Nimbula, a company ties together public and private cloud resources in a way that companies can manage them easily, this week released the latest version of its software.
Nimbula calls itself a cloud operating system — because it helps its …
The cloud computing revolution has made the titanic valuations of major Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Twitter completely justified, storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen (pictured right) said today.
Some major companies in the Web 2.0 …
Major cloud computing services provider Xtium has raised $11.5 million to expand its reach in helping mid-size companies with private cloud computing, virtual hosting and virtual disaster recovery.
Xtium is one of the leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers in the U.S., …
Netflix today spun off its mail-order DVD business into a new service called Qwikster, which will include mail-order video game rentals. Given Netflix’s immense success with the movie business, you might expect the games rental business to fare just as …
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Cloud storage provider Box.net rejected a $500 million offer to purchase the company, multiple sources have confirmed to VentureBeat.
Turning down a $500 million acquisition offer isn’t necessarily a bad move for a hot company like Box.net, because it could …
Gumhoo, which gathers opinions about shopping lists from social connections, launched today at VentureBeat’s Demo Fall 2011 conference.
The company runs a web application which adds a “Gumhoo” button to shopping sites. Users can “Gumhoo” a product and request feedback …
Newman Infinite today launched yGGLE, an online service for building a Java-based website from scratch without any programming, at VentureBeat’s DEMO Fall 2011 conference.
yGGLE uses a drag-and-drop interface, where users drop various Java-powered applets onto a site space. That …
Fluxx, which collects data from a number of enterprise services like Salesforce.com and displays it on a unified user interface, launched today at VentureBeat’s DEMO Fall 2011 conference.
The company makes a unified web-based interface based off HTML5, which is …
Bitcasa, an online storage service that turns your hard drive into a cloud server with “infinite” space, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Bitcasa streams data to and from remote servers, turning local hard drives …
Apple’s iCloud runs on two services from its biggest competitors, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s elastic cloud, reports The Register.
Sources tell the site that both Microsoft and Amazon were instructed to remain mum on the iCloud deal. Amazon’s elastic cloud …
Search giant Google announced today that it is shutting down a number of experimental projects as it cleans house under the direction of new-ish chief executive officer Larry Page.
Google is shuttering ten projects and relocating those resources to larger …
Google chairman and former chief executive officer Eric Schmidt slammed regulators and patent trolls at Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today, saying the patent wars would slow down the mobile and device revolution started by Apple’s iPhone.
“All …
The term “Cloud” typically refers to the process of running a computer application on a powerful remote server that you can access through a web browser or client.
It’s really not a very sexy topic.
Well, don’t tell Salesforce.com that. …
Business social networking company Jive Software has filed to go public and raise up to $100 million, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Jive Software supplies enterprises with internal social networks similar to Facebook. An …
Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service faced another crash last night, which took down major websites like Instagram and Foursquare.
But unlike the company’s disastrous cloud crash in April, which lasted around 10 days, this time Amazon’s Web Services was back …
Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates?
That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming services like Otoy, OnLive and Gaikai.
Cloud-based gaming companies run video games on very powerful remote …
Cloud storage provider Box.net is unveiling a new set of code libraries that will let app developers quickly embed the company’s storage and collaboration tools into their apps, the company announced today.
“We have 40 developers building that back-end stack, …
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(Editor’s note: Paul Schmidt is the founder and president of Photodex. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Cloud computing has been building buzz for a while now and is fast becoming the rage. But for all the hype, there are …
The head of streaming game service OnLive, Steve Perlman, said his new wireless data transmission technology will be so fast that the latency will be less than a millisecond. He made the comments onstage at the GamesBeat 2011 conference in …
Conferences are one way enterprise vendors build excitement and support for what could otherwise be dry and obscure technologies. Now Box.net is joining the party with its own cloud-centric conference.
Box.net announced that it will host a two-day conference in …
