Friday Cloud News Roundup
A Content Social network For Cloud
For those who work in cloud technology or for businesses that use cloud technology, sometimes keeping up with changes can be a job in itself. Enter PaperShare, a new social network that centers on content instead of people, and has a community all about the cloud. Initially intended to center on professionals in the cloud technology business, it will quickly branch out to embrace the various vertical industries such as healthcare and finance in the coming year.
BNA to Host State Tax Seminar on Cloud Business
With many of the state governments looking for new sources of revenue, tax laws are being reinterpreted to help capture state income from cloud transactions. This can vary from state to state and for many businesses can be a nightmare to decode. BNA, a tax and accounting subsidiary of Bloomberg, will be holding a video seminar on Dec. 1 to address this and help cloud based businesses understand their various tax liabilities.
The Cyber Workforce and the Cloud
Are you prepared for the impact of the cloud on your workforce? This short article looks at the future for the IT workforce and how that change will impact businesses as they embrace the cloud. Forrester Research, ComputerWorld and IT staffing company iSpace discuss how the coming changes in IT from the adaption of the cloud could impact everyone, not just IT workers.
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Even with the best IT department, it can be hard to keep up with all the latest cloud hosted applications. Gone are the days of just keeping track of routers, switches and hard drives, these days there is so much more to know. For many businesses, monitoring the performance of your cloud VPS servers and the software they provide can be a full time challenge.
As cloud computing becomes more the norm for operational processes in many businesses, it has begun to replace IT in the same way that IT replaced mainframe computing. But many businesses don’t actually understand just what cloud computing is and how it is different from using IT in more ways than cost or simple structure.
It used to be that to start a business you needed serious capital for things like computers, servers and software. But virtual servers in the cloud can deliver to new start-ups software, customers and more. Learn how some of the best and brightest entrepreneurs and smart new companies have unleashed disruptive technologies, services and processes to grow their businesses using virtual servers and the cloud.
