Cortado Desktop Services. Cortado's Henning Volkmer spent a few minutes bringing me up to date on what his company has been doing since our last conversation.
Cortado, which started life as Thin Print, has expanded its scope of operation from thinking about virtualizing the printing process to a number of other services that are supported by a sophisticated device to server communications service. The list today includes BYOD support, supporting virtual desktops, Cloud printing, and mobile device security. Then he went on to speak about the company's cloud desktop, Cortado Workplace, that is designed to allow just about any device that has a Web Browser that supports HTML5 to access files; access to a number of desktop features; mobile printing and faxing; and also offers 2 GBytes of free storage. Cortado's products today focus on providing access, managing that access, maintaining an inventory of devices that access data and applications and using policy-based management to offer a secure environment.
Mark Benioff entrouve le programme de Dreamforce sur fond de pertes. Contrebalançant l'annonce, par Salesforce.com, d'une perte nette de 9,8 M$ sur son 2e trimestre fiscal, son PDG Mark Benioff évoque quelques-unes des annonces prévues sur la prochaine conférence Dreamforce, en particulier l'offre de gestion des ressources humaines Work.com et les ambitions en matière d'applications pour les départements marketing.
Jeudi dernier, lors d'une conférence téléphonique consacrée aux résultats du second trimestre de Salesforce.com, Mark Benioff, PDG de la société, n'a pas pu s'empêcher d'évoquer certaines des grandes annonces que l'éditeur de logiciels de CRM dans le cloud a prévu de faire pendant Dreamforce. Sa conférence annuelle n'aura pourtant lieu que dans quelques semaines, du 18 au 21 septembre, à San Francisco. Enterprises see growing open source cloud appeal. The maturing of open source software (OSS) and increasing support from mainstream IT vendors mean that cloud architectures built using OSS tools will grow on companies looking to avoid vendor lock-in, but they will need to assess whether they have the internal know-how to manage such deployments.
Arun Chandrasekaran, research director at Gartner, said the term "open source cloud" is a generic one referring to cloud computing framworks developed or based on open source technologies. This essentially enables enterprises to architect cloud environments that offer a wider compatibility with the hardware and software available in the market. Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, vice president and general manager at Red Hat Asia-Pacific, added to the definition by saying the open source cloud translates to freedom in three aspects. Customers will have the freedom to control their implementations, as well as be unfettered by technological and business paths determined by IT vendors. Dropbox trials two-factor authentication beta. A few weeks ago, when Dropbox users began reporting that their emails had been leaked to spam lists, Dropbox made some security changes and promised it would bolster its security measures further.
The company has now made good on its promise, rolling out the beta version of a two-factor authentication system over the weekend. The "experimental feature" requires logged-in users to visit an opt-in URL, which will switch on a two-factor authentication option in their account's security panel. There are no hardware tokens for the system. Instead, users can choose to enter their mobile phone number in order to have codes sent via SMS each time they attempt to log-in. Alternatively, users can use an app to retrieve tokens. Autodesk struggles with cloud turn, to restructure after weak Q2. Autodesk missed second quarter sales expectations by a wide margin and the company said it would restructure and lock down expenses as it tried to position its business better for cloud computing.
The design and engineering software maker reported second quarter earnings of 28 cents a share on revenue of $569 million, up 4 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 48 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting second quarter earnings of 49 cents a share on revenue of $593 million. That sales miss translated into Autodesk shares plunging 21 percent in afterhours trading. In addition, the third quarter outlook wasn't good either. Wall Street was expecting third quarter earnings of 50 cents a share on revenue of $601 million.
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass said the company was hit with "our own execution challenges, combined with an uneven global economy. " vCenter Operations Manager: VMware's move into cloud monitoring? Is VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle?
That was the question being asked after the backlash to its initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. AWS Glacier's dazzling price benefits melt next to the cost of tape. Amazon launched its Glacier storage service on Tuesday, aiming to entice enterprises to put their data in its cloud.
But how does the cost of the new cloud archival service stack up against a typical on-premise tape installation? Werner Vogels, Amazon's chief technology officer, said in a blog post this week that Glacier's price of $0.01 per gigabyte per month made it "extremely cost-effective", and also explicitly described Glacier as an alternative to "cold data storage systems such as tape robots and tape libraries". But is it that much of an alternative? To find out, I asked tape specialist Quantum to give me a breakdown of the cost of storing 10PB in tape systems over five years. The total cost of storing 10PB over five years with the company would work out at $669,663.70 (€533,341.61) in total — or $133,932.70 (€106,772.53) per year, Quantum told me. Perturbations sur les applications en ligne de Zoho.
Les utilisateurs des logiciels en ligne Zoho ont rencontré quelques désagréments hier.
L'éditeur installé en Californie a confirmé des interruptions dans ses services. Il édite notamment des logiciels de messagerie, de collaboration, de CRM, de gestion de projets et de création de sites web. Piston's Airframe is free OpenStack pilot version for enterprises. As the OpenStack field expands, its founders are taking steps to stay ahead of the pack.
Yesterday, Piston Computing, whose chief executive is the OpenStack co-creator from NASA, announced availability of a free OpenStack enterprise cloud distribution which gives potential customers a robust pilot version with all of the core capabilities sans the fancy bells and whistles. Piston's Airframe, which was made available to VMWorld attendees this week, is a robust evaluation version with the core components of OpenStack including compute, storage, management and networking component without professional support and the other high availability and automated features provided in the enterprise subscription version. AWS lance Glacier, un service de sauvegarde à faible coût. Crédit D.R.
Microsoft to deliver its new small-business server by end of 2012. Microsoft already started rolling out the final versions of most of its Windows Server 2012 SKUs this month. The last of them -- Windows Server 2012 Essentials, which is its small/mid-size business server -- will be out before year-end , officials said this week. Windows Server 2012 Essentials is Microsoft's intended replacement for Windows Small Business Server and Windows Home Server (for those SMBs who were using WHS for business purposes). The Essentials product is a hybrid on-premises/cloud server. Ten ways Workday looks like the Apple for enterprise.
Despite having had a preview of some aspects of Workday 17, nothing could have prepared me for what I heard and saw on the analyst call when Workday announced the details of the latest release. As Stan Swete, CTO, orchestrated the call and demo, I started to get the sense the company has been taking lessons from the Stevenotes playbook. Here's how it happened. The call was divided into three sections. Tencent to offer Internet TV in China. Tencent plans to introduce a television for users to access its online games and videos on another platform device besides computers and mobile handsets. According to a Bloomberg report on Thursday, the 26-inch flat screen TV, named Ice Screen, will enable consumers to access Tencent's Web services via cloud computing, said company CEO Pony Ma. The device will be powered by Google's Android operating system (OS) and is expected to go on sale in China this September at 1,999 yuan (US$314.60), it added.
TCL Multimedia Technology was its manufacturing partner, marking the Chinese Web giant's first collaboration with an appliance maker, Ma said in the report. The TV business is not the only focus for Tencent. It had earlier revealed it is stepping up the development of services including Mobile QQ and Weixin messaging tools for smartphone and tablet users, and also bolstered its online games collaboration with companies such as Activision Blizzard (ATV) and Zynga. VMware CTO: How the software-defined datacenter benefits enterprises. Get the latest announcements about VMware's cloud strategy and solutions by tuning into VMware NOW, the new online destination for breaking news, product announcements, videos, and demos at: In advance of next week's VMworld conference in San Francisco, I recently sat down with Steve Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Research & Development at VMware.
A top technology leader at VMware, Herrod has championed this vision of the software-defined datacenter and how the next generation of foundational IT innovation is largely being implemented above the hardware. For example, those who are now building and managing datacenters are gaining heightened productivity, delivering far better performance, and enjoying greater ease in operations and management -- all thanks to innovations at the software-infrastructure level. Une API Google vient faciliter l'utilisation de Maps et Drive. Alors que l'utilisation des produits de Google est en constante progression, la firme de Mountain View se devait de livrer une API facilitant la rationalisation et l'automatisation des licences pour Maps et Drive... Node.js set to land on Engine Yard's PaaS. Node.js is set to land on the Engine Yard platform-as-a-service, giving customers access to a scalable language that has been adopted by companies such as Microsoft, eBay and LinkedIn. The language went into general availability for the PaaS on Tuesday, and it should be accessible to Engine Yard customers within 30 days, the company announced in a statement.
The addition of Node.js sees Engine Yard close its language gap with platform-rival Heroku. It now lacks Scala, Clojure and Python, compared with Heroku, but it has PHP, and shares Java, Ruby and Node.js with its rival. "With support for additional frameworks like Node.js, our engineering team has increased flexibility and choice when building and deploying Web and mobile apps," Patrick Ezell, principal of digital agency Copius, an Engine Yard customer, said in Engine Yard's statement. Digital Post begins life after Australia Post court battle. Digital Post Australia has launched its digital mailbox services on an invite-only basis, three days after claiming victory against Australia Post in the Federal Court over its trading name. Australia Post had tried to ban the company from trading under Digital Post, but failed earlier this week when the Federal Court dismissed the court case, where it accused Digital Post of misleading conduct for choosing a business name similar to its own.
As the name suggests, Digital Post can deliver a digital replica of physical documents that are sent to a users' postal address. The digital mail can be viewed from any web-connected device, such as a smartphone. The private launch was only opened to employees of businesses that have signed up to deliver digital postal mail. These include a number of financial, utility and investor service companies. The digital mailbox will be rolled out to the public later this year, but people can register their interest at www.digitalpost.com.au. 5 areas most likely to be outsourced in IT: survey. The IT outsourcing market is growing, according to a new survey of 200 IT executives released by Bluewolf. That's because companies are increasingly relying on outsourcers for IT talent needs. The survey finds 48% of companies will hire more contractors, rather than seek full-time staff, to meet growing IT needs in the next 12-18 months. Overall, about a third of the organizations in the survey, 32%, plan to increase their levels of IT outsourcing investments in the year ahead.
A skill area that stands out across the categories are IT professionals adept at Salesforce -- either as developers or administrators. Rackspace sets up first Australian datacentre. Cloud service provider Rackspace has launched its first Australian datacentre in response to growing customer demand for local hosting capabilities. Rendered art of Rackspace's Erskine Park datacentre. Intuit's Q4, outlook powered by SMB. Intuit is best known for its tax prep software and services, but the company continues to ride small and mid-sized businesses for its growth. The company reported a small fourth quarter profit of $4 million, or a penny a share, on revenue of $651 million. Workday 17: more significant enhancements. As both Oracle and SAP writhe around trying to find a cloud strategy that works for both customers and investors, Workday plows its own furrow, doing the one thing the others are not: ignoring everybody.
9 ways cloud will impact IT employment. There's a lot of concern, much of justified, about the fate of IT jobs as cloud computing gains traction.At one extreme, some analysts predict much of IT will move outside the organization. Amazon launches Glacier cloud storage, hopes enterprise will go cold on tape use. InstallFree: MS Office in the Cloud, No Installation or Drivers Necessary. Last week, InstallFree released its first virtual office suite, Nexus, a completely browser-based service to gain access to full-fledged versions of Microsoft Office applications.
Vertical Response adds to social media features. VerticalResponse is one of the latest integrated SMB email marketing platforms to add extensive social media marketing features. Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based cloud software company bought the Roost platform, which it added to its services in June. AWS veut faciliter la vie des développeurs Python avec Elastic Beanstalk.
Building a private cloud with System Center 2012: Part 3. CA Technologies adopte la solution de gestion des licences d'Aspera. Copyright law review paper delves into cloud. For government, 'key driver of SOA and cloud is reuse': Justice Department CTO. The 7 Myths of Virtualized Application Performance.
HTC loses $40m in OnLive 'restructuring' Australia Post loses digital mail naming battle. The problem with IT Salary Surveys. A vote for shadow IT. Bad assumptions about cloud computing and the Patriot Act. Microsoft reorganizes its Server and Tools unit. Amazon étoffe les fonctions d'Oracle Database dans son cloud. Un datacenter à 500 millions de dollars pour JP Morgan. Fujitsu upgrades WA Cloud. Brocade CEO to resign. UNIT4 results show regional weakness but SaaS strength.
Columbia Sportswear extends deep server virtualization to improved ERP operations, disaster recovery efficiencies. My Month With a ChromeBox: How I Survived Without Windows or Mac. Kim Dotcom ressort de l'ombre avec le service Megabox. ServiceMesh Agility Platform 8.0 aims to help enterprises rein in 'shadow IT' Box beefs up leadership team with two previous Google execs. Zoho adds email and social media marketing apps. Groupon's accounting shuffle: why it matters.
VMware offering low-cost 'test drives' for vCloud service. Security mindset must change with cloud. IT workers prefer the office to working remotely. Microsoft's Skydrive storage service gets a facelift. If you're bad at sales follow-up, this small-business CRM app might help. Singapore uni develops cloud-based multiscreen TV tech. Roundtable: transforming on a small budget. Red Hat finally commits to OpenStack for the cloud.
Red Hat offers up OpenStack preview, supported version planned for '13. Oracle: Is dominance waning without tax, legal crutches? Quelles annonces Oracle prépare-t-il pour OpenWorld2012 ? Consumer-friendly products suck and post-PC is a fantasy. Privacy law may hit cloud adoption: AIIA. S'pore university aims to extend TV with cloud. Go Daddy angles to become bigger cloud apps provider. Pleased to iMeet you: a Cloud-based Audio and Video Conferencing Service. Google s'attaque à Siri avec Voice Search sur iOS. Office Web Apps: First Take. Cloud : les entreprises n'hésitent plus à transférer des données sensibles. Intel, Chinese orgs set up China Open Source Cloud League. Nimbula, MapR launch turnkey Hadoop solution for private cloud. DreamWorks using HP cloud to build global collaboration infrastructure.
Cloud in action, in a cool way: NASA uses Amazon to stream Mars video. Cisco's Q4 enterprise sales likely solid, say analysts. Amazon’s Cloud Player Crackdown Punishes Cheapskates. Bringing the cloud back to Earth. Microsoft pousse le développement web pour les apps Office et Sharepoint.