Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically
With Enterprise 2.0 just over, I am still talking about social and collaboration with others. I came across an interesting data about the collaboration space and thought I will highlight it here. We all know how the modern collaboration tools increase the productivity in an organization by manyfold. There are many studies that put a […]
iPad And IT Admins: NaviSite Adds iPad Support To Manage Their Cloud
The iPad and IT Admin frenzy that started few weeks back is now turning into “enterprise fashion” trend. Every day you hear from an enterprise service provider adding support to their service through iPad. Particularly, apps designed to help IT Admins and manager take care of their infrastructure through iPad is very attractive for me. […]
iPad And IT Admins: VMware Jumps Into iPad Mania
This is my third post in the last ten days on the iPad in the enterprise meme and the main reason is that this meme is refusing to die anytime soon. VMware is the culprit this time. At the VMworld Europe conference on Tuesday, VMware CTO, Steve Herrod, announced about VMware’s plan for this device […]
iPad In The Enterprise Meme Continued
The tech media is busy talking about how iPad is entering today’s enterprises along with other smartphones. I have also talked about this topic many times in the past. Today, GigaOm’s theAppleblog carried an article about enterprise penetration of iPad. Darrell Etherington, the author of the post, was highlighting some evidences which points to enterprise […]
Syncplicity Enhances Their Business Edition To Compete Harder In The Crowded Marketplace
Syncplicity (see previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based file storage and management company, yesterday announced the release of additional features for their Business Edition. This will help them compete harder with services like Sugarsync, Box.Net, etc. in the business space. With this release, Syncplicity makes it clear that they want to target the corporate accounts. […]
iPad In Enterprise: IT Folks Can Have One Too
Ever since iPad has been released by Apple, there are discussions on whether iPad is an enterprise material or not. However, we are seeing increased iPad adoption in many organizations including some big enterprise players. However, there is another trend slowly shaping up without much media fanfare. Slowly, there are tools available for IT folks […]
Jitterbit Offers Deeper Integration With Salesforce
Image via CrunchBase Jitterbit (See previous CloudAve coverage), Oakland based integration provider, announced the availability of Jitterbit Connect for Salesforce so that organizations can seamlessly connect their data with Salesforce. I have been talking to some enterprise folks and every one of them is quite convinced about the value offered by Salesforce. By offering an […]
Is MindTouch A Documentation Player Or A Collaboration Player?
MindTouch, the San Diego based enterprise software company, announced the availability of Technical Communication Suite on friday. This adds a social layer over their powerful content platform, thereby, allowing organizations to build a community around their content. This platform is very handy not only for startups and smaller companies, it is also very important for […]
Sonoa Rebrands As Apigee, New Premium Features Added
Sonoa Systems (See our previous coverage of Sonoa), a provider of enterprise API management solutions, today announced that they are rebranding as Apigee, which, so far, was a free API tools platform helping developers easily tap into the APIs of modern social networks and other web applications. The rebranding removes confusion on their offerings and […]
Morph Labs Tweaks Their Offerings To Make It More Palatable To Enterprises
MorphLabs, a company offering private cloud solutions to enterprises (see our previous coverage), today announced the release of mCloud for the enterprise. Essentially, it is a rebranding of their existing offering with some enhanced features that makes enterprise deployment easier. Using mCloud Controller for Enterprises, organizations can seamlessly deploy private cloud in their environment. According […]
Context Is Important While Talking About Cloud Security
Recently, I was talking to a group of people about cloud computing and its plan for world domination. One of the issues that surprised me is the way people take a binary approach while talking about cloud security. The debate usually goes on with one side making a blanket statement that cloud computing is totally […]
Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?
Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming up to Cloud technologies. No, they are not queuing outside the Amazon headquarters waiting to order public cloud infrastructure, like the Amazon’s EC2 offerings, yet. But, the idea of private clouds and the advantages of tapping the public clouds for non mission critical operations like testing are slowly making […]
VMware Invests In Terramark
We covered the news of USA.Gov moving to Terramark enterprise cloud system here at Cloud Ave sometime back. We noted that their enterprise cloud is pretty much suited for Government purposes because of their compliance with various regulatory requirements. The distributed grid architecture of the enterprise cloud offers the necessary redundancy, scalability and flexibility needed […]
Google Apps Targets Enterprises With Directory Sync
Google today took a much needed step to target the enterprise customers by releasing Google Apps Directory Sync. One of the biggest obstacles for businesses in the adoption of Google Apps is the difficulty in moving from a LDAP kind of directory system. With the release of Google Apps Directory Sync, Google is taking away […]
Cloud Computing Security Framework May Nudge The Enterprises Towards Clouds
Image via Wikipedia Even though some of us are unabashed Cloud evangelists, there is no denying about the fact that there is a lot to be done on the security front. Well, startups are using Cloud Computing to their advantage but enterprises are much more sensitive to the security and privacy of their data. Many […]
