Dropbox thinks it’s like the iPad: Unexpectedly infiltrating the workplace

Dropbox vice president Sujay Jaswa says people should think of Dropbox like the iPad: a technology that may have been aimed at consumers but wound up infiltrating the work world.

Google exec talks Amazon cloud price war: ‘We are happy to compete’

Amit Singh, president of enterprise at Google, is ready to fight. Amazon and Google traded blows this week, each lowering their cloud services prices in response to the other.

The cloud ate my data! Health entrepreneurs say vendors should be liable

At CloudBeat, the healthcare panel kicked off with a harrowing statistic. The vast majority of breast cancer sufferers will not benefit from chemotherapy. And yet, most patients today receive this highly invasive treatment.

According to genetics expert Ken Stineman, over …

Platform-as-a-service CEOs bet their futures on mainstream PaaS adoption

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is by far the smallest sector of cloud, but four PaaS CEOs think it's about to hit the big time.

Cisco CTO takes on ‘cloudscaling’ upstart in ferocious fireside chat [video]

At VentureBeat’s cloud-focused conference today, we got a real treat: a fascinating fireside chat with two titans of enterprise IT, Lew Tucker and Randy Bias.

Tucker is Cisco’s CTO and vice president of cloud computing, and Bias is the CTO …

Cloud executives feel good about VC investing right now

More is better for cloud executives. The industry is feeling good about cloud investing in the next year, particularly because their technology helps entrepreneurs create many more companies, faster than ever before.

SAP bets big on HANA, its ‘billion dollar’ big data solution

Business software behemoth SAP is betting big on a next generation in-memory database known as "HANA."

VMWare CTO: ‘Things need to change dramatically’ at networking companies

VMWare chief technology officer Stephen Herrod believes in a future filled with choices. And he thinks networking companies better start embracing choice, especially open-source software, or face steep consequences.

“There’s not a networking company in the world that doesn’t realize …

Cinchcast uses the cloud to scale up its self-serve conference calls

On June 29, a site slowdown put Cinchcast's cloud to the test.

Box VP Sam Schillace: People won’t tolerate crappy enterprise apps anymore

Box VP of engineering Sam Schillace recently moved to his current job after several years at Google. He thinks your enterprise mobile app better have a good design or it's totally getting ignored.

Integrating data for cloud and core apps: the task is to make it ‘suck less’

Integration of different apps and databases is hard work. Companies are trying to make it easier.

Cloud security experts: Use multi-factor authentication, you dummies

If you’re not using multi-factor authentication as a company or as a consumer, you really need to start. So say the cloud security geniuses at CloudBeat 2012.

New CloudBeat speaker: CloudOn

The latest addition to our event lineup at CloudBeat 2012 is CloudOn, a provider of an app for editing and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents from tablets and smartphones.