5 enterprise cloud predictions for 2013
Guest Post I believe that this is the year when the enterprise will find its way to the cloud.
At Discover, HP takes the beta sticker off its public cloud
December 5, 2012 12:26 PM
Christina Farr
Software giant Hewlett-Packard has announced the general availability of its Open Stack-powered public cloud service.
Why PepsiCo isn’t moving to the public cloud
November 28, 2012 10:19 AM
Meghan Kelly
While a lot of small to medium sized businesses see their operational costs cut down by the public cloud, enterprises such as PepsiCo are still struggling to see the light.
OwnCloud, the open-source challenger to Box, nets $2.5M
November 26, 2012 8:15 AM
Christina Farr
OwnCloud pulled in $2.5 million in venture funding. The startup that positions itself as the open-source alternative to Box is the newest contender in the cloud storage wars.
Multi-cloud 101: Tips for navigating public, private, and hybrid clouds
Guest Post Here's how cloud users can match up with the right cloud infrastructure.
Rackspace picks up startup Mailgun and its email server tools
August 28, 2012 10:26 AM
Christina Farr
Rackspace picked up Mailgun today, a Bay Area-based startup with a web service to create and manage email inboxes within apps.
Autonomy explains just how large ‘big data’ is (infographic)
June 11, 2012 7:58 AM
Sean Ludwig
With so much talk about “big data” lately and data-focused companies like 10gen and Delphix recently grabbing large funding rounds, it’s a topic that won’t be going away any time soon. But what exactly is it and is there an …
Autonomy’s private cloud, the largest of its kind, surpasses 50 petabytes
April 10, 2012 4:45 AM
Sean Ludwig
Enterprise software and services player Autonomy‘s private cloud for businesses has now surpassed 50 petabytes to extend its lead as “the world’s largest private cloud,” the company announced this morning.
HP loudly announced its decision to buy Autonomy back in …
Paying for the petabyte future, one gigabyte at a time
December 1, 2011 12:45 PM
Dylan Tweney
Editor's Pick
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 …
Oracle VP talks challenges of the public cloud model
December 1, 2011 10:33 AM
Sean Ludwig
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 …
The zCloud revisited: lessons from Zynga’s public-private cloud experience
Guest Post
Recently, we were proud to publicly unveil the private cloud computing infrastructure that we use to scale our social games — infrastructure that we internally (and affectionately) call zCloud. zCloud leverages both our internal infrastructure components and our public cloud …
Oracle puts down $1.5B for RightNow’s cloud-based sales force service
October 24, 2011 9:14 AM
Sean Ludwig
Oracle plans to acquire cloud-based sales force automation and customer service company RightNow for $1.5 billion, the company announced Monday morning.
The planned acquisition makes a ton a sense in light of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s announcement earlier this month …
HP to focus on cloud, connectivity and software
Leo Apotheker, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, said that his company will focus on three areas of leadership in the future: cloud computing, connectivity, and software.
HP is the world’s biggest technology company, but it hasn’t necessarily been the leader in …
Dell picks up security firm SecureWorks to slow migration to the public cloud
Dell announced today that it will acquire network security firm SecureWorks. This is another acquisition aimed at preventing its smaller and mid-sized business customers from migrating to public cloud providers like Amazon.
SecureWorks gives users with a number of tools …
Oracle sets eyes on HP after posting strong second quarter
Hewlett-Packard? They’re just a minor roadblock, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
After easily beating the expectations of many analysts with its most recent earnings report, Oracle is setting its sights on capturing market share and claiming HP’s spot of …
Rackspace picks up cloud performance monitoring startup Cloudkick
Cloudkick, a developer of web applications that help manage cloud computing environments, announced today that it has agreed to be bought out by cloud computing provider Rackspace for an undisclosed sum.
Rackspace is one of several companies that run public …
Dell salvages its 3Par fiasco, picks up cloud storage provider Compellent for $820M
Dell has picked up cloud storage provider Compellent for $820 million after losing out on its bid for storage provider 3Par a few months ago to Hewlett-Packard.
Compellent, like 3Par, is a provider of technology and software for cloud-based storage. …
Are hybrid clouds the path to cloud-computing nirvana?
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If you’re tackling your company’s computing needs, you’re going to have to look …
Dell: The public cloud doesn't scare us!
Dell makes a good chunk of change off selling servers. The Texas-based company raked in $1.8 billion off server sales in the last quarter alone — which was up 20 percent from $1.5 billion the same quarter a year earlier.…
