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The Canada Cloud Network (CCN), a new industry consortium intent on establishing Canada as a world leader in the field of Cloud Computing, is pleased to announce their formal launch and the immediate availability of membership services including ‘Social Cloud PR’.
Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced the availability of Adobe® CQ Cloud Manager, a Software-as-a-Service application that provides enterprises the ability to easily and quickly launch marketing initiatives in the cloud. With CQ Cloud Manager, part of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, d...
With companies increasingly worried about their data in the cloud, a number of providers have cropped up to offer various types of encryption Many studies have shown a chasm between cloud service providers and their customers regarding who is responsible for the security of the custome...
I can barely control my indignation when I read articles about Google Plus as a tool for “social collaboration”. These articles sometimes come from writers I respect. I guess we have a difference of opinion on this. Here are my reasons why I think Google Plus is not a tool for social c...
This week I published our latest Cloud Best Practices white paper, called ‘Microsoft Cloud 2.0‘. The main activity of the CBPN is this vendor matching, i.e. we identify the best practice model, and then describe how different vendors can be used to implement those models. I...
Smartphones – they are everywhere.  You would be hard pressed to find anyplace from a grammar school to a nursing home where there is not one.  Given the two most intrinsic aspects of smartphones – they are mobile, they are communication devices – As of Q4 2011 over half of those aged ...
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news round-up: The proposed Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA) would make it illegal for employers to demand access rto social media accounts. More here. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has reques...
Rethink Your Content Marketing by Aiming at Billions of Buyers on the Move For those of us who been around computing since the early days of PCs, the consumer move to mobile devices and away from desktop and even laptop computers is astonishing–and maybe a little terrifying. Smar...
When it comes to embracing social media and applications, many businesses seem to question the benefit. True, if you are a consumer goods manufacturer, there is inherent benefit in associating yourself with social media and consumer applications, but what about for Government agencies?...
If you believe that you've had to learn more about the safe online operation and ongoing management of your PC than you ever wanted to know, then you'll be pleased to discover that there's relief on the horizon. According to the latest market study by Gartner, the reign of the personal...
Dion Hinchcliffe of Dachis Group is one of the brightest minds in the nation today. For years he has helped individuals and organizations think through complex challenges. And for years he has proven he can glean trends and impart their relevance to decision-makers. He is world renowne...
There’s been a lot of noise lately about a company called Klout, which recently rounded up another $30 million in venture capital funding from several big firms. Klout, for those who don’t know it, attempts to put a single numerical value on your online influence across social-media si...
Any case study is about a success story and there are 2 ways to present it. The first way is to explain how series of deliberate and logical decisions have led to the success. The steps may include iteration and failure but those are presented as a part of the overall process. The proc...
And you thought FourSquare was a security risk… Mobile phones with great cameras are an awesome tool. Many of these end up on Facebook, visible to friends, family and, well, friends of friends and maybe even the public. They get shared around so much, you can’t really be sure where...
"ActiveSpaces [is] a critical component in high velocity and high-volume analysis and addresses our customers ask of big data: How can I make decisions based on real-time data streams with all the benefits of history?" said Matt Quinn, CTO of TIBCO, as his company Monday unveiled an in...
For the last few years social media has been the talk of the internet.  Websites like Quora and Pinterest have become the Cinderella stories of the tech world.  What originally started out as a novelty, has now become an integral part of SEO and content marketing tactics.  Everyone wan...
"This is big data analytics to the extreme," said IBM Researcher Ton Engberse. "With DOME we will embark on one of the most data-intensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research."
A keystone to Cloud 2.0 is Cloud Identity – Common identity systems for single sign-on across Cloud as well as internal applications. Implementing Cloud Identity best practices is achieved through ‘IDaaS’ – Identity as a Service, one of the services on our Roadm...
Callidus Software Inc. announced on Monday that Certify Data Systems, a pioneer in Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology, has selected the LeadFormix Marketing Automation platform to optimize its lead generation and sales and marketing effectiveness. The agreement was signed in ...
Akamai Technologies, Inc.), announced on Wednesday that Dolce&Gabbana, the world's leading Italian brand in the fashion and luxury industry, has chosen Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator, part of the Company's Aqua Web Solutions, to accelerate all versions of its web site (www.dolcegabb...
Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, on Wednesday announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of its OnDemand Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies a company's leadership amongst its peers, and game-cha...
Ping Identity, the cloud identity security leader, on Wednesday unveiled PingOne, a multiplexed identity switch in the Cloud. One connection to PingOne provides businesses the convenience of tier 1 Single Sign-On (SSO) access to all of their cloud applications and gives IT one place to...
Flexiant on Tuesday announced a partnership with CloudWork and Parallels to integrate Flexiant's cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the market leading virtualization solution for hosting and cl...
JetBrains, creators of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, on Tuesday announced the availability of a new major release of their .NET performance profiler, dotTrace Performance. This new release enables users to attach the profiler to running processes dynamically, i...
GoGrid on Thursday announced that it has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Challenger's quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting" report. "For more than a decade, GoGrid has been challenging traditional hosting, introducing impactful innovations that have allowed busin...
#infosec #adcfw #cloud Alternate title: How to take out an entire PaaS cloud with one vulnerability Apache Killer. Post of Doom. What do these two vulnerabilities have in common? Right, they’re platform-based vulnerabilities. Meaning they are vulnerabilities peculiar to the web o...
Are social media and networking including twitter, blogs, google+ and linkedin among other venues and mediums a waste of time or only for those who have nothing else to do? As with most things, the answer is it probably depends. However IMHO the answer is NO, social media and ne...
iomart Hosting becomes natural choice for football kit as well as business hostingUK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has recruited two Scotland footballers to launch its latest community campaign.'Host Your Kit' is an initiative by the Scottish Digi...
Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016. Also read Fiel...
Big Data - not surprisingly - features in Deloitte's just-released annual "Tech Trends" report identifying the 10 trends most likely to have an impact for CIOs in the coming year and beyond. "It's an uncommon time to have so many emerging forces – all rapidly evolving, technology-ce...
One of my guilty pleasures is to watch ‘The Bachelor’ on Monday nights with my wife.  While it is true that this show may actually decrease your IQ as you watch it, I firmly believe that you can offset the loss of brain cells by making snarky comments about the participants, thus impro...
The #EnterpriseSocial tag refers to the use of social media within the enterprise, for purposes of enhanced collaboration and knowledge management, as enabled by Cloud Best Practices. This is also known as Enterprise 2.0, and is a fairly well established term now, coined originally by ...
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced a product family that redefines content management from the cloud to include both content and apps on one's own devices and in the public cloud. Since 2009, millions of Wyse PocketCloud users have had the abi...
CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation provider, on Tuesday announced the availability of AnyCloud for the hybrid deployment of production applications. AnyCloud provides CloudBees customers the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a variety o...
Cisco has announced that Virgin Media is deploying Cisco Quad, Cisco WebEx and Cisco Unified Communications to its people. The solutions are being rolled out as part of Virgin Media's Flexible Working Initiative and will enable thousands of employees to collaborate and work remotely wi...
Cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has announced that it has carried out a group-wide virtualisation for office2office (o2o), the sole provider of offices supplies and Closed Loop document recycling services for the UK government. o2o's IT had been ...
Actian Corporation (formerly Ingres Corp.), on Tuesday announced that Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is available for download and purchase. Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is specifically packaged to address the growing technology needs of mid-sized businesses as well as Workgroups within ...
Digital Menu Me, a provider of digital restaurant menus, has begun to install its digital menu boards in many restaurants alongside Revel Systems iPad Point of Sale system for restaurants. With the power of Cloud-based technology, Digital Menu Me and Revel Systems restaurant pos can n...
Autonomy, an HP Company, has announced a significant new release of the company's market-leading eDiscovery solution. Autonomy eDiscovery brings together the best capabilities of Autonomy Stratify for review, Autonomy Introspect for production, and Autonomy Investigator & ECA for ident...
Last week we have we have renamed our cloud-based mobile app builder to Tiggzi (from Tiggr). Tiggzi is the most powerful and easy to use cloud-based mobile app builder. Free Plan! But, even more interesting news (for you) is that now we have a Free plan. No credit card nothing, just si...