Cascade Is An Enterprise Management Platform That Focuses On Boosting Employee Morale
by Catherine Shu, courtesy TechCrunch – Cloud-based enterprise management software Cascade wants to set itself apart by creating happier and more motivated companies. Its two founders, a former banker and a … Continue reading
Cloud Logistics Easily Reconfigures Your Vendor Locations and Routes
courtesy gocloudlogistics.tumblr.com – Cloud Logistics can easily reconfigure your vendor locations and routes with our cutting edge technology. The attached article from Supply Chain Digest confirms how important this feature is … Continue reading
US cloud industry set to lose up to $35bn because of PRISM
by James Bourne, courtesy CloudComputing-News.net – According to a report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the repercussions of PRISM means that, over the next three years, the … Continue reading
Gartner Predicts Limited IT Outsourcing Growth and Increased Volatility
Cost-conscious customers, uncertain economic conditions and evolving delivery models are causing the IT services market to grow more slowly than expected, according to a recent Gartner report. by Stephanie Overby … Continue reading
A new reason to use fuel cells for data centers: fire prevention
by Katie Fehrenbacher, story ccourtesy Gigaom Summary: Fire prevention is the latest benefit of using fuel cells in data centers, according to data center giant Equinix, a German project developer … Continue reading
Data Virtualization: Where Do We Stand Today?
by Rick van der Lans, courtesy BeyeNETWORK Expert Channel — Many blogs and articles are devoted to data virtualization, at many events data virtualization has been discussed (sometimes heatedly), the topic is explained on … Continue reading
The Logical Big Data Warehouse
by Yves de Montcheuil, courtesy talend.com — Not so long ago, Gartner defined the Logical Data Warehouse (of which Mark Beyer claimed the paternity, but I won’t try to rebuild the Data … Continue reading
Enterprise cloud apps uptake is overstated: Software AG
Summary: Will the majority of enterprise apps reside in the cloud in the next few years? It’s unlikely, according to the enterprise management software company’s senior vice president of market strategy, … Continue reading
SAP Shares Dragged Down By Slower Than Expected Cloud Sales
Arik Hesseldahl, courtesy AllThingsD — Yesterday, shares of the German software giant SAP fell by more than three percent after the company reported earnings results that fell short of expectations. Sales … Continue reading
Scality Raises $22M to Globalize Scale-Out Data System
July 12, 2013 courtesy Red Herring Editorial Team Big data is the next revolution in business, and Scality strives to turn the industry on its head through a low pricing … Continue reading
FYI: Evolve IP Launches Revolutionary CloudNOW Partner Program
courtesy EVOLVE IP WAYNE, Pa., July 10, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company™, today announced a new partner program, CloudNOWTM, that enables VARs, Systems Integrators, Independent Software … Continue reading
CIOs bemoan lock-in and the ‘false flexibility’ of the cloud
Clouds are just the new ‘legacy’ environments, says Clorox CIO courtesy IDG News Service – Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers … Continue reading
Cloud security is important, but what does it really mean?
John Boitnott is a longtime digital media consultant and advisor to StartupGrind. Cloud computing is one of the most valuable innovations for business, providing cheap, virtual services that once required … Continue reading
Cloud Growth Continues
Dropbox Expands Its Reach by Thomas Claburn, courtesy informationweek For home buyers, it’s said, three things matter most: location, location and location. This oversimplification of real estate valuation holds true for … Continue reading
IEEE Talk: Integrated Big Data, The Cloud, & Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not?
by David Mayes on Jul 10, 2013, Featured Guest Post This IEEE Talk discusses the three biggest trends in online technology and proposes that in fact, they represent one huge … Continue reading
cStor Second Arizona-based VMware Partner to Gain Premier Status
by DH Kass, courtesy The Var Guy VMware has granted its coveted Premier Partner status to cStor, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based data center specialist with a particular focus in virtualization—only the … Continue reading
Open Vault (Storage)
courtesy opencompute.org, post by Chritty Watts, TiA Staff The Open Vault is a simple and cost-effective storage solution with a modular I/O topology that’s built for the Open Rack. The Open Vault … Continue reading
Other Way Around
by Alex Williams, courtesy TechCrunch For all the attention this week about the cloud, it’s evident that it is pretty much a distraction when considering what is really happening. Developers … Continue reading
Technology Spending Showing First Signs of a Recovery, EMC Says
By Sam Chambers, courtesy Bloomberg EMC Corp. (EMC), the company analysts rank higher than any other technology stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, is seeing early signs of … Continue reading
Microsoft Joins Oracle in Cloud-Computing, Rivalry Thaws
By Aaron Ricadela & Dina Bass Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s cloud-computing service will offer Oracle Corp. (ORCL)’s database and Java tools as an option as the companies cast aside a longstanding … Continue reading
Enterprises launch their own private clouds
by Nancy Gohring NEW YORK (courtesy CNNMoney) Scrappy online startups were among the first to realize that renting computing power from cloud providers like Amazon Web Services was an excellent … Continue reading
Server Farm Realty Opens Massive Data Center in Chicago
by Justin Lee, courtesy thewhir.com Data center developer Server Farm Realty announced on Tuesday it has opened its new 450,000 square foot data center in Chicago. The move comes two … Continue reading
ByteGrid Acquires Maryland Data Center
by Rich Miller, courtesy datacenterknowledge.com A new player in the data center business has acquired a facility in Maryland in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. ByteGrid Holdings LLC has bought … Continue reading
Top 5 Data Center Industry Stories, Week of June 22
by Rich Miller, courtesy datacenterknowledge.com For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated (June … Continue reading
CloudUp Is A Fast, Dead-Simple Way To Share And View Files On Any Platform (Without The Folders)
by Rip Empson, courtesy TechCrunch In today’s world of email, social networks, SMS, chat applications and cloud services, there are plenty of ways to share share a file, folder, photo or … Continue reading
Finding the next AWS, VMWare or EMC: Five areas where cloud startups can make it big
Summary: There are third-party data centers, and there are private clouds — but there’s a third option that’s even better: hybrid clouds. Here are five areas of opportunity for startups … Continue reading
Hewlett-Packard Unveils Data-Analysis Tools, Seeks Growth
by Aaron Ricadela (courtesy Bloomberg) Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) unveiled software that knits together technology from its data-analysis acquisitions, and announced a personal computer deal with Google Inc. as it seeks … Continue reading
Marketo Vows Independence Amid Oracle Buying Spree
Marketo Inc. (MKTO) Chief Executive Officer Phil Fernandez is committed to staying independent while Oracle Corp. (ORCL) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) buy up his top marketing-software competitors. Salesforce agreed to acquire ExactTarget … Continue reading
3 more cloud computing myths dispelled
Security, portability, and data mining are the three latest areas where IT falls out of touch with reality by David Linthicum (courtesy InfoWorld) Speaking season will be over this month. … Continue reading
Panzura gets $25M to staff up global sales presence
by Barb Darrow Summary: Panzura looks to expand its enterprise cloud storage push with new money from Meritech Capital Partners and current backers. Panzura, the company that puts and manages … Continue reading
Surprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter
by Barb Darrow (courtesy gigaom) selected by Anthony S. for TiA. Summary: What company remains atop the heap of IaaS/PaaS providers in Q1 2013? I’ll give you three guesses and … Continue reading
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