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Say Goodbye to the PC and Hello to the “Personal Cloud”

By on May 14, 2012 in Cloud, Outsourcing News

Now that we can access email, Facebook, Twitter and many other of our favorite apps through our phones and tablets, that PC at home is collecting a lot of dust. It’s a trend examined in a new Gartner report, which predicts the “Personal Cloud” will surpass the PC as the “hub of consumers’ digital lives” [...]

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Business Process Management (BPM) Market to Grow to $5.3 Billion

By on May 1, 2012 in Cloud, Outsourcing News

Mobile computing and the cloud will be major drivers behind Business Process Management (BPM), a field that is expected to command a $5.3 billion market by 2017, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts. Business Process Management is a broad, umbrella term that encompasses a variety of strategies and approaches for re-designing and [...]

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Google’s Cloud-Based Vault Aims to Ease Pain of E-Discovery

By on April 16, 2012 in Cloud

With a new service designed to make legal preservation and discovery of emails and other data easier and cheaper, Google is hoping more large enterprises will embrace its cloud-based Google Apps for Business suite. Google recently introduced Google Vault, an add-on that archives e-mail and on-the-record instant message chats to meet legal retention rules. The [...]

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Survey: IT Reluctant to Embrace Cloud Services for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

By on December 13, 2011 in Cloud

Thirty-three percent of respondents have no BC/DR plan in place Information technology managers are hesitant to make cloud services a part of their company’s business continuity strategy because of concerns about data security and the ability to run mission-critical applications, according to a new report from InformationWeek. As part of the 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery [...]

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