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Sony gives up its MiniDisc system - right decision, but too late

August 31, 2012

Zscaler finally accepts VC dollars — the paradigm shift in IT security continues

August 22, 2012

Amazon launches Glacier cloud storage

Amazon has released Glacier, a data archive service for enterprises and small businesses that encourages companies to give up their tape systems and move to the cloud. read more >

August 21, 2012

Get more customers with Start2Cloud!

Today we are entering the next important milestone. We are launching our advertising program, that is specifically targeted to cloud services providers, consulting companies, and systems integrators operating in the fast growing area of cloud computing. To all of these businesses we can now offer a platform that gives them an ability to reach their potential customers in a highly targeted way and at the time when these customers are willing to listen - all that for an exceptional Price/Ratio value. read more >

November 23, 2011

Start2Cloud.com just reached Google PageRank 3

Start2Cloud - our map of cloud applications for SMEs have just reached Google PageRank 3 - only after one month of going live! It is an important milestone for all of us. It also clearly shows that Google really values an original content focused on interesting topics. Thank you all for your support. read more >

November 09, 2011

UPDATE: GoodData gave Start2Cloud permission to use its services

All’s well that ends well. Yesterday evening we received the second mail from Mr. Roman Staněk, CEO of GoodData. This time Mr. Staněk gave us his permission to use GoodData services for the purpose of creating articles for our portal. In addition, GoodData offered us its assistance in preparation of our further BI content. We are grateful for this approach. We believe that this is the only right way how media and service providers should work together. Because – as a matter of fact – we need each other. read more >

October 26, 2011

Business Intelligence

Thank you!

Thanks to you, today the situation looks much better for our portal Start2Cloud than just one day ago. We have received enormous wave of positive response and support from you, and also some legal advice about the legal weaknesses of Terms Of Use of GoodData. Thanks to all this we are much more comfortable with our situation now and feel that we will be able to continue in our effort to serve you in creating – as we believe – the most useful map of cloud applications on the internet. read more >

October 25, 2011

Business Intelligence

The $28.5 million backed company GoodData threatens our student startup Start2Cloud.com with lawsuit

Friday night Roman Staněk, the founder and CEO of GoodData Corporation, asked us to remove articles where we cover GoodData services. This request came just one day after we published our article Plans & Pricing Hurricane in GoodData where we inform readers about the significant rise of prices of GoodData Inc services. read more >

October 24, 2011

Business Intelligence

Comindwork vs. Zoho Project

Even this time we compare two very strong competitors on the field of Project Management – Comindwork and Zoho Project. Both applications contain quite a big number of tools which are designed for collaboration. Both applications are also well known and popular among users. read more >

October 21, 2011

Jan Beneš

Production

PurchaseControl.com - simple and efficient cloud solution for your Purchase Management

PurchaseControl.com is a brilliant application that controls and automates the entire purchase process, enforces budget limits for users and departments in real time, and records all purchase activity for further analysis. It has good level of security with multiple authorization levels, however with some limitations. The application supports multi-currency operations, which makes it suitable even for larger SMEs, and multi-company operations, suitable for aggregating purchase power of multiple companies. read more >

October 12, 2011

Rastislav Štangl

Procurement

The "Universal Key" for SaaS / Cloud Deployment - Part 2

In our previous article we have summarized the basic prerequisites for deploying SaaS applications. Now, on the basis of these assumptions we will select areas of deployment where it is possible to deploy SaaS application even today. Although there cloud / SaaS alternatives already exists for most of desktop solutions, not everywhere is their use appropriate. read more >

October 10, 2011

Martin Jurica

Windows Live Mesh and Skydrive

If you are user of several computers you probably want to synchronize all of your documents which are stored in various places. What is worse than to go on a business trip and have your files in different laptops and PCs in different parts of the world? Windows Live Mesh helps you to prevent similar situations and offers 25 GB of online storage. In addition, it gives you remote access to your computer. How does Windows Live Mesh work? Let us have a closer look in this article. read more >

October 07, 2011

Standa Jonák

Office Automation

The “Universal Key” for SaaS/Cloud Deployment - Part 1

Which SaaS solution should we choose? The answer to this question depends primarily on specific customer requirements. Is it possible to replace "office functionality", but current SaaS applications does not offer the range of features comparable to competing on-premise software? This series of three articles will focus on designing the "master key" that will lead you to the deployment or non-deployment of SaaS. read more >

October 04, 2011

Martin Jurica

Basecamp vs. Comindwork

In this article we would like to compare two very popular Project Management applications: Basecamp and Comindwork. Both offer a great functionality and an exceptional user friendliness which makes the work with them a pleasure. Both applications have more than 20,000 users and are thus very well proven. read more >

September 19, 2011

Jan Beneš

Production

Zoho Projects – Online Project Management & planning software with rich and powerful functionality

Zoho Projects is an extensive multifunctional tool for Project Management which includes a wide variety of tools for collaboration, Task Management, Project Reports (such as Gantt Charts), and Document Management. It is available in 16 languages and offers extensive possibilities for integration with apps like Google Docs or MS Project. read more >

September 19, 2011

Jan Beneš

Production

SAAS and cloud computing – some theory first...

Before we start, we need to become familiar with the basic concepts, technologies and definitions. This introduction summarizes the relationship between the SaaS (Software as a Service), ASP (Application Service Provider) and cloud infrastructure. The concepts are explained briefly and main definitions are provided - this is the ideal start for anyone who is going to "start to cloud." read more >

September 14, 2011

Martin Jurica

The pros and cons of the cloud

While the main benefits of Cloud are well known and frequently discussed, frankly speaking, nothing in life is purely black or purely white. In this article we will focus on the “less white” side of the cloud and will discuss some of perceived or real risks of this method of IT delivery. At the end, we will give you some recommendations how to make the cloud best serve you while eliminating some its typical risks. read more >

September 14, 2011

Martin Jurica