Avaya offers virtual meetings, SaaS-style
Avaya this week updated its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/collaboration-web20.html">enterprise virtual collaboration software</a> and started offering it in a software-as-a-service model.
Avaya this week updated its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/collaboration-web20.html">enterprise virtual collaboration software</a> and started offering it in a software-as-a-service model.
Oracle's database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service, the companies announced Tuesday.
Google is modifying its Apps service level agreement in ways that increase the company's accountability whenever the hosted collaboration and communication software experiences downtime, the company plans to announce on Friday.
Cisco's cloud strategy encompasses pretty much everything under the sun save one - actual cloud services.
The road map for expanding enterprise use of cloud computing is being drawn by IT executives like Mark Stone, CIO at Safety-Kleen Systems Inc.
The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market.
Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant.
Google said on Monday that Apple iPad owners would soon be able to edit Google Docs files on their tablets.
VMware won't be the first vendor to bring virtual desktops to the Apple iPad, having been beaten to the punch by rival Citrix.
Moving to the cloud? It's quite a journey
Honing in on the lucrative government market for business applications, Google introduced on Monday Google Apps for Government, featuring its suite of cloud-based business applications equipped with extra security precautions.
EMC plans to shut down its Atmos Online cloud storage service immediately, according to a posting on its website.
In a recent column, my Security Manager's Journal counterpart, Mathias Thurman, wrote about securing virtual desktop environments. My company is going through the same exercise of evaluating VDI as a replacement for traditional desktops. As Mathias pointed out, the concept of virtualizing the applications that run on the system does not substantially change the threat landscape, nor does it modify the countermeasures we put in place to protect against those threats.
Customers always want their software bug-free and free of charge. Anything less is a disappointment, according to Josh Greenbaum, a principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting.