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There’s plenty of news trending about the cloud these days. Software giants Microsoft and SAP announced an agreement to expand their global partnership by integrating one another’s cloud-based applications. Meanwhile, Dropbox boosted its desire for photo apps and services with the purchase of photo startup Bubbli. Let’s not forget the Zendesk IPO, which saw the … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has earned high marks for his first four months at the helm of the software giant. His performance garnered the company’s stock an upgrade Thursday from research firm FBR Capital Markets. FBR analyst Daniel Ives raised his rating on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock to outperform from market perform and hiked his price … Read more
This seminar will cover principles and guidelines of GRC as they apply to cloud computing. Seminar instructor Javier F. Kuong is the President and Principal Consultant of Management Advisory Services& Publications, an organization that for over 30 years has been devoted solely to consulting, training, publications, research and development in Enterprise… This seminar will cover … Read more
Cloud computing is unleashing a “shotgun of innovation” in the public sector, says former federal CIO Vivek Kundra, now executive VP at Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com announced Friday that it has received the authority to operate (ATO) on its new Government Cloud, both for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS). With the ATO, granted under the Federal Risk … Read more
IBM is offering cloud services to cover patient care, customer data analysis and other specific industry processes May 29 — Hoping to jump out in front of providers of generic cloud services, IBM has launched a portfolio of cloud packages, called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, designed to run specific business processes such as asset management … Read more
The number of people using cloud services will increase to 3.6 billion by 2018, according to Juniper Research. The firm says that 2.4 billion people currently use cloud-based services in one form or another, with cloud-based data storage, social media, music and games helping to drive the trend upwards. But what are the new cloud … Read more
Solution providers said the new NexGen Cloud Conference & Expo, to be held Dec. 3 to 5 in San Diego, fills a much-needed gap for vendor-neutral content in an increasingly partisan cloud-computing marketplace. The conference, the brainchild of CRN parent company, The Channel Company, is the first partner-centric, cloud-computing conference aimed at providing vendor-neutral content … Read more
As far as public cloud frontrunners go, it’s often said that AWS is in the lead — and then there’s everyone else. But when it comes to the AWS hybrid cloud strategy, that may not be the case, especially when you look at what VMware, IBM and Azure offer. Instead of making the argument that … Read more
While new-age industries such as social media and cloud-computing generate more than their fair share of headlines, investors may want to start paying attention to one of the world’s oldest sectors. Agriculture sales and production expenses are reaching new record highs. U.S. producers sold $394.6 billion worth of agricultural products in 2012, which cost $328.9 … Read more
Naperville, IL — Reportstack, provider of premium market research reports announces the addition of Global Hybrid Cloud Market 2014-2018 market report to its offering About Hybrid Clouds. A hybrid cloud is a combination of public and private cloud computing. Hybrid cloud allows for cloud bursting in which an application runs in a private cloud and … Read more