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According to a recent survey by Evans Data Corp, over 60% of  IT departments are likely to adopt a Hybrid Cloud Model during the coming year, moving some of their IT resources to the Public Cloud. There will be a growing need for highly scalable integration tools to link legacy on premise back office applications [...]

TWIS#17 Google Apps Marketplace! Google Apps launches marketplace this week and TWIS investigates in depth what it means for SaaS More stuff on Google Apps CrunchGear on Microsoft Innovation (they think it’s dead) Appirio on Microsoft’s Cloud strategy (they think it’s alive) In other news, Amazon Revenue, Eventbrite The winners of the conference passes for the London Cloud Computing Congress 15/16 March [...]

One of the great things I like about our backup infrastructure is how we can add extra storage without the need of shutting down the service. It can be scaled to what we need and when we need it without interrupting any of our customer’s backups. I’ve recently dealt with the daunting task (or so I [...] Related posts:How long does a LiveVault offsite backup take? Automated Online Backup That’s Easy To Use How much bandwidth does our server backup use?

This month we will be attending and speaking at the EuroCloud UK Event, How ISVs Make the Transition to SaaS. Our Systems Architect and Infrastructure Manager, Aidan Finn, will be discussing our SaaS operations and customer relations. The event will be held on Thursday 18th March 2010 at SAP UK Headquarters in Feltham. You can read [...] Related posts:EuroCloud formally opens for business across Europe Whitepaper: Managed Cloud Computing C Infinity Sponsers The Irish Software Show – Epic...

Cloud Computing Security is a key concern to Enterprise and Government organisations planning to deploy their IT applications on the Cloud. The recorded webcasts produced by BrightTALK address the issue of trust within the cloud security environment, uncover the risks within cloud computing and security, the barriers to adoption and ways to mitigate these risks. [...]

So many of the issues facing SaaS and cloud providers are due to a business model that's completely different from traditional software licensing and on-premise implementation. Here are four key elements of difference up for discussion at EuroCloud UK's next meeting.

Dot Net Solutions and Microsoft have released a joint white paper entitled “Outlook: partly cloud with sunny spells to follow. Discussing a hybrid approach to cloud computing” – see the Dot Net Solutions website

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the number of enterprise customers using mobile Cloud Computing applications will rise to more than 130 million by 2014. This growth will be facilitated by platform as a service (PaaS) deployments from players such as Google and Microsoft. The report found that the success of Apple’s iPhone and App [...]

SaaS CRM vendor RightNow today launched a new customer contract proposition that, to me, should always have been on the table from every reputable SaaS vendor. It gives customers a bit more of a break from the lock-in that SaaS represents.

OK, let me concede for a moment that there is a use case for private cloud, but only with heavy qualification and many caveats. That doesn't mean anything I'm going to say will please the proponents of private cloud.