Breaking Data as a Service News

Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has won the B2B Customer Strategy Award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards. Broadview has been in the forefront of adopting cloud-based services to improve its customers’ operations, and as a leader in the cloud-based IP phone solutions market, has extended their expertise to cloud computing. Their suite of cloud computing services offers fully-managed enterprise-grade hosted business applications and infrastructure tailored to make it easy-to-use for the small- and medium-sized business. Broadview’s cloud-based services target the growing opportunity for Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Their cloud computing solutions allow companies to move software, applications, storage and server har... (more)

D&B and GlobalSoft Partner with Informatica to Power-Charge Customer Master Data

D&B (NYSE: DNB), the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, announced that GlobalSoft, a global software consultancy, and D&B have partnered to launch D&B360 for Informatica MDM. This marks the first time that D&B has used its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution to integrate its unequaled database with an MDM solution, enabling companies to automatically update and streamline their data across the enterprise to increase productivity, reduce costs and maximize ROI. “With the increasing volume, complexity and volatility of data, it has become a s... (more)

Fujitsu Develops High-Speed Thin Client Technology for 10-Fold Improvement in Responsiveness

Enables smooth use of video, graphics; delivers cloud usage efficiencies for companies with global operations Kawasaki, Japan, May 15, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced that it has developed technology for high-speed thin clients that will respond as much as ten times faster to user operations, even in low-quality network environments. In cloud-based virtual desktop environments, when client terminals access the virtual desktop environment for video or graphics-heavy applications, system responsiveness has conventionally been poor, making it diffi... (more)

Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018

NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0840937/Cloud-Office-and-Collaboration-Productivity-Applications-Market-Shares-Strategies-and-Forecasts-Worldwide-2012-to-2018.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=IT_Hosting WinterGreen Research announces the following study: Cloud Client Productivity and Collaboration Applications Marke... (more)

NaviSite Introduces Cloud-Based Desktop-as-a-Service

"Cloud is changing the way enterprises view the corporate desktop," said  Denis Martin, Executive Vice President and CTO at NaviSite introduced an enterprise-class, cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS) offering that enables IT organizations to deliver virtual desktop services to local and remote users from the cloud. "DaaS leverages the scale, simplicity and economics of the NaviCloud to deploy desktops across the enterprise," Martin continued, adding: "Enterprises can now rapidly provision a secure virtual desktop for users that can be accessed on any device, anywhere without... (more)