Huddle, the cloud collaboration company that picked up $25 million in funding in May, today is launching a significant update to its platform: it’s adding in a social communication layer to its service, so that when people share and work together on documents online, they can also talk to each other about them. The move […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively offering a service called reserve instances. For a one-time fee, companies may have the option to launch an EC2 instance for one or three years. AWS maintains it lowers costs as you get a choice of the types of instances you buy. You can get discounts by buying on a […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2012 by admin
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I’ve talked with thousands of people over the past few years about the “cloud.” What’s apparent? The real cloud services providers like Amazon Web Services have won. Cloudwashing has failed. The losers are back pedaling.The winners are the new service providers and the ecosystem that help customers be innovative and do things fast. Most customers […]
Posted on July 21st, 2012 by admin
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Most days I have only three or four browser tabs open: GMail, Twitter, Google Reader, and whatever link I’ve clicked through from one of the previous three. I know folks, though, who regularly have two dozen or more tabs open. All day. Every day. They struggle to remember which tab has their GMail, only to […]
Posted on July 21st, 2012 by admin
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Palo Alto Networks shares climbed 26% in its first day of trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares closed at $53, up from its $42 offering price.The company offered 6.3 million shares in trading. The price of the share were originally offered at range of $34 to $37. It was increased to a range […]
Posted on July 20th, 2012 by admin
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Is Dell becoming an open source company? Yes, but it is not exactly being planned that way. It is bubbling up like most open source projects do. But in many respects the move to open source is also by design. Dell does not want to be a box maker anymore. That makes open source a […]
Posted on July 20th, 2012 by admin
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In May of last year, Microsoft acquired everybody’s favorite VoIP and chat provider, Skype, for a cool $8.5 billion. It was a big move for Microsoft and a landmark deal, which it officially closed in October. Yet, as Frederic pointed out earlier this week, other than getting to wear the brand’s pin on its lapel, […]
Posted on July 20th, 2012 by admin
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Atlassian, the maker of popular software project management tools JIRA and Confluence, has doubled the size of its board of directors, adding three new members, including a new chairman. Previously, the board consisted of co-founders and co-CEOs Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, as well as Rich Wong from Accel Partners. (Accel provided Atlassian’s $60 million […]
Posted on July 19th, 2012 by admin
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eBay has just released its second quarter 2012 earnings report, in which the eCommerce giant outpaced expectations for yet another quarter. Revenue increased 23% to $3.4 billion, compared to the same period of 2011. Non-GAAP earnings came in at $0.56 per diluted share, while eBay posted Q2 net income of $692 million — up from […]
Posted on July 19th, 2012 by admin
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Apple uses the ARM architecture for its chip sets on its iPhones and tablets. Now we are seeing the first uses for ARM-powered architectures on servers to power cloud environments. Contributors to OpenStack have developed the first ARM powered OpenStack cloud as a zone in TryStack.org, the free sandbox for exploring and testing OpenStack. The […]
Posted on July 18th, 2012 by admin
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