Cloud-Based Contracting Builds Business Most of us have a perpetual pile of paper somewhere on our desks. The individual items in that stack might change from day to day, but much of it sits for quite some time before it attracts our attention. For organizations dependent on contract completion, that omnipresent pile of paper is a business killer. The rise of cloud-based contracts is helping enterprises in multiple industries avoid the paper pushing that can bog down the closure of a deal. These companies are building on the wide acceptance of electronic signatures and adopting Web-based services that enable their
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SITA and Orange Business Services join forces to build a global cloud computing infrastructure Brussels – June 22, 2011 – SITA, the air transport industry IT specialist, and Orange Business Services, the leading global integrated communications service provider for businesses, have agreed to jointly build a global, high performance, managed cloud computing infrastructure. Each partner will use this infrastructure to deliver its cloud services portfolio to its markets with added global reach, reliability and minimum latency. The cloud computing infrastructure will be based on six seamlessly interconnected Tier III+ and Tier IV data centers in five continents, in Atlanta, Frankfurt,
Why the Next Medical Revolution Needs Cloud Computing This is the third in a trio of articles that explore the health, financial and intellectual implications of cloud computing. For the previous two, See: Health Care’s Reservations about Cloud Computing See: What NYSE’s Adoption of Cloud Computing Means for the Industry For some time now, genomics or the study of genes has been branded as the possible playing field for the next medical revolution. Indeed, some believe that genomics can have as much an impact on human civilization this century as computers did in the previous one, with possible applications from
Here is a compiled list of 35 Cloud Computing Reseller Partner Programs now available. This is a small list that we’ve put together for individuals and companies looking to cash-in on some of the growing cloud computing opportunities available. There are a number of other companies with partner opportunities not listed here and we will be sure to include them in the next update. These companies are listed in no particular order. 35 Cloud Computing Opportunities Flexiant scaling Art of defense security Extrasys file sharing Vmware scaling Ibm storage Parallel scaling Abiquo platform Abovenet network Storsimple storage Gogrid scaling Salesforce
Metanga Enhances Microsoft Cloud Adoption MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing and compensation solutions, has launched its multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based billing solution, on Microsoft Windows Azure. Known as Metanga, this solution will help Microsoft’s customers to monetize their Windows Azure offerings. It facilitates the adoption of Windows Azure to new audiences and also make Microsoft’s cloud platform more relevant. According to MetraTech, this announcement highlights its relationship with Windows Azure and continues its business relation with Microsoft. Metanga is a native Windows Azure building block solution, which provides Microsoft’s independent software vendor (ISV) customers with the shortest path to cloud-based
Research from Ipanema Technologies and Orange Business Services finds preferences for hybrid cloud, hybrid networking and Do-It-Yourself high amongst IT leaders June 22nd, LONDON: New research from Ipanema Technologies and Orange Business Services today reveals that 66% of enterprises plan to move to a hybrid cloud environment within the next four years. The study of 150 enterprise CIOs and IT Directors finds that a large majority plan to combine public cloud and private data centres to deliver business applications – rather than opting for a cloud only (17%) or private data centre only approach (17%). Results also highlight trends in
Palo Alto, Calif., June 21, 2011 – Symphony Services today announced it has established its award-winning IT service management offering, SUMMIT, as its own company. The new company, SUMMUS Software Inc., will aggressively advance SUMMIT’s goals of driving significant improvements to distributed IT governance, service levels and productivity—while addressing global management challenges via the broadest IT monitoring and management functionality available in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. While the majority of distributed IT service providers focus their offerings on large enterprise customers, SUMMUS is suitable for addressing the needs of small to mid-sized customers as well, ranging from $50 million to
