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Yung Chou  and Keith Mayer welcome Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology to the show as they discuss the differences between virtualization and cloud computing and how the two complement each other as well as how you can take the principles you learned from virtualization and ...
In this short video interview, I corner SAP's VP of Product Management, Mobile Security, Senthil Krishnapillai and ask him about the latest developments in mobile security both on-premise and in the cloud.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu.be/6t1Kr6q6El4 *****************...
Futurist Paul Saffo may have been the first to proclaim the PC dead back in 1991. Six years later, PC Week editor John Dodge refuted Saffo’s position, claiming the PC was not dead and that it “will be with us a long time.” Ironically, these two were on the front lines of a more than......
The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News W...
The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News ...
AppSense Enhances IT Objectives with a User-Centric Approach Daresbury, UK - May 23, 2013 - AppSense, the people-centric computing company, in partnership with Ultima Business Solutions, the IT infrastructure and end user computing specialist, today announced Scania (GB) Limited has ad...
I recently set up a new Tumblr site, in addition to my main blog here at cloudofdata.com. It’s been running for a few days now, and I’m deliberately posting just one entry each day to explore a topical news item, issue, or trend. We are all inundated by a constant stream of...
Max3000 to provide the public sector with monitoring & management of cloud services via Giii G-Cloud Framework ControlCircle, a leading UK managed services provider, has partnered with Skyscape Cloud Services, the assured cloud services company, to offer managed compute as a servic...
With the upcoming releases of Citrix XenDesktop 7 and Sanbolic Melio5, the two companies are on course to continue leading the charge in the adoption of VDI in the enterprise. By combining the advanced technologies found at the core of both products, customers of all sizes will be able...
LZA SOA Training & Certification: Estonia — September 24 – 27, 2013 Tuesday September 24, 2013-Friday September 27, 2013 devtraining Toompuiestee 30 10149 Tallinn Estonia Price: €2,245.00 (including $250 early discount) [converted to 2901.21 USD] ZapThink SOA Trai...
At Citrix Synergy™ 2013, ExtraHop Will Participate in a Geek Speak Live! Session on Monitoring Desktop Virtualization Environments with Wire Data and Machine Data SEATTLE, WA AND LOS ANGELES, CA – May 22, 2013 – Today at Citrix Synergy™, ExtraHop Networks announced that its IT operatio...
Please  join me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, June 18-20, 2013, where my session topic will be "Cloud Service Integration: Increasing Business Value and IT Operational Excellence". Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operati...
In this short interview recorded at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I ask mobile expert Oliver Betz his thoughts on mobile app design strategies.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu.be/YP2Vhjjtwvw ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Head Anal...
Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5.  HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years.  The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today.  In this weekly update on HTML5 we report ...
Crocus Consulting (www.crocus-consulting.com), an Oracle Gold Partner, has launched a Global Payroll Special Interest Group (SIG). The SIG which brings together HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs), Oracle and many of the UK's leading employers will provide users of Oracle's Peop...
The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am ...
La toute dernière version du système Perforce présente de nouvelles fonctionnalités de réplication filtrée et de flux de tâches, pour une meilleure gestion des cadences de sortie rapides PARIS (22 mai 2013) - Perforce Software vient d'annoncer la dis...
Sponsored by Newtec, NLsatcom, Dutch chapter of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, and BSN-SSPI, the UK Chapter of the SSPICasa 400 conference centre, AmsterdamJune 27th 2013 from 11.00 - 18.00 hourEUsatcom 2013 conference is a new type of fast-paced satcom event and...
Version 2013.1 of Perforce Features New Filtered Replication Capabilities and Task Streams for Better Support of Rapid Release Cadences WOKINGHAM, UK (May 22, 2013) - Perforce Software today announced the availability of version 2013.1 of its Software Version Management system, featur...
Flexiant enables ALVEA Services to rapidly deploy, brandable cloud-based computing solutions to the channelLondon, UK - 22 May 2013 - Flexiant, a leading international provider of cloud management software, today announced that ALVEA Services has selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator fo...
New social business platform to jump start employee collaborationLondon, 22 May 2013 - United Planet (www.unitedplanet.com), one of the leading developers of enterprise portal software in Europe, has developed a new social business platform called Intrexx Share which it expects to driv...
New York, NY, May 22, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), the leading international venue dedicated to the advancement of wireless and wireline communications, has expanded its comprehensive learning schedule with the addition of hundreds ...
Appery.io has always made it quite simple to integrated with backend systems via REST APIs — but what if those systems are behind the firewall and don’t support REST?? Many enterprise apps required access to data that is sitting on a SQL Database or on some business application like SA...
HANA is nothing more than a stopgap measure
Citrix officially launched XenDesktop 7 at Citrix Synergy 2013 this week in Los Angeles. We’re at the conference to demonstrate how the ExtraHop platform equips IT organizations with the correlated, cross-tier visibility that they need to manage ever-growing XenDesktop deployments. In ...
In this interview recorded last week at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I ask SAP Hana Guru Puneet Suppal about the connection between enterprise mobility, M2M or IoT, real-time business and SAP Hana.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu.be/-uqIRD7wRgs *********************************...
LZA SOA Training & Certification: Sydney — September 10 – 13, 2013 Tuesday September 10, 2013-Friday September 13, 2013 Navitas Building (over Wynyrd Station) 11 York St Sydney Australia Price: A$2,495.00 (including $500 early discount) [converted to 2441.67 USD] ZapThi...
Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing and a curse for developers. Minimizing the burden that "shift left" can place on developers is key to achieving maximum acceleration of delivery cycles. Service Virtualization's Shift Lef...
London, 21 May 2013 - Submissions for the Telecoms.com LTE Awards have reached record numbers again this year as the organisers of LTE World Summit, which provides the backdrop for the awards, today announced those companies on the shortlist. This comes as the industry evolves and LTE ...
Lon Binder, VP of Technology at Warby Parker Recently we had the pleasure of sitting down for an extended conversation with Lon Binder, VP of Technology at Warby Parker. We discussed a range of issues central to how Warby Parker approaches IT, including new store launches, what IT i...
Last week at SAP's Sapphire Now 2013 in Orlando, Florida, SAP announced they would begin reselling mobile secure app solutions from Mocana.  In this press release they describe the role of Mocana in their mobile security portfolio.  In this short interview with Mocana's ...
Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 ...
The #CloudFirst trend is spreading, with Government Minister Francis Maude finally committing the UK to the approach earlier this month. But I remain concerned that there’s too much stick and not nearly enough carrot… and that cloud adoption more generally is ill-served by ...
On-demand, enterprise class virtual machines and storage solutions enable Home Office to tailor storage and computing requirements resulting in significant cost savings London - May 21st 2013 - Skyscape Cloud Services, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud serv...
Moscow, Russia, May 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Intelligent Converters released new version of MSSQL-to-MySQL, a program to migrate Microsoft SQL databases to MySQL server, enhanced with custom type mapping feature. Both Microsoft SQL and MySQL database management systems have similar set ...
Los Angeles, CA, May 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Solver, Inc., a global leader in Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL and other enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, today announced a total revenue increase of 60% compared to the first quarter of 2012. “...
But underneath this overall trend there are several segments of the infrastructure that are experiencing strong secular growth, in part by disrupting existing technology business models. These segments include: 1. Public Cloud Computing 2. Flas
In this short video recorded in Orlando, Florida last week at SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I interview SAP's Brent Cohler on SAP's mobile marketing solution called SAP Precision Marketing and learn about customer use cases and value propositions.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu...
What does cloud mean any more? Recently on the blog, we discussed how we presently speak about cloud computing, broadly suggesting that the focus should be on value it provides to a business rather than the underlying technology. Taking a step beyond that, it’s interesting to look...
The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia New...