Thursday December 26, 2024

Google Launches Managed Service For Running Docker-Based Applications On Its Cloud Platform

 Google today announced the alpha launch of Google Container Engine, a new managed service for building and running Docker container-based applications on its cloud platform. Docker is probably the hottest technology in developer circles these days — it’s almost impossible to have a discussion with a developer without it coming up — and Google’s Cloud […]

Microsoft Launches New Office 365 Subscription Plans For Small And Midsize Businesses

 Microsoft is rolling out new Office 365 plans for companies with fewer than 250 employees that will slowly replace the company’s existing plans for small and midsize businesses. The company had already outlined some of these changes earlier this year, so this week’s announcement doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Here is what these new plans […]

ScienceLogic Launches App Store To Share Customized Monitoring Apps

 ScienceLogic announced a new App Store today that enables customers and third parties to create  and share customized apps for the ScienceLogic platform. ScienceLogic is a cloud service that lets IT pros monitor every aspect of their IT infrastructure whether it’s in the cloud or on premises, getting right down to the data center infrastructure management layer […]

Voyat Launches With $1.8M In Seed Funding For Social CRM Tool Aimed At Hotels

 Voyat, a social CRM tool aimed at the hotel industry came out of stealth today and announced $1.8M in seed funding from Metamorphic Ventures, Eniac Ventures, BoxGroup and several angel investors, including Brett Crosby, who was co-founder of Google Analytics. Metamorpic Ventures is lead by David Hirsch, who worked out of Google’s New York office for 8 […]

Amazon Goes After Box, Dropbox And Huddle, Launches Zocalo For Secure Enterprise Storage

 E-Commerce giant Amazon has made huge competitive inroads into the cloud services market with Amazon Web Services, and today it’s adding another feature that will put it into direct competition with the likes of Box and Dropbox: It’s launching Zocalo, a secure enterprise storage service. The company is launching Zocalo in a limited preview from […]

Lua, The Mobile-First Comms Tool For Any Workforce, Launches Insights Metrics Product

 Lua, the mobile first communications platform for any workforce, has today launched a brand new feature of the product called Insights. Insights is a metrics platform that will allow clients to see in real-time the way that their employees are communicating and gauge that against the success of the company. Lua launched back in 2013 […]

CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service

 CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. This comes after a previous investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last year. Read More […]

BlackBerry Launches BBM Protected For Confidential Instant Messaging

 BlackBerry today began the rollout of its first eBBM suite product, which tailors its BBM instant messaging service to enterprise users. Today marks the debut of BBM Protected, FIPS 140-2 cryptographic library-enabled messaging, between users within the same enterprise, or between organizations who also use BBM Protected, for secure and confidential communications. Who cares about […]

Slidebean Launches To Give Prezi A Run For Its Money

 If you’re looking for an easier way to turn the content in your head into a beautiful presentation, Slidebean has launched to give users presentation tools right on the web. Of course, such tools have been around for years and years, but Slidebean is different in that it’s one of the only presentation builders that […]

HipChat Launches One-To-One Video, Audio And Screensharing For All Users

 Real-time communication platform HipChat is facilitating more than just text-based messaging with its most recent feature addition – it now supports one-to-one video chat, audio calls and screensharing across its apps for paid users. The move follows a beta test of these features, but now the feature is live for anyone, and HipChat founder Pete […]