Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers.The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3 compatibility, gives a potent boost to the fast growing distributed storage service. Replication with Riak CS means that a customer can spread their stored data across multiple data centers around the globe and […]
Posted on November 30th, 2012 by admin
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Paypal co-fouder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel’s third investment in Xero. Earlier this year, Thiel and existing investors put $16.6 million into the company. Thiel invested $3 million in New Zealand-founded Xero back in 2010. Thiel invested in this round through Valar […]
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Cloud emailing service Mailjet, which competes with more established outfits like SendGrid, Postmark, MailChimp and Mailgun, has raised $3.3 million from Alven Capital and private investors, the company is announcing today. Previously, Mailjet had just $300,000 from e-Founders on hand to finance its operations. Mailjet, for background, targets businesses needing to buy or rent SMTP servers, by offering a cloud-hosted solution. […]
Posted on November 29th, 2012 by admin
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I interviewed Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy today at the AWS re:Invent conference. Before the interview I asked my Twitter followers what they’d like to ask. I could not use all of the questions but I’ve included a few here to give you a snapshot of the full recording, which is embedded below. […]
Posted on November 29th, 2012 by admin
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The Vagrant open-source project has morphed into a startup, backed by Hashicorp, a new startup that will further build out the tool designed to manage the complexities of modern development within a virtual environment. Hashicorp’s founder, Mitchell Hashimoto, is the co-creator of Vagrant, which he has managed since 2010. He said in an interview the traction […]
Posted on November 28th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year, but overall the organization still remains under-appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com. But that may change this week as AWS holds its first conference in Las Vegas. The event should give more attention to an organization that has had arguably the […]
Posted on November 28th, 2012 by admin
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Lots of news this week in the platform-as-a-service market (PaaS) with companies like Apprenda extending its technology to offer on-premise and hybrid methods for deploying enterprise applications. Apprenda, with its new 4.0 release, allows a customer to run a PaaS simultaneously beween the data center and a cloud infrastructure. The service means that a company […]
Posted on November 27th, 2012 by admin
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Microsoft is targeting the growing mobile workforce with a 15 percent hike in license fees directed primarily at companies that have employees who use smartphones and other mobile devices in their work. According to Mary Jo Foley, the new licensing agreement goes into effect December 1 for customers with the user option for its “client […]
Posted on November 27th, 2012 by admin
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Some more consolidation in the world of social media services and technology. UK-based Brand Embassy, a provider of social-media based customer care services, is buying Beepl, UK-based a semantic search site that launched in January 2012 to take on Quora, Answers.com, ChaCha and others in the Q&A space. Brand Embassy says it plans to integrate the company’s […]
Posted on November 26th, 2012 by admin
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Augmented reality (AR) — the term does not exactly jump off the tongue. But the concepts behind the technology are beginning to change what we think of ourselves, objects and the people in the world that surround us. I am no expert on AR but over the past few months I have seen enough examples […]
Posted on November 26th, 2012 by admin
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