Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8 This is the ninth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the series here: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Today, there are two startups in focus – AppDynamics and ShopKeep.com. AppDynamics (http://www.appdynamics.com/) Top VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led [...]
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How Does the Green Hat Acquisition Help IBM’s Cloud Strategy?
How Does the Green Hat Acquisition Help IBM’s Cloud Strategy? IBM has made its intentions clear as far as cloud computing is concerned – it sees a lot of potential in this field and wants to be recognized as a serious player (See: IBM Expects to generate $7 billion In Cloud Computing Revenues By 2015: [...]
Skytap Cloud Recognized As 2011 Products Of The Year Winner
Skytap Cloud Recognized As 2011 Products Of The Year Winner SEATTLE, Wash. – January 17, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that the Skytap Cloud was named a 2011 Products of the Year winner by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com in the Virtualization Management category. For the second consecutive year, Skytap was recognized [...]
Some Recent Cloud Computing Acquisitions
Some Recent Cloud Computing Acquisitions As an industry matures, consolidation occurs and some prominent players emerge. With big companies already staking their claims in this space – a phenomenon which I had argued differentiated the cloud computing fervor from the dotcom bubble (See: Are Cloud Computing Stocks Overvalued?) – it was only time that the [...]
AT&T Joins The Cloud OpenStack Community
AT&T Joins The Cloud OpenStack Community “We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide. We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function [...]
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 4
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 4 This is the fifth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the first four in the series here: 1. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 3 2. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 2 3. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: [...]
Enabling the Cloud for the Home
Enabling the Cloud for the Home Anyone who has used a virtualized system or seen what the Cloud can do has wondered what it would be like to have your own personalized Home Cloud. Most of the time they would think about how cool it would be to get your latest files, media and stuff [...]
Bloomberg Report: Zynga Rises in Debut After Raising $1B in IPO
Bloomberg Report: Zynga Rises in Debut After Raising $1B in IPO Zynga Inc., the largest maker of games for Facebook, was little changed in its first day of trading after raising $1 billion in an initial public offering that gave it a higher valuation than Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) The shares, listed on the Nasdaq Stock [...]
Is Warren Buffett a Supporter of Cloud Computing?
Is Warren Buffett a Supporter of Cloud Computing? “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett, legendary investor and one of the richest men in the world. In the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, Warren Buffett’s [...]
iCloud: Features and Competitors
iCloud: Features and Competitors With the release of iCloud, Apple has revolutionized the process of storage and interaction via the cloud computing technique. The best part about iCloud is that it is free. It does not charge subscribers any sort of fee during the usage of most of the iCloud services. The specific services provided [...]
SAP Drives Openness and Choice for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Preferred Three-Way Strategic Collaboration With EMC and VMware to Deliver Next-Generation Infrastructure With SAP® Services Offerings to Provide Upgrade Support for Customers MADRID, Spain – November 09, 2011 – As cloud computing and virtualization rapidly evolve, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is working in a preferred three-way strategic collaboration with partners EMC (NYSE: EMC) and VMware [...]
NetApp World-Record Benchmark Result Shows 35% Performance Increase with Less Than Half the Infrastructure
NetApp Enables Companies for Future Growth and Innovation while Maintaining IT Efficiency SUNNYVALE, Calif.—November 2, 2011 —NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced six high-performing SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark results, including a world record, further validating that NetApp customers don’t need to compromise efficiency and flexibility to achieve high performance. The speed of business has changed, and companies [...]
TIBCO Software Inc Announces Multimillion Dollar Transaction by the Department of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security Licenses TIBCO Software in Multimillion Dollar Deal Palo Alto, CA, October 26, 2011 - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced a multimillion dollar transaction by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for TIBCO software products. TIBCO technology will be used by DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate’s National Cyber Security Division [...]
Oracle Acquires RightNow Technologies for $1.5 Billion
Oracle Acquires RightNow Technologies for $1.5 Billion Adds Leading Customer Service Cloud Offering to Oracle’s Public Cloud Redwood Shores, CA – October 24, 2011 - Oracle today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNOW), a leading provider of cloud-based customer service, for $43.00 per share or approximately $1.5 [...]
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 1
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 1 Startups have always attracted pride of place on this website, and with many of them being created with astounding regularity and getting financing, this article is just the first of many updates that are sure to follow. You can read some other consolidated news articles on startups [...]
Toshiba Introduces Cloud-Based Backup Capabilities
Toshiba Introduces Cloud-Based Backup Capabilities Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) has introduced its Canvio 3.0 portable hard disk drive (HDD) line featuring cloud-based backup capabilities and storage capacities of 500 gigabytes (GB), 750GB or one terabyte (TB). Equipped with pre-loaded backup software, the new Canvio 3.0 line comes with simple plug-and-play operation and is compatible [...]
