Cloud Computing News & Articles

In a world of walled gardens and content silos, the Dropbox solution proved a simple yet mighty cloud based app, which launched four years ago, and grew to 45 million users, giving many their first introduction to cloud storage. But like most simple ideas, the utility grows when combined with the processing power of the net. Enter Dropbox Automator.  

Dropbox Automator offers the new ability to set bulk actions to documents placed in a folder, and became an instant hit with 10,000 users registered in less than 72 hours. But the cobbled-together code that emerged from the creative juices of a 2-day work session, and subsequent wager among friends, needed refinement, and that was announced this week by Wappwolf.com.

Ice cream may be the dessert of choice for many, but not a lot are getting their taste of Ice Cream Sandwich, at least when it comes to Android devices. But even with the lackluster performance of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the tablet and smartphone market -- or perhaps due to it -- Google is reportedly planning to release its successor, Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" by the second quarter of this year.

 In January, Deb Miller wrote that “Business agility is all about being prepared for and able to quickly adapt to change." Perhaps Eccentex was listening. Today the dynamic case management solution provider announced that it had raised US$ 7.5 Million in Series A funding that will be used for expanding its PaaS cloud computing solutions.

FileTrek launches its cloud-based file sharing and tracking solution, while SpiderOak announces the Nimbus.io cloud storage service, which is priced below that of Amazon S3.

With more than 7 billion documents, calendar events and contacts already on file in Google Apps,  Spanning Backup v. 3.0 promises "Business-Class Cloud to Cloud" backup and is showing its users a pretty new face courtesy of its newest VP of design and UI, ex-Frog Design guru BJ Heinley. 

Ever wonder who’s buying software at the business level? Businesses with fewer than 50 employees and US$ 2 million in revenue are buying a majority of the software, that's who. 

Let’s take a moment to think about how we engage online. Services such as television cable, on-demand Internet streaming media services and online publishers wouldn’t be as successful if they didn’t allow users to engage with their services across platforms, be it an actual TV, laptop or mobile device. Additionally, users are likely to consider paying a little more to receive access for multiple accounts. This is our consumption economy.

Despite difficult economic times, the business intelligence (BI) market continues to grow. According to Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for BI, while the market will grow at a compound rate of 8.1% annually until 2015, because the number of different things that enterprises are looking for BI solutions to do is also growing, vendors are struggling.

Sometimes a headline just makes you wonder. What part of it is "real" news? What part of it is true? What part of it might be easily misconstrued?

Amazon had a content management snafu yesterday, accidentally revealing an as of yet unannounced workflow service for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon quickly removed the content, but not before observers took note of the new goodie.

Oracle is on the acquisition path again, just a few weeks after it closed the RightNow deal. This time Oracle is adding to its public cloud by purchasing talent management solution provider Taleo for a price of US$ 1.9 billion.

Socialtext has been adding and adding to its enterprise social platform since it launched v5.0 in September. This year it looks set to maintain that momentum and has already announced a partnership with NetDocuments.

Organizations and enterprises that bank on Amazon S3 services for their cloud storage needs might find themselves paying up to 13.5% less starting this February, as Amazon announces price cuts for S3, promising a "significant reduction" in storage costs.

The latest vendor to take its solutions to the cloud is eZ Systems, which has recently announced a partnership with cloud solutions provider Ixonos, to move eZ’s flagship Publish platform to the cloud.

CRM is nothing really unless it can adapt to business users’ changing marketplace. Microsoft, since the release of Dynamics CRM online last year, committed itself to providing agile CRM and preparing companies for the release by flagging changes 90 days in advance. It has now flagged that it is making Dynamics CRM mobile.