Google's App Engine Platform

London, UK, May 16 - Continuing to offer consumers a no-compromise choice in home printers, Kodak today introduced the KODAK ESP 1.2 and ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printers combining advanced features, quality and affordability. Offering more ways to connect and print from mobile devices, Kodak also revealed its new KODAK Pic Flick HD App[1], which lets consumers create personalised photo cards, collages and prints on an iPad, and send them to their KODAK Printer. The ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer is the latest addition to Kodak's award-winning inkjet printer portfolio. With a refreshed and modern design, it is targeted to photo-centric consumers and families who want great value, quality and simplicity. It offers Kodak's signature easy Wi-Fi set-up and a 6.1cm colour touchscreen for effortless navigation and a better 'walk up and print' experience. The ESP 1.2 All-in-One Pri... (more)

Box Brings New Mobile and Social Capabilities to the Post-PC Era Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/28/12 -- Box today announced major social and mobile updates designed to better connect people, applications and information in the enterprise. Before an audience of hundreds of customers at Box World Tour San Francisco, the company unveiled all-new social workflow features to enhance engagement on Box, along with Box OneCloud, the first mobile enterprise platform to unify business information. Box is working with leading global systems integrators like Deloitte to bring a new level of mobile, social, and cloud services to enterprise client... (more)

Cloud Foundry vs Google App Engine

PaaS is nothing but uploading your small kernel of code with business logic and the PaaS service provider will run that code on allocated computing and storage instances. The aim of PaaS is to let the developers concentrate on developing their code rather than creating and maintaining their ecosystem required for it. When Google launched App Engine in 2008 it had very basic functionalities but gradually it has evolved to support much good functionality like Channel APIs. But when it comes to language support, selection of cloud, selection of database, control over database, Cloud... (more)

This Week in Cloud

Watch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the latest edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up and plans to transition to a hybrid solution that adds the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365, the article also highlights why organizations should consid... (more)

Google Plus for Business?

I can barely control my indignation when I read articles about Google Plus as a tool for “social collaboration”. These articles sometimes come from writers I respect. I guess we have a difference of opinion on this. Here are my reasons why I think Google Plus is not a tool for social collaboration (even remotely). 1. You can’t paste horns on a dog and call it a bull The last I remember, social collaboration was supposed to be about learning from the design concepts of social media tools like Facebook and Twitter, and adapting them to a business environment to spur productivity an... (more)