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Did Cloud Computing Win New York Giants the Super Bowl?

by on February 6, 2012 at 11:37 am in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Social networks, Storage, Technology, Trends

Did Cloud Computing Win New York Giants the Super Bowl? By now you know: the Giants dwarfed the pompous Patriots in what’s being deemed one of the oddest battles in Super Bowl history. Eli Manning summoned one of his signature fourth-quarter drives to score the winning touchdown in an eleventh hour finish. His talent, alongside [...]

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The Social Cloud: Facebook IPO – Is This MySpace 2.0?

by on February 2, 2012 at 6:47 am in Backups, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Facebook, IT, Social networks, Technology, Venture Capital

The Social Cloud: Facebook IPO –  Is This MySpace 2.0? History repeating: 2000 Bubble, Myspace, 2012 Facebook IPO, NBT (Next Big Thing…)  Investors are expected to sink $5 billion into the Facebook IPO. Wow. Well, from a pure spreadsheet perspective it makes some sense. If you take the 800 million Facebook users multiplied by a value [...]

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PaaS Specialist Startups for 2012

by on January 19, 2012 at 8:04 am in Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, IT, Lists, Social networks, Startups, Technology

PaaS Specialist Startups for 2012 Platforms-as-a-Service startups continue to expand in 2012 with a specialist for every field of development. We take a closer look at some interesting PaaS specialist startups for 2012 which includes Parse, AppFog, Heroku and Stackmob. AppFog Basing their operations on the Cloud Foundry project (and using Cloud Foundry code), AppFog.com [...]

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Finding Your Place In The Cloud – New Cloud Computing Jobs For 2012 Part 1

by on January 9, 2012 at 10:14 am in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Education, Employment, IT, Social networks, Startups, Technology, Trends

New Cloud Computing Jobs For 2012 – Part 1 A lot of people are saying that Cloud computing is going to explode in 2012. Growth in big data, social media and a lot more tech trends are combining to offer a number of new and exciting jobs for this exponential growth. In part 1 we [...]

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Spend This Christmas In the Cloud!

by on December 24, 2011 at 4:32 pm in Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Social networks, Technology

Spend This Christmas In the Cloud! Christmas comes but once a year. But cloud computing brings us merry joy the whole year long. These two enormous forces in our community — the holidays and the ever-helpful cloud — will finally meet at a crossroads this Sunday. Instead of dreaming about cloudy stocking stuffers, why not [...]

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Cisco Survey: The Mobile Cloud Office Generation

by on September 26, 2011 at 8:13 am in Case Study, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, SaaS, Security, Social networks, Storage, Technology, Trends

The Internet Is Fundamental Resource for the Humankind, Cisco Survey Future leaders, workers, and customers will rely increasingly on cloud resources More than half of all students and young professionals consider Internet as an “integral part of their lives,” according to Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report 2011. In fact, the report’s findings are comparable and [...]

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Infographic: Cloud Computing and Technology Innovation

Infographic: Cloud Computing and Technology Innovation

by on September 23, 2011 at 8:34 am in Blogs, Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, Infographic, Security, Social networks, Technology, Tools, Trends

Cloud computing and technology innovation in business infoGraphic from Dell:  

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Amazon Cloud Services Provider Moves Into Social Media

by on September 7, 2011 at 6:56 am in Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, News, Security, Social networks, Startups, Stocks, Technology

Amazon Cloud Services Provider Moves Into Social Media (Reuters Report) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is stepping up social media efforts after the largest Internet retailer partially missed one of the hottest technology trends of recent years. Amazon hired a director of social media, John Yurcisin, from WPP’s (WPP.L) Ogilvy & Mather earlier this year to [...]

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Startup Promises to Revolutionize Cloud Analytics with Social Media Techniques

by on August 23, 2011 at 7:22 am in Cloud Computing, Computing, SaaS, Security, Social networks, Startups, Storage, Technology

Startup Promises to Revolutionize Cloud Analytics with Social Media Techniques Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue. As the multi-billion dollar valuations of Facebook and Twitter have shown, social media is one of the defining phenomena of the modern age. Therefore, it is not surprising that [...]

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How Lady Gaga Punctured Amazon’s Cloud Computing Balloon

How Lady Gaga Punctured Amazon’s Cloud Computing Balloon

by on May 25, 2011 at 7:23 am in Amazon, Audio, Blogs, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Images, IT, Music, Security, Social networks, Storage, Technology, Video

How Lady Gaga Punctured Amazon’s Cloud Computing Balloon It is a safe guess that most of the regular readers on this website are not fans of Lady Gaga; so, here’s a brief outline: Born March 28, 1986 and named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga came to prominence with her first album, “The Fame”, released [...]

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Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars To Watch – Complete List

Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars To Watch – Complete List

by on April 6, 2011 at 8:24 am in Apps, Awards, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Email, Host, Invest, IT, Lists, Open Source, Phone, Reviews, Security, Social networks, Startups, Stocks, Storage, Technology

Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars To Watch Over the past couple of months, CloudTweaks offered to its readers corporate profiles of some of the most innovative and fast developing start-ups in Europe. Some companies on the list are already well-known in the cloud computing sectors while others are still developing their services. What [...]

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Novell Ships Cloud-Based Social Collaboration Platform

Novell Ships Cloud-Based Social Collaboration Platform

by on April 5, 2011 at 8:40 am in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, News, Press Release, SaaS, Social networks, Stocks, Storage, Technology

Novell Ships Cloud-Based Social Collaboration Platform WALTHAM, Mass.April 5, 2011 – Novell today announced the general availability of Novell Vibe™ Cloud, the first secure, real-time, web-based social collaboration platform for the enterprise. Novell Vibe Cloud is offered as an online service and comes in two editions – basic, with all the functionality needed to demonstrate [...]

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Cloud Computing Transforming Manufacturing Industry: Microsoft

by on April 4, 2011 at 8:31 am in Apps, Business, Cloud Computing, Microsoft, News, Social networks, Technology, Trends

Cloud Computing Transforming Manufacturing Industry: Microsoft The biggest benefit of cloud computing is lowered cost of optimizing infrastructure, according to The Microsoft Discrete Manufacturing Cloud Computing Survey 2011. The study also indicates that cloud computing and social computing, are also transforming manufacturing industry value chains. According to the survey, cloud computing also facilitates efficient collaboration [...]

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Salesforce To Buy Social Media Company Radian6 For $326 Million

by on March 30, 2011 at 9:15 am in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Force.com, Host, Invest, News, Press Release, SaaS, Social networks, Stocks, Technology

Salesforce To Buy Social Media Company Radian6 For $326 Million Salesforce.com (CRM) said it is buying social media monitoring firm Radian6 for about $326 million in stock and cash, continuing its aggressive push to keep up with social media trends through its cloud computing platform. Salesforce.com shares were up 0.7% to $128.28 in light premarket [...]

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Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars: Huddle

Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars: Huddle

by on March 28, 2011 at 10:40 am in Apps, Blogs, Cloud Computing, IT, Lists, Reviews, SaaS, Social networks, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital

Huddle Refines Cloud-based Project Management Software in Fierce Competition One can hardly say that Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, co-founders of Huddle, entered an underdeveloped and non-competitive market when they started Huddle.com in 2006. The cloud-based platform competes with collaboration and project management solutions like those offered by 37signals and Cisco, while products like Central [...]

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Top Cloud Computing Gaming Providers

Top Cloud Computing Gaming Providers

by on March 23, 2011 at 10:47 am in Amazon, Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Gaming, Movies, Programming, Social networks, Startups, Technology, Trends, Venture Capital, Video

Cloud Computing Gaming Providers Cloud gaming, also called gaming on demand, is a type of online gaming that allows direct and on-demand streaming of games onto a computer through the use of a thin client, in which the actual game is stored on the game company’s server and is streamed directly to computers accessing the [...]

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