Cloud Computing News & Articles

Zend, providers of PHP based tools for mobile and enterprise app developers, has introduced updates to three flagship products during its ZendCon event this week, and a PhoneGap integration for building cross-platform apps.

Microsoft isn't the only company making an announcement surrounding the newest version their Windows Operating System. Box has also announced that they have designed a new version of their file managing app -- specifically for Windows 8.

So many clouds, so little time. A new, free personal cloud application from Kitedesk is hoping to help users integrate what it calls “cloud-flipping” between various repositories of online information.

There has been anecdotal evidence across the industry about the growth of Nuxeo in Europe since it opened its doors in 2000, and more recently in the US where it set up in 2009. As with many companies it’s hard to nail this down with figures -- but the opening address by Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca at this week's Nuxeo World 2012 in Paris gave us some idea of what's happening behind the scenes.

Telerik wants to reinvent cross-platform mobile development. This week, the provider of software application and content management solutions released Icenium, which they describe as the industry’s first Integrated Cloud Environment, or ICE, combining the cloud with a local development environment.

Installing Liferay on Amazon Web Services (AWS) just became a little easier thanks to a new partnership between Liferay and BitNami.

In our first look at Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management 2012 we saw that mobile, cloud and composite apps are increasingly important in the Enterprise CMS space. Now we will take a look at those vendors that made it into the Leader’s Quadrant.

It's time for the Mobile App of the Week and this week our focus is on Box.net's Android app. Box's cloud-based file sharing and document collaboration platform allows users to view, share and collaborate on files from wherever they are.

Despite all the changes across the information management industry, the management of content still remains a core goal. According to Gartner’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), demand for Enterprise CMS continues to grow as enterprises struggle to feed business applications with appropriate content.

Early in the week, IBM announced results for Q3 that were well below the market’s expectations. Maybe in response to that, or maybe because this is the way information management is going, IBM said it would really be pushing the cloud, analytics and big data management for future growth. Today, IBM announced new security initiatives for cloud and Big Data apps, and threw some in for mobile devices for good measure.

At its Synergy 2012 event in Barcelona, Spain, Citrix unveiled a host of initiatives designed to help the company’s end users deliver cloud services without radically altering existing infrastructures.

Longtime enterprise web content management provider pTools went live with its Saas model this week at the Dublin Web Summit, and it's the culmination of years of methodical work.

Coming just a day before the announcement of its financial results for the first quarter, Microsoft has announced that it has bought cloud-storage provider StorSimple for an undisclosed sum.

Big Blue released its Q3 numbers last night and it makes for grim reading. IBM revenues slipped below analysts' expectation as poor economic conditions around the world hit profits in American global corporations.

Citrix is offering support for what it identifies as the new workshifting business environment with the release of GoToAssist Service Desk. The company is introducing the cloud-based support tool at its Citrix Synergy 2012 conference in Barcelona, Spain.