Cloud Computing

HighJump Software, a global provider of supply chain management software, today announced a new partnership with NetSuite, with plans to build HighJump Software SuiteApps using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform. The new SuiteApps are expected to provide NetSuite customers with HighJump...

There is much discussion in the industry around the future of cloud computing, specifically how fast cloud application adoption will grow. I recently gave a presentation at the MODEX 2012 material handling industry conference and someone asked me how fast cloud deployments will grow in the supply...

HighJump Software is exhibiting at MODEX 2012 this week in Atlanta. Sponsored by the Material Handling Industry of America, MODEX is billed as "the industry's newest expo for the manufactuing, distribution and supply chain industries." Show attendees have the opportunity to meet with over 500 supply...

BYODR…Bring Your Own Disaster Recovery? We have been talking with a lot of customers lately about HighJump WMS in the cloud. These conversations usually include a lot of the same topics, things like security, networking, compute capacity, and of course disaster recovery. HighJump has a well-defined,...

We have been seeing a trend the last few years of business departments looking to sidestep internal IT in an effort to accelerate their own technology projects. Lured by the pace and cost saving promises of cloud computing, business departments have started contracting directly with providers for...

I recently attended the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011 in Orlando, FL.  As you can imagine, cloud computing was one of the hottest topics on the agenda.  The discussion in the industry has clearly shifted around cloud computing, moving from the economics to the outcomes/benefits that cloud services...

Online and cloud based deployment models for Solutions as a Service are becoming more popular all the time as businesses seek faster time-to-value and greater return on their IT investments. That trend holds true for web-based EDI deployments as well. But is EDI in the cloud right for your...

Adam Wray, CEO of Tier 3, HighJump's cloud data center provider, joined up with Chad Collins, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for HighJump to deliver an interesting session on cloud computing. The basic message: yes, cloud is about economics, but it's overall an enabler of...

  Let’s face it, cloud computing is one of the hottest IT topics out there. It has actually been “hot” for quite some time…which almost made me not want to put out yet another blog post on cloud. However, one of the reasons I think the cloud computing topic remains, well so topical, is that we are...

Call me short-sighted, but I don't often connect the dots between cloud computing and the "greening" of the planet. Perhaps my mind naturally attaches more to the pragmatic cost savings benefits of cloud/on-demand software such as reduced IT requirement and elimination of a capital expenditure....