The Oprah Effect: Equal to Slashdot or Digg?
The popularity of Oprah Winfrey tested the limits of Internet streaming video in March, when the debut of Oprah’s webcast attracted 500,000 simultaneous users, causing capacity-related performance...
View ArticleJumping From Cloud to Cloud
When Google launched its AppEngine utility computing platform last week, one of the early criticisms was that the structure of AppEngine would make it difficult to build an application on Google and...
View ArticleNew Cloud Platforms Proliferating
It seems the floodgates have opened. New cloud computing platforms and services are coming fast and furious. Here’s a roundup, with links, of cloud computing news from this week: Financial software...
View ArticleStructure 08 Roundup
I’ve spent today at GigaOm’s Structure 08 conference here at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The event is focused on cloud computing, and just about all of the major players in the...
View ArticlePublic Debate About Private Clouds
There’s been more discussion in recent days about “private” clouds in enterprise data centers, as opposed to “public” clouds running on infrastructure from third-party service providers. Some relevant...
View ArticleSavvis to Launch SaaS Hosting Platform
Managed hosting provider Savvis, Inc. is launching a new solution to help independent software vendors (ISVs) offer their products as hosted applications. Savvis said the new platform is designed to...
View ArticleRoundup: APC, Emerson, Cyberlink, RightScale
Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting industry: APC expands InRow Cooling. APC by Schneider Electric announced the InRow OA and Refrigerant Distribution...
View ArticleCloud News: Salesforce.com, Platform Computing
Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the cloud computing sector: Salesforce.com to acquire Radian6. Salesforce.com (CRM) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to...
View ArticleNimsoft Broadens Offerings With Unified Manager
Data center software specialist Nimsoft has introduced Unified Manager, a multi-tenant solution that combines infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL-based service management capabilities in a...
View ArticleRoundup: VMware, Iron Mountain, Juniper
Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting industry: VMware to acquire Shavlik. VMware (VMW) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to...
View ArticleSalesforce and Microsoft Partner to Integrate Products
Microsoft and Salesforce are integrating Salesforce’s highly successful Customer Relationship Management Software-as-a-Service offering with Microsoft’s Windows operating systems for PCs and mobile...
View ArticleHP and SAP Release the Kraken With HANA Appliance, Cloud Services
HP announced a new infrastructure solution for SAP‘s in-memory computing system HANA, which converges database and application platform capabilities for transactions, analytics, text analysis,...
View ArticleMcDermott Bets on HANA-Powered Cloud to Make SAP Simpler
Is SAP too complex? The CEO keynote message at SAP’s Sapphire Now conference this morning was that the German business software giant was focused on running simple. The company has been criticized in...
View ArticleReport: More Firms Use SaaS for Mission Critical Apps
Software-as-a-Service applications are increasingly being used for mission critical purposes, according to a recent report by Gartner. Cost considerations continue to be a driving factor, but many...
View ArticleSalesforce to Open Second Data Center in Japan
Salesforce is continuing its international data center expansion with a second data center in Japan, announced this week. It will join the company’s other Japanese data center opened in 2011 when it...
View ArticleDatto Acquires Backupify to Expand Cloud DR and Backup Capabilities
Datto is acquiring Backupify to expand backup and cloud disaster recovery capabilities. The companies play in different markets and back up different types of data. Terms of the deal were not...
View ArticleVerizon Adds Direct Links to HP Helion, Salesforce Clouds
Verizon has added HP Helion and Salesforce to its platform that offers private network links to cloud services. HP brings its managed cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Salesforce brings a suite of...
View ArticleOracle Beefs Up Marketing Cloud With Datalogix Acquisition
Oracle has acquired an ad-tech company called Datalogix for an undisclosed sum, continuing to strengthen its marketing cloud. Oracle bought BlueKai, also an ad-tech firm, earlier this year. Datalogix...
View ArticleActifio Makes its Business Resiliency Suite Available as Cloud Service
Copy data protection provider Actifio has introduced a new cloud-based version of its data management suite called Actifio One. Positioned as a “business resiliency cloud,” it brings the functionality...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence Startup Looker Raises $30M
Business Intelligence Software-as-a-Service provider Looker has raised a $30 million Series B financing round led by Meritech Capital Partners. Looker believes that business intelligence (or BI) needs...
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