
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud By David Fletcher of CloudTweaks
Opportunities in Cloudsourcing By Cloudtweaks Over the last few years, there has been a shift towards cloud-based hosting of applications and infrastructure. It is a well-established process for a business to pass part, or even all, of its computing requirements to a cloud based supplier so that they can take advantage of the benefits. However, one of the biggest sources of outgoing for a business is staffing costs. How can the march to cloud computing help to reduce those for a business? A lot of businesses have periods when they require extra staffing for peak periods. This might be to
Teradata Muscles Into Cloud Computing With $525 Million Acquisition By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks The Christmas week saw a major corporate move in the cloud computing space with business data warehousing company Teradata Corp. agreeing to acquire privately held Aprimo, a marketing cloud-computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider in a $525 million deal announced on 22 December. This marks Texas-based Teradata’s largest acquisition as an independent company, and begins its foray into the cloud computing niche with bang. Indianapolis-based Aprimo provides analytical software to its enterprise customers that enable them to plan their marketing and advertising efforts. “The expansion of
GridGain Interview With Nikita Inanov, CEO Cloudtweaks.com had an opportunity recently to speak with Nikita Inanov, the CEO of GridGains Systems. GridGain Systems is a privately funded startup company developing an innovative JVM-based Cloud Application Platform that enables rapid development of highly scalable SaaS or traditional enterprise and social web applications that scale on any grid or cloud infrastructure. Nikita has over 18 years of experience in software development, a vision and pragmatic view of where development technology is going, and high quality standards in software engineering and entrepreneurship holding various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up
Europe’s potential big bloomers for 2011 By CloudTweaks With 2011 just around the corner, there are numerous cloud predictions for 2011. Cloud computing being a nascent technical advancement in the field of Information Technology, it is still in its molding face. So what has 2011 stored for us? Will social networking evolve and somehow integrate with cloud computing? Will the cloud be a new haven for e-gamers? Or will high specification rigs become obsolete for a common user as he discovers the power of the cloud? All these questions can be better answered when 2011 comes. Stated are some of