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Cisco announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire newScale , in a deal that would ramp up its cloud computing services. NewScale, provides self-service, service catalog, and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and…
According to Bloomberg , Hewlett-Packard needs to spend as much as double the historical valuation for software takeovers to catch up in cloud computing. Although Apotheker said this month he will follow a “disciplined” approach…
Savvis announced today that its Government Wide Service (GWS) platform is now available to all government departments and third-party suppliers in the United Kingdom. GWS was developed to help the government achieve its ambition…
Deloitte issued today it’s annual Technology Trends report which identifies the 10 disruptive and emerging technologies that are expected to play a crucial role in how businesses will operate globally over the next 18 months. For…
Facebook has agreed to acquire London based Israeli startup, Snaptu, that makes apps for feature phones, for an estimated $70 million. Snaptu offers a service that makes social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn…
Verizon and SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG, annouced on March 16, that they will deliver SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management) through Verizon's computing as a service cloud. The new SAP CRM targets enterprises and…
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…
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…
Microsoft launched the Release to Market version of Internet Explorer 9 today at the South by SouthWest (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas. Microsoft launched the beta version of IE9 last year and received generally positive reviews…
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…