As Apps Move to the Cloud, Next up Is Optimizing Them
As businesses continue to open up to the idea of hosting applications in the cloud, a slew of companies are looking to optimize how they're managed. full story
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Adaptive streaming will let you access apps, HD video and your whole OS from the cloud
Mozilla has teamed up with Hollywood rendering company OTOY to create a new codec to stream video and apps from the cloud directly to the browser. Javascript library ORBX can render apps, gaming platforms, or an entire operating system in any HTML5-capable browser.
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Android tablets to get Office Web Apps
Microsoft is to make it possible to edit Office Web Apps from Android tablets, matching the capabilities it already provides to Windows 8 tablets and iPads. The move is part of its broad cross-platform browser support, an element of its plan to develop the cloud services that revolve around Office 365. In an Office 365 blogpost Amanda Lefebvre, Technical Product Marketing...
techradar.com (10 days ago)
Adobe scraps software licenses in favor of cloud subscription scheme for Creative Suite line
In a move that should surprise no one, Adobe announced sweeping changes to its Creative Suite software line and year-old Creative Cloud subscription service. Signaling a new focus on integrating creative services in the cloud with its professional desktop software, Adobe launched a new cloud-based Creative Suite—with a new CC moniker, for Creative Cloud. But it will look...
macworld.com (13 days ago)
Fujitsu acquires French cloud startup RunMyProcess
Fujitsu has acquired RunMyProcess, a French startup that helps companies integrate on-site and cloud-based services.The startup offers API "connectors" for online services such as Google Apps that allow the services to talk to existing databases and other online services. This means a customer could keep its existing backend and switch to online forms or spreadsheets hosted...
pcworld.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
20 Most Popular Cloud-Based Apps Downloaded into Enterprises
The office of the 1970s was built on paper files, the office of the 1980s was built on word processing, spreadsheets, and other PC software, and the office of the 1990s was built on websites. These days, the office is is built on cloud-based apps.
forbes.com (1 month and 22 days ago)
Fear of lock-in dampens cloud adoption
Data portability -- the ability to move your information between clouds (or in and out of clouds) with relative ease -- is a key concern of companies considering a cloud move.
gigaom.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
Want to let users test-drive your server apps? Devops outfit ComodIT has a button for you.
ComodIT's "direct install" button allows for quick installation of apps on on-premise or cloud-based servers, and even makes it possible to test-drive apps for free in a ComodIT-sponsored EC2 micro instance.
gigaom.com (4 days ago)
Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions Surpass Half-Million Mark
Filed under: Investing Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions Surpass Half-Million Mark Free Creative Cloud Memberships Exceed 2 Million SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Adobe Systems Incorporated (NAS: ADBE) today announced that Adobe® Creative Cloud™ has exceeded 500,000 paid individual members. The company also reported that free and trial memberships have exceeded 2...
dailyfinance.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
Yammer to integrate Office Web Apps, SkyDrive Pro
Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's ongoing push to deepen and extend the integration of its cloud-hosted enterprise social-networking software with products from Microsoft, which acquired Yammer last July for...
pcworld.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
Meet the Microsoft Office Luddites: Why power users won't live in the cloud
The future is in the cloud. Every traditional software company is pushing cloud services over programs you actually install, and even Microsoft, which formally completed its new, cloud-based Office 365 package in February, has included cloud features in Office 2013, its new desktop suite. For starters, Office 2013 saves your work to SkyDrive cloud storage by default. The...
pcworld.com (2 months and 9 days ago)
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