Cloud Computing|Salesforce|Zoho|CRM|Google Apps|AWS

Google announces cloud computing operating system will be completely open source

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:37:17 +0000

Internet search provider and software developer Google announced Thursday during a live webcast that the code of its new operating system designed to apply the principles of cloud computing to the entire personal computer platform will be laid completely bear to open source developers.

As of Thursday, the company announced, all external developers working on the new operating system will be working on the same code tree as internal developers.

“Whatever we do will be in the open, and we are really looking forward to working with the open source community to help drive this forward,” said Google senior vice president of product management Sundar Pichai.

The idea behind the new operating system, called Google Chrome OS, will be to bring all personal computing functions into the cloud. All applications, including media players, content managers and document editors, as well as all data storage will be hosted online.

Google’s release of an operating system based entirely around cloud computing could be the ultimate challenge to Microsoft’s dominance in the software field. Previous releases such as the Google Chrome web browser and Google Apps compete directly with established Microsoft offerings such as Internet Explorer and Office, but an entire operating system would be the most extensive challenge yet.

Source: Link

82 Billion Objects in Amazon S3

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:27:43 +0000

At the end of Q3 2009 we counted over 82 billion objects in Amazon S3. Congrats to the team for providing such a rock solid service!

When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months.

Source: Link

IBM launches development and test cloud

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:19:59 +0000

With a nod toward the heterogeneous application development environments that exist in most enterprise IT departments, IBM on Wednesday launched a pair of services targeted at building cloud applications.

The first, the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud, is a cloud service hosted in IBM’s data centers that provides tools and interfaces designed to support developers using Java, .NET, and Open Source environments. This service provides computing and storage capacity, and support for WebSphere middleware, Rational Software Delivery Services, and its Information Management database. It also provides “pre-configured integrations” of some Rational services based on IBM’s Jazz framework, its collaborative software platform.

There are no pre-configured integrations announced for third-party or open source tools or languages.

In addition to the Smart Business offering, IBM is adding private cloud-targeted tools and services to the IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing offering. These tools and services target three key elements of the development and testing of cloud applications:

Agile development services, aimed at enabling collaborative development and testing through a set of best practices.
*

An integrated set of services for test management and planning and test lab management.
*

Tools, such as IBM Rational Asset Manager, which are targeted at increasing the efficiency of distributed application development teams.

By combining the expertise gained by IBM’s Global Services organizations and the Rational Lab Services team in building and delivering development and test tools and practices in IBM-based clouds, the company hopes to become a one-stop shop for companies looking for a solid return on investment from adopting the cloud model in development and test.

IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud can be accessed as a free beta, and the IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for private clouds are also available in beta through the companies sales force.

Source: Link

Switch to Google Apps

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:34:08 +0000

Gmail for business 25GB storage, less spam, and a 99.9% uptime SLA, and enhanced email security.

Google Calendar Agenda management, scheduling, shared online calendars and mobile calendar sync.

Google Docs Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Work online without attachments.

Google Sites Secure, coding-free web pages for intranets and team managed sites.

Google Video Private, secure, hosted video sharing.

How can Jadetec help?

Google Apps Setup
Email/Calender/Contacts and Docs migration
Google sites migration
Google Analytics setup
Support
Training
Custom App Development

For more information please send an email to contact@jadetecinc.com

Free CRM

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:03:08 +0000

Zoho CRM empowers organizations with a complete customer relationship lifecycle management solution for managing organization-wide Sales, Marketing, Customer Support & Service and Inventory Management in a single business system.