The Top Ten Considerations for Cloud Computing Business and IT decision makers are increasingly confused by the rising number and type of cloud computing solutions. Everyone it would seem is now promising to save you time and money with this or that kind of web-based service for everything from email and enterprise applications to storage and data management. Regardless of the information overload, however, organizations of all types and sizes must embrace the age of computing without borders to increase competitive advantage and grow their business. Sounds great, but it isn’t easy. This on-demand Webcast, featuring the editors of TechRepublic
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AccountsIQ Takes Advantage of Growing Demand for SaaS Accounting Software Tony Connolly founded Visor Ltd. in 2004 in Ireland and since then the company managed to set foot in the UK, Australia, India and the United States. Its fully hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) accounting platform accountsIQ, initially launched in 2007, is intended to help businesses that need a common platform for managing and benchmarking multiple entities. The platform targets primarily small and medium-sized enterprises allowing them to take advantage of a SaaS offering enabling users to manage their entire accounting process via the Internet and without in-house IT
CloudSigma’s IaaS Platform Challenges Amazon and Rackspace CLOUDSIGMA AG was founded in 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland and introduced its core Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution in May 2010 with its cloud being based in the Interxion data centre in Glattbrugg near Zurich. The underlying philosophy of the company is to offer unrestricted choice of operating systems and unlimited size of servers while providing ability for easy transfer of entire drive images. No restrictions are applied on the software running on the servers and customers can select the level of access they have. Actually, CloudSigma is an IaaS platform allowing
Cloud computing is often hyped as a cool new technology and a near-cure-all; move all that complicated IT infrastructure to the cloud so your company can be more efficient and save money and space in the process. Deloitte venture capitalist Mark Jensen strongly believes in cloud computing’s value proposition, but with some important caveats. “The problem we’ve had with the cloud is that a lot of fundamental technologies related to security and privacy don’t exist yet; making sure you’re not compromising someone’s personal information,” Jensen, managing partner for Deloitte’s National Venture Capital Services group, told InternetNews.com. “All that’s still be
