Earlier today I interviewed hot Cloud venture Appdirect, a company that offers a white label platform for implementing ‘Cloud Service Brokering’. This is one of the headline R&I focus areas for our road map. On the back of a $3.25m VC deal last year, Appdirect is one of a number of pioneers in this super hot […]

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As cloud-based applications grow and become more pervasive in our personal and business computing landscape, fixed and mobile networks will become even more vital as the platform that enhances the way we live, work, play and learn. Check out our new infographic to learn how region is currently equipped to handle basic, intermediate and advanced cloud services today.

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«All companies, even non-technology companies, have realized they are cloud companies,” says Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite.

“To effectively transition their business to this new model of reaching customers, they need to build their enterprise around an application suite like NetSuite that was designed to support operations in the Cloud Age,” he adds.

NetSuite is not one of the larger cloud players, but did just report record quarterly revenues of US$69.3 million, up 30 percent from a year ago. It shows a positive cash flow and squeezed out profits of $4.1 million in its most recent quarter.

The company had a strong presence in the Philippines, where I was just based for three years, as it tackles a lot of unfun challenges in the financials, ERP, and related spaces. Nelson says the company most recent results are driven by continuing momentum “as companies large and small…(continue a) migration from legacy offerings like Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains, Sage and SAP to NetSuite.”

I like it.

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The latest generation of cloud computing is now capable of addressing the needs of the enterprise mission-critical applications. These applications require computing infrastructure that is secure, optimizes performance, and is highly resilient.
In his Day 2 Keynote at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, will highlight how the latest cloud computing designs have evolved in terms of security, availability, and overall service quality to meet the needs of mission-critical applications.

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A new era of Business Intelligence is unfolding with users buying and deploying BI either with or without cooperation from IT. Because of this shift, users now have many choices and need to make the best decision when it comes to BI features, functionality and price.
Stay up to date on the ever-changing BI market by reviewing the findings of the 2011 Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study™. Howard Dresner, report author and worldwide authority on BI, shares the latest market trends and provides true insight in to what is happening in the BI arena today. In addition, read why Actuate/BIRT is in the top position and how it exceeded its peer group and the overall sample average for all Technical Support and Product metrics by a wide margin.

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Cloud computing revolutionized application design, and changed the way people think about infrastructure. The rise of cloud computing coincided with a new generation of applications and services that required scale. New architecture and design had to take into account low latency network connectivity, geographic distribution, large real-time data stores, the ability to meet demand (while not knowing exactly how much demand to handle), and so much more. We refer to this as Internet Scale. We see a market trend with prospects and customers asking for hybrid hosting environments that include public cloud, private cloud, dedicated servers, storage and managed hosting. Leveraging these products and services they want to architect and deliver a solution that is Internet Scale. From a technology perspective, what is Internet Scale? Is it really viable to build to Internet Scale in a hosted environment? What does it take to achieve true Internet Scale?

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Today, security is undoubtedly the biggest risk and negative side effect to cloud computing. Fortunately, the status quo is about to change. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a not-for-profit organization that has developed open standards for computers, networks, storage and mobile devices to improve enterprise and personal security, is now focusing its attention on cloud computing security. The hardware basis of trust for many aspects of TCG’s standards is the Trusted Platform Module, or TPM. For a virtualized trusted platform, a virtual TPM (vTPM) and all the associated architecture have been defined to provide protection for virtual machines paralleling the hardware-rooted security offered on non-virtualized platforms. While the standard was only recently released, it represents the culmination of a decade-long effort by TCG members to increase financial, medical, government and other organizations’ trust in electronic information processing, communication and control.

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appzero will be demonstrating its newly announced zapp migration at Impact 2012. The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to any cloud, zapp automatically extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in. The demonstration will show how zapp automation slashes the bulk of manual labor, time, costs, and error typically involved in on-boarding complex enterprise applications

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The BYOD trend requires sweeping changes to the way devices are used in the workplace. Find out how to confront and manage those changes, provide a better user experience, and ensure security.
Gartner Hosted BYOD VIDEO: Mobility and the Social Enterprise
Technical Design Workshop VIDEO: Bring Your Own Device Without Compromise
Design Guide: BYOD – Device Freedom Without Compromising the IT Network

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Data is exploding, Big Data is in every environment. Organizations are finding new tools to analyze and govern their IT capabilities, but not without a cost. How decision makers sense-make of all this data is the newest challenge. How are they to integrate dashboard after dashboard, pooling data from legacy and next generation services?

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