Google Cloud Platform – the currently-favored name for the division that includes Google BigQuery, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, and the just-launched Google Compute Engine – is expanding its ecosystem with a new partner program that’s bringing service providers, systems integrators, and technology vendors into the search giant’s cloud fold as it tries to build its ...

GigaOM received confirmation late last night that seven developers are leaving OpenStack open source cloud project co-founder Rackspace Hosting to join up with Nebula, which is working to develop private cloud infrastructures using OpenStack as a core. Most of the seven were veterans of Rackspace acquisition Anso Labs, itself the San Francisco-based consulting firm which helped NASA ...

SaaS-delivered API management tool Mashery has raised $10 million to further what it calls the “post-website era,” led by OpenView Venture Partners and other with participation from existing investors including Cisco, Formative Ventures, First Round Capital and .406 Ventures. Mashery’s vision hinges on the idea that APIs are the future of services. With its API management ...

Google has announced the acquisition of Sparrow, the developers of the highly popular e-mail client for Apple OS X and iOS, as the search giant (presumably) moves to revamp its approach to mobile Gmail. “We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and ...

Google reported earnings for the second quarter of 2012 – it’s first earnings statement since the closure of the Motorola Mobility acquisition at the end of May- posting a very strong $2.79 billion, or $8.42 a share, on revenue of $9.61 billion (excluding the costs of traffic acquisition). The problem is that Wall Street was looking for $10.04 ...

Today sees the launch of a revamped Rackspace Hosting’s new Cloud Tools Marketplace, which takes the app store concept and applies it to the Rackspace cloud services partner ecosystem. In other words: Need a cloud management platform for your Rackspace deployment? There’s an app for that. The new update itself largely revolves around improving the ...

Loggly, the cloud-based log management provider that claims over 2,500 customers, has announced the close of a $5.7 million round of Series B funding led by True Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Matrix Partners. And if that’s not enough, the two-year-old company has announced that industry veterans Charlie Oppenheimer (most recently CEO of Qualcomm acquisition Digital Fountain) and Jim Nisbet ...

“Big Data” is a term that means a lot of things to a lot of different people. But the value proposition is generally the same: Turning huge mountains of data into actionable insights. Enter Salesforce.com Radian6 Insights, a new SaaSoffering that aims to deliver on the promise of turning social media into highly valuable and ...

Microsoft has finally taken the lid off Microsoft Office 2013, letting consumers get its first crack at the completely redesigned suite of industry-standard productivity applications, including new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more, with a publicly available preview. And to reflect Microsoft’s recent reorientation towards software-as-a-service, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a live webcast event to ...

Earlier this week, SiliconAngle’s analyst partners at Wikibon released the results of the inaugural edition of the annual IT Transformation Survey, with data on how the market landscape is changing drawn from 261 respondents. And while there’s ton of granular data to draw from, here are my picks for the three most pressing CIO action ...