As 2011 rolls to a close, it’s time to make a few predictions for 2012 in the cloud data space. 2011 was a year of adoption, where many companies started to enjoy the economies of scale, security and ease-of-use of the cloud in managing their growing data needs. Clearly, 2012 promises even greater cloud adoption….
The Amazon Kindle Fire outage last month created high frustration and disappointment level for its users. This was in spite of Amazon’s assurance of “ultra-fast web browsing,” the truth is, several users say that Silk runs slower through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon reasoned out that the cause of problem was the overload with cache…
Written by Mark Goros, CEO of Caringo Inc. 1. Object Storage will bring Cloud economics to any organization in 2012 A key to the affordability delivered with cloud storage is to begin with commodity components in a redundant, multi-tenant architecture with highly efficient disk utilization. These benefits are driven by object storage infrastructure which most…
Akamai Technologies said it agreed to buy rival Cotendo Inc., a maker of mobile-network acceleration software, for about $268 million in cash. The companies expect to close the deal in the first half of 2012. Cotendo was founded in 2008 and provides technology that accelerates the delivery of content through the Internet. Its content delivery…
Telligent, the social community software company, announced today its acquisition of San Francisco based online community software maker, Leverage Software. Patrick Brandt, Telligent CEO, said “We are particularly thrilled to gain the leading cloud technology, people-centered design, prestigious customer list and employee talent that Leverage brings. Telligent and Leverage have roots as pure-play social community…
Cloud computing has grown at a tremendous speed over the last two years and it continues to build up speed. It is currently dominated by American companies such as Google and Amazon as it helped other businesses to flourish and grow. Cloud computing has penetrated even the medical industry as more hospitals are migrating to…
Consolidating databases onto a private cloud is a new model for the delivery of database services. Private clouds consolidate servers, storage, operating systems, databases, and mixed workloads onto a shared hardware and software infrastructure. Deploying databases on a consolidated private cloud enables IT departments to improve quality of service levels and reduce capital and operating…
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software. Business process platforms provide development and runtime environments to improve and automate a wide range of processes and support advanced use cases around orchestration, process interoperability, end-to-end process…
Zynga, the San Francisco based company which specializes in Facebook games, priced its initial public offering late Thursday at $10 per share, raising $1 billion with a company value of about $7 billion. This offering makes it the largest Internet-related IPO since Google went public in 2004 with $1.4 billion. The price was at the top of expectation which…
Salesforce.com announced the recent expansion of its social enterprise cloud platform with the acquisition of Rypple, a provider of a social performance management app. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed but the company said Rypple will be rebranded “Successforce” and integrated into the existing ecosystem of Salesforce enterprise SaaS applications. Rypple is…