Continuuity gets $10M to help developers build Hadoop apps

So you've got an idea for a "big data" application, but building it seems to be a nightmarish prospect? Continuuity is here to help.

Are you scared yet? Why cloud security keeps these 7 execs up at night

Once upon a time, you knew who to fire when a hack took down your servers: The "little weenies" running around in the basement of your company, as AlienVault's Russell Spitler put it. But that's all changing.

How France’s SFR used a ‘chocolate factory’ to launch a European cloud

France's second largest carrier, SFR, came to VentureBeat's CloudBeat last year, and went away with a clear strategy on how to launch an Amazon.com competitor in France. SFR's Benjamin Revcolevschi explains here how his team arrived back in France, and executed the strategy through an extraordinary change in corporate culture, i.e., by building a "Chocolate Factory" within a $12 billion revenue behemoth....

European consortium builds €8.4M Paasage in the cloud

A group of 14 European partners have banded together with €8.4 million to launch a major research initiative called PaaSage.

Chartio launches its ‘beautiful intelligence’ tool to make data easier on the eye (and wallet)

These days, it takes guts for a company to make a strategic decision without referring to the numbers. However, accessing the data is easier said than done.

Hooked on the cloud? Cloudability launches analytics tool to keep costs under control

Cloud-based services may be a darn sight cheaper than on-premise alternatives, but over time, costs can escalate.

Mazree: the enterprise social network that does not compete with Yammer & Salesforce

For years, companies like Yammer and Jive have been creating technologies for employees of the same company to connect with each other. How about two different companies?

1 million users at 10 messages/second with 1 server rack = impressive

10 messages per second to 1,000,000 live users on single, solitary server?

Big Data startup Platfora pulls in $20M to ‘make Hadoop amazing’

Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the recent Strata conference with its flagship product to "unleash the potential of Hadoop," has raised its second round of funding.

SolidFire moves into GA, promises its SSDs will greatly speed up cloud services

SolidFire, a promising solid-state storage maker for cloud services, has finally launched into general availability and announced its first customers after a year of relatively low-profile activity.

SugarSync relaunches desktop, web, & mobile apps to simplify cloud storage

Consumer cloud storage startup SugarSync has redesigned its desktop, web, and mobile apps and pushed them into public beta, moves meant to attract and add more customers to the "millions" already using its service.

PAR Works ushers in the maturity of augmented reality

PAR Works' augmented-reality technology is accurate to within a few millimeters by using point-cloud models.

Light after blackouts: Amazon Web Services pushes into its ninth region

With scattered reports of customer defections in the wake of major outages, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today that it has expanded to the Asia Pacific region, and has opened a new data center in Australia.

Box and Yammer founders say: it’s time to beautify enterprise software

Box and Yammer's cofounders explain how user-experience design may be a solution for large companies getting their "asses handed to them" by scrappy startups.

CloudBeat 2012 speakers really have their heads in the cloud

We've finalized the list of speakers for CloudBeat 2012, which includes CTOs and CIOs from top enterprise customers as well as the cloud companies competing for their business. You won't want to miss it.

ReelyActive wants to create the Internet of things for the little guy

"We connect things to the cloud -- anything that normally wouldn't communicate," ReelyActive chief executive Jeffrey Dungen told me today. "But the small companies that have looked at RFID are totally disenfranchised ... they go looking for a solution for maybe 100 or 200 RFIC tags, and simply can't buy one."