Going by its future plans, ‘beautiful’ business applications’ vendor, Infor, is all set to move to the next level of growth. The company’s CEO Charles Phillips is betting b... More
Tag Archives: cloud
Infor Focuses on Cloud, Digital For Next Level of Growth (BW CIOWorld)
Why Hybrid Cloud Is Becoming The Destination For Business Transformation (Forbes)
Jim Comfort, IBM Cloud: The cloud has shifted from being a driver of cost savings to a key enabler of business innovation. As it matures, industries across the globe are realizing ... More
ContentBridge Wins 2016 Stratus Award For Cloud Computing (MESA)
ContentBridge, a leading provider of programmatic content distribution for media and entertainment, has been awarded a 2016 Stratus Awardfor Cloud Computing. The award is given ann... More
Salesforce Acquires Collaboration Startup Quip For $582 Million (Forbes)
Salesforce is maintaining an acquisitive eye—this time snapping up a promising collaboration startup run by Silicon Valley veteran Bret Taylor. Salesforce is acquiring Quip, the ... More
IBM’s Cloud CTO: ‘We’re in This Game to Win’ (PC World)
IBM saw from the get-go that the cloud was going to cause a major disruption to its business. "We knew it was a massive opportunity for IBM, but not in a way that necessarily fit o... More
Infor LN Optimized for Manufacturers in the Cloud (MESA)
Infor today announced Infor LN 10.5 has been released for customers globally. Infor LN 10.5 is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that combines beautiful software with ro... More
Amazon is Doubling Its Investment in Video as it Steps Up the War against Netflix (BI)
Amazon plans to double down on its video content for the rest of the year as it goes to war against Netflix in the online video streaming space. During its second quarter earnings ... More
Oracle to Buy NetSuite for $9.3 Billion (Bloomberg)
Oracle Corp., eager to boost its cloud-services strategy amid intensifying competition, agreed to buy NetSuite Inc. for about $9.3 billion. The offer of $109 a share in cash is a 1... More
Gartner Sees $1 Trillion Shift In IT Spending To Cloud (IW)
IT spending is undergoing a shift from traditional sources, such as direct server and software license purchases, into public cloud computing. The amount of money IT will spend on ... More
Customer Service: The Next Challenge for Cloud Providers (InfoWorld)
Public cloud providers are not new, but their interactions with enterprises are still in the early stages. Not long ago, few public cloud providers picked up the phone. Today, publ... More
Infor Data Migration Accelerators Speed Time to Cloud (HITS)
Infor has announced Infor Data Migration Accelerators to help customers securely transition from on-premise to cloud deployments with ease. With Infor Data Migration Accelerators, ... More
How Nestle is Cozying Up to Salesforce With New Digital Lab (AdAge)
Nestle is adding some water to Salesforce's cloud. The food and beverage company has opened a digital lab inside the CRM giant's Manhattan office to serve its Nestle Waters North A... More
Three Steps to a Cloud-Ready Data Center Solution (Avere Systems Blog)
With so many initiatives targeting efficiency in government data centers over the past decade, many agencies have begun the transition to alternative cloud-ready solutions. But for... More
BlackBerry secures apps with Microsoft Azure (Cloud Pro)
BlackBerry has added its Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform to Microsoft Azure, allowing organisations to mobilise a number of apps including those used for enhanced collaborat... More
OpenText Sets its Cloud Sights Firmly on Managed Services (ITProPortal)
This strategy is clearly illustrated in its suite of applications, most of which can be run on any cloud, especially the information management and analytics areas. “They can be ... More
Verizon Unveils ‘Virtual Network Services’ (Network World)
Hard on the heels of a similar pitch from AT&T, Verizon this morning is taking the wraps off a lineup of Virtual Network Services (VNS) that it bills as a natural extension of dat... More
Avere Systems Helps Eight VFX Produce High-End Visual Effects for Commercials (MESA)
Avere Systems announced today that Eight VFX, a visual effects studio known for its outstanding work in commercials, feature films and music videos, uses Avere’s Virtual FXT Edge... More
Microsoft Again Claims Huge Gains in Azure Cloud Business (Fortune)
Microsoft continued to claim big cloud momentum on its fourth quarter conference call. That’s no surprise—what would have been shocking is if it had not done so. Investors like... More
Box Moves Telephony, Web Conferencing to the Cloud (CIO)
You would be forgiven for assuming that a native cloud company -- a company whose raison d'etre is selling cloud applications and platforms -- wouldn't have a lick of on-premises s... More
5 Ways Brexit Is Accelerating AWS and Public Cloud Adoption (Forbes)
Brexit is making data sovereignty king: European-based enterprises have long been cautious about using cloud platforms to store their many forms of data. Brexit is accelerating the... More