Nasuni and the Difficulty of Differentiating
Recently I questioned whether businesses would really be prepared to purchase cloud storage solutions from consumer-focused vendors. Wanting to jump into the fray, business cloud storage vendor Nasuni...
View ArticleCloud for Point-of-Sale
If cloud software is really going to provide the revolution that many of us predict, we need to see tools adopted by mainstream users. While we’ve seen some exciting tools at the infrastructure level...
View ArticleBox.net Joins the Move to Social
Cloud content management application Box.net is today unveiling an updated UI that aims to encourage the adoption of a social news stream for enterprise users. Ever since Marc Benioff announced Chatter...
View ArticleQwest Jumps on the Real-Time Cloud Recovery Bandwagon
Qwest Communications today announced a new cloud-based application recovery solution aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. Qwest’s Real-Time Application Recovery aims to provide business...
View ArticleCitrix Buys VMLogix — It’s All About the Hybrid Cloud
In an announcement timed to steal some attention away from VMware’s VMworld event starting today, Citrix said it will acquire VMLogix to help enterprises utilize clouds without fear of vendor lock-in....
View ArticleM-Files: Traditional Applications Meet Cloud Storage
Motive Systems, a Dallas, Tex.-based document management vendor, is today releasing a cloud storage offering, M-Files Cloud Vault, that enables companies to organize and manage company documents and...
View ArticleApptio Raises a Cool $16.5M for Enterprise IT
Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company, today said it’s raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding led by Shasta Ventures, which includes participation from current investors...
View ArticleAria, VMware Integrate to Enable vCloud Monetization
Subscription and billing vendor Aria Systems today announced the Aria Cloud Revenue Adapter for VMware vCloud Director. Designed for service providers offering cloud services to end users, the new...
View ArticleSalesforce Integrates Jigsaw — Refining Contact Data
Salesforce.com today announced Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM, a crowd-sourced business data service exclusive to Salesforce CRM customers. Initially Jigsaw was a standalone product that leveraged...
View ArticleJamcracker and Eucalyptus Team for Self-Service
Jamcracker and Eucalyptus announced at VMWorld Thursday that they are partnering on an integration aimed at enabling users to self-provision their private and hybrid clouds. This announcement comes hot...
View ArticleThe Continuous Cloud: Achieving Maximum Cloud Uptime
Experience has shown us that even the most fail-safe of cloud platforms can experience periodic downtime.
View ArticleCloud computing market trends: 2014 and beyond
Gigaom analysts correctly predicted some of the major events that occurred in the cloud market in 2014 - from Amazon Web Services’ aggressive move into the enterprise, to some of the…
View ArticleWhat if IT operations and development teams worked together in the cloud?
Most IT departments are divided into two organizations: operations - the guys that keep the infrastructure lights on - and development, the programmers writing applications. With the advent of cloud...
View ArticleNo time like the present: the case for streaming analytics
Capturing information from cars, planes, wind turbines, social media, business and IT systems, and any other kind of data source in a cost-effective manner was made possible with Hadoop. This was…
View ArticleHow to utilize cloud computing, big data, and crowdsourcing for an agile...
Cloud computing, big data, crowd funding, and other resources will give new organizations opportunities to disrupt the marketplace.
View ArticleSDN meets the real world: implementation benefits and challenges
For enterprise-IT practitioners and data-center operators, SDN delivers networking with the same level of flexibility and agility as virtualization has allowed them to deliver other parts of their...
View ArticleSoftware-Defined Networking (SDN) in the real-world
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has evolved over the last few years from concept, to basic protocols to a new framework for evolved data networking. In 2014 this new approach to networking has…
View ArticleSDN meets the real world, part two: SDN rewrites the WAN manual
Wide-area networking is traditionally slow, expensive, and inflexible. SDN’s ability to abstract data-center networking operations away from the underlying hardware decreases costs, reduces...
View Article4 Essentials for Managing Multiple Methodologies in the Enterprise
Agile methodologies have had tremendous success in task-oriented teams and are are increasing their penetration into the enterprise. Still, Agile is just a tool, and not all projects, business...
View ArticleThe Software-defined Data Center in the Enterprise
Due to agility needs, budget constraints, and compliance mandates, smaller enterprises now have the same need for software-defined principles used the world's largest webscale data centers.
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