Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: Elastoffice …Emancipate Office Administration and Filing Work on C9 Cloud, Says ElastOffice Elastoffice(EO) launched its business operations in mid-2011 in Hungary, but had already conceptualized and made feasible business commitments towards this realization half a decade before. This qualifies the startup as one of the European Rising Stars in a cloud startup sense. It also qualified for the recent prestigious EuroCloud award ceremony at the heart of Europe. The company specializes in office administration software solutions, using the Cloud C9 as the business and data storage reservoir. It also leverages on day-to-day office paper
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Need for Speed: Towards Satiating End Consumer Cloud Speed Craving Every passing day, end consumers have involuntarily been fine-tuned to anticipate technology at large becoming swift in terms of the offered data rate, superior in terms of quality of service and inexpensive in terms of aggregated cost. In essence, the modern day consumer is in a constant state of technological rush – the distinctive feature that has an impact on all facets of business operations and returns. It is not long ago that users exhibited a craving for web based content to be delivered instantly after system power up. The
Five Cloud Trends That Are Changing The Way Business Is Done As the cloud computing concept gets wide acceptance among businesses both big and small, the trends shaping it are evolving at a pace destined to change the way business is done. As more business tasks get accomplished on the cloud, many CTOs are willing to let a good amount of their operations run in cloud platforms. Cloud hosting is dominating the implementation level across industries with several hosted solutions offering services such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Other provisions, like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are also seen taking considerable shape as a business
Q&A with Chris Hale: Cloud Master Data Management — MDM for the Rest of Us We caught up with Chris Hale, VP of Global Product Marketing for Liaison Technologies, to get his take on why the cloud is making the adoption of master data management (MDM) more feasible for mid-market companies, as well as opening new opportunities for global enterprises. Historically, only large enterprises have adopted master data management. What’s changing? We’ve been providing master data management solutions for a long time, but we’re seeing a definite surge in customer interest with our cloud-based MDM services. Not to mention, we’re
Accountability In The Cloud Shouldn’t Be Overcast The cloud has radically shifted the definition of software since the early days of computing, when it was once generally thought of as a program that came to us on a disc. The disc would transfer the program to our computer through an arcane process of whirling motors and moving magnets or lasers. Then as time went by, the physical medium was replaced by downloadable software. But, at the end of the day, you’d still have a running application that lived on your computer, and you owned it forever. For a company, this






