This demo will appeal to anyone interested in, or responsible for moving enterprise applications to or from datacenters and clouds. It will be of particular interest to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) looking to increase their MRR by giving their customers a solution that easily migrates applications to their cloud
Basware Launches Enhanced Mobile App for Purchase-to-Pay
Basware, a provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay solutions, has today announced the availability of Basware Mobile 1.2, bringing the processing of purchase requisitions into its native apps for iOS and Android powered smartphones and tablets.
As workers become increasingly mobile and accustomed to social collaboration, employees expect to be able to access and interact with core business processes and data on the move in order to maximize productivity. Basware Mobile 1.2 delivers a comprehensive purchase-to-pay mobile application to enable users to review, approve and reject invoices and purchase requisitions while on the move. Basware helps businesses further speed up the review and approval cycles of invoice and requisition processing, through the full automation of procurement and accounts payable processes, coupled with the delivery of anywhere, anytime access to processes and data through browser, tablet and smartphone apps.
On 29th February 2012, Basware launched Alusta, a cloud-based platform for business-to-business transaction collaboration. Basware Mobile 1.2 is an enhancement to the mobility function of Alusta, adding purchase requisitions to invoices already supported within in the mobile app. Basware Mobile is fully optimized for all smartphone and tablet devices including mobile web, Android and iOS platforms. It is also designed to allow social collaboration in an enterprise solution.
Infographic: Take a Break — the Life You Save May Be Your Own
Off-topic? We think not. Hey, maybe cloud computing will mean more mobile access, and tablets and Google Glass, and smartphones will lead to an epidemic of “Walking and Talking (to your computer)”. Source: www.learnstuff.com
Code 42 Software Expands Endpoint Backup Solutions Ease-of-Use
Code 42 Software Inc., developers of cloud-based endpoint backup solutions for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, today announced at Cloud Expo West 2012 expanded capabilities for its entire family of CrashPlan endpoint backup solutions. This new version of CrashPlan expands the company’s recognized dedication to ease-of-use by both end users and data backup administrators, and provides powerful new enterprise functionality for managing private clouds.
“Code 42 is committed to giving enterprise administrators the private cloud management capabilities they demand,” said Matthew Dornquast, chief executive officer, Code 42 Software. “Our new functionalities make our solution unique and give admins what we believe is the best private cloud management solution on the market today. In addition, a key differentiator of all our CrashPlan offerings is our ability to support a variety of platforms – Mac or Windows, Linux or Solaris. We give users the powerful, trusted backup solutions they need, on the platforms they want to use; and Windows 8 upgraders will be happy to know that CrashPlan is already fully compatible.”
Available today are a variety of additional capabilities for Code 42’s enterprise solution CrashPlan PROe which extend the solution’s ease-of-use for administrators, such as:
- Single-point upgrades of private clouds – With this new version
comes automatic upgrade functionality for storage servers, which makes
managing private clouds easier and less time-consuming. Once all
servers are individually upgraded to the current version,
administrators can upgrade their entire private cloud with a
single-point upgrade for future releases. - Support for Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) –
This version of the SAML
OASIS
standard for exchanging authentication
and authorization
data between security
domains enables web-based authentication and authorization
scenarios including single
sign-on (SSO). Organizations utilizing SAML 2.0-based SSO
technologies (such as Shibboleth) can now integrate CrashPlan PROe
with those systems, which simplifies the authentication process by
delegating all authorization to the organization’s identity provider.
CrashPlan PROe is lauded by global organizations such as Google, Adobe, Netflix, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com for its reliability, performance and invisible nature. In addition to its new capabilities, PROe gives the enterprise:
- Continuous, silent backup – Works quietly, continuously in the
background to unobtrusively protect data according to admin or user
settings. - Self-service restore – When a restore is required, users can
initiate it themselves – with only a few clicks – and without needing
IT intervention. - End-to-end security – Encrypts data on the device and again
during transit, and keeps it encrypted during data storage. - Flexible data storage options – Offers both public and private
cloud data storage across multiple physical locations via a hybrid
architecture. - Superb performance – Innovative compression and multi-threading
technologies provide superior performance; a byte-level differential
only transmits and stores new information. - Dynamic data balancing – Provides optimum use of available
storage and bandwidth within and between servers and data centers. - Easy monitoring and administration – Gives admins a real-time
view of the entire system and an easy way to control every aspect of
the backups – whether for 200 users or two million – via an
intuitive admin dashboard and console. - Easy, trusted access to data while on-the-go – Gives users
secure access to all their data from anywhere via mobile apps for
Apple iOS, Android or Windows Phone; apps feature one-touch update and
the same industry-leading security as the PROe desktop applications. - Customizable backup sets – Provides an easy way to back up
different groups of files and folders on different schedules and/or to
different destinations.
How did the cloud prevent #Sandy from getting worse?
As the hurricane raged over the US East Coast this week the world shivered at the thought of a possible disaster.
Sandy, the Frankenstorm, slowly withdrew leaving irreparable damage and chaos behind.
The citizens of the areas affected will definitely need considerable time (and money) to take everything back as it once was. However, in some aspects it could have been worse.
As Sandy came closer it cut the power supplies and caused a collapse of communication channels. Major datacentres located in the East Coast suffered considerable impacts and many web services were taken down.
This is why many wondered what would have happened if there wasn’t the cloud – this is the place where so much important data is, after all.
Cloud providers scatter user data across different datacentres and this is often considered to be a great disaster plan. Sandy was in a way a final test for …
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Brocade Acquires Vyatta
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Brocade today announced that it will acquire privately held Vyatta in an all-cash transaction. Vyatta is based in Belmont, Calif. and is a networking industry innovator through its software-based network operating system that is highly relevant for multiple applications in network virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN) and private/public cloud computing platforms.
Brocade expects to close the acquisition by the end of the calendar year.
Cloud & Big Data Move Center Stage This Week in Silicon Valley
What does Cisco’s Cloud CTO have in common with the CTOs of Rackspace, Progress Software, Eucalyptus Systems, SOA Software, and the Cloud CTO of Symantec, as well as the CEOs of Nebula, Cordys, Adaptive Computing, and Virtustream, and the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation?
The answer is that they are all speaking here in Silicon Valley from today, at 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley – are you joining them?
The high-energy event is a must-attend for senior technologists from CEOs on down. The surest way to get yourself and your company fully “Cloud-ready” and to understand why Big Data is going mainstream is by joining the thousands of others who are attending Cloud Expo this week!
HP Gets New Labs Director, CTO
A year to the day that HP’s last CTO Shane Robison vacated the premises,
the first big wheel at the company to depart after Meg Whitman took over
– with Meg saying he wouldn’t be replaced – she changed her mind and
tapped Martin Fink to fill the empty slot.
Fink also gets to be director of HP Labs, replacing Prith Banerjee, who left
in April.
That Other Single Point of Failure
When you’re a kid at the beach, you spend a lot of time and effort building a sand castle. It’s cool, a lot of fun, and doomed to destruction. When high tide, or random kids, or hot sun come along, the castle is going to fall apart. It doesn’t matter, kids build them every year by the thousands, probably by the millions across the globe. Each is special and unique, each took time and effort, and each will fall apart.
The thing is, they’re all over the globe, and seasons are different all over the globe, so it is conceivable that there is a sand castle built or being built every minute of every day. Not easily provable, but doesn’t need to be for this discussion. when it is night and middle of winter in the northern reaches of North America, it is summer and daytime in Australia. The opportunity for continuation of sand castles is amazing.
Help Desk Solution Empowers Employees
BMC Software this week launched MyIT, an enterprise IT help desk solution that empowers employees to take more personal control over their IT services and to get the right type of help they need — anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Frustration with company IT departments is a widely shared experience. Forrester Research reports that just 35 percent of business decision-makers say IT provides “high quality, timely end user support.” What’s more, employees are increasingly circumventing their IT organizations in search of faster IT support and problem resolution.
Moreover, studies show that the friction between users and IT help capabilities saps as much as 20 percent of productivity away from workers. That’s a day a week when things go wrong.