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Tango2 Moves to Cloud Financial Management with Intacct Growing Healthcare IT Consulting Firm Improves Operational Visibility and Accessibility with Move to Intacct SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 9, 2011 – Intacct a leader in cloud financial management and accounting software, today announced that Tango2, a growing healthcare IT consulting firm, is moving its financial applications to the cloud by replacing Microsoft Accounting Pro with Intacct. Tango2, with a national practice that has doubled in size each of the past four years, needed a more robust financial management and accounting platform to accommodate its growth. The move to Intacct’s cloud computing-based
BMC Introduces Preventative Approach to Cloud Operations BMC Software has integrated additional capabilities into its BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution that proactively ensures the service quality of cloud services. Cloud failures can have calamitous impacts and BMC is attempting to avoid such mishaps with this initiative. “The goal of cost optimization and increased business agility through the cloud will only be realized with processes and tools that are designed specifically to address the new operational issues that cloud-based services present,” said Cameron Haight, research vice president, Gartner, Inc. “IT organizations seeking to remain relevant in a new world of choices
Amazon AWS – Small Bump In The Night Amazon AWS service was down for close to 25 minutes last night . Based on their status page: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ 7:39 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for EC2 in the US-EAST-1 region. 7:50 PM PDT We can verify connectivity issues between instances in the US-EAST-1 region and the Internet. 8:03 PM PDT Full connectivity has been restored. The service is operating normally. Some of the more recognized companies affected by the outage were Netflix, Foursquare and Reddit to name a few. The 25 minutes of downtime is a lot more forgiving than it was
Acquisitions of Cloud Computing Startups Speed Up A startup is defined as a company with a limited operating history. A startup is usually born out of an innovative idea, and the founder or founders have one of two objectives – grow the company until it is acquired, or continue to operate it themselves. When a larger company acquires a smaller one, it usually does due to one or more of the following reasons – its product, its people or its market. With cloud computing being such a new technology, there is a lot of innovation taking place. Consequently, startups have
Cloud Data Report: Create an Enterprise Data Strategy CREATING AN ENTERPRISE data strategy is not for the faint of heart. It first requires a commitment from the top and an acknowledgment that data is a corporate asset that must be managed and protected like any other asset. Given the difficulty of getting executive buy-in, it’s not surprising that only one in 10 organizations have an enterprise data strategy. To harness data as a corporate asset requires a mix of “soft” skills, required to build sustainable strategies and manage change, and “hard” stuff, which applies a portfolio of data management tools
