IBM has been trying to carve out a place for itself as a go-to cloud repository for all enterprise software services — not just those IBM builds itself. And today, two of its earliest partners in that realm announced new services that take their relationships to the next phase. VMware, a big player in desktop […]
Posted on June 15th, 2016 by admin
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When Google bought bebop Technologies last fall for $348 million, it got more than a stealthy startup. It also landed Diane Greene as executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise — and that perhaps was the bigger prize. Greene brought with her years of industry experience, having co-founded and been CEO at VMware for a decade, […]
Posted on May 30th, 2016 by admin
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Will EU privacy requirements kill US based cloud processing EUs new privacy regulations require that data remain in the EU. That means that companies must build on-premises applications in Europe to house this information. Costs are high include on-premises servers, in annual licensing fees, payroll and human resources systems, and additional head count, not to […]
Posted on May 21st, 2016 by admin
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Microsoft and SAP have been pals for years and years, and today at the SAP Sapphire Now customer conference in Orlando, the two company CEOs, Satya Nadella and Bill McDermott announced they were taking the relationship to another level with deeper cloud integrations between the two companies. The deal will enable SAP customers to run HANA, the company’s in-memory […]
Posted on May 17th, 2016 by admin
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Quantum computing is still very much in the early research stage, but IBM is hoping to accelerate the progress around it by making a quantum computer available to researchers as a cloud service. It is a bold and ambitious idea, although still very much a small step in trying to understand quantum computing processing. IBM is allowing interested […]
Posted on May 8th, 2016 by admin
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Electricity is ambient. It’s all around us. We turn on lights and plug in devices without even thinking about the complex electrical grid that supplies us with juice at will. It’s become a necessary infrastructure that will never go away — but it’s only the bottom of the stack. That’s exactly how we need to […]
Posted on May 3rd, 2016 by admin
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Last week Oracle bought Textura for $663 million, giving the database giant a vertical construction solution in the cloud. Today it bought Opower for $532 million giving it a vertical utilities cloud solution. I can’t be sure, but I think I see a pattern here. Opower provides cloud data solutions for the utilities industry. What […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2016 by admin
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Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied to a range of other services, from different kinds of (non Bitcoin) financial transactions to anything else that requires secure tracking. And today, IBM laid out its claim for some of that new business: the […]
Posted on April 30th, 2016 by admin
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One of the problems with Dropbox and indeed all cloud storage is the way they have implemented how you view your cloud storage on your local drive. If you want to access your cloud file system in your local file management tool, you literally need to have it stored on your drive, which really defeats the […]
Posted on April 26th, 2016 by admin
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Rackspace today announced that it is partnering with AppFormix to bring that company’s cloud monitoring and performance optimization tools to its private OpenStack cloud customers. Thanks to this partnership, Rackspace will now license AppFormix’s tools and bring it to all of its private cloud customers who use Rackspace to manage their clouds. This will give […]
Posted on April 26th, 2016 by admin
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