Cisco announced last week its intent to acquire privately held JouleX, a leader in enterprise IT energy management for network-attached and data center assets. JouleX, with headquarters in Atlanta, GA, complements Cisco’s existing services portfolio by using the capabilities of the network to gain visibility into and control energy usage across global IT environments. The…
Just in case you haven’t heard of it, the easiest way to be $30k richer is to find developers, a darn good one at that, good enough to work in Hubspot. Last week, Hubspot announced that it is giving away $30,000 to anyone who can refer to a great developer to the company. If Hubspot…
People are accustomed to using their beautifully-designed and easy-to-use productivity tools in their everyday life. As employees, they now have the same expectation for their work environment. Companies are allowing employees to use their own devices (BYOD) and adopt low-cost SaaS-based solutions to save IT substantial costs but this now renders concerns around security and…
In the past, people who are in need of a huge sum of money to fund a startup, a huge project, or a brand new commercial product, would have no other options besides applying for a loan or shopping their ideas to investors. But with the advent of crowdfunding, even college students who are coding…
by Navid Nathoo A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… people used filing cabinets to store their documents and files, secretaries were hired to manage these files and search for them through massive amounts of clutter, and photocopies needed to be made in order to fax the files. Now we enter a…
Originally founded in 2011 by Paul Biggar and Allen Rohner, CircleCI offers continuous integration (the CI in their name) as well as CTaaS, or Code Testing as a Service. The two founders even jokingly refer to their company as “Heroku for code testing” (Heroku being Salesforce.com’s PaaS platform). The biggest benefit of CircleCI can be…
3D Printing was one of the key topics at SXSW in Austin, TX last week. Not alone due to the keynote by MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis. 3D Printing is being used mainly for manufacturing of various parts, to actual rendering of CAD output, and as a recent incident proves, can also be used to make…
At a recent Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, the old and obsolete Nokia mobile phone took center stage. A small French firm explained that this type of cellular phone is being used for mobile banking in areas where smart phones aren’t popular. Most technological firms are geared towards producing sophisticated mobile products for…
California-based Startup NetCitadel has recently launched a new product dubbed “OneControl,” which aims to provide automated responses to network events, which used to be a time-consuming task that requires changes related to configuring switches, firewalls, other gear, as well as tremendous amounts of manual research. Aimed primarily towards datacenters, the OneControl virtual appliance can automate…
CloudTimes is proud to announce a media partnership with the Launch Festival, at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, 635 8th St in San Francisco, from March 4th – 6th, 2013. The 2013 LAUNCH Festival is the best place to launch startups, raise money and learn about starting a company. FREE TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY – SEE THE…