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Cloud industrializes ERP with IBM Lifecycle as a Service (LCaaS) for SAP Solution

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

When speaking with the CIOs of major enterprises and who have implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP), such as SAP, we generally get following impressions: “ERP (SAP) operation” budgets are getting cut in favor of business values for creating SAP application projects. Innovative SAP application projects are slowing down because of inflexible infrastructure and SAP BASIS [...]

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Bare necessities: Services needed or required by SMBs

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

When we’re discussing the cloud, usually we’re discussing the cost reduction, lowering capital investment, or both. These discussions are mostly relevant for large enterprises because they can gain significant benefits from the cloud environment, by having a well designed and implemented cloud. But, what’s there for small and medium businesses (SMBs) regarding cloud computing? Is [...]

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Energy Takes On A New Look At SURGE Demo Day

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

SURGE Accelerator, a member of the exclusive TechStars Network, was able to find 10 entrepreneurial companies, move them into a location called Red House and get them motivated to solve big problems in the energy vertical and leverage their knowledge of current technology in cloud computing and big data. Houston, Texas, the energy capital of [...]

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VM Export Service For Amazon EC2

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

The AWS VM Import service gives you the ability to import virtual machines in a variety of formats into Amazon EC2, allowing you to easily migrate from your on-premises virtualization infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. Today we are adding the next element to this service. You now have the ability to export previously imported EC2 [...]

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Thought Leaders Discuss Innovation and Mobility

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

Innovation used to be something that only happened behind the closed doors of small research labs. However, as explained in recent 60 Second Insights interviews, anyone can be an innovator in today’s society where technology is readily available to the masses and collaboration is convenient. As an example, more than 100,000 people were expected to [...]

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Speed of business propels SaaS expansion

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

There’s a received wisdom that SaaS adoption is taking place among a subset of companies that face substantial change. SaaS makes sense if you need to move fast, grow quickly, adapt to rapidly changing markets or, in some cases, foreshorten the disruption of consolidation or downsizing. In the ERP space, the latest expression of this [...]

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Become an IBM Certified Solution Advisor – Cloud Computing Architecture

| 05/26/2012 | 0 Comments

Here’s your chance to get certified in the latest cloud certification program from IBM. Test ”000-281: Foundations of IBM Cloud Computing Architecture V2” gives you the certification designation of IBM Certified Solution Advisor – Cloud Computing Architecture V2. This certification is one of two cloud-related certifications from IBM. The other, which is ”Test 000-280: IBM [...]

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London’s thriving cloud start-up scene

| 05/25/2012 | 0 Comments

A few years ago I would have had trouble naming more than a handful of UK-based cloud start-ups. Today there are several dozen that are very successful businesses, and I’m proud to be organising a EuroCloud UK event in London this Wednesday at which the CEOs of several will be speaking (see disclosure). The cast [...]

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Cloud service level agreements (SLAs): What you don’t know can hurt you

| 05/25/2012 | 0 Comments

Everyone is talking about moving some of their services to the cloud. However, who is responsible for the management of the services that will operate in a cloud environment?  Who is responsible for identifying the elements of the agreement? What type of agreement should be in place? These are all questions that should be asked [...]

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Invitation: May 30th and 31st IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Developers Group Virtual Meeting

| 05/25/2012 | 0 Comments

Agenda: Alex Amies: Storage Management in SCE Meeting information: May 30, 2012, 10-11 a.m. Eastern US or May 31, 2012, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Beijing time Participant passcode: 4637620581 Call-in numbers: United States 877-361-4620 United States 404-287-0038 China, North 108006500420 China, South 108002650437 China 4006860037-Mobile Canada 4042870038 Canada 8773614620 Australia 1800090738 Australia, Brisbane 0740151440 Germany 08006647485 Germany, [...]

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