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| May 17, 2013

The use of private clouds is becoming old news, as many enterprises are much more comfortable with this approach to cloud computing than they are with moving their data to the public cloud. Indeed, the private cloud is a valuable resource if you pick the right applications and data sets for the move. Most enterprises do not. Private clouds, at least the IaaS flavors, are sold by a number of providers, including Microsoft, VMware, Rackspace, and dozens of OpenStack upstarts. There are even privat...

| May 06, 2013

The best manufacturers I’ve visited this year all share a common attribute: they are obsessed with making themselves as easy as possible to work with from a supply chain, distribution and services standpoint. Many are evaluating cloud-based manufacturing applications including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and several have adopted cloud-based applications across their companies.With so much interest, there is much confusion as well. I recently spoke with Cindy Jutras, founder and CEO of M...

| July 04, 2013

Cloud service providers have been improving their service terms but still have a way to go when it comes to guaranteeing service reliability, said NATS CIO Gavin Walker.NATS, originally known as the National Air Traffic Control Services was established in 1962 to provide air traffic control services to airports within the UK initially and subsequently internationally.The company’s CIO recently outlined his vision at a London event for shifting mission-critical services to the cloud and the three...

Tata Communications | July 02, 2013

Tata Communications, a leading provider of communications technology announced Tuesday the launch of what the company claims to be the world’s first cloud-based broadcast quality video transcoding and delivery service.The technology was developed in partnership with Harmonic, a company that designs and manufactures multimedia delivery systems, and is being positioned by Tata Communications as a cost-effective delivery system that can also help tackle piracy by enabling simultaneous syndicated br...