Dell announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Wyse Technology, a privately held provider of cloud computing and desktop virtualization technologies, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is the latest in a string of moves by the computer maker to move beyond its hardware business into management and services offerings thus…
Violin Memory, Inc., today announced $50 million in Series D funding, putting the company at a market value of more than $800 million. Investors include long time partners Toshiba and Juniper Networks in addition to new investors SAP Ventures and Highland Capital, among others. With this latest round, Violin continues to be one of the…
CloudTimes recently visited Piston Cloud’s offices in San Francisco and interviewed CEO Joshua McKenty. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is an enterprise OpenStack company. Founded in early 2011 by technical team leads from NASA and Rackspace, PistonCloud’s technology is built on OpenStack, the fastest-growing, massively scalable open source cloud framework. The company’s core product, Piston Enterprise OSTM (pentOS) is the first cloud operating system built…
As we approach the one year anniversary of the start of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) movement, there is no doubt the concept has garnered great fanfare with vendors and service providers alike. We recently talked with Sharon Barkai, founder of SDN start-up ConteXtream to discuss the state of software-defined networking. CT: Can you provide…
dotCloud is a new kind of PaaS designed for the FullStack Development enabling developers to build, deploy and scale applications in the cloud using virtually any combination of language and database without the need for additional hardware or software. The San Francisco-based company announced today the immediate availability of support for WebSockets, MongoDB 2.0 and…
Cloud computing is one of the tech buzzword of the decade, and can be considered another IT revolution since the time the Internet was discovered. The reliable and fast connections have also changed the way people connect and communicate. The rise of the cloud robotics also known as brain robots may have yet another major…
Two studies made by SAP and Microsoft brings light to the long standing economic crisis as cloud computing creates jobs and fuels the business market. Sand Hill Group who conducted the study said that the trendsetters for cloud computing will be the mobile cloud, data storage and social networking. The group said that the influence…
The trend in cloud computing has evolved to include highly dynamic and complex online applications, eBanking on the hybrid cloud and workforce requirements for more portable yet efficient software. In answer to these clamors, Microsoft decided to expand its suite of applications and reinvent their cloud offerings. To do this, they plan to replace their…
CloudTimes is proud to announce the sponsorship of the upcoming Data 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The summit will be held on April 3rd, 2012 and is the largest Cloud Data conference in 2012. Why is the next technology revolution a Data Revolution? Connect to speakers from Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce Data.com, Experian, Intuit, Battery Ventures,…
Gartner Special Research team conducted a study to identify how business enterprises plan to thrive in the coming years. Obviously, the cloud had significantly influenced how business strategies are done and how customer needs are met. Gartner released two reports that looked into the cloud computing trends; entitled, “The New PC Era: The Personal Cloud”…