As Internet access remains cut off in Egypt amid anti-government protests, Google launched a Twitter workaround for Egyptians. A special service from Google allows people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail.. “Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of…
Time Warner Cable Inc.and NaviSite, Inc. announced today that they have entered into an agreement under which Time Warner Cable will acquire NaviSite for approximately $230 million. The deal follows Verizon’s agreement to buy Terremark for $1.4 billion last week. The acquisition of NaviSite, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, messaging and cloud…
Salesforce.com announced this morning the public release of the new Chatter.com platform and made it available for companies around the world. Any company with a salesforce.com subscription can now sign up their employees to Chatter.com. “Now with Chatter.com, any company can do impossible things as a team,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. Chatter.com…
Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) conducted a worldwide CIO survey from September to December 2010. A record-breaking participation with more than 2,000 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public-sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries. The survey revealed that although IT budgets projections will remain flat, almost half of all CIOs expect…
Cloud computing helps organizations store, manage, share, and analyze their Big Data in an affordable and easy-to-use way. Today’s cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as Microsoft, GoGrid, Amazon, Google, Rackspace and Slicehost, supported by the on-demand analytics solution vendors, make Big Data analytics very affordable. Most corporate enterprises don’t fully leverage their data. Data is…
In an effort to join the cloud computing race, HP which has lagged behind Dell and IBM in its cloud computing efforts, launched this week Enterprise Cloud Services—Compute and HP CloudSystem. HP Enterprise Cloud Services—Compute, offers enterprises the ability to run key applications and securely access them over a network—without investing in unnecessary assets or processes. Client…
Cloud computing and virtualization have generated huge interest from all size enterprises. Startups, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have started adopting the cloud computing concept faster than larger enterprises with more mature IT departments, mainly because of data security concerns and harder implementation procedures. Although spending in cloud computing is still at a fraction…
To enhance its cloud computing capabilities Verizon acquired Terremark, a Miami-based cloud services and data center hosting provider, for $1.4 billion. With this acquisition Verizon will be competing with major cloud services players such as Amazon. Verizon, which already offers its own Infrastructure-as-a-Service product, as well as managed hosting for enterprise customers, will pay $19…
Netsuite, a leading provider of cloud based ERP announced this morning the release of a new version of Netsuite Software Company Edition. The new version will help software companies tackle the challenges of managing revenue models and in particular the complex processes of recurring revenue management streams. The new software limits customer churn and allows…
IBM, the Armonk, New York-based company said in a statement released today that they will be partnering with Range Technology Development a data-center service and telecommunications-network- services provider to build a cloud computing center in northern China, Hebei Province, in order to facilitate the development of the province and in particular the city of Langfang…