
Cloud Computing Makes It Possible

The University of California at Berkeley recently made a decision to depart from its old email system CalMail due to the system outages and has selected Google Apps over Microsoft’s Office 365 for its campus email and calendar services. In an official statement, Berkeley officials said that after an extensive evaluation process the university decided to move its entire campus community to Google Apps for Education Suite during 2012.

New Relic, one of the leading application performance management (APM) software providers, has obtained a more than respectable $15 million in expansion (series D) funding from a host of noteworthy investors, both new and old. New investors, including DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group, led the most recent round of financing, with existing investors — [...]

Service Assurance, Automation, Security and Management Keys to Positioning IT at the Center of Business Transformation

Companies have responded to the mobile craze, their implementation of mobile optimized pages often falls short. To wit, a 2011 survey of mobile Web users and websites found that a full 77% of large companies’ mobile “optimized” sites take more than 5 seconds to load.

BizCloud, a provider of cloud technology and marketing solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, offers tips for online gaming companies on how to save money and improve customer acquisition by employing SaaS Application Performance Management systems.

With the 9th annual Cloud Expo conference taking place in Santa Clara, industry watchers should expect to be treated to a veritable smörgåsbord of technology innovation. Expect a popular theme to be Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). These cost effective solutions allow companies to shed installation disks, archived files [...]

Server and Performance Monitoring Essentials for Cloud Hosted Applications It won’t be long before such mundane concerns as switch latency and the power consumption of servers’ multi-core CPUs are a distant memory for most system administrators and network engineers. Soon, they’ll be able to manage a completely virtualized cloud infrastructure that runs a variety of [...]

Quality application performance management software is important for any software development operation, but it is especially critical for the game developers who often place high comparative demands on end-users’ computers and devices. While many online games do not require the same hardware resources as traditional ones, they still place a significant load on browsers. Large [...]