AlwaysOn partnered with Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Blackstone Group, Bridge Bank, Fenwick & West, Silicon Valley Bank, along with industry experts, to identify the top 100 private on-demand and SaaS companies – plus 16 to watch – that are pioneers in cloud computing and SaaS. Companies were selected based on a set of five criteria:…
Hewlett-Packard is trying to compete directly with Amazon.com Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. by leveraging its large manufacturing base and experience with servers and computers to build a new “cloud” service. HP has been largely absent from the newest Internet trend “cloud computing,” but its servers are sold to companies who use them to create their…
More than a year ago Netflix was having problems keeping up with the growth in demand for its services and turned to the cloud for help. The company decided to move most of its production systems into Amazon EC2 after having struggled to keep up by building its data center. Last year Netflix launched the…
We met up with Will Conway from Rackspace at this year’s Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. Will has helped many Fortune 500 companies construct and implement their cloud strategies and helps Rackspace partners become educated, not only where Cloud technology is going, but how it can be successfully implemented in their own corporate portfolio. In…
Hackers have discovered that Google’s rumored cloud-based music service is up and running. Members of a XDA developers’ message board found that if they installed the Honeycomb music player app on Android they could sync their music collections with Google’s servers. Those willing to install the latest build, which isn’t yet supported by Google, have…
Cloud Connect kicked off this morning with special keynote guests and more than 3,000 registered attendees. The keynotes are streaming live on Cloud Connect’s online tv : http://tv.cloudconnectevent.com/. The Cloud Connect conference is designed to inform cloud customers and operators about the latest cloud computing innovations and to showcase the latest cloud technologies and platforms…
GigaSpace Technologies, a virtual application platform provider, is launching an updated version of its cloud-enabled application platform, aimed specifically at enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and independent software vendor (ISV) software-as-a-service (SaaS) enablement. “We’re excited to announce this new up-and-coming GigaSpaces platform, which is truly unique in that it offers an exclusive silo-free architecture to customers building…
Google released yesterday the first API upgrade for Adwords. This new release includes: The ability for agencies to run reports across clients so they can do trend comparison across clients. Better filtering, improved geo-targeting which will let agencies specify whether to target by the physical location of the viewer or by the location the person…
Salesforce.com commissioned a study with WSP Environment & Energy, and found that customers of salesforce.com’s cloud computing services produce 95 percent less carbon, on average, compared with companies using other equivalent software in on-premise application servers. The study also showed that multitenant cloud platforms are on average 64 percent more carbon-efficient than private clouds that…
IBM revealed today (in beta) a new advanced virtual deployment software which enables organizations to build a cloud environment rapidly with greater ease of management than ever before. This IBM software has tremendous speed and can deploy a single virtual machine in seconds, dozens in a few minutes and hundreds or thousands at the unrivaled…