ITworld Cloud Computing

Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:24 +0000

Google is rolling out a new IT administration console for its Apps email and collaboration cloud suite and for other enterprise products such as Maps Coordinate and Chrome OS devices.

Facebook shakes up switch market with new Open Compute Project

Nancy Gohring — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:48:14 +0000

The new project will describe a switch that disaggregates the hardware and software. The result could lead to more options and better prices, even for non-Web scale businesses.

London Gatwick Airport takes out 200 servers, moves to cloud, BYOD

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:59:19 +0000

Airport's IT transformation to cloud, BYOD support is saving money, boosting security.

Platform-as-service offerings blurring lines between cloud packages

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:46:17 +0000

Cloud-based infrastructure and software providers like Amazon and Salesforce are incorporating application development tools into their offerings, blurring the lines between IaaS, SaaS and PaaS

Tier 3: Private cloud offering in the works

Nancy Gohring — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Cloud provider Tier 3, this week launching a new reseller program, is working on a private cloud offering

Google simplifies content management on its cloud storage service

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:35:25 +0000

Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by users.

If you need ammo, Bing is your search engine

Phil Johnson — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

If comparing Bing and Google on regular search results isn’t enough, try comparing them based on autocomplete suggestions

Microsoft to boost Office Web Apps features

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 01:13:59 +0000

Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android tablets via mobile Chrome browser support.

EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:12:00 +0000

Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.

How to change software testing for new cloud configurations

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:41 +0000

Here are a few things to think about in any cloud transition.

How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:39:17 +0000

The company's Open Compute Project aims to provide an open source platform for building infrastructure of the future.

Adobe scraps Creative Suite software licenses in favor of cloud subscriptions

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:16:42 +0000

Significant upgrades to all current Creative Suite 6 apps are coming soon, but they will be available only by subscription to Creative Cloud, not traditional software licenses.

Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:21:17 +0000

Citrix today announced new models in its CloudBridge line of branch repeater hardware, along with a software update to Version 7.0, which adds WAN optimization capability and direct support for public cloud services.

What's the right deployment model for your multichannel platform?

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:45:20 +0000

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SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:38:17 +0000

SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.