Eight Dutch companies were invited by the Dutch government at this year’s Cloud Expo in New York to showcase their software and services at the Holland Pavilion on the show floor. CloudTimes is a media sponsor of Cloud Expo. Many Dutch companies have developed high-end services and proprietary software ready for the transatlantic market. These…
Action In The Cloud The market for cloud computing infrastructure and services is growing rapidly and a wide variety of players—some old, some new—are rushing in to grab a share of the opportunity. To thrive in the cloud market, they must establish and solidify their positions as value-adding players. Otherwise, they risk being pushed aside…
CIOs are making the move to cloud computing to reduce costs, increase productivity and simplify IT. And many of them consider e-mail platforms the place to start. In a recent IDG Research Services poll, IT leaders cited painful limitations to their current messaging platforms, including increasing costs, poor user experiences, and limited scalability and flexibility….
Layer 7 Technologies unveiled today its new API Portal technology, a solution that provides companies and service providers with a secure, turn-key way to manage developers creating applications against their application programming interfaces (APIs). The API portal is part of Layer 7’s API management suite which includes the Enterprise Service Manager for governing the API…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will show off several new products today at the company’s WWDC conference in San Francisco, including Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion,” iOS 5, and “iCloud,” a new cloud-based service. We had reported extensively. The keynote begins at 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT. Join us for a live coverage of this…
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement…
In part 1 of this article we initiated a comparison of the services provided by Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. We talked about a bit of the history of the two platforms and found certain pros and cons of each of them. Further in this part 2 of the series, we’d focus on certain tangible…
Rumors suggest that at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco iPhone news won’t be as prominent as last year, instead attendees will sit through discussions on software; including iOS 5 and Apple’s upcoming desktop-based operating system, Mac OS X Lion. Apple hasn’t released specific details on what it has planned for the…
Making Sense of the Real Cloud After years of questions about what cloud computing is and how it will affect IT, we’re finally starting to get answers. With major acquisitions having gone down, hybrid clouds now a reality and the federal government eyeing cloud-inspired legislation, it is becoming more clear how the cloud landscape will…
Both cloud and mobile computing create a major impact in businesses these days. Each of them appears as a major source of revenue for market vendors who wish to capitalize on products that are popular among users. But, the numbers game states that mobile computing gets all the money and only 1 to 2 percent…