Category: Startups
Lesser Known Threats Of Cloud Computing
Security has been one of the major stumbling blocks which has prevented cloud computing from achieving wide acceptance from the business community. Threats in offsite infrastructure are vastly different from the ones that you encounter in traditional onsite management facilities. Different approaches that would involve both vendors and buyers need to be employed when dealing [...]
The Cloud 2 Era – Cloud computing enters a new growth phase
The switch to the cloud and the mobile Internet marks a “tectonic shift” to a “technology supercycle,” said Mark Murphy, a Piper Jaffray analyst. He sees the cloud software market growing 23.9% annually over five years vs. 4.7% for the broader software sector. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls this the start of the “Cloud 2″ [...]
Cisco to bolster cloud offerings through acquisition of newScale
Cisco plans to build its cloud services capabilities by its acquisition of newScale, a cloud portal software developer with about 2 million users worldwide. NewScale is a privately held company that develops software which enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Through its service catalog and self-service portal, newScale enables IT [...]
Close to forty percent of small businesses planning cloud computing – Microsoft.
According to Microsoft, 39 percent of small businesses intend to buy one or more cloud computing services over the next three years. This is a conclusion from Microsoft’s third annual worldwide study into how small and medium businesses plan to use cloud-based resources in the next three years. The study indicates that SME’s will [...]
Is Box.net The Facebook Of Cloud computing?
A relatively new player in the cloud computing business, Box.net, is making big waves these days, with many drawing parallels between the company and Facebook. Like the most popular social networking site in the world, Box.net is the brainchild of a college dropout, 26-year old Aaron Levie, who was previously enrolled in the University of [...]
Sktyap To Offer Hybrid Computing Services To Customers
Skytap, a cloud computing firm based out of Seattle, Washington has recently developed a program that will allow their customers more flexibility and autonomy in using the company’s infrastructure. Called the Skytap Hybrid Cloud, this revolutionary product allows users to interface their own data with Skytap’s data management infrastructure. In addition, users also have the [...]
New cloud computing products take data security to a new level
A small number of cloud computing companies began releasing encryption-capable products to help their customers better protect files stored in cloud computing databases. This type of technology is able to significantly improve the security of sensitive data that is housed in cloud computing databases. One such company, CipherCloud, which is a start-up enterprise based out [...]
Former Salesforce.com Execs Form Cloud Startup, Okta
Former execs from Salesforce.com have launched a startup in the enterprise cloud computing business, with initial clients Pandora and Enterasys. Based out of San Francisco, Okta provides an enterprise solution intended to make it easy for companies to manage cloud computing apps and users; particularly useful as a company grows in headcount and adopts more [...]
Cloud Computing: Start-up Promises Free Elastic Cloud Security
A year-old Silicon Valley SaaS start-up called CloudPassages broke cover Wednesday claiming that it can do what other security companies have failed to do and that’s protect elastic cloud servers. It’ll get off the ground by offering its base technology for free. The company’s purpose-built widgetry is supposed to work with anybody’s cloud – public [...]
HP cloud computing comes to the UK
HP is making its biggest move into cloud computing with the introduction of private and public cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the UK. Unveiling Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute, the company said the new technology allows UK businesses to store and process data in HP datacentres in hosted private clouds or in a multi-tenancy public cloud [...]
Packt invites IBM Cloud Computing authors and book ideas
Packt Publishing is planning to advance its line up of IBM Cloud Computing books and is currently inviting book ideas and potential authors interested in writing them. Some of the topics which Packt finds immediately attractive are: IBM Smart Business Test Cloud IBM Cloudburst IBM LotusLive IBM LotusLive iNotes Desktop Workloads IBM Smart Business Desktop [...]
Novell Promises No More Private Cloud Lock-In With Cloud Manager
After months of prep, Novell (NSDQ:NOVL) on Monday officially made available Cloud Manager, its cloud computing creation and management tool, a product the Waltham, Mass.-based company said will help cloud hopefuls avoid the vendor lock-in trap. Novell’s Cloud Manager, which had been in beta, helps customers build and keep tabs on their private cloud computing [...]
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 complement their own traditional, mostly on-premise [...]
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 complement their own traditional, mostly on-premise [...]
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 Redwood Shores offices. “It sounds kind [...]
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 of the development houses were presenting cloud computing technology and business models. [...]
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-based computing, SaaS, ASP-delivered software. For the small [...]
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 pending $1.2 billion takeover of Palm are the [...]
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., issued a broad agency announcement (BAA-10-10-RIKA) Friday, which seeks [...]
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” that is their applications, regardless of application language, components, server type (physical or virtual) [...]
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 Google App Engine. It aims to remove the [...]
