US Government particularly US Federal agencies are one of the largest IT consumers in the world. Many of the federal, state and local government agencies use services from IT vendors that are compliant to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements. IT vendors such as IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others wanting a larger share…
Over 350 people attended the Under The Radar conference and watched over thirty bleeding-edge startups tell their stories and showcase their technology. We had the chance to meet with Rob Bailey from DataSift at the show. Rob shared some great insights on “data on demand” and what DataSift makes a powerful and scalable platform for…
AMD has decided to consolidate its data centers offering by partnering with its longtime partner Hewlett-Packard. HP will help cut the infrastructure of AMD, while increasing network capacity and performance. The first step is to reduce the number of data centers. AMD currently has twelve data centers down from eighteen in 2009. The company plans…
There has been a lot of confusion when Google unveiled its Google Drive service. (CloudTimes was one of the first to announce its launch.) As the company convinces the public to try its new offering, there have been concerns about the underlying terms and conditions. The current understanding of these terms means that Google Inc….
It is true that cloud computing makes big promises, but it also introduces new risks. The first is the control of data, which are now among suppliers. The second, more specific is free software. Independent Software Vendors (ISV) applications hosted in accordance with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model include collaboration software and business applications such as…
And here is thy corporate future… two years from now, personal computer will take a back seat. The personal cloud will be the new sun of the corporate solar system. It will be the everyone’s most important possession… which is strange because it’s not tangible. That, however, is beside the point. Gartner’s scientific crystal ball…
Citrix Systems announced last week the launch of CloudStack software to the Apache Software Foundation. This makes them the first legitimate alternative to OpenStack. The creation of Citrix was actually inspired when OpenStack failed to work with Citrix’s system. After exhausting all strategies, they decided that a defection is the best next step. They seem…
Although the potential of cloud computing is impressive, the scope and depth of impact and the level of acceptance over time are uncertain and require frequent revisions of the strategy being taken by the company in each case. In this sense, Gartner has identified five trends of cloud computing that is accelerating and can be…
Cloud computing is spreading in recent years with a massive dose of apps that allow users to always have files and data and making mobility and working outside the office a possibility without many compromises. Adobe Systems Incorporated has not been an exception and thus launched the Creative Cloud. Adobe has announced that it will…
CloudTimes Top 100 Cloud Computing Companies CloudTimes is proud to announce its list of Top 100 Cloud Computing Companies and introduces CT Score™. After a year long research and our initial post in November 2011, the new list is continuously updated. VIEW THE TOP 100 LIST HERE We have moved away from our original categorization in SaaS,…