Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The cloud services explosion

Nine 'everything-as-a-service' (Xaas) companies to watch | Cloud brings foreign IT spending to U.S.

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The cloud services explosion
If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software-as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, DaaS, MaaS and BaaS? Read More


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Nine 'everything-as-a-service' (Xaas) companies to watch
Everything as a Service (XaaS) describes, well, everything that can be offered as a cloud-based IT service. It's a pretty wide swath of service categories with a long list of products in each. To narrow the field a bit, we asked industry analysts and practitioners to list the companies they are watching in the three XaaS categories that are currently bubbling to the top in terms of enterprise interest: Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Monitoring/Management as a Service (MaaS) and Network as aService (NaaS). Read More

Cloud brings foreign IT spending to U.S.
The United States has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make the U.S. a provider of data center services to enterprises in other countries. Read More

Hendrickson keeps on truckin' with UCaaS
Hendrickson International Corporation is a leading global supplier of truck, tractor, bus and recreational vehicle suspension and heavy-duty spring components to the commercial transportation industry. Read More


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Recent cloud critics, including Wozniak, intensify debate
Cloud computing has taken some heat this week. First, over the weekend Apple co-founder and tech icon Steve Wozniak said he's worried about the "horrendous" problems cloud computing could cause as users yield control of their data to service providers. Read More

25 essential business apps for Android
As Android devices continue to invade the enterprise, workers are beginning to rely on them as much as, if not more than, than laptops and desktops. In addition to basic email, plenty of other business-related tasks are moving to smartphones, including expense tracking, social media updates and even on-the-go invoicing. It can be tough finding the right app for the right task, but here are 25 essential business apps for Android (note: the last five require an enterprise component). Read More

Microsoft delivers missing Lync for telemed project
As Microsoft works to convince corporate IT that the underlying VoIP technology in its Lync unified communications platform has the chops to support the slew of applications the Redmond giant has built on top of it, there's no shortage of smaller-scale customers deploying it for interesting uses. Read More


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Software vendors reach out to users who resist upgrades
Several major software companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, kicked off an initiative called International Technology Upgrade Week to persuade customers to keep their code current. Read More

Microsoft Outlook.com doesn't play well with Android mobile
One of the hot new features of Microsoft's upgraded and renamed email service Outlook.com -- that devices without Office loaded onto them can open Office attachments in the cloud via a browser – won't work with Android mobile devices. Read More

Microsoft debuts cloud app model for Office, SharePoint
With Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013, Microsoft says it will make it easier than ever to develop, deploy and manage Web-based apps that extend the power of its productivity and collaboration. Read More



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