cloud apps
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to Google Apps Premier Edition and... [04 Nov 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR's move to Google Apps is the company's first step towards simplifying the IT infrastructure it runs in-house and farming out more of its IT services to outsourcers and cloud providers. CIO of Jaguar... [26 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Cloud computing A technology which also made Gartner's list for 2009, the advent of cloud computing could help cut costs and will also see enterprise IT departments acting as cloud... [22 Oct 2009]
Cloud Computing—What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
White Paper Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn't changed: management's insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. This paper reviews four organizations who gained... [22 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News Rentokil Initial looked at a server-based global email system but soon realised using cloud-based technology would be significantly cheaper - costing between 50 and 70 per cent less. Business support services company... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Other technologies judged by Forrester to be increasingly important over the next few years include policy-based SOA, mobile apps and business processes, cloud-based platforms, web 2.0-enabled business... [12 Oct 2009]
Virtualizing Tier 1 Apps on VMware vSphere 4: Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP
White Paper Infrastructure teams can accelerate the adoption of virtualization by demonstrating the value of the VMware vSphere internal cloud for these applications. Unfortunately, application teams are often reluctant to... [02 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile To this end the administration has begun building a cloud infrastructure for IT services with the launch of the new Apps.gov site, which is a clearing house for business, social media and productivity... [30 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Of the reasons why Schmidt merited fourth spot on the Agenda Setters list, one panellist said Google "is the cloud" and its move to corporate apps is likely to be "hugely significant", potentially... [29 Sep 2009]
Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses
News IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open source API that aims to simplify the process of switching cloud providers for organisations. The Simple Cloud API project, courtesy of... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo We also look at cloud computing as well," Newton added. The telco has an 'if you build it they will come' philosophy when it comes to what kind of next-gen apps to expect in a fibre-enabled world. Other... [17 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News As a result, the first major element of the initiative is the brand new Apps.gov site, a clearing house for business, social media, and productivity applications, as well as cloud IT services. The Obama... [17 Sep 2009]
Live Webcast: Save Money With Cloud Computing and Google Apps
White Paper Join this Webcast to learn why moving to the cloud and Google Apps yields many benefits, such as: Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for... [16 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News In the UK, educational institutions using Apps include Leeds Metropolitan University, Kingston College, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, which recently estimated it has saved Ł650,000 by choosing the... [09 Sep 2009]
Facebook, Twitter coming to budget mobiles in emerging markets
News The key to OneApp, Microsoft said, is the fact that the applications and data run largely from the cloud. The rest of it sits in the cloud. Microsoft on Monday announced plans for mobile software that... [25 Aug 2009]