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…
The United Sates and Taiwan recently had an agreement to spearhead the fee-for-service rental of cloud products and services for SMBs (Small and Medium sized Businesses) in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. This move is made to develop competitiveness among enterprises. US and Taiwan hopes to leverage their cloud solutions in the global market;…
Andrew McAfee is popular for being a supporter of Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 tools in many businesses. McAfee, a researcher at MIT’s Sloan School of Management was recently drawn to Katie Fehrenbacher’s of GigaOM’s statement. This took McAfee to look at companies that plans to have their first venture into cloud computing coined as…
Some of the cloud predictions for 2012 include huge cloud computing pullouts, IT skills shortage and government control and regulation for social media and networking. 2011 was a year to reckon for the IT industry because of the huge effect of cloud computing in most business solutions. This even became unprecedented because of the participation…
CloudTimes is proud to announce to be a Gold Media Partner of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from Feb 27th – March 1st, 2012. The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the place for mobile leaders to network, and conduct business. The event hosts approximately 60,000 mobile professionals, over 58% of these C-Level, from over 200 countries. As…
Gartner and IDC, two of the respected authorities in cloud computing recently released their fearless, bold predictions for 2012. Huge Data Storage “Big Data will earn its place as the next ‘must have’ competency in 2012″ (IDC). It’s difficult to question that statement if the basis is only the current trend right now. The statement…
While the SaaS model has made aggressive advances in a number of software sectors, including CRM, Human Resources, and Productivity Tools, it has been slow to gain a foothold in other, important parts of the tech world. One of the last bastions of the on-premise world is Business Intelligence. Resistance to cloud BI is seen…
SnapLogic CEO, Gaurav Dhillon meets with CloudTimes to talk about the importance of cloud integration and the ‘app store’ model to software-as-a-service application integration. Gaurav was the co-founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation where he led the company from a startup idea to a leading worldwide software enterprise in just 12 years. In 2009, Gaurav became…
Dropbox, a cloud-based storage and file sharing platform is moving to release the chains from cloud consumers with the release of its new service application called Dropbox for Teams. This is seen to help SMBs in sharing and storing files, documents, photos and videos within the cloud. Dropbox for Teams was launched last Thursday; this…