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What Does Verizon Expect from the CloudSwitch Acquisition?

by sourya on September 19, 2011

in Cloud Computing, Computing, Invest, News, Startups, Technology, Trends, Venture Capital

What Does Verizon Expect from the CloudSwitch Acquisition? Verizon is betting big on cloud computing. After this year’s $1.4 billion acquisition of data center operator Terremark, Verizon has once again loosened its purse strings to buy cloud computing startup CloudSwitch. The latter develops software that eases the transition of company applications from in-house servers to the cloud. So, what does Verizon expect from this acquisition? For one, Verizon expects to use CloudSwitch’s capabilities to offer its customers seamless migration to the cloud. CloudSwitch integrates with cloud providers’ public application program interfaces (APIs) to make moving an application or workload to the cloud

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Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars: Huddle

by kiril on March 28, 2011

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 Desktop, Sosius, Ximdesk, LiquidPlanner, and Project Manager   are directly competing with the Huddle’s platform. Huddle, like all major project management products, can be used online, on mobile devices and on desktops. In addition, the platform supports a number of businesses social networks and can be

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