While the potential benefits of cloud computing, such as resource flexibility, are appealing to many IT executives, security and regulatory concerns are either limiting or preventing its use by Wall Street financial firms. That was the consensus of many attendees at the High Performance Computing in Financial Markets Conference held here Monday. Mats Andersson, CTO of Nasdaq’s OMX Exchange, said Nasdaq uses cloud computing systems, but only inside the company’s firewall and only to access […]
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Google vice president and chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf today delivered the keynote address to open source enthusiasts at Linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane, saying that cloud computing is on the verge of becoming as big a concept as the internet itself. “I feel we are at the state in the cloud world now that we were in the internet world back in 1973,” Cerf said. The Google VP and evangelist also said, however, that a […]
Companies should think twice about pursuing trademarks around the term ‘cloud computing,’ as market saturation is making product differentiation increasingly difficult. Cloud computing stands to transform business and personal technology, but the phrase “cloud computing” raises legal issues for brand owners looking to exploit it as a trademark or brand name. As with any marketing revolution — we saw it with green or eco-friendly products, referred to as “green washing” — trademark issues are never […]
Thirty five percent of C-level respondents in a global survey have identified significant investments in legacy infrastructure as the reason they are not adopting cloud computing. The survey, the fourth Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (GEIT) – 2011, conducted by the non-profit, IT Governance Institute (ITGI) polled 834 executives from 21 countries, divided almost evenly between business executives (CEOs, CFOs and COOs) and IT executives (CIOs and heads of IT). According […]
Today, we’d like to spotlight two great reports that may interest our audience. The first report, written by Abner Germanow and Jonathan Edwards at IDC is titled “Virtualizing UC: Reaping the Benefits and Understanding the Issues for Real-Time Communications.” The second report is called “Accelerating UC Deployment with a SIP/XML Architecture” written by Zeus Kerravala, distinguished research fellow at Yankee Group. The reports are sponsored by Avaya and are hosted on Webtorials. The first paper […]
With Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) intruding enterprise telecommunications systems, a number of technologies are being introduced to help enterprises manage the VoIP calls. The VoIP auto attendant is one such technology, which helps business offices manage inbound calls and route them to the correct person. A VoIP auto attendant, also known as a virtual receptionist, interacts with the caller to manage calls in a professional manner and enhance the efficiency of customer service. According […]
Small and midsized companies are making the leap into the cloud in droves, and it’s not just to cut costs. And the majority of those companies rely on solution providers to make their cloud plans a reality, creating major opportunities for solution providers. “It’s no surprise to anybody that the basic acceptance and intention to move to the cloud is very high in SMBs and midsized companies,” said Tim Furey, founder of MarketBridge, a provider […]
Bitzer Mobile this week introduced its Enterprise Virtualized Mobility (EVM) technology, which isolates corporate data from personal data on employee-owned mobile devices and enables secure remote access to enterprise data on these devices. The company is addressing the issue of employees bringing their own devices to work and wanting access to enterprise information; IT managers have had difficulty in determining how many to support and have to worry about security and provisioning, said Bitzer CEO […]
Cloud computing will be a hit with chief information officers (CIOs) this year as adoption will happen quicker than expected, an analyst firm has claimed. Just three per cent of CIOs currently have the majority of IT running in the cloud or on software-as-a-service technologies, but over the next four years CIOs expect this to rise to 43 per cent, a Gartner survey showed. “CIOs and IT have been boxed in between modest budget growth […]
The growth in popularity of web-based applications like social networking sites and even cloud computing software like Google Docs has raised more and more questions concerning security requirements. Particularly when it comes to the use of virtual and cloud environments for sensitive data hosting, rather than use of local data centres – does data protection now demand a new approach? Data protection schemes should always pursue pre-emptive tactics. In fact, nowadays it’s an essential requirement […]