Archive for Alliance

  • Salesforce's Chatter for the enterprise Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise

    Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter a...

  • Microsoft wins contract for cloud computing with University of Arizona Microsoft wins contract for cloud computing with University of Arizona

    The University of Arizona at Tuscon - the state's flagship university - recently announced that it has awarded Microsoft with its contract to handle the school's planned shift to cloud computing. Starting next fall, the school's students and faculty will use Microsoft's Business Productivity Suit...

  • IBM's Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy IBM’s Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

    IBM announced that it has signed a pact with Ariba, under which that company’s software for tracking spending will become available in the cloud via IBM’s Lotus subsidiary. Earlier this week, IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Software, a provider of e-commerce software. Earlier this...

  • Cisco buys CoreOptics Cisco buys CoreOptics

    Cisco plans to acquire privately held CoreOptics, a maker of optical networking technology designed to help carriers handle an expected surge in IP traffic driven partly by the adoption of cloud computing. CoreOptics' digital signal processing technology is intended to help service providers scal...

  • SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing

    At the ongoing SAP Sapphire NOW conference taking place in both Orlando, Florida and Frankfurt, Germany, SAP announced that it has partnered with Cisco, EMC and VMware to help promote the use of cloud computing in the business community. Through the development of advanced SaaS business applicati...