Cloud Adoption Challenges and Opportunities

Source: Open View Labs

Kevin: Hello and welcome to OpenView’s Labcast. I’m Kevin Cain, and today I’m joined by Justin Pirie. Justin is a SaaS and cloud product managing specialist, and today we’re going to be talking about cloud adoption with end users and c ...
Full article at: Open View Labs  More like this  2 days ago, 3:49pm CDT

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Box Continues to Woo the Enterprise With New Admin Tools

Source: Hot Hardware

The cloud service formerly known as Box.net has steadily been adding features and capabilities enticing to businesses, which sets it apart from services more focused on individual users, such as Dropbox. Today, Box announced new admin features designe ...
Full article at: Hot Hardware  More like this  2 days ago, 9:58am CDT

Leading Australian Request-for-Quote Service Quotify Increases Subscription Revenue by 5X With Zuora

Source: MarketWire

Quotify, one of Australia's largest providers of request for quote services, is using the Zuora Subscription Commerce Platform to enable usage-based billing and debt collection for its online service, which connects Australi ...
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Blowing the Cloud Wide Open: Box.net to Begin Negotiable Enterprise Licenses

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Box.net's move, announced this morning, opens the door for potentially very large customers to enter into long-term arrangements that would otherwise be quite expensive. Think businesses with tens of thousands ...
Full article at: ReadWriteWeb  More like this  2 days ago, 8:33am CDT

How YouSendIt's New CEO Plans To Take On A Mob Of Flashy, Well-Funded Cloud Competitors

Source: Fast Company

He’s a week into his job at YouSendIt and CEO Brad Garlinghouse doesn’t have an office yet. But he’s in no rush to claim a corner spot or a coveted windowed view at the company’s Campbell, Calif. headquarters just yet. “We have offices on three floors,” ...
Full article at: Fast Company  More like this  2 days ago, 6:48am CDT

Will The Cloud's Brand Suffer From Outages?

Source: Wired

On consumer brand value — which I’d say is a factor in business brand perception (Apple in the enterprise?!) — MillwardBrown’s recent 2012 BrandZ Top 100 report values Apple, IBM, Google, and Microsoft at a combined half-trillion dollars. The ...
Full article at: Wired  More like this  3 days ago, 11:42am CDT

Google Drive and the end of sneakernet

Source: CNET

How Google Drive and other cloud lockers have changed the way I carry and share files. For many years I've always carried a high-capacity USB key with me. The actual unit has changed size, shape, and capacity, but its purpose has always ...
Full article at: CNET  More like this  4 days ago, 3:26pm CDT

How to Backup Android Contacts [Ultimate List]

Source: Gadget Cage

There are various ways that helps us to backup Android Contacts and in this post, I’ll be showing you various ways with which you can easily backup your android contacts. Here I’d like to compare Android’s Backu ...
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Look out Box.net: EMC just acquired a Dropbox also-ran

Source: Boston Business Journal

After her company's acquisition by EMC, Syncplicity CEO Karen White writes that enterprise IT has yet to standardize on file sync and share technology, even as it has swept consumers. "With this announcement, we join forces with the world leader in en ...
Full article at: Boston Business Journal  More like this  4 days ago, 10:09am CDT