BitNami has added a MongoDB stack for developers to build web apps on the popular NoSQL database. The stack, available next week, allows developers to deploy and manage either on-premise, through Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Windows Azure. The Y combinator alum’s new stack will come integrated with Node.js and be available for free from […]
Posted on November 8th, 2013 by admin
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Cloud management company ServiceMesh has been acquired by CSC, the long-time consulting company that has in recent years emerged as an IT management company that focuses on helping companies mover their apps to service providers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiceMesh describes itself as an enterprise cloud management company that offers Global 2000 companies […]
Posted on October 30th, 2013 by admin
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LovelyHeroku is a new breed of app that enables IT staff and developers to use their smartphones to manage their work on the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS). It’s the kind of service that reflects how different work is these days now that we can carry it wherever we go. The service is the creation of Matija […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler wrote that AWS legitimately won a $600 million contract with the CIA that IBM had contested. IBM plans to appeal […]
Posted on October 8th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler wrote that AWS legitimately won a $600 million contract with the CIA that IBM had contested. IBM plans to appeal […]
Posted on October 8th, 2013 by admin
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Another week, another acquisition for GoDaddy. The domain registration and hosting company announced today that it has bought Ronin, a company that specializes in online invoicing services to help businesses bill customers and keep track of how they get paid. The deal actually closed in April, says GoDaddy, but the company is making it public today because it […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2013 by admin
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PubNub, a provider of APIs that publishers, developers and others can use to implement messaging and other social services on apps and websites, has picked up an $11 million round of funding that it will use to add more services to its network and build out its sales and marketing operations. This Series B round […]
Posted on September 17th, 2013 by admin
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For the second week in a row, LinkedIn’s market capitalization finished higher than Salesforce.com. Linkedin ended trading on Friday with a $32.56 billion market cap while the Salesforce market cap was $29.59 billion. Salesforce is a darling of Wall Street and has long been the symbol of the SaaS and new world of the enterprise, […]
Posted on September 16th, 2013 by admin
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Salesforce.com has renamed Chatterbox, the file-sharing service it launched as a competitor to Box and other services. The new service is called Salesforce Files and this time the company is positioning it as a way to connect files from internal and external sources, such as Google Drive, SharePoint and Documentum. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff unveiled […]
Posted on September 6th, 2013 by admin
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While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset makers like Samsung, it has also slowly been building out a business based around its mapping and navigation division, rebranded as HERE earlier this year. That strategy — which […]
Posted on August 30th, 2013 by admin
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