Field service software provider ServiceMax pulls in $27M, plots global expansion

ServiceMax offers customers web and mobile applications for scheduling and workforce optimization and contract management in the field.

Openera launches “Passbook” for files: find any files in email, Box, Google Drive, Evernote and more in 2 clicks

The cloud is wonderful, but when you have accounts at Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Evernote, any number of other cloud storage companies -- not to mention your email -- how can you ever find anything?

Where the world’s million most visited websites are hosted (infographic)

Quick trivia question: Which U.S city hosts the most of the world's million most-visited websites?

Workday embraces the big trends: Windows 8, ‘Big Data’ and analytics

The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company announced plans for a recruiting mobile app for hiring teams, as well as a big data analytics toolset.

Startups learn a painful lesson: The ‘Dropbox effect’ is a myth

A pervasive myth exists among tech founders: If they build a product that consumers will love, it will magically trickle into Fortune 500 companies.

Microsoft demos simple cloud-enabling of mobile apps with Azure Mobile Services

Looking to cloud-enable your mobile app? Looks like Microsoft can help make that a lot easier.

Zend’s Andi Gutmans on PHP 6 & how Apple is the ‘biggest barrier’ to mobile’s future

"I believe web technologies will ultimately win within 3-5 years. The main barrier today is probably Apple."

‘Big data’ startup Platfora wants to unleash the potential of Hadoop

Platfora, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed "big data" startup, unveiled the product it has been baking for over a year at Strata, a data-focussed conference today.

iCloud is coming down to earth in Apple’s newest data center (nearest neighbor: Facebook)

Apple is finally breaking earth in Prineville, Oregon on the 160-acre data center site the company purchased back in February -- not too from Facebook's Prineville data center.

Zend to 5 million PHP developers: We’ll help you build for mobile and cloud

"The biggest changes in technology are how mobile and cloud are converging," says Gutmans. "Our intention is to tackle both of those head-on for our users."

With StorSimple acquisition, Microsoft turns up the heat on Rackspace, Amazon

Microsoft's long-term strategy is to win over the large enterprises that are still using traditional disks before Amazon or Rackspace can get to them.

CloudFlare adding 30K new customers a week and just passed 2B pageviews per employee

Oh, and the company is growing revenue 20 percent monthly.

Salesforce worried more about Dropbox than its direct competitors, says COO

Salesforce may have some huge competitors like Netsuite and Oracle, but it's not the big dogs that keep the customer-relationship manger on its toes.

Meg Whitman: HP turnaround will take until 2016 (!)

Everything you need to know about the iconic Silicon Valley company Hewlett Packard you can learn in this chart.

Ngdata raises $2.5M for big data management software (exclusive)

Need help managing Big Data for the enterprise? Just ask Lily.

Lily is the data management platform of Ngdata, a startup that is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 million for its enterprise data management software. The San Francisco …

From Iceland with green: GreenQloud launches world’s first completely eco-friendly cloud computing center

According to a 2007 Gartner study, the IT industry produces as much greenhouse gas as the entire aviation industry. That's one of the reasons Eiki Hrafnsson and Tryggvi Lárusson created GreenQloud, the first public cloud fully powered by 100 percent renewable energy resources.

The cloud isn’t as safe as you think; is end-to-end encryption the answer?

Ensafer is one approach to cloud security. It’s a product for end-to-end encryption — that means your stuff, whatever it is, stayed encrypted through transporting, sharing, storing, etc.