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Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5 Billion to Add Cloud Services

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Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5 Billion to Add Cloud Services
San Francisco Chronicle
Oracle is making its biggest purchase since Sun Microsystems Inc. last year after introducing the Oracle Public Cloud, which delivers software online via cloud computing, to spur demand for its programs. "Oracle is getting serious about its own cloud," ...
CloudFloor Announces Integration With Leading Cloud Providers, Including ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WALTHAM, MA, Oct 24, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- CloudFloor, a division of Everbridge, Inc. and product leader in cloud management, cloud optimization, and DNS, has announced full integration of its CloudControl product with three leading public ...
New GigaSpaces Cloudify -- The First Cloud Application Platform That Brings ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GigaSpaces Cloudify is the industry's first cloud application platform designed to enable enterprises and ISVs to take even their most mission-critical applications to any cloud, without forcing any code changes or cloud vendor lock-in. ...
Tidemark: Enterprise disruption in the cloud
ZDNet (blog)
By Michael Krigsman | October 24, 2011, 5:55am PDT Summary: A new breed of pure cloud software vendors is poised to take on established enterprise players. Some observers believe the growing impact of cloud computing is limited to locating servers...
Syntricity's dataConductor.com More Than a Passing Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, Oct 24, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As companies become increasingly aware of the benefits of the Cloud, Syntricity's customers continue to realize the benefits of a Cloud-based yield management system. dataConductor.com, a private cloud...
Alibaba, Yunfeng start cloud computing fund
MarketWatch
By Owen Fletcher BEIJING -(MarketWatch)- An Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unit and fund Yunfeng Capital have jointly set up a CNY1 billion ($157 million) fund to invest in cloud-computing companies and developers that make applications for a mobile-device ...
Cloud computing: Gaps in the 'cloud'
EurekAlert (press release)
Researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have found a massive security gap at Amazon CloudServices. Using different methods of attack (signature wrapping and cross site scripting) they tested the system which was deemed "safe". ...
Symplified Enhances Cloud Security and Compliance for Visiting Nurse Service ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The company turned to Symplified for a centralized access management solution that secures six public cloud applications as well as several private cloud apps. Symplified's ability to audit cloudapplication usage was also a key selling point for VNSNY ...
MetraTech CEO to Address WSTA Seminar "Cloud Computing in Financial Services"
MarketWatch (press release)
Swartz will lead a session titled, "In the Cloud, Or In the Money?" at 2:25 pm He will address the issue of monetization in the cloud and share 10 best practices for increasing the profitability ofcloud-delivered services. "The cloud promises faster, ...
Sencha Announces Cloud Environment for Mobile Web HTML5 Developers
ReadWriteWeb
Sencha.io is designed to give Web app developers the ability to synchronize and manage data in thecloud without having to write an excessive amount of code. For messaging, data management, login and deployment, Sencha claims that a few lines of ...
TM Forum Catalysts Tackle Cloud, Cable, Analytics and More at Management World ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The projects address a range of challenging industry issues, including multi-cloud development, cable services deployment, business analytics, standardized alarm management, cloud service management and customer experience management, among others. ...
ReportsnReports - Cloud Virtualization Software Market to Reach $16 billion by ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, October 24, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- ReportsnReports adds 'CloudVirtualization Software Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2011 to 2017' to its store. This 2011 study has 971 pages and 255 tables and figures. ...
IBM doing Hadoop as a service in its cloud
GigaOm
By Derrick Harris Oct. 24, 2011, 2:00pm PT No Comments IBM has joined the big-data-in-the-cloudfray, announcing Monday that its Hadoop-based InfoSphere BigInsights product will be available as a service on the IBM SmartCloud platform. ...
Legally using copyrighted music on YouTube [The Reel Web #10]
ReelSEO Videos
This week our look at the Reel Web includes several stories surrounding YouTube, specially how users can now create videos in the cloud with WeVideo's cloud-based video editing software. Just upload your video clips, edit them the way you like ...
Cloud Computing 101: Protect Yourself Online
UC Daily News
Cloud computing has certainly made life more convenient. The cloud allows you to back up photos and music in a Web vault, collaborate simultaneously on a document in Texas with a colleague in Tennessee, or buy something online with one click of the ...
CODY Systems Unveils Cloud-ready Tactical Cross-agency Search App at the 2011 IACP
MarketWatch (press release)
C.tac 5 is natively Cloud-ready, designed to work either in a hosted environment or on-premise at an agency or consortium location. The search app is a fully browser-based .NET rich web application and is secure at the highest state and federal ...
Razer Brings Cloud Storage to Gaming Peripherals
PC Magazine
Recently, it released the first storage system that saves your mouse and keyboard settings to thecloud—possibly creating a new industry standard for gaming peripherals. Razer's Synapse 2.0 is, seemingly, going to make onboard memory a thing of the ...
Users get no privacy in cloud
News & Observer
Apple's iCloud is a way of synchronizing everything from calendars and contacts to photos and music across multiple devices, using cloud computing to manage and back up your content. Cloudcomputing is spreading into our daily lives, with benefits that ...
Opscode Delivers Cloud Infrastructure Automation to Windows Environments
MarketWatch (press release)
Opscode Chef is an open source systems integration framework built for automating the cloud. It allows IT teams to easily deploy thousands of servers and scale applications throughout an entire infrastructure. Through a combination of configuration ...
Hollywood Looks to the Cloud With the UltraViolet Movie Locker
Wall Street Daily
You can simply store all of your movies on your computer, or in the cloud, and access your complete movie library wherever you go. It's a burgeoning industry that's expected to rake in $51 million this year. So it's no surprise that movie studios are ...
CloudBees Adds MongoHQ, Papertrail and XWiki to Integrated Partner Ecosystem ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CloudBees is the only Java PaaS that offers easy, one-click access to an open environment of integrated, partner-provided services to build, test, deploy, manage and monitor Java web applications in the cloud. It's also the only production-ready Java ...
Backing it all up onto a cloud
Fiji Times
CLOUD storage is like having an extra hard drive on your computer but it is connected via the internet and not by a cable inside your computer. Cloud storage is an external computer server that saves and stores your data and is managed by a third party ...
Four key reasons to include cloud computing in your business strategy
ZDNet (blog)
By Dana Gardner | October 24, 2011, 10:49am PDT Summary: The issue of success or failure in moving your company data, IT storage, servers or software to the cloud is often driven by technical issues, including performance, bandwidth, security and ...
SUMMUS Software Launches Free Trial of Industry's Most Comprehensive Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This 30-day, obligation-free trial program provides full access to the Summus IT Management Suite, the industry's most cost-effective, comprehensive and cloud-based IT management solution. The Free Trial Program is available to all enterprise IT ...
Equity Research on Microsoft Corporation and Red Hat Inc. -- Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The emergence of cloud computing may be helping customers to cut their costs for software and applications. Companies in the Application Software industry like Red Hat Inc. have benefited from the lower cost of their operating systems compared with ...
Kanbox Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding Led by DCM
MarketWatch (press release)
Since launching in January of 2011, Kanbox has quickly grown to over five million users and has become one of the largest cloud storage service providers in China. The first service of its kind to be based on an open-platform, Kanbox technology ...
Citrix Expands "GoTo" Cloud Services Business In Europe
MarketWatch (press release)
BARCELONA, Spain, Oct 24, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today at Citrix Synergy(TM) Barcelona, the event where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet, Citrix Systems announced it is expanding its market effort across Western Europe with new ...
The Value of Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing Journal
"Enterprise-wide adoption of cloud computing will blossom with the increasing bandwidth," noted Terry Hines, President, NovaTech Services, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. "The greatest limiting ...
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Cloudy prognosis for mainframes | Ubuntu Cloud Portal
By Mark Shuttleworth
But cloud computing might finally present a terminal opportunity, so to speak, to those stalwarts of big business computing, by providing a compelling answer to the twin stories of reliability and throughput that have always been highlights of the ...
Ubuntu Cloud Portal
Cloud primed for rapid expansion, security concerns close behind ...
By Simply Security
Cloud computing has become one of the most popular - and disruptive - technologies to emerge in recent years. But even as the cloud continues its rapid ascent, concerns over its data protection and privacy implications have risen seemingly ...
Simply Security
Oracle puts down $1.5B for RightNow's cloud-based sales force ...
By Sean Ludwig
Oracle plans to acquire cloud-based sales force automation and customer service company RightNow for $1.5 billion, the company announced Monday morning.
VentureBeat
Scaling your business globally using the cloud — Tech News and ...
By GigaOM
Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor Equinix for “The global cloud: how distributed, multiregion businesses can scale globally using cloud infrastructure,” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at 10 a.m. PDT.
GigaOM
Oracle spends $1.5 Billion on public cloud CRM company RightNow
By Tim Conneally
Since CRM is a major aspect of Oracle's business, RightNow's cloud-based customer experience suite, RightNow CX will make an attractive addition to Oracle's cloud CRM platforms. RightNow CX is already used by almost 2000 companies ...
BetaNews
Cloud lessons learned from Southern California power outage ...
By David Kwock
As we went through our private cloud environment we learned that we lost six arrays of drives because of a logical failure and one of our network blades. We worked with support through the night and we were able to recover the six drive ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Alibaba Creates 1 Billion RMB "Cloud Fund" For Cloud Apps, Start ...
By Steven Millward
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is today starting a 1 billion RMB “cloud fund” that includes 1 million RMB in prizes for software developers and start-ups.
Tech in Asia
Building a Government Cloud | Daily Web Hosting News
By admin
Two years ago, Apps.gov was launched, enabling agencies to easily subscribe to cloud applications. Simple apps like office and email began to be readily available, and many more similar apps followed afterward. But the adoption of IaaS by ...
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Private Cloud Server experiences? - Web Hosting Talk
By MyEverestHosting
unfortunately, I think our site was too big for a shared cloud plan. It runs on WordPress and when we go to post a new article, the backend seriously loads for about 60 seconds before anything happens. It is my belief that our database that runs ...
Web Hosting Talk
Sencha Launches Mobile HTML5 Cloud, Sencha.io | TechCrunch
By Sarah Perez
At launch, Sencha.io will provide a set of cloud services, including Sencha.io Data, Sencha.io Messages, Sencha.io Login and Sencha.io Development. Combined, the new services let developers use just a few lines of Javascript code to store ...
TechCrunch
IBM Private Cloud Announcement Aims to Ease Private Cloud ...
By Jenny Navadomskis
IBM (NYSE:IBM) is releasing new tools, services, and bundled products to help enterprises simplify private cloud adoption. IBM's primary private cloud announcement is SmartCloud Foundation. Similar to the privately held VCE, which ...
Nemertes Research - Independence,...
Syncplicity Gets New CEO as Cloud Strategy Solidifies | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
Menlo Park, California-based cloud file management provider Syncplicity has reshuffled its management team as a part of an effort to consolidate its strategy in order to better compete in a particularly crowded market. The most notable change ...
SiliconANGLE
what is Cloud Computing ? - Talk Mania Forum
By kajal.pillai22
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into.
Talk Mania Forum
Cloud IaaS Management API Contenders Battle It Out - The CA ...
By Marvin Waschke
One of the goals of cloud computing is to shift transparently and effortlessly between private clouds, shared clouds, and public clouds. If each of those clouds has its own management protocol, it is possible to shift smoothly if you have the right ...
CA Community
IBM Launches Social Collaboration Cloud for Government - Cloud ...
IBM has announced a new cloud offering aimed at the government that mixes social networking andcloud computing: the IBM SmartCloud for Social ...
www.eweek.com/.../IBM-Launches-Social-Collaboration-Clou...
What are cloud databases all about?
Databases in the cloud can do a lot for users, depending on how their enterprise is being run, and the differences between SQL databases in the cloud and ...
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../What-are-cloud-data...
Fire and Ice: David Pallmann's Web and Cloud Blog: The Cloud ...
Bonjour and welcome again to The Cloud Gourmet with Chef Az-ure-D. Today we have another “30 minute meal” recipe for Windows Azure. This time we will ...
davidpallmann.blogspot.com/.../cloud-gourmet-30-minute-me...
VMware: VMware Virtualization & Cloud Management: Managing ...
The VMware Virtualization & Cloud Management Blog brings you the latest news and highlights on virtualization management, especially related to ...
blogs.vmware.com/management/.../managing-the-cloud.html
Cloud Security Alliance Announces Trusted Cloud Initiative White ...
October 18, 2011 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announces that the Trusted CloudInitiative has published its first white paper, “Trusted Cloud ...
https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/.../csa-announces-tci-white-pa...
 
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