Many clients I talk to are simply not ready for the ever-changing conditions in the business world as cloud computing gains in popularity. My company started using it years ago, when we needed to expand our horizons in our IT department, to include flexibility in transferring data when our workers were away from their desks. We quickly realized we could maximize mobile cloud computing technologies to our company’s be
Cloud web hosting is considered to be one of the most convenient and most widely used services for hosting a website round the globe. This gives rise to the question: Why is this type becoming so popular? To understand it properly one must first know what cloud hosting actually is, how it is different from other hosting types and how it actually works. As the name suggests, it’s related to cloud computing in th
In the world of cloud computing Amazon is probably most famous for its Web Services that are estimated to include nearly half a million servers in datacenters all over the world. However, Amazon does have a cloud storage service intended for individual users that offers similar features to Dropbox and Google Drive. Recently, Amazon took some steps to improve its cloud storage service Cloud Drive and make it available
This week Microsoft announced adding several new features to improve their Mobile Services that allow developers to easily connect their client and mobile applications to the cloud backend. A preview of Windows Azure Mobile Services was first released in August when it was made available for those running on Windows 8. Since then, Microsoft worked on improving these services to make them more widely available. The mo
One of the Gartner researches carried out this summer examined mobile device usage and made some interesting findings about current BYOD systems. Their findings are similar to those made by Mezeo’s survey few months ago. Both surveys questioned drivers to mobile device adoption and security issues related to such practice. Gartner Research Gartner survey covered organizations with more than 500 employees in several c
The rise of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) system in companies all over the world set some new standards in corporate environments. Employees increasingly manage their business documents from tablets and smartphones and the fact that a lot of business information now circulates through mobile devices resulted in an increasing necessity for a new level of data protection and control. Mobile devices enable a constant acc
An increasing number of smartphone and tablet apps relies on cloud. Cloud-based software grows important because of our necessity to sync files across all devices we use. Work PC, home PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet – file management grows more complicated. Cloud computing apps provide us with a better control over our documents and this particularly important now as the number of mobile users significantly grows. BY
Even before we entered the new millennium mobile devices began their hasty development. Perhaps now it doesn’t seem so, but the mobile revolution started with the first “brick” mobile phones with limited functions. Now the majority of population in developed countries regularly uses at least two different mobile devices and it is difficult to believe that tablets and blackberries actually had such a funny technologic