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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:35
Will Google Drive be a Dropbox killer?
With the launch of Google Drive, Google looks like it’s going head to head against established cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Box. But we think what Google is offering is head and shoulders above existing services, because it provides another key piece in the puzzle for companies looking for effective collaboration tools. Of course Google Drive, like Dropbox, provides cloud storage and synchronisation with local devices – 5GB for free and a flexible pricing plan if you need…
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 15:02
VitAL Magazine - The Mindset Migration: Why moving to the Cloud involves more than just technical change
David McLeman, managing director of Ancoris, Google’s leading UK partner, argues the real benefit of migrating to the cloud is the innovative transformation of business operations as a whole. There are two sides to cloud computing. From a technical point of view, it changes the way IT is provisioned.…
Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:21
Ancoris enters the Post-PC era, switches to Google Chromebooks with full legacy application access
In 2009, we started our transition to cloud services both for our business, as a Google Premier Enterprise Partner, but also for our own internal applications. As we started this change we were very aware that the transition to the cloud was a journey and not an event. Like many of our customers we wanted to benefit immediately from cloud email and collaboration applications with Google Apps for Business but some of our existing on-premise applications would not be replaced…
Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:25
ZDNet - Google Drive launches with multiformat search
Google unveiled on Tuesday Google Drive, its online storage system. Allowing users to store any sort of data in Google's cloud, access is through the browser or an app for Windows, Mac OS, Android and, "in the next few weeks", iOS. Once installed, the app maps Google Drive into the…
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:01
VitAL Magazine - Private Clouds: Just Hosting under a new Name?
Why are companies being sold short with the ‘cloudwashing’ of traditional hosting? David McLeman gives tips for telling rebadged traditional hosting from real cloud services. Many IT services providers are now marketing “private cloud” offerings, no doubt hoping to attract customers who want all the benefits of cloud computing,…
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:43
CTO - Future Proofing HR Technologies
Stimulating exploration on Future-Proofing HR Technologies at 4th HR4ICT Social media is transforming the very nature of recruitment and training, said author Jacqueline Davies in a scene-setting keynote on the first morning. “You don’t need a Learning Management System if you have YouTube.” She drew on examples of companies around…
Monday, 16 April 2012 11:48
BusinessComputingWorld - Are “Private Clouds” Just Old-Fashioned Hosting Masquerading Under A New Name?
This article explains why companies are being sold short by “cloudwashing” of traditional hosting and give tips for telling rebadged traditional hosting from real cloud services. Many IT services providers are now marketing “private cloud” offerings, no doubt hoping to attract customers who want all the benefits of cloud computing,…
Monday, 16 April 2012 11:09
TTG Digital: Cost, Flexibility and Protection against Disasters
Cloud computing has some great advantages. Alex Blyth reports When Dee Edwards founded Tell Tale Travel in 2006 she knew right away that she wanted the entire IT infrastructure in the cloud. “Previously, I’d run tech companies,” she explains. “So, I was well aware that if we bought an exchange…
Friday, 30 March 2012 10:40
Ancoris Strengthens its Cloud and Remote Access Offerings with Ericom’s Access Solutions
Ericom Software, a leading global provider of application access and virtualization solutions and Ancoris have signed a partnership agreement that gives Ancoris the rights to market Ericom’s AccessNow, a high performance HTML5 RDP zero client, and Power WebConnect, a centralized management solution and the #1 Alternative to Citrix – to organisations that are turning to native cloud applications but still relying heavily on Windows-based applications and desktops.Ericom AccessNow provides access to both Cloud-hosted as well as on-premise Windows resources from…
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 09:00
Ancoris Cloud Briefing: Work in the Future
The cloud is not just an IT issue. It is a competitive advantage. A survey carried out by Vanson Bourne for Google in the UK has revealed that 94% of senior financial decision makers say that cloud computing will be important to the success of their company over the next 12…
Thursday, 01 March 2012 16:42
Travel Trade Gazette - Get your head in the cloud
Cost, flexibility and protection against disasters - cloud computing has some great advantages. Alex Blyth reports. Read full article on page 26 - 27
Thursday, 01 March 2012 14:01
SiteSetter - G-Cloud app store gives small businesses a lift
CloudStore opened on Sunday, with services from 257 companies offered to public-sector organisations in a browsable, GCHQ-vetted catalogue of cloud services, ranging from rentable infrastructure, applications and platforms to consultancy."It's a complete break with the past," David McLeman, the managing director of UK cloud and security vendor Ancoris, told ZDNet…
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:55
CRN Channelweb.co.uk - Taking Google to the next level
Despite being a $20bn-plus company, when it launched into the channel Google appeared to be the noisy upstart, tweaking the nose of Microsoft and other long-established enterprise software players. Three years on, with a growing list of blue-chip clients and a new, more demanding partner scheme, it must now be…
Monday, 27 February 2012 10:14
European Union provides welcome backing for cloud computing
The European Union's recently announced plans to overhaul data protection legislation and create a Cloud Partnership, similar to the UK’s G-Cloud Initiative, look to be good news for both users and providers of cloud computing services. Like the UK Government, which announced the first providers in its G-Cloud store this month, Ancoris among them, the EU is backing the use of public software-as-a-service solutions as the way forward for meeting public sector IT needs.The EU is also looking to make…
Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:46
government-online.net - CloudStore launched as part of the G-Cloud Framework
The UK Government has very recently launched its new CloudStore as an innovative method of delivering IT applications via the G-Cloud. Under set 12 months’ contracts suppliers provide access to online applications at a fixed entry and exit point. It is widely accepted that this new technology will help Government…
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:28
Silicon.com - Cloud app store is launched
The government has launched its G-Cloud application procurement site, CloudStore, giving small businesses across the UK a chance to compete with large IT companies for public-sector contracts.CloudStore opened on Sunday, with services from 257 companies offered to public-sector organisations in a browsable, GCHQ-vetted catalogue of cloud services, ranging from rentable…
Monday, 20 February 2012 16:39
G-Cloud app store gives small businesses a lift
The government has launched its G-Cloud application procurement site, CloudStore, giving small businesses across the UK a chance to compete with large IT companies for public-sector contracts.CloudStore opened on Sunday, with services from 257 companies offered to public-sector organisations in a browsable, GCHQ-vetted catalogue of cloud services, ranging from rentable…
Monday, 20 February 2012 14:37
Government CloudStore opens for business
The Cabinet Office has anointed 255 IT and comms suppliers of all shapes and sizes to sell their wares to public sector punters via the CloudStore – an online catalogue of services.This is the first tranche of government's £60m G-Cloud framework, providing some 1,700 'pay as you go' ICT services…
Monday, 20 February 2012 14:14
Ancoris Named G-Cloud Supplier
Ancoris has today been announced as a G-Cloud supplier. As a supplier to the Government’s CloudStore, Ancoris will now be able to migrate the public sector to Google Apps for Business, without a formal tender process. The CloudStore will work as an online marketplace and will include information allowing buyers to make comparisons between suppliers. The carefully selected catalogue of cloud providers will enable the public sector to confidently buy cloud services.This is likely to see a big push into cloud computing…
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Ancoris Cloud Briefing
Wednesday 27th June 2012
@ Google, Central St Giles, London
"Work in the Future" is an executive briefing that will discuss the value of cloud services from an operational and financial perspective.
Agenda and registration
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