- Analysis: Nicira Buy To Bring VMware Closer To OpenStack, Networking Vendors
CRN With the acquisition of virtual networking technology developer Nicira, VMware is moving closer to the rival OpenStack open cloud software community and breaking down the barriers between clouds built on different software platforms. VMware has never … (more)
- Is cloud computing secure?
Sydney Morning Herald The term cloud computing refers to computer resources that can be turned on or off and scaled up or down, depending on demand. It is increasingly used by businesses to supplement or replace their on-site computing facilities, but questions about who … (more)
- Six Degrees Group Announces New Funding and Cloud Hosting Acquisition
MarketWatch (press release) LONDON, Jul 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Six Degrees Group today announces it has raised GBP 8 million in new funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition of Cloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud … (more)
- Akamai Shares Jump on Cloud-Computing Profit Boost
Bloomberg Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM), a company that helps businesses deliver data more quickly over the Internet, jumped as much as 21 percent in extended trading after demand for cloud computing bolstered sales and earnings. Profit excluding some costs … (more)
- The Right Mix of Policies to Promote Cloud Computing
Huffington Post With cloud computing, the opportunity is clear. Public IT cloud revenue will grow to more than $70 billion by 2015. Even more significant, innovation enabled by the cloud will generate more than a trillion dollars in revenue over the next few years … (more)
- Cloud Computing: Symantec Dumps Its CEO
SYS-CON Media (press release) Symantec Wednesday pushed its CEO and president of three years Enrique Salem out and installed its chairman, former Intuit CEO Steve Bennett, in his place. Shares rose a cheery 13.5% to $14.96 on the news. “While progress has been made over the last … (more)
- Cloud Computing: Akamai Posts Strong Second Quarter
SYS-CON Media (press release) Akamai Technologies on Thursday reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $331 million, a 20 percent increase over second quarter 2011 revenue of $277 million. Paul Sagan … (more)
- Security nous lacking in cloud app development
ZDNet The maturing cloud computing trend has spurred more enterprise applications to be built for access via the cloud network, but one Hewlett-Packard executive argues that developers have yet evolved in tandem with regard to putting security at the … (more)
- Google borrows Microsoft tactics as it ramps up Amazon cloud battle
ZDNet … to take on Amazon. Both Google and Microsoft began their clouds with platform-as-a-service systems – closed technologies that forced developers to write their applications in a small set of languages, with little ability to control the underlying … (more)
- Google Launches Cloud Platform Partner Program
CMSWire … big players in this field, such as Amazon Web Services (eg. Attunity Ltd. announced it had become an AWS partner, as it unveiled a new software-as-a-service platform for Big Data using AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure, increase their tie-ins with those … (more)
- United States : VMTurbo Joins OpenStack Community [TendersInfo (India)]
Equities.com VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced it has joined the OpenStack community, a global community of developers collaborating on cloud architecture and an open … (more)
- GSA looks to ‘Everything-as-a-Service’ for different business model
FCW.com Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as a-Service have become common terms in the federal IT vernacular in discussing cloud services. But now General Services Administration is looking to the same business model to include, well, everything else. (more)
- Chasing science as a service
Phys.Org (press release) Offload data management and experiment execution with a few lines of code and the power of an entire supercomputing center can be available to users of your scientific software. For users, the AGAVE API provides science-as-a-service. This changes the … (more)
- Selectica Announces Earnings for First Quarter Fiscal 2013
MarketWatch (press release) “Our ongoing transition to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model continues to progress as planned,” said Selectica President and CEO Jason Stern. “The first quarter of fiscal 2013 marked the start of year two of our three-year plan, and we … (more)
- Brightcove Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Zencoder
MarketWatch (press release) “We are happy to have the Zencoder team join the Brightcove family and help drive innovation and expand our platform-as-a-service offerings that empower users to deliver world-class content experiences to consumers on every device.” Zencoder has an … (more)
- Informatica Reports Second Quarter Results
MarketWatch (press release) REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA) , the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. “Our … (more)
- Deploying Open-Source Cloud Systems: 5 Pros and 5 Cons
eWeek Open-source cloud frameworks have made a major splash in recent months with big players such as Rackspace/NASA, Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Citrix backing major open-source cloud initiatives like OpenStack and CloudStack. As these major vendors … (more)