Sunday December 22, 2024

Fresh From Google Fight, Huddle Turns On Microsoft With A Marching Band

Here’s a new one on turning against your former wet-nurse. Huddle was once a Microsoft BizSpark One company. But it’s business collaboration platform now competes with Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Indeed, there are rumours that UK-based Huddle (which now has a large SF office) was once yanked off stage at Mix ‘O6 at the last minute because […]

Go Forth And Conquer

Editor’s note: Guest author Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box.net. The old technology guard of Silicon Valley is rapidly unhinging.  From the really old facing oscillating strategies and leaders; to the newly old churning through CEOs as fast as they dead-pool products, refocusing the entire company on competing with Zuckerberg, or causing major […]

Data in the cloud puts many enterprise’s at risk

Between data analytic requirements and consolidation initiatives, there is a rapid increase in the use of structured data storage, and the amount of data stored in this way.  The information stored in enterprise databases is increasingly sensitive and subject to legal, regulatory and other compliance requirements.  In addition, many enterprises continue to rely on inadequate […]

Piston Cloud Launches pentOS, An Enterprise OpenStack Distribution

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project that now has over 1,450 contributors and 110 participating companies, including NASA, Rackspace, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, Arista Networks, Microsoft […]