Cloud Computing News & Articles

It’s going to be a short week with US Thanksgiving, but Cisco has begun on a high note with the announcement that it is buying Meraki for US$ 1.2 billion, only a matter of days after it announced it was buying Cloupia for the relatively paltry sum of US$ 125 million.

It’s been another DAM week … and, in digital asset management news, banks envision the new world order, ADAM releases ProductViewer and an updated Teamwork, and Picturepark teases the future.  

It’s still a long way from Google Drive, but even still this is well worth a look. Microsoft has just announced that it has improved SkyDrive with selected file syncing, easier desktop sharing and mobile updates.

Rackspace might have just helped SharePoint along in its journey to being used by every business on earth. The Texas-based cloud services provider has announced its new end-to-end SharePoint offering that provides hosting, design, development, training and support.

Cloud-based file sharing infrastructure provider Egnyte is releasing a new content storage/sharing infrastructure designed to enable organizations with sensitive or regulated data to obtain the benefits of public cloud data access while keeping data behind a private firewall.

One of the really big announcements this week from OpenText’s customer conference in Orlando is the release of the OpenText Cloud, which according to OpenText CEO Mark J. Barrenechea in his keynote speech, is the only cloud on the market at the moment specifically for enterprise information management (EIM).

The keynote of any Microsoft conference is really not to be missed, it is when the entire group comes together to hear the latest and greatest and to get a glimpse into the vision of the product team. Any good keynote will have some surprises, laughter and good demos. Yesterday's SharePoint Conference keynote fit the bill and in some cases raised the bar for keynote events. A great foundation was presented that will really carry us through this next release of the product. Here I touch on the high points and focus on the aspects that really detail the future of SharePoint.

What happens when the number one application in the Google Apps Marketplace and the number one Google Apps SMB Reseller join forces?

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Instantis, a project portfolio management (PPM) technology vendor. Instantis offers both on-premises and cloud-based versions of its PPM solutions.

"Where Information Lives" has been EMC’s tagline for years and years. It’s always conjured up images of storage devices for me. But not anymore.

In the last few years, the nature of content in the workplace, and therefore enterprise content management, has transformed in several powerful and important ways. 

True Ventures has invested US$ 3.25 million in Helpshift, which has just gone into private beta with its customer support solution for mobile apps.

Huddle, a provider of cloud-based content management and collaboration technology aimed at government agencies and large enterprises, has been awarded certification to ISO 27001, an international standard for information security management.

You may recall a couple of weeks ago we reported a pretty black week in terms of financial results with Microsoft, IBM and Google all putting in a miserable show for their respective financial quarters. Well, it took Canadian EIM Company OpenText to buck the trend, and it has done so in spectacular fashion given the poor state of developed economies.

Enterprise software solution-based company Attunity has announced that its cloud service CloudBeam has moved from a Private Beta into Public Beta and incorporates two data movement services: upload to cloud and replication between cloud regions.