3Scale has discounted the cost for managing APIs in the enterprise through a new plug-in it has added to Nginx, the open-source web Server technology. The plug-in runs inside Nginx and connects to the on-premise 3Scale service, which allows a customer to extend the modules that Nginx has for security, policies, etc. It connects to […]
Posted on November 18th, 2012 by admin
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Marketo is offering a new service called LaunchPoint, which is meant to serve the “marketing nation,” a term Marketo coined to describe an ecosystem of technology partners and professional service providers. The LaunchPoint service is essentially an app and services network for marketers. The storefront-style service integrates with the Marketo marketing-automation platform and is geared toward marketing […]
Posted on November 14th, 2012 by admin
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Twilio was founded four years ago with the goal of creating a scalable API that would provide developers with an easy way to add SMS and calling tools to their applications. The company has grown quickly over the last two years and is now servicing 40 countries and has signed on over 250K developers. Its […]
Posted on November 9th, 2012 by admin
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The Rainmaker Group, a company founded in 1998, has accepted its first investment — $33.8 million from Norwest Venture Partners that the Atlanta-based company will use to extend its profit and price optimization technology to different markets. Rainmaker started in 1998 when the founders assumed control of the intellectual property from a former employee. The […]
Posted on October 30th, 2012 by admin
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A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the problem arose after a simple replacement of a data collection server. After installation, the server did not propagate its DNS address correctly […]
Posted on October 27th, 2012 by admin
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This week comes the news about Media Temple and its plans with Dell and Morphlabs to give customers their own “private cloud,” consisting of a souped up Flash-filled server, complete with all the fixings for automating the mind bending complexity when adopting a new infrastructure. On Monday, Dreamhost announced its new DreamCompute service, a public […]
Posted on October 18th, 2012 by admin
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We last caught up with HD Trade Services in August, when the company, part of Y Combinator’s summer class, released a tablet app to help smaller enterprises manage the process of buying and shipping goods from one country to another, by offering visual inspections (by way of photos and HD video) of goods to minimize […]
Posted on October 13th, 2012 by admin
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Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast infrastructure. Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building open, distributed clouds in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) style. The company will provide engineering and code development to implement […]
Posted on October 13th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle made a gesture to developers today with a new platform play it unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld. But a closer look shows Oracle is lumping developer services with every possible “cloud” offering you can imagine that the company sells. It’s all of course still on the Oracle cloud, a beast of sorts – part cloud, part […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Tibco has a new enterprise social graph that includes a partnership with Box and a Klout-style service for the enterprise. What a contrast to Salesforce.com and its new Chatterbox. Instead of building its own file storage technology, Tibco has moved to partner with Box and offer integrations through an API. The move gives Tibco a deeper […]
Posted on September 26th, 2012 by admin
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