I’m at Citrix corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the presentations by the nine members of the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It’s quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator. The Alchemist Group is a new, venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage enterprise startups. Backers include Cisco Systems, […]
Posted on March 27th, 2013 by admin
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Basecamp, the project management platform developed by 37 Signals that launched in 2004, is still alive and kicking, which is something of a feat considering how many companies have come and gone in this space over the years. Plus, more recently, a slew of promising new players have entered the market, including Dustin Moskovitz and […]
Posted on February 9th, 2013 by admin
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Dell made its own move into the bring your own device market today with the acquisition of Credant Technologies and its data protection technologies designed to encrypt information from smartphones and other devices to servers and the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition points to the further consolidation of the mobile […]
Posted on December 24th, 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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APIs are the glue that connect apps. It’s as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise. As APIs rise in importance, so has the need for better practices in their creation, development and management. All the major API management […]
Posted on November 12th, 2012 by admin
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SOA Software has a new management platform that company executives say better addresses the enterprise API market more so than the open API providers whose services have come into vogue in the past few years. The proclamation is a shot across the bow of many an API provider — Apigee, Mashery and Layer 7 Technologies to […]
Posted on November 8th, 2012 by admin
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Wrike, the increasingly popular social project management and collaboration platform, just announced the re-launch of its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In addition, Wrike also launched a new mobile web app for all other platforms. It’s worth noting that this isn’t Wrike’s first foray into mobile apps. The company released a set of iPhone, […]
Posted on November 5th, 2012 by admin
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To address the new reality of our data driven world, we need better ways to manage the network. Google and later Amazon Web Services (AWS), embarked on that journey long ago. Now the market is beginning to catch up with new networked environments that are controlled more by software than physical switches, routers and controllers. […]
Posted on September 26th, 2012 by admin
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Ubuntu Linux, which started with the tagline “Linux for human beings,” was originally an easy-to-use Linux distribution for desktop users. Canonical picked what they considered to be the best of breed applications from the many thousands available in the Debian Linux distribution, put on a healthy dose of polish, and released their own version. They […]
Posted on September 14th, 2012 by admin
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Alcatel-Lucent is open-sourcing a new API software engine and management platform called apiGrove that is meant to serve as a services layer for enterprises and large service providers. Alcatel-Lucent’s goal is to make apiGrove a core layer in a cloud infrastructure so customers may either use it to connect to apps or infrastructure environments. The apiGrove installation […]
Posted on September 8th, 2012 by admin
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