American Red Cross now Googled

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The American Red Cross is now apparently 131 years old, but in all that time has never stood still. What’s more, when the organisation found that its ability to operate effectively was becoming difficult with the systems used, the management had no hesitation in looking for something better.  It chose Google, and I believe has [...]

New website builder launched

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Zoho website builder apparently helps businesses design their own websites simply and easily, and are also mobile app ready. I am unsure whether this particular program is something that has to be installed on your computer or whether it is an online or cloud version.  However, whichever it is, Zoho appears very comprehensive.  Moreover, it [...]

Could cloud spell the end of the desktop?

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That’s the view of Professor T.R. Gopalakrishnan Nair who spoke at a recent seminar held at a Middle East University.  The seminar was titled “Advances in Cloud Computing and Business Security.” Speaking with asiantribune.com Professor Gopalakrishnan Nair said: “Cloud is the ideal case to make computing capability a universal utility.  Very soon big desktops would [...]

US water company under pressure to switch

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The US water company, American Water, is apparently under pressure to switch away from Lotus Notes to some other system. The reason is more economic than administrative, I believe.  Like all corporations, companies are expected to compete effectively, but as water in the US is also a regulated private industry as it is in the [...]

Is this Scotland’s loss?

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Recent talks between the Scottish Government and Google broke down after the latter pulled out. I believe Scottish education currently makes use of a website that links all Scotland’s schools.  However, the Scottish education ministry hoped that by also using Google’s cloud-based system the world-leading website would be enhanced.  Now its future could be in [...]

A hidden benefit of cloud

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While the benefits of cloud are numerous – low cost investment, little or no in-house maintenance, and so on, there is one hidden benefit that is often overlooked. Well, I am not surprised it’s overlooked as it isn’t a direct benefit to users.  In other words, it’s more of a collaborative process between different businesses [...]

Nine campuses cut to just one

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The University of Monash in Australia is the latter’s largest higher educational establishment with around 60,000 students. Interestingly, many of the students are based not just in Australia but in other far flung destinations including Italy, Malaysia and South Africa. Now trying to administer such diverse campuses was probably something of a nightmare until the [...]

From little acorns

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The old adage from little acorns grow mighty oaks is a very apt saying for one Google app creator. Appsbar created a free app builder that has become one of the most popular programs in the world.  So much so that the number of downloads grew from 100 to over 100,000 in just one year [...]

Training is key to the future of cloud

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It is also important, apparently, for the retention of workers and company competitiveness. This is the considered opinion of the CEO of one business, which specialises in information technology services who recently told usatoday.com that the IT industry is changing at such a fast pace nowadays that it is all too easy to slacken and [...]

Billing goes cloud

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Cloud computing is certainly finding its feet in all sorts of businesses.  While most people think of storage and file sharing together with low cost as being prime benefits, it seems it is being used in other beneficial ways. For instance, for those businesses that need to track sales and invoicing in real time, then [...]