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Microsoft has turned a problem into an opportunity with its cloud locker, which had to be renamed in the aftermath of a trademark dispute with British Sky Broadcasting Group. Besides a new logo, the recently unveiled OneDrive introduces additional features and makes …
Remo ups ante on home device management with Avast integration
The explosion of smartphones and tablets sweeping through the enterprise mirrors the growing number of connected devices in the average household, where the same problems facing CIOs today are beginning to crop up, albeit on a smaller scale. In a world of …
The world’s “fastest growing” cloud provider raises $37M to recruit top-tier talent
DigitalOcean, an emerging cloud provider that is apparently growing faster than AWS, has just closed a $37.2 million Series A financing led by prominent Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz. The funding represents a huge vote of confidence in the startup, which is …
Unlocking business insights in the data-driven enterprise | #BigDataSV
Organizations have a lot of valuable data laying around, most of it locked away in aging silos that are difficult to manage and even harder to get to. This lack of accessibility poses a fundamental stumbling block for CIOs undertaking Big Data …
CloudBees pockets $11M for enterprise Java PaaS
CloudBees announced this morning that it has secured $11.2 million in a third round of funding led by the investment arm of Verizon, with which it partnered earlier this year. New investor Blue Cloud Ventures and existing backers Matrix Partners and LightSpeed …
VMware snatches Amazon cloud guru
VMware hopes to halt Amazon’s advance on its data center turf by taking the fight to the public cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering that has the advantage of being fully interoperable with existing deployments of its hypervisor. On …
Oracle tackles mobile security with new enterprise suite
In the wake of the Big Data explosion, Oracle has found itself playing catch-up on several fronts. Now, faced with growing pressure from investors to offset weakening demand for its proprietary software and declining maintenance revenues, the firm is doubling down on …
Another SDN first, Broadcom unveils OpenFlow switch implementation
The combination of open source software and commodity hardware holds the potential for unprecedented efficiency and operational agility but, despite the success of Web-scale giants like Google and Facebook in implementing this paradigm, it has yet to prove itself in the enterprise. …
Dell steps up its security game, expands cloud partnership in latest mobile gambit
Consistent user experience and security are the two top priorities in the mobile enterprise, and Dell is going for both. The vendor recently announced an expanded partnership with cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) firm NetSuite to provide consulting, implementation and support services …
Weekly cloud review: Pivotal, IBM move the industry forward
It’s been a big week for the cloud ecosystem, with Pivotal announcing that it will establish an independent foundation to oversee Cloud Foundry. Popular among developers for its scalability and relative ease of use, the platform-as-a-service solution was scooped up by VMware …