Agile and Cloud Computing Made for Each Other

Agile development methodologies, using cloud-based resources; how good can IT get? Paul Smyth, CEO of custom software development house, Kynetix, argues that there’s never been a better development environment for enabling IT decision makers to re-assess the speed at which they can deliver genuine competitive advantage to the organisation. There will definitely come a time when we look back over this fertile...

Golden Clouds: Why CSPs must Profit from the Business Cloud Services Boom

Author: Richard Arthur, Director, Business Transformation Marketing, CMS, Hewlett Packard New studies are highlighting that demand is building from business Information and Communications Technology (ICT) users for cloud services.    Communications Service Providers are ideally placed to bundle these services for their customers.   The ICT wind is blowing in the right direction, but CSPs need to understand...

Telekom Austria Partners with Parallels Automation to Launch New Cloud Services

Cloud enablement leader, Parallels, today announced at TMForum in Nice that Telekom Austria’s subsidiary mobilkom austria has launched Parallels Automation including Linux Shared Hosting, Windows Shared Hosting, business-class email hosting and mobility services.  This helps mobilkom austria to combat falling margins in the mobile sector, deliver new cloud-based managed hosting services to small to medium-sized...

Defining the Business Value of Cloud Computing

By Larry Beck, Senior Director, Cloud Strategy, Avanade The emergence of cloud computing makes it seem like the sky’s the limit when it comes to using new technologies to improve how business is done. Cloud computing offers creative ways for companies to address how they utilize IT, which in turn frees up resources and money to focus on what matters most – their core business objectives. According to a recent...

What are the Real Business Benefits of SaaS for Growing Companies? – View Webinar Recording

Software-as-a-Service – or Cloud Computing – is becoming an increasingly popular option as it continues to move into a broader range of applications and larger, more strategic deployments. But what are the real business benefits of SaaS for growing companies, and how do the costs and value compare with the traditional IT ownership model?  To find out answers to these crucial questions, Cloud Vision teamed with...