Salesforce.com announced recently that the former US Federal Government author and CIO of the Cloud-First policy, Vivek Kundra has joined the company as Executive Vice President to leverage their cloud social enterprise. Kundra is a popular figure in the IT technology and has been coined as an enterprise innovator. Kundra’s track record as CIO of…

Cisco, EMC, IBM and TOSCA recently communicated their support to back up setting the standard and specifications for hybrid cloud portability. This is to stand true to cloud’s promise of ease of access and portability in service migration from one cloud provider to another. There are, however, obstacles to face with this set up because…

KLAS recently conducted a survey of small clinics and hospitals and surprisingly found that 55% are already using cloud-based apps. It was from their storage, clinical applications, e-mail, communication systems and file or picture archiving. About 25% of the respondents said that they are already using remotely accessed health records. 58% of the respondents said…

Oracle mounted on its Big Data, Hadoop last October, this was after everyone thought that Larry Ellison, CEO will announce their roll up of their open-source elephant. It turned out, however, that everyone’s assumptions were wrong. The truth is, Oracle had made an OEM agreement with Cloudera, the largest commercial Big Data appliance reducer and…

Paragon conducted a fair research on cloud Level 3 Communications and Akamai. This was after IT companies became more concentrated on web content delivery and real-time, high-speed streaming as the demand for it raised sky high. Content-focused companies became centered on cloud computing solutions because they saw its promising customer appeal. This was also due…

AT&T has closed a major partnership deal with OpenStack to provide an open-source cloud-based platform. This development was announced last January 9, 2012. AT&T is expected to give the project a big boost, while the company also benefits from the OpenStack cloud platform. OpenStack, an IaaS project was the brainchild of NASA and Rackspace Cloud….

SaaS cannot put a stop to the cloud computing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the cloud services sector of the business, in fact, it is expected to balloon in the coming months. First on the line is Intermap’s move to acquire Voxel for $30 million, which was announced earlier last week. This first is the…

Cloud computing has obviously given business startups the boost it needs in 2011. Several companies such as RightScale, Hiroku and New Relic emerged and flourished with the cloud platform. In 2012, there will be other business startups that will leverage their business, but if there’s one thing they need to focus on it is to…