LongJump is introducing two new services today: LongJump Javelin and LongJump Relay, which bolster its cloud platform aimed at helping companies turn their data into customizable cloud-based business apps that can go mobile in minutes. CloudTimes had the chance to interview LongJump’s Founder and CEO, Pankaj Malviya, about LongJump’s mission and today’s product announcement. What…
Unit4 announced today at the Grape Escape analyst event in Boston, the launch of a new solution to public and private sector organizations called “Shared Journey”. This new cloud-based offering is available for both its Agresso Business World and Coda Financials enterprise software solutions. Shared Journey comes after a series of pilot deployments in a cloud-based,…
NetApp has recently improved its service capabilities in the cloud platform by enhancing its NetApp OnCommand Management software. Chris Cummings, vice president of product and solutions marketing said that the new NetApp OnCommand Management software will include features that will assist users to move their virtualized data storage from cloud environments, plus the new software…
ZL Technologies is moving its enterprise software applications to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model using Enterprise Cloud Services from SunGard Availability Services. By moving to a cloud-based, multi-tenant platform, ZL is breaking a major price barrier and reshaping the economics of enterprise records management, archiving, and e-discovery enterprise applications. SunGard Availability Services news release on ZL…
Opscode, the leading player in cloud automation sector, announced today at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, the general availability of Hosted Chef, its hosted platform to automate cloud infrastructure. Hosted Chef was released with new features which include “Quickstarts” that automate the deployments of Java Tomcat and Ruby on Rails for the two leading cloud…
Microsoft plays a vital role in IT and it is now heavily involved in cloud computing. Most users find its cloud services to be influential, whereas some others are wrestling with the implications of cloud computing. For some enterprises, cloud computing is a way to dodge from the traditional computer and software vendors. They realize…
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….
RightScale recently announced the release of its new MultiCloud Marketplace, a clearing tool for ready-to-run customizable software that is devised to perform the best practices in managing server applications in the cloud. This will offer a free market for vendors in selling user applications, middleware features, web servers and more. RightScale’s ServerTemplate will provide automated…
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 announced today to introduce its new Cloud Service Offering iCloud on June 6th. If you look at the current URL iCloud.com, you will see that it is currently used by Xcerion’s CloudMe software and sitting on some prime real estate. In a short release, Apple confirmed the launch and brand: Apple CEO Steve Jobs…