Cloud computing for business goes mainstream 6 May 2010Last updated at 00:04 By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website Investing in the cloud means less capital expenditure. Cloud computing has been an information technology buzzword for many years. Now it is going mainstream. Bryan Kinsella has a problem. As chief information officer of business services provider Rentokil Initial he looks after a widely dispersed and mobile workforce. Email is a key management tool but as the company grew it found itself with 40 different email systems across 50 countries for 20,000 employees, with another 15,000 staff offline. Setting up a new single email system with a global server infrastructure would have meant a massive capital expenditure. Instead, he settled on a "cloud" solution, rolling out Google's enterprise email across the company. The Cloud explained But what is cloud computing? Cloud fans claim five key benefits: Bear in mind, cloud computing is not new. Using the cloud For a cloud, it has an awful lot of cables Storm clouds
General Terms and Conditions - Numius Thank you for your interest in Deloitte. Unfortunately, the page you have selected cannot be found. If you received this error when you clicked on a URL from another web site, please inform the web site manager that the URL is incorrect or no longer valid. If you received this error when you click on a URL from our web site, please contact us to report the problem. Please include the URL of the web page that contained the hyperlink with this incorrect URL. If you entered the URL manually, please check the URL to ensure that the path is correct. You can return to the homepage, or search the site using the search bar. What cloud computing really means | Cloud Computing Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a familiar cliché, but when combined with "computing," the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. [ Stay on top of the state of the cloud with InfoWorld's "Cloud Computing Deep Dive" special report. Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. InfoWorld talked to dozens of vendors, analysts, and IT customers to tease out the various components of cloud computing. 1. 2.
Business and Financial News Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2011 and Beyond STAMFORD, Conn., November 30, 2010 View All Press Releases Predictions Show Clear Linkage of IT Investments and Business Results Becoming an Imperative for IT Organizations Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2011 and beyond. Analysts said that the predictions highlight the significant changes in the roles played by technology and IT organizations in business, the global economy and the lives of individual users. More than 100 of the strongest Gartner predictions across all research areas were submitted for consideration this year. "With costs still under pressure, growth opportunities limited and the tolerance to bear risk low, IT faces increased levels of scrutiny from stakeholders both internal and external," said Darryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow. Mr. Contacts Christy Pettey Gartner +1 408 468 8318 christy.pettey@gartner.com Laurence Goasduff Gartner +44 1784 267195 laurence.goasduff@gartner.com About Gartner
Getting Things Done Getting Things Done, in het algemeen afgekort tot GTD, is een actiegebaseerde managementmethode, en de titel van een boek door David Allen. GTD is gebaseerd op het principe dat een persoon door zijn taken vast te leggen zich over die taken geen zorgen hoeft te maken. Het moeten herinneren van alle taken maakt plaats voor het daadwerkelijk uitvoeren van de taken. De essentie van GTD[bewerken] De psychologie van GTD is gebaseerd op het eenvoudig opslaan, bijhouden en terugvinden van alle relevante informatie die nodig is voor de taken die je uit moet voeren. Allen stelt ook dat onze herinnering (memory system) tamelijk inefficiënt werkt en ons zelden helpt te herinneren wat te doen op de tijd en de plaats dat we het kúnnen doen. Een alomvattende beschrijving van GTD uit Allens boek “Ready for Anything”: Basisprincipes[bewerken] De basisprincipes van GTD zijn als volgt: Collect[bewerken] Process[bewerken] Verwerk de gegevens in de bucket en volg hierbij de volgende, strikte, werkwijze: Doe.
Cloud Computing by the Numbers: Skyrocketing Growth Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 Do you know what cloud computing is? Have you ever heard the words ldquo;cloud computingrdquo;? I know it might sound a little bit off for most of you. With all the noise in the industry regarding this technology, the Mamp;As occurring every week and all the events taking place all around the US, you must have heard about cloud computing at least once. You are maybe wondering what really is cloud computing. Our prospective is that cloud computing is here to stay and that it even might even be the next ldquo;industrial revolutionrdquo; for the technology sector. If you are still not convinced that Cloud Computing is here to stay, you can and should have a look at this video: Measuring the growth of cloud computing, which will provide you with even more mind-blowing stats. (Visited 1 time, 1 visit today)
Cloud, mobile and social to ‘coalesce’ Cloud services, mobile computing and social networking will mature in 2011 and beyond before combining to form an entirely new platform, an analyst firm has suggested. These “transformative technologies” will move from early adopter status to early mainstream adoption, said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC. “As a result, we'll see the IT industry revolving more and more around the build-out and adoption of this next dominant platform, characterised by mobility, cloud-based application and service delivery, and value-generating overlays of social business and pervasive analytics,” Gens said. “In addition to creating new markets and opportunities, this restructuring will overthrow nearly every assumption about who the industry's leaders will be and how they establish and maintain leadership.” Gens said these technologies were starting to be integrated already, with cloud and mobile linking up, and social networking hooking up with real-time analytics.
Google launches Cloud Connect to sync Microsoft Office with Docs | Technology | Los Angeles Times Google launched a new plug-in for Microsoft Office called Cloud Connect on Monday, enabling Office users to sync and access their documents through Google Docs, free of charge and without leaving the Office interface. Want to share a file with co-workers? Just send them a link to the Google Docs file. The plug-in supports Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel and is compatible with Office 2003, 2007 and 2010, according to Google. "Once synced, documents are backed up, given a unique URL and can be accessed from anywhere (including mobile devices) at any time through Google Docs," project manager Shan Sinha wrote in Google's enterprise blog. This could up the ante in the battle between Google and Microsoft for a share of the $20-billion office software market. Last month, Google sued the U.S. The Cloud Connect plug-in is available for Google Apps for Business customers as part of a preview program (sign up here); the launch date for everyone else has yet to be announced. -- Shan Li