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Police inquiries delay LA's Google Apps roll out

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:10:15 +0100

It was billed as a major proof point that Cloud Computing had a future in the public sector – and as a blow to Microsoft – but the City of Los Angeles Google Apps roll out seems to have run into trouble.

In October of last year, L.A. City Council voted to adopt Google Apps after a fierce bidding war with Microsoft.

Royal Mail gives Capgemini stamp of approval

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:25:08 +0100

Royal Mail has announced a new six-year deal with Capgemini which will see the UK’s national postal service turn to the Cloud once more in a bid to “transform its business and consumer online services, help to reduce its annual website IT costs and support expansion and diversification into a wide range of new web-based business opportunities”.

Gartner: Global SaaS market to grow 14% in 2010

Neil Davey — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:17:52 +0100

Gartner predicts that the global software-as-a-service market will grow by 14.1% this year to $8.5 billion, with the delivery model taking a 26% share of total CRM sector revenues.

SaaS accounted for 24% of total CRM sales last year, with penetration levels ranging from between 11% and nearly 40% depending on the sub-segment.

Business cloud market more than double by 2015

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:00:30 +0100

Enterprise cloud services: worldwide forecast 2010–2015, the latest report from Analysys Mason, estimates that the global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from $12.1 billion in 2010 to $35.6 billion in 2015.

Supercomputing as a Service

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:13:23 +0100

SaaS has acquired a new meaning, Supercomputing as a Service, thanks to Cambridge University’s desire to turn its High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre into a profit centre from being a cost burden. The answer has been to turn it into a cloud-delivered SaaS operation.

`Cultural change’ in mobile clients coming for the cloud

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:33:08 +0100

The acquisition of Sybase by SAP will bring the latter several additional levers to pull in the enterprise marketplace, not least in its database and analytics portfolio of products. But perhaps the most important opportunity to spring from the deal still lies out in the future – the integration of the mobile client base as the ultimate access point between businesses and end users, be they road warrior executives, production line operatives, business partners, suppliers or, of course, customers and consumers.

View from the Cloud: overcoming the interoperability barrier

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:47:59 +0100

What do businesses want from Cloud Computing? It's clear they find its promised benefits of agility, flexibility and elastic scalability highly attractive – but as adoption grows, an increasing number of organisations will demand more.

Cloud Computing means more ICT jobs?

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:42:09 +0100

Four in 10 IT professionals predict that increasing use of Cloud Computing will create more jobs, according to IT jobs specialist CWJobs.co.uk.

View from the Cloud: Flexibility drives Cloud, not savings

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:41:39 +0100

Evangelists who bang on about the potential cost-savings of web-based accounting have got it wrong, argues Aqilla’s Hugh Scantlebury. What they should be talking about is the Cloud’s flexibility.

Microsoft squares up to Salesforce.com in online marketplace

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:22:53 +0100

Microsoft plans to square up to SaaS rival Salesforce.com by opening an online CRM apps marketplace.

Trust us in the Cloud, not Google, says Microsoft

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:16:14 +0100

Customers are willing to pay out for 'trusted providers' in the Cloud such as Microsoft even if they will insist on flirting with the likes of Google at first.

That was the sabre-rattling assertion from Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, at the firm's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington last week.

Doing business with Business ByDesign

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:32:46 +0100

The typical SAP customer over the next five years will gradually shift towards a mixture of running their applications on-demand, on-device and on-premise.

Private clouds high on IT execs agenda

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:05:01 +0100

Organisations that own supercomputers are generally in the large enterprise community. They are also amongst those that favour the idea of private clouds, where they can keep some measure of ownership over the infrastructure involved. So it perhaps comes as no surprise that a survey, taken by Platform Computing at the recent International Supercomputing Conference, shows that demand for private clouds remains undiminished, with 28% of organisations planning a deployment in 2010.

Cloud makes planning more difficult, survey suggests

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:15:59 +0100

There are signs that the spread of operational choices the cloud now presents top business users is making a confusing contribution to that important business equation: “what do we do now?”

Mainframe development gets cloudy

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:30:03 +0100

One elephant that arguably should be in the room labelled 'cloud computing’ is the mainframe computer. Yet it still remains largely absent. But there are occasional sightings of services that are in the mainframe space.

CloudApps cuts Norland energy costs

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:22:20 +0100

Building facilities services provider, Norland, has turned to CloudApps Carbon for its standard carbon emissions management solution across its estate portfolio.

Tibco aims to take BI social

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:19:36 +0100

Tibco is trying a new approach to Business Intelligence that could mark the start of a whole new way of marketing business services so that individuals can access the same benefits as businesses.

Infor gets cloud-ready

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:25:51 +0100

The announcement of Infor24 has an interesting sub-text to it which highlights how cloud-based services are likely to develop as a complex mesh of services and applications.

Regulating the cloud

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:18:16 +0100

You can always tell when a new technology or development is getting some serious traction in the market: it’s when moves start to be made to regulate and manage it. That is now the case with cloud computing.

G-Cloud: Take a lead UK government told

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:27:54 +0100

A move to Cloud Computing in the public sector will mean the government has to take the initiative to encourage a changing market landscape.