Yesterday at the Gartner Symposium, David Cearley listed the top ten technology trends that Gartner believes will impact Human, Business and IT Experiences in the coming year. Human Experience: 1-      Media tablets: Cearley expects people will increase their use of phones and media tablets and no single platform, form factor, or technology will…

The long awaited second gathering of Cloud Mafia is coming up. Easily the most fun cloud event in the Bay Area. Don’t miss it. Wednesday, October 19 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm Manor West 750 Harrison St San Francisco, CA Schedule: 6 to 7pm Networking 7 to 7:30pm Welcome/Introductions 7:30-to 10pm  Networking/Party Cloud Mafia is a community built of…

X.commerce, a new business at eBay Inc. that connects developers and merchants, today announced it has joined the OpenStack™ community and will leverage the open source cloud operating system to deliver its powerful commerce ecosystem to the combined developer communities of eBay, PayPal and Magento. By choosing to standardize on OpenStack, X.commerce offers its development community the…

GetApp.com, the fastest growing independent online marketplace for cloud-based business applications, announced today that it is has secured $1.1 million in funding from Nauta Capital (Nauta). Nauta has invested in GetApp.com from its recently launched $150M Nauta III fund. This funding will allow GetApp.com to further establish its online channel leadership position in the lucrative,…

Recently, Red Hat, Inc. announced its acquisition of Gluster, Inc., a Nexus Ventures supported company. Gluster, Inc. is a provider of scalable, open source cloud storage solutions, which was acquired at $136 million dollars. The negotiation is to be sealed within this month with Red Hat assuming all of Gluster’s equity balances on the closing…

CloudTimes is proud to announce our sponsorship of Cloud Mafia, a cloud community created by Loggly, DotCloud and NewRelic. The next event will take place on October 19th in San Francisco and is not to be missed. Next event: Wednesday, October 19 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm Manor West 750 Harrison St San Francisco, CA Schedule: 6 to 7pm Networking 7…

Oracle was previously perceived as slow moving in terms of its readiness and transformation for the new era of the cloud. But finally, it broke the silence last Monday at the OpenWorld 2011 event when it announced its most recent and most important product release, the Oracle Big Data Appliance. This new cloud technology is…