“The cloud” is a term often as nebulous as the images it evokes.
But while some companies take advantage of that vagueness and use the opportunity to cloudwash their products (to great financial effect), others attempt to bring clarity and …
If anyone doubted the potential of the cloud, SAP‘s $3.4 billion acquisition of employee performance management company SuccessFactors makes it clear that there’s some hard economic reality to all this fluffy, jargony cloud business.
It could be overhyped — and …
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Last week, VentureBeat hosted its first ever CloudBeat conference. It was a huge success (if we do say so ourselves), with more than 400 executives from cloud startups, leading cloud service providers, and various Fortune 500 companies coming together to …
“Legacy” vendors like IBM, Dell and HP are having to walk the line between maintaining existing products and introducing new products to keep up with changing environments and anticipate customers’ new needs.
At the CloudBeat conference this week, HP CTO …
Twilio and Zendesk are the perfect example of how the cloud supports collaboration not just between people, but between companies as well.
The two companies’ technologies fit so well together, you’d think they gave each other friendship bracelets. Twilio is …
The cloud, like any industry, depends on a steady flow of innovative new ideas.
Nine companies competed at VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2011 conference, showing off new ways to make IT managers feel more comfortable with the cloud, new ways to use …
MarketScout is a lean Australian startup that’s dependent on other cloud services to make it run, so when it came to deciding on a Platform-as-a-Service provider, the company had an important decision to make. They chose Salesforce-owned Heroku and still …
If you’ve had just about enough of “leveraging infrastructures” and “cloud-based platforms-as-a-service” and 10-year-old engineers raising $100 million for fancy-sounding vaporware, this is a good interview for you to watch.
Vineet Jain has been around the block when it comes …
So this lady from the weather agency walks into a cloud conference…
While it sounds like a setup for a bad joke, it’s actually the setup for an interview with Michaela Drummond of the Meteorological Office, the UK government agency …
At the CloudBeat conference today, we caught up with Oracle VP Rick Schultz and asked him to elaborate on Oracle’s upcoming public cloud offering.
Fresh off a session about public and private cloud technologies, Schultz spoke about the importance of …
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Cloud storage is easy, but if you’ve got a lot of data, the costs can escalate quickly.
Case in point: DNAnexus, a startup that is storing DNA data so researchers can access and analyze it through a web interface, is …
iPads have taken over the boardroom, and corporate CEOs and their egos are to thank for the somewhat surprising trend. At least, that’s the consensus among a panel of cloud computing and enterprise experts who gathered to discuss the reality …
There are actual people behind the cloud, and with people come salaries, and with salaries can come overhead. Lewis Cirne, chief executive officer of New Relic believes he’s found the way to cut the fat.
“You shouldn’t accept a vendor …
About two months ago, Oracle announced it would finally take the plunge into public cloud computing with the Oracle Public Cloud. Oracle technology product marketing VP Rick Schultz talked more about the public cloud today and admitted it was a …
Have you noticed how Google+ seems to be popping up everywhere lately?
We’ve taken deep dives into how Google+ is intended to unify all Google’s web products in the past. At the CloudBeat conference today, we stole a few precious …
Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos really likes metaphors, and when you’re talking about something as complex as cloud-based app platforms, they seriously come in handy.
While talking onstage at CloudBeat 2011, Mickos compared Eucalyptus’ open-source cloud software platform to an …
Amit Singh, VP for enterprise at Google, is really high on Google Apps. Not just because it’s his job, but because many people are choosing it over Microsoft Office and he’s seeing real examples of how it works better.
Companies …
BYOM, or bring your own mobile, is the new mantra at virtualization software-maker VMware. The 10,000-person strong organization, founded in 1998, has chucked its company-issued phone policy in favor of something more hip to the modern mobile times.
VMware told …
Aaron Levie, the dynamic co-founder and chief executive of cloud-based file sharing company Box (until recently known as Box.net) doesn’t hold back when it comes to his competitors.
“If [Microsoft] Sharepoint happened to work, that’s what we kind of do,” …
Chief information officers get pitched on “the cloud” more than the rest of us, but when it comes to dealing with legacy vendors — the big boys like Dell, HP and IBM — they might hear a lot more fear, …
