoft, Security, Storage, Technology
Email Resilience with the Cloud. By CloudTweaks Many organizations use Microsoft Exchange in one of its versions for their email. In most cases it runs perfectly fine for months at a time without problems, but as anyone who has ever tried to support Exchange knows, when it goes wrong it usually goes seriously wrong. While experience has shown the newer versions of Exchange, 2007 and 2010 to be significantly more stable than the older versions, there is always the possibility for downtime stopping users getting to their email. Google’s new service, Google Message Continuity, allows business users to constantly synchronize
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How Business could have saved millions in the snow Guest Contribution by Cloud Hypermarket As the infographic shows, the UK economy has been losing up to 1.2 billion a day during the current bad weather as up to 1/5th of the workforce has been unable to get to work. Over half of all these workers have no access to their work systems or the ability to work from home using systems such as Microsoft BPOS or Microsoft Office 365. The price of provisioning such systems has been prohibitive in the past but with a Cloud IT System the provision would
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by sourya on December 22, 2010
in Apps, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Education, Google Cloud, Google OS, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
Who Doesn’t Like Cloud Computing? By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks Strange as it may sound, there do exist people who oppose the meteoric rise of cloud computing. And we are not talking about established application developers like Microsoft who fear losing billions of revenue as more and more people shift towards demand-based software in the cloud. In fact, whatever Microsoft’s misgivings may be, it read the writing on the wall some time back and embraced the adage “If you can’t fight them, join them.” As a results Docs.com was born in collaboration with Facebook earlier this year. No, we are
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by sourya on December 20, 2010
in Apps, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google OS, IT, Microsoft, Phone, SaaS, Technology
Oracle – the latest Big Boy to join the Cloud Computing game By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks Monday, December, 20th, 2010 – Cloud computing received a major shot in the arm with the entrant of the latest big name in the field – Oracle – on Wednesday, 15 December 2010. On that day, Oracle introduced Oracle Cloud Office and Open Office 3.3. While the latter is the latest version of the office suite that Oracle recently acquired in its portfolio after taking over Sun Microsystems, it is the former that has garnered maximum interest. Oracle describes the cloud computing product
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Asia Pacific region to benefit from new Cloud-based E-payment system in 2011 By CloudTweaks, Monday, December, 20th, 2010 – Introducing a new approach to electronic payment which will improve transaction times and authentication methods. Akamai’s planned cloud-based e-payment system is the next big thing to hit Asia Pacific in 2011 in the field of online financial services. One of the major concerns for people using such services is the security risk. All these factors have been taken into consideration by Akamai which aims at reducing cost of security compliance for businesses. Akamai Technologies is a well reputed company that provides
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Creates powerful force to meet surging European demand for SaaS collaboration and IT services 12/17/2010 » SANTA BARBARA, USA and KARLSRUHE, Germany » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Netviewer AG, a privately held European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor in collaboration and IT services. Netviewer AG will become part of the Citrix online services division, Citrix Online, and the acquisition will enable the extension of its SaaS leadership in Europe. The transaction is expected to close in early 2011, subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions. Citrix Online is expanding globally and this acquisition
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(Reuters) – Google Inc’s new Chrome PC may meet with chilly demand from China as tensions between Beijing and the search giant curb the latter’s offerings and as netbook sales slowly fall off the cliff in the world’s second largest PC market. Google’s laptops, promote Web-centric computing where people use online applications instead of software loaded onto PCs, are expected to ship in the middle of next year. But the focus on cloud computing and Google’s tussle with Beijing earlier this year over censorship and hacking could make it difficult for the operating system to replicate the success of Google’s
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Panda Cloud Antivirus Version 1.3 There has been an exponential growth in new viruses and malicious software that are appearing everyday on different IT platforms. Curbing this problem hasn’t been easy; it’s more like a game of cat and mouse. Newer threats and malware is created everyday and as a counter-measure, newer updates and patches of different anti-virus software are available. Keeping a large database free of malware requires an antivirus that provides the required level of protection without compromising the computational speed of the cloud; Panda Cloud Antivirus is one software that has the capability to do that. “Panda
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