cloud startups

A Quick Guide For Cloud Companies That Don’t Understand Marketing A recent small business cloud survey from Microsoft found that about two-thirds of small businesses relied on a single “IT guy” or small IT consulting company to provide them with most or all of their IT advice. As for the owners and decision makers who didn’t? Most of them did their own Internet research. This is a big problem for small and medium cloud startups. My anecdotal experience has shown that an awful large number of cloud companies aren’t taking the SMB IT channel seriously. As far as I can

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Top 25 European Risng Stars: YobiDrive ….YobiDrive: A Smart Choice for Cryptographic File Sharing on The Cloud The Top 25 European Rising Stars is a special annual series by CloudTweaks, where we seek to celebrate new cloud startups that have demonstrated the strongest impact across the year. These have earned little or no press coverage nor loquacious claims but they are indeed rising. To authoritatively arrive at the top 25, we have applied a criteria pegged on critical parameters like the quality of management, current funding, valuable service provision, European based and professionalism in all respects. In the face of

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Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: DoxOut ……An Open Source App That Can Marry Devices with No Boundaries Ever wondered why the document always comes after the file? And why the file as data stays away in a remote datacenter while the document, as the living part of the file, remains for perpetual exploitation on that limiting cocoon that is the personal computer? Each of these questions has an answer courtesy of DoxOut, a startup cloud company from Macedonia in southeast Europe. It is one of the select 5 in the shortlist of the Europe 2012 LaunchPad honors by Gigaom.

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Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: ComodIT The Top 25 European Rising Stars is a special annual series by CloudTweaks, where we seek to celebrate new cloud startups that have demonstrated the strongest impact across the year. These have earned little or no press coverage nor loquacious claims but they are indeed rising. To authoritatively arrive at the top 25, we have applied a criteria pegged on critical parameters like the quality of management, current funding, valuable service provision, European based and professionalism in all respects. We welcome you to join us in this year’s tour de force where as

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Mobile Platforms Turn to Cloud Services with StackMob There are hundreds of cloud startups popping up on the radar, but one that made recent headlines in an eWeek post was a new cloud service for mobile platforms called StackMob. StackMob allows developers to create mobile businesses with easy building, full-featured applications and easily deployed apps through their cloud service mobile platform. With StackMob’s front-end HTML5 and back-end services, the time for developers to create effective, high-quality mobile applications is cut in half. More Than Just a Cloud Storage Provider StackMob prides itself on being more than just a cloud storage

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Iconic VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Considering Focused Fund for Cloud Startups More than 6 months back, I had written about the launch of the first cloud computing ETF, and how, in my mind, that represented cloud computing’s acceptance in the mainstream investing community (See: Packaging Cloud Computing as an Investment – First Cloud Computing ETF Launched). Now, this latest development may not be as mainstream, but it is certainly important considering the venture capital firm involved – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. According to a Bloomberg news report , the VC firm is contemplating starting a new fund focused on

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