Category: Competition
Microsoft Moves Against Salesforce
Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of its Dynamics CRM 2011 and a Salesforce competitor, has finally escaped its North American boundaries and is now available worldwide. Well, in at least 40 markets at any rate. Microsoft is apparently expecting a good deal of switching to go on, or it’s hoping so. To egg [...]
SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud
SAP has begun the first of what is anticipated to become an ever-growing migration of reporting mechanisms to a cloud platform. With its newly launched version 5.0 of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, which reports carbon emissions, the software company is positioning the product at a lower cost and at various scales. SAP is using Amazon’s [...]
Kristin’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Kristin's Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Is Oracle the Cloud Computing Leader?
Over the years, Oracle has transformed its business through acquisitions. As part of this strategy, it has become a dominant player in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which manages the core accounting and financials of a company. ERP is not necessarily a growth business — at least for the large market segment — but it [...]
Packt invites IBM Cloud Computing authors and book ideas
Packt Publishing is planning to advance its line up of IBM Cloud Computing books and is currently inviting book ideas and potential authors interested in writing them. Some of the topics which Packt finds immediately attractive are: IBM Smart Business Test Cloud IBM Cloudburst IBM LotusLive IBM LotusLive iNotes Desktop Workloads IBM Smart Business Desktop [...]
Why Microsoft Windows Azure is a threat to Google
By Charlotte Dunlap Microsoft’s new features announced last week to its cloud computing platform, Azure, gives developers the option to build applications in the cloud via Microsoft’s data centers, rather than in a company’s server. Giving customers this sort of flexibility in IT and software development is important to customers looking for ways to reduce [...]
Microsoft: Enterprise customer growth accelerates private cloud strategy
From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is making a number of announcements around tools and database tweaks for its Azure cloud platform at this week’s TechEd conference. But I’m more interested in some of the more subtle clues I’ve been picking up about the Softies’ future cloud strategies and directions here. First, Microsoft execs are moving [...]
HP to invest $1 billion in cloud computing and cut 9,000 jobs
The world’s biggest PC manufacturer Hewlett-Packard will cut 9,000 jobs and invest $1 billion to develop the next generation of cloud computing services, according to a statement Tuesday. HP said it will invest $1 billion to create fully automated commercial data centers and expand its enterprise services unit over a multiyear period. The cuts are [...]
Six misconceptions about cloud apps
Cloud computing is all the rage in the IT industry these days, but there’s still plenty of confusion about how cloud applications work and what kind of long-term impact they will have on business technology. In this article we’ll take a look at six common misconceptions IT pros and users have about cloud apps, related [...]
Silicon Valley deals are back
Deal-making is back in style in Silicon Valley. Driven by powerful trends in mobile devices, digital media and “cloud computing,” tech companies are acting on the urge to merge — a sign, many say, of an improving economy. SAP’s pending $5.8 billion purchase of Sybase and Hewlett-Packard’s pending $1.2 billion takeover of Palm are the [...]
SAP’s new Cloud Strategy
From ZDnet: SAP on Tuesday will demonstrate the latest portion of its on-demand strategy: A focus on “orchestration” and additional capabilities added as a service to its core systems such as Business Suite. Think of it as “on-premise on demand.” In addition, SAP plans to launch “starter packs” for Business ByDesign and lower the minimum [...]
SAP's new Cloud Strategy
From ZDnet: SAP on Tuesday will demonstrate the latest portion of its on-demand strategy: A focus on “orchestration” and additional capabilities added as a service to its core systems such as Business Suite. Think of it as “on-premise on demand.” In addition, SAP plans to launch “starter packs” for Business ByDesign and lower the minimum [...]
Google not too concerned about Microsoft’s threat in the cloud
Great article from PCworld: Of the challenges that could keep Google from reaching its goal of using Google Docs to move in to the enterprise, Microsoft may be one of the biggest barriers. Google and rival Microsoft are battling on several fronts: search, browsers, operating systems and office software. And the office software front is heating [...]
Google not too concerned about Microsoft's threat in the cloud
Great article from PCworld: Of the challenges that could keep Google from reaching its goal of using Google Docs to move in to the enterprise, Microsoft may be one of the biggest barriers. Google and rival Microsoft are battling on several fronts: search, browsers, operating systems and office software. And the office software front is heating [...]
