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Kickin $aa$: Box.Net Announces BoxSync, Effortless Document Collaboration

Today, Box.net is unveiling the next evolution in their product line, BoxSync.  The sync solution will be delivered as a installable desktop service, Windows to start, Mac coming soon.  I was able to catch up with co-founder Aaron Levie yesterday to get a run down of the new sync solution as well has hear about ...

Kickin $aaS: EchoSign Continues Its Ramp with Impressive Growth

Before Cloud, there was SaaS providers, before that, ASP’s.  With Cloud Computing being the shiny new thing in the Enterprise and IT space over the past 18 or so months, people often forget its roots that have driven early Cloud adoption in Software-as-a-Service.  A handful early pioneers paved the way for SaaS and Cloud adoption ...

Future Mobile Development: webOS Paving the Way, Setting the Standard

I have been a tremendous fan of what the engineering team(s) at Palm have been up to since the moment I heard that Palm’s next generation of handsets would run on a new operating system that was based entirely on open web standards.  Having been a web developer since 1995 and a mobile web developer ...

Opsource Announces Release of Cloud Files Service

This morning Cloud and SaaS service provider Opsource is announcing the beta release of their Opsource Cloud Files solution.  With their continued focus on providing services to Enterprises and SaaS vendors, the cloud storage solution is a welcomed addition to their new, yet rapidly advancing suite of cloud services. Already standing out as a service ...

UnderTheRadar Gathers Cloud Startups to Strut Their Stuff

As the Information Technology market continues along its massive disruption path due to the continual ramp of Cloud Computing adoption, startups are launching in droves to fulfill the gaps that large and sluggish incumbents have yet to fill.  From storage, monitoring, management, performance, etc, you name it, there are top notch engineers out there tackling ...

Palm Acquisition: Who are the likely suitors?

Bloomberg is reporting that Palm is working with Goldman Sachs and Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer.  I hope that the news is just more rumors, or that any truth to it is just Palm prepping for managing the inquiries that have been flooding in. SiliconAngle’s John Furrier wrote a post on Palm ...

Appistry Targets Vibrant Storage Market, Dangles Carrot in Front of Hadoop Users

Appistry, a cloud computing company based out of St. Louis, has announced the beta release of a new product line targeting the vibrant web scale storage market.  The offering dubbed Cloud IQ Storage, aims to appease the ever growing storage appetite of organizations to deliver web scale storage for a wide range of workloads and ...

Android Bringing Up the Rear in Gaming

With the Game Developers Conference happening last week in San Francisco and Microsoft hosting their Mix conference in Vegas this week, gaming on smart phones has been a hot topic of late.  As it now stands from a platform perspective for all the modern platforms that developers can choose from today Android is currently bringing ...

Opsource Cloud Exits Beta, Sets Standard for Cloud SLA’s

As the CloudConnect event finishes up today after a great four days of presentations and gathering of some of the top people in the Cloud Computing sector, infrastructure and service provider Opsource has two major announcements today, both around their cloud computing efforts. First, Opsource is announcing that their cloud offering is exiting its public beta ...

Opsource Updates Cloud Offering, Continues Enterprise & Channel Push

Today cloud and infrastructure service provider Opsource continues to evolve their cloud offering with the introduction of a handful of new features that should help greatly fuel future enterprise adoption. All of these updates are geared towards those potential enterprise customers that might be thinking about adopting a cloud platform for their needs but have ...