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CloudTimes is proud to announce its list of Top 100 Cloud Computing Companies and introduces CT Score™. After a year long research and our initial post in November 2011, the new list is continuously updated.
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Splunk had a blockbuster IPO today with the stock price more than doubling on its first day of trading. It left some people wondering “Is Splunk really worth a $3 Billion valuation?”.
Splunk has every sign of a great company: a rapid growing customer base, over 70% year over [...]
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) firm GoGrid along with managed hosting company Sungard, announced the general availability of Big Data solutions based on Hadoop technology. The big data services are designed to handle high-performance analytic jobs while leveraging open source data solutions such as Hadoop.
According to the company, this solution enables [...]
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Cedexis launched today their unique CDN and Cloud performance reporting tool: “Which Cloud and/or CDN shall I chose for better delivery of my content and applications in a specific country?”
It’s a question all IT decision-makers ask themselves. To start answering it, Cedexis proposes a new data visualization interface available on: Continue Reading →
In today’s increasingly instrumented and interconnected world, business leaders are seeking ways to leverage strategies that optimize growth, improve agility, driver higher-value customer relationships and lead to increased revenue. Many see cloud as the answer. In fact, a recent IBM Institute for Business Value study found that 90 percent of organizations expect to adopt [...]
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Cloud storage is one of the many ways that organizations are leveraging cloud services today. With public and private cloud storage available from a number of well-known providers such as Amazon, AT&T, Nirvanix, RackSpace, Google, HP and OpenStack, and cloud storage gateway technologies enabling instant integration of cloud storage into existing IT [...]
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For small business owners, security is the most important concern when it comes to cloud computing. Here is an infographic by MegaPath Security Services that serves as a resource for small business owners looking to protect themselves from the hacker community that discusses the new security challenges that small businesses should be [...]
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Violin Memory, Inc., today announced $50 million in Series D funding, putting the company at a market value of more than $800 million. Investors include long time partners Toshiba and Juniper Networks in addition to new investors SAP Ventures and Highland Capital, among others. With this latest round, Violin continues [...]
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CloudTimes recently visited Piston Cloud’s offices in San Francisco and interviewed CEO Joshua McKenty.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is an enterprise OpenStack company. Founded in early 2011 by technical team leads from NASA and Rackspace, PistonCloud’s technology is built on OpenStack, the fastest-growing, massively scalable open source cloud framework. The company’s core product, Piston Enterprise OSTM (pentOS) [...]
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As we approach the one year anniversary of the start of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) movement, there is no doubt the concept has garnered great fanfare with vendors and service providers alike. We recently talked with Sharon Barkai, founder of SDN start-up ConteXtream to discuss the state of software-defined networking.
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dotCloud is a new kind of PaaS designed for the FullStack Development enabling developers to build, deploy and scale applications in the cloud using virtually any combination of language and database without the need for additional hardware or software.
The San Francisco-based company announced today the immediate availability of support for WebSockets, [...]
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The trend in cloud computing has evolved to include highly dynamic and complex online applications, eBanking on the hybrid cloud and workforce requirements for more portable yet efficient software. In answer to these clamors, Microsoft decided to expand its suite of applications and reinvent their cloud offerings.
To do this, they plan [...]
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CloudTimes is proud to announce the sponsorship of the upcoming Data 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The summit will be held on April 3rd, 2012 and is the largest Cloud Data conference in 2012.
Why is the next technology revolution a Data Revolution? Connect to speakers from Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce [...]
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Startups, we want to hear your pitch at the Satellites!
Featuring the most promising startups in Asia. A 6 city hunt, and we are putting you in our sights.
Satellites are the most important prelude in a promising startup’s journey to Echelon 2012, Asia’s [...]
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CloudTimes is pleased to be supporting the Cloud Analytics Summit which will provide an executive forum for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions and strategies that can help them harness their ‘Big Data’ sources and integrate their systems and applications into a more productive enterprise-wide resource to achieve [...]
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Last year, billions where spent on deals between the enterprise and emerging companies. Visa invested in Square, Jive partnered with SalesCrunch, Salesforce acquired Rypple and the list goes on and on. Partnerships, investments, and acquisitions seem rampant when you read the tech blogs, however, startups will tell you it’s not exactly reality. Finding [...]
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