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First Mobile Cloud Platform for the Enterprise
Aug 24th
Model Metrics Introduces the First Mobile Cloud Platform for the Enterprise
Next Generation 2GO Cloud Platform Decreases Time to Market for Enterprise-Ready Mobile Applications Leveraging Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Google and Salesforce.com Technologies; Announces Expanded Support for Adobe AIR on Android
CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – August 24, 2010) – Model Metrics, the leader in cloud computing services for the enterprise, today introduced the first mobile cloud platform for the enterprise, enabling business users to take critical business functionality with them, wherever they go. Based on the company’s 1,300 plus custom, mobile and mutli-cloud deployments including Crescent Healthcare and Elkay Manufacturing, Model Metrics 2GO Cloud Platform leverages the industry’s leading cloud technologies from Amazon Web Services, Google and salesforce.com to deliver enterprise-class mobile solutions with expanded device support, including Android and any device running Adobe® AIR®, HTML5 or iOS.
Mobilizing the Cloud
Model Metrics 2GO Cloud Platform was developed to address customer demand for enterprise-class mobile cloud solutions that are scalable, highly customizable and easy to implement in order to make cloud computing work for mobile workforces and to support today’s trend of more business interactions taking place on mobile devices. According to Juniper Research, the mobile cloud computing market is expected to reach $9.5 billion by 2014, with the majority of this growth being driven by businesses (ABI Research: ‘Mobile Cloud Computing’ the Next Big Thing, Juniper Research: $9.5 billion by 2014).
The 2GO Cloud Platform:
- Designed for field representatives and other mobile workers who need a mobile and/or offline solution delivered quickly to simplify everyday tasks and enable productivity while on the go. Users experience seamless performance whether on or offline and see an immediate impact to their productivity with streamlined clickstreams and usability.
- Decreases time to market for customized mobile cloud solutions with pre-built functionality that meets 80% of business needs out of the box, and is significantly more cost-effective than solutions developed from scratch.
- Provides enterprises with multiple device options including Android tablets and smart phones, iPhones and iPads, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and traditional tablet PCs enabled by Adobe Flash® Builder™ for Force.com, HTML5 and Salesforce Mobile.
New to Model Metrics 2GO Cloud Platform
- New modular architecture that enables enterprises to pick and choose functionality from a series of pre-built, mobile-enabled components to rapidly build and deploy mobile applications that meet their specific business needs.
- Additional device support includes a tested, pre-release version for Android devices utilizing Adobe AIR, with a general availability release expected at the end of 2010. Android device functionality includes advanced business functions such as bar code scanning integrated with Salesforce CRM out of the box.
- In addition to life sciences, pre-packaged solutions now available for consumer goods and retail leveraging multiple 2GO Cloud Platform modules to improve field sales and service execution and enabling clienteling. Includes order entry and bar code scanning, advanced signature capture and call routing.
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10 Cloud Computing Startups that you may or may not have heard of…
Aug 24th
10 Cloud Computing Startups that you may or may not have heard of…
Tap In Systems
They offer Management of Your Cloud Services. This gives you control over your virtual infrastructure, automating the deployment of cloud services around 
your IT policies. Keep your applications running smoothly by monitoring all your cloud services with a single management system that is integrated with your operational processes.
WolfNetworks
WOLF is a browser based On Demand Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for rapidly designing and delivering database driven multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
CloudLab
Offers Cloud Services, Hybrid and Dedicated Clouds. They make it possible for your business to benefit from cloud hosting even if security, regulatory or technical requirements have previously prevented it.
CloudSilicon
Intends to become the utility of choice for a multitude of small and medium sized businesses, delivering enterprise grade IT systems from the cloud, effectively, securely and economically.
Morphlabs’ mCloud
MorphLabs series enables the rapid deployment of the most sophisticated Cloud Delivery platforms for MSPs and Enterprise data centers. Built on industry-leading cloud standards facilitating the hybrid implementation of both public and private virtual resources, the mCloud™ series virtualizes commodity hardware while simplifying system administration and application management.
iSpaces
iSpaces provides a multi-desktop cloud operating system that is simple to you use, incredibly fast, constantly persistent and universally accessible. The beta release of iSpaces is coming out on September 15th.
8KMiles
Is an internet company that is focused on building solutions around cloud computing. 8KMiles is an Amazon System Integration partner and AWS Solution Developer. 8KMiles’ Cloud Solutions group offers cloud consulting, engineering and migration services to help companies leverage the power of cloud computing.
CloudLinux
Is innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Start-Up Award by the The Cloud Computing World Forum in the “World Series” Innovation competition. Cloud Linux received the award for its new innovation on how to “crash proof” servers as hosting providers migrate to a cloud based services model.
CloudSleuth
CloudSleuth delivers a test lab that brings real-time views of cloud performance to the forefront. For those members shopping around for a cloud service provider, the CloudSleuth platform delivers visualization and performance benchmarks that give them the power to compare the response times and availability of the top cloud service providers.
Lookout
Is a mobile security company dedicated to making the mobile experience safe for everyone. Today, with users across 400 mobile networks in 170 countries, Lookout is a world leader in smartphone protection which will be big in the cloud computing market..
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Load Test and Performance Monitoring Companies
Aug 20th
Top 10 Cloud Computing Load Test and Performance Monitoring Companies
Keynote
Test Perspective is a cost-effective, completely self-service With Test Perspective you can run the most realistic load tests on-demand and . With Test Perspective you can run the most realistic load tests on-demand and receive immediate feedback on modifications you make to your Web site.
Soasta
Is available as an on demand service in the cloud or as a physical or virtual appliance, SOASTA CloudTest’s seamless integration of test design, monitoring, and reporting offers everything you need to test and deliver high quality Web applications and services at an affordable price.
Monitis
With its Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework, Monitis can now sync to other Cloud computing providers very quickly – from Rackspace, GoGrid, 
Softlayer, and more. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework will automate monitoring in highly dynamic cloud environments, where customers’ servers maybe added and terminated according to the load by management software or manually.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing email services for Enterprise Businesses
Aug 18th
Top 10 Cloud Computing email services
Google Apps
Reliable, secure web-based office tools for any size business Powerful, intuitive applications like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs can help reduce your IT costs and help employees collaborate more effectively – all for just $50 per user per year.
Offers 50X more storage than industry average – 25GB of email storage per employee.
PanTerra Networks
PanTerra Networks is the leading provider of cloud-based unified communications Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 
solutions for small and medium sized enterprises. The Company’s WorldSmart solution is delivered from the cloud through a 100% browser-based UC client, eliminating any premise-deployed hardware or software. WorldSmart provides unified communication services for unlimited digital voice, video and fax, instant message, mobile text and email all with presence through a single user and administrative interface
Cisco WebEx Mail
Cisco WebEx Mail reduces the burden of email management so IT can focus on strategic projects instead of routine tasks. Yet administrators remain fully in control through a web-based console, allowing them to adapt to ever-changing organizational needs. Cisco WebEx Mail includes advanced migration tools that simplify the migration process. The solution interoperates with existing email infrastructure as well as archiving and security solutions. This minimizes disruptions during the transition to a hosted email solution.
Yahoo Zimbra
Zimbra is a next-generation collaboration server that provides organizations greater overall flexibility and simplicity with integrated email, contacts, calendaring, sharing and document management plus mobility and desktop synchronization to users on any computer. Zimbra Collaboration Suite’s advanced web application and server is built on open standards and technologies to deliver unparalleled per-user scalability and lower overall total cost-of–ownership (TCO).
IBM LotusLive iNotes
LotusLive iNotes e-mail is a business-class messaging solution for everyone in your organization. Remote employees, retail workers and anyone who doesn’t work behind a desk will appreciate the easy access to company e-mail. With web-based e-mail, all of your employees will have real-time e-mail access from a Web browser and Internet connection. In addition to a web-based interface, all e-mail accounts are enabled with POP, authenticated SMTP and IMAP capabilities for use with e-mail clients such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook.
ElasticEmail
Elastic email makes email sending easier for both the developer and business manager of a cloud application. Several cloud application platforms such as Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 do not provide an email delivery service and may even set limits on your email sending. Elastic Email provides direct email sending through a simple REST API. This means, instead of having to setup and configure an SMTP email server or service you can begin sending email immediately, without worry using one of the code samples found in our API Documentation.
Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online is a web version of the ubiquitous on-premise e-mail client. Features include the ability to log on to your account and wipe your mobile phone of sensitive data if it’s lost or stolen. Some drawbacks: The program works best on Internet Explorer.
AppTix
Apptix provides hosted communications services so you can focus on what’s important—growing your business. Apptix is the industry leader in business-class communications services—the proven company of choice for hosted Exchange email, business VoIP services, and SharePoint collaboration services to more than 20,000 organizations worldwide.
AppRiver
AppRiver was founded in April of 2002 to provide simple, yet powerful email and web security solutions to businesses of any size. The company’s award-winning Secure Exchange Hosting simplifies the setup, provisioning and management of Microsoft Exchange by creating a complete managed service for administrators and end-users.
RackSpace Email & Apps
Rackspace Email provides all the benefits of a desktop program without being tied to the desktop. Log into Rackspace Email from your desktop, laptop, or mobile phone, and get instant access to email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes.
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Florida’s Pasco County Chooses Mimecast to Improve Speed and Accuracy of Public Record Requests
Aug 16th
Cloud-Based Email Archiving System to Help County Quickly Satisfy eDiscovery Requests
(Press Release) Waltham, Mass., August 16, 2010 – Mimecast®, a unified email management company offering cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced that Florida’s Pasco County has teamed with Mimecast to move its email management systems to the cloud. With Mimecast, Pasco County will greatly improve the speed with which public record requests can be fulfilled. County email will now be quickly searchable and the eDiscovery process will be cut down to mere minutes, giving the County an easy, cost-effective way to fill public record requests.
Prior to working with Mimecast, eDiscovery was a time-intensive, manual process that prevented the County from being as responsive to public record requests as it wished to be. Each request began a painstaking process that cost the County’s IT staff valuable hours due to the outdated archiving system. Mimecast solves this by archiving email in the cloud and enabling messages to be quickly and easily retrieved, exactly as needed.
“As a public entity, it is critical that we be able to respond to record requests in a timely fashion—we simply cannot delay in sharing needed information,” said Kristine Johnson, technical architect for Pasco County. “Before Mimecast, finding the right messages was taking too much time and energy away from other key IT tasks that needed attention.”
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How to Use Amazon Simple Notification Service – Beginners Level Tutorial
Aug 16th
How to Use Amazon Simple Notification Service
SNS (Simple Notification Service) is one of the major web services provided by Amazon. As the name suggests, it is a web service used to send notifications over cloud network without having any hardware and software specifications. Specially designed for developers, this service is highly scalable, flexible and cost effective. Since it is a PAYG service; user has to pay only for the data he uses to transfer. The rates are predefined and you can choose the plan according to your need and convenience.
Amazon Simple Notification Service is very useful for the developers who want to publish messages from an application and deliver immediately to the receiver or the application over a cloud network.
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The main usages of SNS are:
- Monitoring Applications
- Updating sensitive information in system applications
- Updating information in Mobile Application
- Marinating workflow in the system
- The following steps are required to start using Amazon SNS:
- Open Amazon website using http://aws.amazon.com URL.
- Go to “Products” and select Amazon Simple Notification service under “Messaging”.
- This action will direct you to the SNS web page where you can see detailed information on Amazon Simple Notification service. You can see a link at the right corner this web page “Sign up for the SNS”. Click on this button.
- The Amazon Sign in page appears, if you are an existing user and have an account then Sign in using your Amazon login credentials. You have to accept AWS Customer Agreement and enter the security image before signing up for the Simple Notification Service.
- Once the information is verified, you can see the following page with the rates of Request, Notifications and data transfer for using Amazon SNS.
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The New Google Cloud Computing Android Apps
Aug 13th
At a media event in its San Francisco office on Thursday, Google introduced two new mobile apps for Android devices that highlight the rapidly growing computing power available to mobile users.
Google product management director Hugo Barra showed off a new feature of the Voice Search app called Voice Actions for Android, a set of spoken commands that perform specified actions, like sending a text message. He also demonstrated an updated Chrome-to-Phone extension, which allows users to automatically transfer data like maps and URLs from a Chrome browser to an Android device.
arra described how in the past decade the processing power of mobile devices has increased from 400 MIPS when Palm phones were introduced to over 2000 MIPS with Google’s Nexus One.
But such steady increases in computational prowess pale beside advances in wireless connectivity and cloud computing infrastructure, he suggested. Today’s 4G phone can tap clusters of tens of thousands of computers. “That 2000 MIPS device has access to 2 billion MIPS, a million times its native computing capability,” he said.
t’s a theme Google has sounded before, a not-so-subtle reminder of who has the biggest Web index and most powerful computing infrastructure. But it seems less like swagger when Google’s cloud produces practical results, like accurately answering a spoken search query.
Access to massive computing power in the cloud, Barra said, is changing the way Google designs products and where it invests. “The impossible is becoming possible,” he said.
It’s been two years since Google first introduced Voice Search for mobile devices and since then its popularity has grown to the point where 25% of queries on Android 2+ devices are voice searches. “Our users love this stuff,” insisted Barra.
Indeed, the ability to speak a query and have it accurately transcribed is great when it works. And it now works most of the time, thanks to the vast amounts of search data Google can use to refine and divine voice queries.
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Cloud Computing Maturity – How To Shift to Cloud-Based Technology
Aug 12th
Cloud computing is still not mature enough to give a final verdict about its usability. However, there is no doubt that there is a constant paradigm shift to cloud based computing.
Before you shift your business or infrastructure to cloud based technology, you must learn some of the basic concepts about cloud-based technology, about its working and what are its pros and cons.
Below are some frequently asked questions about this latest technology.
1. What does cloud-based computing really mean?
Cloud-based computing is basically a service and solution providing technique in which companies get all the business solutions and most of the infrastructure through web and shared resources. They don’t have to buy the solution itself or any software, but they just have to pay for its usage just like any utility bill depending on how much you use something.
2. What benefits does your business get through cloud-based technology
Cloud based technology offers many advantages to your computer, including easy to use and implement, cost effective, more specialization in tasks, and reducing maintenance costs. Most importantly you don’t have to look after many computer servers, IT staff, and related operations. Let others take this responsibility.
3. What services does cloud-based technology offer?
All server based services plus almost all types of software solutions and business management tools are provided by cloud based vendors. However, you have to be careful about some cases where you are legally or ethically bound to keep the personal data of your customers in your own managed systems.
4. For how much cost?
The cloud based service vendors mostly charge by metering the usage of their services. The charges may depend upon type and usage of the service. For example, the charges for storage servers may be $0.12-$0.15 per GB per month or $0.10- $1.2 per hour for Linux and Windows servers.
5. What are the drawbacks of cloud-based services
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RightNow Delivers First Customer Experience Cloud Platform
Aug 11th
(Press Release ITWire Aug 11th)
RightNow today unveiled the first customer experience cloud platform, RightNow CX Cloud Platform making it possible for organisations to create, extend and integrate mission-critical customer experience solutions in the cloud.
The new RightNow App Builder opens up the RightNow platform, allowing RightNow clients and partners to create new customer experience applications natively within the RightNow suite and extend RightNow CX to incorporate client- and industry-specific business processes. For example, adding a new service channel such as in-game help, building desktop extensions such as an order processing component, or creating industry specific workflows and applications to tailor RightNow CX for specific vertical markets.
The RightNow CX Cloud Platform provides all the elements required to deliver exceptional customer experiences in today’s demanding business environment, including:
· RightNow App Builder, a complete suite of tools to rapidly create, extend, configure and integrate customer experience applications on the RightNow platform
· RightNow Knowledge Foundation, intelligent authoring, social collaboration, and access for delivering relevant, timely and consistent knowledge across all customer interactions
· Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery infrastructure that provides the reliability, security and scalability demanded for mission-critical business processes
RightNow Helps Organisations Design, Build and Connect Customer Experience Applications in the Cloud
Purpose built for customer experience applications, RightNow App Builder allows RightNow clients, partners and developers to build custom customer experience applications and create, extend, configure and integrate unique processes, all on the RightNow platform.
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Why Cloud Based Computing is the Best Practice to Adopt
Aug 10th
Cloud based computing offers the most sought after advantages to corporations and all with reduced cost and easy implementation. With the passage of time corporations are becoming more specialized and skilled in their operations. Instead of doing everything themselves, they concentrate more on their specific area and get services from other vendors for related tasks. Cloud computing is one of such services in which companies are free from responsibilities to maintain and manage their data and to get software application for their routine operations.
Here are some advantages which make cloud computing the best practice to adopt.
1. Reduced Cost
Cloud based services greatly reduce the capital expenditure of software, hardware and services. In cloud based services companies have to pay only for what they use. It also saves a lot of space and hardware for the company’s DBMS.
2. More Agile
Cloud based services are more agile because vendors offer services on demand with no time wastage on software development and deployment. The changes in requirements are easy and fast to accommodate.
3. Scalability
Cloud based services suit business of all sizes and types. You don’t have to buy on all or none principal and don’t have to pay for services and modules you don’t use. Since the cloud based vendors charge on utility bill method, the corporations can add and subtract services from its usage as the requirements change.
4. Increased Storage
Corporations can have access to increased storage at a low price as compared to that of company servers or private computers.
5. Specialization of Operations
Cloud based services free your IT department resources from managing and maintaining the IT related tasks. So you can downsize your IT department and concentrate more on your business critical tasks to excel in the market.
