Morgan Hill have announced a series of events around cloud computing and IT costs starting in London at the City Club 19 Old Broad St London EC2N 1DS on the 14th of September 2010.
The City Club event is aimed at senior executives from IT, finance and general management who want to gain a clear picture [...]
If you’ve moved your enterprise onto Google Apps, you’ve entrusted a single company with all your business-critical data: email, Office documents and contacts. To protect against online data loss you may want to consider independent back-up. One company that looks like it’s trying to address this area is Backupify.
eBay have announced that they will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform.
Read more at eBayInk
CouchDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) document-oriented open source database, has finally reached version 1.0. Claimed features for the first full release are:
* Up to 300% faster than the pre-release version,
* support for Microsoft Windows,
* authentication system – until recently this could have been seen as a major oversight,
* replicator options – CouchDB offers a number [...]
SugarCRM is the major open source customer relationship management (CRM) platform; following the release of version 6, it is also certified for deployment on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform.
Interestingly SugarCRM competes directly with Microsoft’s own CRM platform as well as Software-as-as-Service providers, such as Salesforce.
Read more at SugarCRM
Research commissioned by datacenter solution provider Brocade reveals
that 60% of European enterprises believe that within the next two
years they will have started planning and migration towards cloud
clouding. Whilst cost reduction is seen as a major driver by 30% of
enterprises, more than a third believe security to be a major obstacle
to moving into the cloud.
Read [...]
Microsoft’s free online version of its Office suite, Office Web Apps,
is now available to users in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. It needs
a Windows Live ID to sign in.
In an interview, the president of Microsoft’s server and tools
business talked about the shifts to the cloud, Google’s role in the
enterprise and the future of Microsoft’s server products, including
the next version of Windows Server.
Read more on Cnet
With the announcement of Google Storage it looks as though Google will soon be competing with Amazon in the cloud storage business.
Although Google Storage for Developers is currently available to a limited number of U.S. developers only, its pricing looks very similar to Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Web Services launches its first Asia Pacific Region in Singapore.