At this week’s IBM PartnerWorld 2012 conference, IBM reached out to its so-called “business partner” base of channel pros with a new set of resources designed to help them connect with the IBM SmartCloud platform. That includes customer connection initiatives, educational outreach, a social business application toolkit and a new entry-level reference configuration for IBM […]
I had the chance to sit down with Dell Channel Chief Greg Davis at the Dell Enterprise Spring launch event Feb. 27, 2012, here in San Francisco for an update on the tech giant’s partner strategy. As you may guess, most of our conversation centered around Dell’s cloud strategy. And to help bring channel pros […]
WebDAM Solutions, the self-proclaimed leader in cloud-based digital asset management (DAM – oh, I get it!) has announced it has entered into a collaboration with cloud storage provider Box (neé Box.net) that integrates the two products in a way that brings mutual customers the best of both worlds. I had the chance to talk with WebDAM’s […]
It was only two months ago that TalkinCloud reported huge strides in Google Android’s mobile momentum. Yesterday, Google SVP of Mobile and Digital Content Andy Rubin took to the Google Mobile blog to announce that the little (mostly) open source operating system that could is experiencing 250 percent year-over-year growth — and that more than […]
At the Dell Enterprise Spring 2012 event yesterday, CEO Michael Dell himself took the stage to announce that thanks to his company’s 12 acquisitions over the last year, the tech titan is now a a complete IT solutions provider. To that end, Dell announced a line of new enterprise data center infrastructure solutions — headlined […]
Our Talkin’ Cloud Stocks Index, which tracks 20 cloud computing and cloud services companies, rose 1.84 percent for the week ending February 24. Moreover, our cloud computing stocks index is now up a strong 20.60 percent overall since January 1, 2012. Notably, the index hit that mark ahead of a Dow Jones weekly gain of 0.3 […]
One of the bigger bits of jargon in 2012 thus far is the term “social enterprise,” coined by Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff in the summer of 2011 and adopted by every single company that’s integrating social features into its offerings. Well, OpenERP, provider of open source enterprise solutions for the cloud service provider channel, is […]
Virtualization specialist AppSense announced the launch of an R&D lab designed to bridge the divide between the enterprise and consumer clouds. AppSense Labs solutions don’t even necessarily have to do with the company’s market strategy, as the lab has a mandate simply to produce useful cloud tools. The Labs’ first free product is DataLocker, a […]
Cloud CRM provider Salesforce.com may have grown its annual revenue to a record $2.27 billion in 2011, but its fourth quarter still left Wall Street cold with a net loss on $642 million. See, Wall Street was expecting non-GAAP earnings of 40 cents a share on revenue of $624.4 million last quarter, but Salesforce posted a […]
Citing a huge uptake in in demand for its range of consumer and enterprise cloud solutions, Microsoft is sinking the equivalent of $130 million USD to upgrade its so-called mega data centre in Dublin, Ireland. “We are seeing increasing numbers of European businesses and consumers adopting Microsoft’s cloud services, and we are continuing to build […]
Box, formerly known as Box.net, is extending its play for dominance in cloud storage market with the launch of an offer that brings 50GB of free storage for life to any user who logs in from an Android smartphone or tablet. The caveat is that the deal is only good for another 29 days or so. […]
SunGard Availability Services is expanding its Enterprise Cloud Services, IaaS and Recover2Cloud offerings to Canadian soil with the opening of its first data center (or “centre,” I guess) in the Great White North. The US got access to SunGard’s cloud services around this time in 2011, but now Canadian businesses will get access via a […]
CumuLogic, a still-in-beta platform-as-a-service (PaaS) vendor, is gearing up for its general availability at the end of this quarter with the hires of CA veteran Mike Soby as president and former Disney CTO Bud Albers as advisory board member to bolster its leadership roster. According to CumuLogic, Soby was CA’s VP of Cloud Consulting, responsible […]
The Joyent Cloud, a public cloud platform that licenses its services out to service providers, has announced a partnership with cloud management specialist enStratus that enables administrators and developers to orchestrate and automate architectures, even across multiple clouds. Basically, Joyent is extending its API and management to enStratus’ cloud management platform. The net effect is […]
Solutions provider Dimension Data is ready to bring the technology and talent it acquired in last year’s acquisition of OpSource to bear with the launch of global (Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, and Middle East and Africa regions) services delivered on its Managed Cloud Platform. The press release indicates that Dimension Data sees its role in […]
The VMware Cloud Foundry team has released a new edition of Micro Cloud Foundry, which updates all the cloud languages and frameworks involved in the single-PC platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution, streamlines offline support and, probably most notably, adds Java debugging features. As a quick refresher, Micro Cloud Foundry is a tool for developers that runs a […]
A post on Microsoft’s official “Building Windows 8” blog indicates that Microsoft is making its SkyDrive cloud storage platform into a major part of the value proposition for the Windows 8 operating system. As Microsoft acknowledges, SkyDrive as it exists today is little more than a website where users can put up and take down […]
Amazon Web Services, the web services arm of Amazon.com, is extending its reach to workflow management with the launch of Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), targeted at coordinating processing steps in an application and managing the distributed execution state. “Whether automating business processes for finance or insurance applications, building sophisticated data analytics applications, or managing […]
MetaVis Technologies, a relatively high-profile Microsoft cloud ISV partner, has launched MetaVis SavePoint, an agentless solution for creating a backup of data from SharePoint Online, one of the major pillars of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud suite. Those SavePoint backups include SharePoint items, documents, lists, libraries and sites, including the metadata. SavePoint can back this data […]
ScaleXtreme, specialist in cloud server management and automation tools, has launched a solution designed to address the problems of patch management in a distributed data center — across the public cloud (Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud-based platforms and more), virtual machines and physical boxes.
