Archive for Startups

  • cloud computing firms in M&A spotlight cloud computing firms in M&A spotlight

    Cloud computing, or software as a service, allows businesses to cut back on hardware and space by having their software hosted in remote datacenters they access over the Web. Deep-pocketed technology firms like IBM (IBM.N) or Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) might be looking to snag deals in this area to com...

  • Executive Profile: Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics Executive Profile: Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics

    Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics credits his experience managing a golf course in his teens with teaching him valuable lessons in business. "In Western Canada, the golf season is four or five months. There's a lot of intense pressure on available resources," he said in a recent interview at his Red...

  • Five cloud computing startups to watch out for Five cloud computing startups to watch out for

    The May BizSpark event in Paris, Microsoft and technology venture capitalists had the chance to assess the upcoming wares from Europe’s brightest young hopefuls in the software development world. With cloud computing dominating the IT news headlines, surveys and analysts’ attentions, the bulk...

  • Cloud computing for your health Cloud computing for your health

    Web-based Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are stepping onto the main stage as the most likely way smaller and solo physician practices will be able to adopt EHRs in a “meaningful” way, in time for the 2011 ARRA/HITECH incentive moneys. Web-based software has also been referred to as cloud-ba...

  • Silicon Valley deals are back Silicon Valley deals are back

    Deal-making is back in style in Silicon Valley. Driven by powerful trends in mobile devices, digital media and "cloud computing," tech companies are acting on the urge to merge — a sign, many say, of an improving economy. SAP's pending $5.8 billion purchase of Sybase and Hewlett-Packard's pendi...

  • Air Force to establish cloud computing research center of excellence Air Force to establish cloud computing research center of excellence

    U.S. Air Force researchers want to establish a research center of excellence in assured cloud computing, and they are looking to partner with a college or university to host and collaborate in assured cloud computing research. The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y...

  • 6 Hot new SaaS, Cloud Computing Startups 6 Hot new SaaS, Cloud Computing Startups

    At the All About The Cloud conference in San Francisco, a handful of new cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies were revealed.. AppFirst New York-based AppFirst offers SaaS-based real-time application monitoring. The software offering lets users see into the “black box”...

  • Heroku raises $10 million in second round Heroku raises $10 million in second round

    Heroku, a company that helps developers deploy Web applications build using the Ruby on Rails format, has raised $10 million in its second round of institutional funding. The San Francisco startup compares itself to the cloud platforms of the tech giants, like Windows Azure from Microsoft and Go...