Cloud Computing News & Articles

If anyone has any doubts about the level of uptake of cloud services across the business sector the figures contained in the most recent Gartner survey of the cloud services worldwide will put the argument to bed. Among the figures that stand out is that the market is predicted to grow by close to 20 percent worldwide by the end of year.

Business intelligence (BI) tool and services provider Jaspersoft is continuing to show its commitment to supporting non-traditional data sources for analytics. The company has announced its new Hadoop Partner Ecosystem, and it includes a few big names for the continuously expanding Hadoop market.

 Enterprise cloud integrator SnapLogic is boosting its efforts to increase adoption of its platform – thanks in part to a new round of Series C funding that brought in US$ 20 million.

People expect translations to happen at the speed and accuracy of a Star Trek Universal Translator. Unfortunately, that time is not here yet, but we are approaching it quickly. 

Oracle is entering an agreement to acquire SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management applications. 

Bait me and I’ll bite. Say the word “surprise” and I’ll want to know what it is, immediately. Give me a reason to believe that something unexpected might happen, and I’m going to dig. It’s my nature. I’m a headhunter and a journalist, research and curiosity are in my blood.

Enough said. 

Have you met your Chief Information Officer (CIO)? It's time that you do.

With the release of its new enterprise syncing technology Alfresco has shown again an ability to respond to the changing Enterprise CMS landscape in a way that many other vendors are finding difficult to do. With this new enterprise tool, users of Alfresco Enterprise CMS and its cloud services will be able to keep all their content synced.

Appature, a SaaS marketing startup, has patented its Nexus platform for aggregating large data sets marketers can easily use to build more effective campaigns.

Enterprise technology is entering the “fun to watch” era. September’s playlist centers around online enterprise file-sync-n-share. This week’s disruptor: Salesforce.com, and they haven’t even made a formal announcement yet. 

Every week there seems to be a new cloud-based file sharing option launching.  At some point, as the market matures some vendors will take a bow and others will join forces to create new, more comprehensive offerings. SkyDox and Workshare must have gotten the memo early. The pair announced today that they are joining forces.

While there has been an understandable interest in HP and how it is going to integrate Autonomy into its business, HP, under its still-new CEO Meg Whitman carries on as usual. Today, it announced new additions to its security portfolio that build on the strategy it outlined last year.

Syncplicity wants to be the place that enterprise users go to sync, share, access and protect their files. The SaaS start-up that storage giant EMC acquired in May has been working in overdrive to achieve its mission.

Social business is a billion-dollar industry, evident with how big companies like Microsoft are willing to acquire startups like Yammer in their quest to dominate the enterprise market. However, there is one factor that service providers seem to miss: small businesses.

Open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider Nuxeo has released a new version of its platform. The new release, Nuxeo Platform 5.6, includes several major improvements that help enterprise create more full-featured solutions.