A week ago, rumors swirled about EMC buying XtremIO. There is still good reason to believe that the acquisition will happen. I spoke with analysts over the past week who helped me get this story together. This represents their perspectives and what I have learned in my own research. XtremIO resembles Solid Fire, Pure Storage ...

CollabNet is a leader  in the application lifecycle management market space. But it sees its future as a development engine for the platform-as-a-service (dPaaS) market. Today the company is launching a new strategy around cloud deployment and  development with a new platform called CloudForge, what it calls a “dPaaS” intended to complement exissting PaaS and ...

IBM quietly launched a Web API management service this week called the Cast Iron API Cloud that illuminates a keener focus on app development and a hard push to attract developers to build mobile apps on its new expert integrated systems technology. The new API management service has a bit of a mysterious edge to ...

At 2:15 p.m. PST today, Rishidot Co-Founder Krishnan Subramanian will host a hangout on Google+. It’s the first of a series of hangout style events Rishidot will host. Here are the details: When: 2:15 PM PST Where: To join the discussion, visit my Google+ page at the time or add me to your Google+ circles. It will also be ...

The Google Drive formula is one often repeated these days by startups. Provide a dead-simple service that anyone can use. Open it up to developers. And make it something the business customer will find enticing due to its low price and fit with other services. Google Drive is already proving to be a well-executed service. It ...

A study by Parallels Software found that 45% of small businesses do not have an IT department. Google just gave those companies another good reason why they will continue to do just fine without an IT department. It’s also a wake up call for the enterprise technology companies that are still lagging in offering self-serve ...

The actual announcement of the launch of Google Drive appeared this morning on the company’s French blog. Google quickly deleted it. Now they just officially announced it. That seals it. The Google Drive news is the most anticlimactic tech product launch of all time. This news first leaked in 2006, And since then, we’ve seen ...

Accenture has published a study for traditional businesses that face a future where they will have to consider offering almost anything-as-a-service (XaaS). Where the Cloud Meets Reality: Scaling to Succeed in New Business Models, consists of interviews with more than 40 senior executives from 30 companies that operate, or are building new services companies that include ...

Rumors circulating that EMC is buying XtremIO gives a sense that Flash is about to get a real boost in the mainstream market. XtremIO play is a bit different than other flash providers in the market.  It’s  pure flash array. It’s not an add-on. It’s not focused on boosting the cache. It is designed to run high-end ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz took a question about OpenStack from an analyst this week during the company’s earnings call. His response provides insights into VMware’s views about the open cloud effort and how he sees his company’s efforts in comparison. Richard G. Sherlund of Nomura Securities asked Maritz about the large enterprise companies that have ...