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 Looking to hang with the cool kids, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, swearing “not to screw it up,” is buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, a big chunk of her $5.4 billion pocketbook since it’s “substantially all” in cash.
The New York-based acquisition will remain a separate business with...May. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath® Technology and the Gomez Performance Network, creating a powerful User Experience Management (UEM) solution. Compuware now offers a APMaaS solution that provides a complete UEM offering, including real-user, syn...May. 20, 2013 04:33 PM EDT Reads: 603 |
 Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, o...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,618 |
 Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, A...May. 18, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,779 |
 With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intr...May. 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,622 |
 Twitter has bought a little four-man Palo Alto start-up called Ubalo that was started in early 2011 “to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience” according to its web site.
The object was to scale coding on multiple machines using the same widgetr...May. 16, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 884 |
 @Walmart Labs, the Silicon Valley-based technology arm of Wal-Mart global e-commerce, has bought OneOps, which automates and accelerates processes related to environment management, application deployment and data center operations monitoring.
It’s supposed to have re-imagined applic...May. 16, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,101 |
 Google’s stock topped $900 a share Wednesday ahead of the opening of its annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, raising its market value to over $304 billion, something no high-tech firm has ever done before.
There’s the inevitable talk of it hitting $1,000.
Apparently ...May. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 828 |
 MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced the availability of MetraNet 7.0. With this latest release, MetraTech builds upon its agreements-based billing and real-time Commerce Decision Engine with the introduction of Be...May. 14, 2013 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 912 |
 Box, the cloud storage start-up getting close to going public, has acquired Crocodoc and its HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution.
The widgetry works on PDF, Word and other files without Flash or plug-ins. The transformed files can’t be edited.
Box said Crocodoc’s technolo...May. 14, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,209 |
 Microsoft wants to buy Nook Media LLC, the Barnes & Noble’s digital and college books joint venture, for a billion dollars according to TechCrunch, which says it’s got internal documents to prove it.
With Windows 8 in mind Microsoft bought 16.8% of the operation last year for $300 mi...May. 13, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,430 |
 CloudVolumes started out a couple of years ago as SnapVolumes and shed its stealth cocoon in November when it announced $2.3 million in seed financing and began beta testing its enterprise-class Instant Workload Management (IWM) solution to what IDC has dubbed the “virtualization manag...May. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,477 |
 Roughly six months after Windows 8 came out at the end of October, Microsoft Tuesday confirmed reports that it’s been tinkering with the operating system to make it more popular.
The radical redesign is supposed to have confused the buying public and created enough of a learning curv...May. 13, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,049 |
 New cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce.
Ariba, an SAP Company, and Discover Financial Services has unveiled Ariba Pay. The new service, to be offered by Ariba, is exp...May. 11, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,418 |
 Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combin...May. 10, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,612 |
 Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell’s large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private.
The pair sent the special committee of Dell’s board another...May. 10, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,148 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the BigData-Startups, the online Big Data knowledge platform, has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo and 3rd International Big Data Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New ...May. 10, 2013 01:24 PM EDT Reads: 1,210 |
 MadeiraCloud, a San Francisco cloud management and visualization start-up, has raised a $1.5 million Series A round from Sequoia Capital’s China Fund that will help get its WYSIWYG SaaS widgetry to launch, a milestone it hopes to hit by the end of the year.
Madeira, which is focused ...May. 10, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,606 |
 NetSuite, the cloud-based ERM house majority-owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has agreed to buy OrderMotion, a cloud-based Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) order management company.
Financial terms were not disclosed. OrderMotion, which has been around for a long time, has gotten over $10 m...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
 Intel security unit McAfee, the semiconductor’s largest acquisition ever, is buying Stonesoft Oyi, a Finnish company founded in 1990 that’s got next-generation network firewalls. It’s paying $389 million cash.
That’s a 128% premium to the outfit’s closing price on May 3 or $5.90 (€4....May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,170 |
 A year after opening a formal investigation into how Motorola Mobility enforces its patents, the antitrust arm of the European Commission has sent the company an SO or statement of objections saying it’s misusing the standard-essential patents (SEPs) it’s got on mobile phones.
The mis...May. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,088 |
 SoftLayer, which is said to be the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider in the world and with 13 data centers and multiple global points of presence is neither Google or Amazon nor some two-bit start-up – has tied up with Basho – which we always thought was named...May. 6, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,731 |
 That boom you hear? That's the cloud.
Cloud computing is experiencing serious growth – even the Department of Defense is joining the party. However, some people are a little concerned about giving up hard copies and going completely virtual. Getting on this bandwagon is a great idea t...May. 6, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,519 |
 Sometimes clouds are just ground fog.
After more than two years of promising the imminent arrival of Volly, Pitney Bowes – the Fortune 500 that back when there were such things as letters had a vise-like monopoly grip on postage meters – has failed to materialize the cloud that was su...May. 6, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,697 |
 Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads (classic and mini), up 65.3%, and it now has roughly 40% of the tablet business. Its numbers have been trending down and are expected to continue to decline.
Samsung was second up nearly 18% after shipping 8.8 million units.
Asus was third with 2.7 ...May. 6, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,628 |
 The supposed talks between IBM and Lenovo over the Chinese company buying IBM’s x86 server unit have reportedly broken down over price, which should come as a surprise to no one.
Wong Wai Ming Lenovo’s CFO and chief negotiator reportedly left Armonk, got on a plane and went back to H...May. 6, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,565 |
 “Just as consumers tap into personal networks like Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.com to connect with friends and family, share and shop, companies are leveraging digital networks to more efficiently engage with their trading partners and collaborate across the entire commerce process,” ...May. 4, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,718 |
 License and compliance management was difficult when most everything you needed was terrestrial – on the ground, tangible, countable. But as assets float toward and into the cloud, license and compliance management are becoming more complex, more challenging, and even more important.
...May. 3, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,847 |
 In this version of the book the author still starts off by answering the question, "Why do we need another C# book?". I was asking myself that very question when I turned to the introduction of C# 4.0 Unleased which was the first version of this book I read. He says "In short, what set...May. 3, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 990 |
 Predictive analysis start-up Skytree, which touts itself as “the machine learning company,” has raised a handsome, reportedly oversubscribed $18 million A round from US Venture Partners (USVP) and a so-called investor syndicate that include UPS, the giant delivery company, and Scott Mc...May. 2, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,740 |
 Apple has started borrowing money to underwrite the three-year $60 billion share buy-back program it promised stockholders last week.
The company is also going to pay out $55 billion in dividends through 2015.
It’s issued floating-rate notes maturing in 2016 and 2018 and fixed-rate ...May. 2, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
 Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public clouds, has announced that it has been selected by cloud hosting provider HOSTING to expedite customer onboarding to its enterprise-class managed cloud hosting infras...May. 1, 2013 03:23 PM EDT Reads: 1,257 |
 Bain Capital-backed Stackdriver, a public cloud monitoring start-up, pushed its widgetry out into public beta Tuesday.
The SaaS stuff currently works on Amazon Web Services and the Rackspace Cloud.
The year-old company says it’s got close to 100 AWS customers using its eponymous St...May. 1, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,564 |
 Only a system-level approach to flash memory management can meet the increasing performance demands of the cloud while bringing the price of all solid-state systems to a level that is equal to high-performance HDDs. Innovations are necessary to make the latest generation of 19/20 nm ML...Apr. 30, 2013 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,255 |
 Just as a team is only as strong as its weakest player, the more robust a mobile broadband service, the more beneficial it is to accessing and running applications in the cloud.
There's a strong connection between cloud computing services and mobile broadband, including 4G services.
...Apr. 29, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,997 |
 There suddenly seems to be a run on API management start-ups. First Intel acquired Mashery. Then CA bought Level 7. Now six-year-old 3scale of Barcelona and San Francisco has gotten $4.2 million in funding from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital.
The round is meant...Apr. 29, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,005 |
 A panel of the six commissioners at the International Trace Commission Monday tossed out a Motorola claim that Apple’s iPhone 4 was in patent violation, foiling its attempt to get the widget banned in America.
Motorola and its parent Google can appeal to the Federal Circuit and Googl...Apr. 29, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,522 |
 Don’t expect Google Glass to be out anytime soon.
Google’s globe-trotting chairman Eric Schmidt told the BBC that “It’s fair to say that thousands of these will be in use by developers over the next months, and then based on their feedback we will make some product changes, and it’s ...Apr. 29, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,359 |
 Backup, Recovery, and Archiving (BURA) are critical elements for IT to address. BURA solutions need to address a broad spectrum of needs including data protection, regulatory compliance, and business continuity. Today's cloud based solutions can enable customers to procure and consume ...Apr. 27, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,195 |
 The cloud is fundamentally changing how organizations build, deploy and pay for Business Intelligence (BI) applications and how they manage the proliferation of Big Data. With cloud-based analytics projected to grow at 85% per year, organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to S...Apr. 27, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,306 |
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