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This Week in the Cloud: Mobile Development, OpenStack and Integration
A couple of updates from the mobile dev cloud stood out in this week’s top stories: both Microsoft and appMobi have made a move to increase their appeal to app developers with new hosted platforms. Microsoft has stepped it up with this week’s launch of Azure Mobile Services, infrastructure customized to make it as straight-forward ...
Oracle Changes Its Tune About the Cloud, Saves Stock Despite Sales Decline
The cloud is here to stay. A hard pill for Oracle to swallow, but a necessary one indeed. The database giant saved its stock prices with news of its cloud strategy, regaining investor interest despite a 24 percent decline in Oracle’s hardware business. There’s been a bevy of cloud service providers layering convenience and low ...
Virident Hires New CEO After Series D Funding
Flash storage startup Virident just appointed Mike Gustafsonas as its new chief executive, right on the heels of a massive Series D funding round. Gustafsonas was the head of BlueArc until it was acquired by Hitachi, where he served as senior vice president of its file and content business before joining Virident. He has just ...
Fliptop, Dell Launch New Offerings at Dreamforce ‘12
Partners are assembling at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce gathering held this week, and a few already unveiled their major updates around the cloud-based CRM service. Fliptop is launching new capability called Social Profiles for Salesforce, which automatically adds the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles of the people in your CRM system to the other data that’s ...
Pentaho Allies with Cisco for New Analytics Appliance
Pentaho unveiled a new Cisco Unified Computing system developed specifically to run its data integration and visualization platform. The new solution is comprised of Cisco UCS 6200 series fabric interconnectors, 2200 series fabric extenders, the vendor’s M3 rack-mount Intel servers and a couple of other components. Pentaho is touting several benefits that can be realized by ...
Apprenda Debuts Free Hosted Version of .NET PaaS
Analysts and industry watchers predict that the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions will soon be the fastest growing sector of cloud services. Many developers welcome the benefits offered by companies like Heroku and Microsoft Azure. However, the leaders in the companies that employ these developers aren’t often not quite as enthusiastic about moving to a PaaS. Apprenda’s has ...
OpenStack Foundation Officially Launches with Corporate, Financial Backing
The OpenStack Foundation, an independent entity that is not officially in charge of the cloud operating system, has officially launched, after a year in the works. Rackspace, the co-creator of the project, decided to spin-off OpenStack last year when the more prominent members of the ecosystem argued that it, at least at the time, had ...
Here’s the Situation: Another $14M for Space-Time Insight’s ‘Situational Analytics’
Geospatial visualization software startup Space-Time Insight raked in another $14 million in a second round of funding – the announcement was made at the Utility Analytics Week convention today. New investors include Nuvus Energy Partners, and ClearSky Power & Technology Fund, while existing backers Opus Capital Ventures and Start Up Farms International (SUFI) also participated in ...
Netflix Fully Embraces the Cloud
In spite of Amazon’s entry into a market that directly competes with Netflix, the streaming video provides continues to store all of its titles on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix’s service has been heavily affected by the major AWS outages in the past few years, but Netflix remains committed to the promise of cloud computing. In fact, ...
SnapLogic Raises $20M for Cloud Integration
SnapLogic just disclosed that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding from Ignition Partners, Frank Artale and Andreessen Horowitz. This is the company’s biggest round to date, bringing the total amount raised to $32.5 million. SnapLogic sells the Integrated Platform, an enterprise solution that users can leverage to mix and match different apps, services and ...