RightScale Lands $25M to Further Fund its Cloud Platform

Sarwat Jabeen | September 22nd

RightScale, a cloud computing company, has secured another $25 million in funding. This investment round was led by Tenaya Capital ( specializing in high-growth technology investments as software, consumer Internet, communications, semiconductors, ...»

Providing Burst Capabilities to Large Enterprises and Important Part of Switch Strategy

Bert Latamore | September 22nd

Ed note: Wikibon co-founder and CEO David Vellante interviewed Jason Mendenhall, Executive VP of Switch, a co-location and cloud infrastructure provider, which has built the Super|Nap, the world’s highest density data center in Las
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Dropbox Updates iPhone, Android. Launches Blackberry App.

Kristina Farrah | September 22nd

People have been using Dropbox mobile apps to access and share their files anytime, anywhere using their internet-connected devices.  The cloud storage solution for lets users to sync, share and secure their files...»

Salesforce to introduce Chatter 2 at the Oracle OpenWorld 2010

Kristina Farrah | September 22nd

Chatter, a collaboration application for enterprise to connect and share information securely with people at work in real-time, was released by Salesforce last year. Just three months ago, a Facebook-like collaboration tool was designed to work with...»

Zenoss Reveals the Cloud State of the Union for 2010

Kristen Nicole | September 21st

There’s plenty of hype going on in the cloud, pushing virtualization methodology, seeking the promise of streamlined enterprise processes to securely save data, make it accessible, and save money along the way.  With more virtual...»

Oracle Exalogic: Optimization instead of Virtualization

Stuart Miniman | September 21st

Oracle announced their latest integrated stack, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud at Oracle Open World this week in San Francisco.  Exalogic is compute and memory optimized for workloads such as Oracle database.  Oracle’s pitch is that Exalogic

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Updated Gmail App for Android is More Like the Desktop Version

Sarwat Jabeen | September 21st

Google is very serious about innovation as well as ease of use on all platforms for their users, as we can see by the latest update for the Gmail android application. Now, Gmail on...»

Sprint 4G Spotted in Bay Area. What City Will Be Next?

Kristen Nicole | September 21st

AT&T may have some serious dead zones in San Francisco, but Sprint’s 4G network is making its way through the city.  Intomobile noticed the 4G availability today, indicating that Sprint is working on the...»

Digitally Downloaded Games Beat Physical Package Sales

Kristina Farrah | September 21st

Another proof point around virtualization trends, with games following a route similar to music and movies--digitally downloaded games. According to the newest data released by NPD, 11 million PC games were downloaded from the internet...»

Hosting.com Speaks Candidly on Oncoming War Between Microsoft and VMware

Kristen Nicole | September 21st

A running theme that’s rippling through the cloud industry right now is “coop-aition.”  It’s the idea that enemies are friends, and friends are enemies, and as everyone strives towards a similar goal, the lines...»