During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill. Tonight, IBM is...
Smart Analytics Cloud...
MindTouch Cloud: The Open Source Alterna...
Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com.
MindTouch has the potential to compete with the large market players. Today they are announcing...
Posted by Yousef in Cloud Services on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Kyle Gabhart Launches "Cloud Matter...
Cloud Computing and its related initiatives (Virtualization, SaaS, Grid, SOA, Web 2.0 / WOA) hold tremendous potential for modern enterprises. This e-zine will aim to explore the economics of Cloud, the business implications for various industries, and the technology enablers that make Cloud Computing...
Posted by Yousef in Cloud Services on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Sun's Glenn Brunette to Present at ...
Glenn Brunette, Chief Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect for Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Security is consistently rated as a leading customer concern...
Posted by Yousef in Cloud Services on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
RightScale and New Relic Deliver Ruby on...
RightScale, the cloud manager, has integrated its platform with New Relic’s real-time RPM Ruby-on-Rails application performance management software. So RightScale users should be able to detect, diagnose, and fix performance problems with their cloud-borne Rails applications. CEO Michael Crandell...
Posted by Yousef in Cloud Services on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Arista Networks Drops "Cloud Networ...
In a follow up to my October 23rd post on Arista Networks attempting to copyright / trademark the term “Cloud Networking” The companies CEO Jayshree Ullal has stated that they will no longer be attempting to trademark the term. (Mission accomplished). In a recent post she shed some light...
Posted by Yousef in Cloud Services on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Intuit's Raghavan Srinivas to Prese...
Raghavan Srinivas, Technology Evangelist for Intuit, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Is cloud computing hype or reality? Is it mere old wine in new bottles and the advancement of the...
Everything’s bigger in Texas… Sliceh...
Our friends at Slicehost have some BIG news!
Hook’em Horns! Gig’em Aggies! How ‘bout them Cowboys! Texas forever!
I’ve run out Texas propaganda, but am delighted to announce that slices are live in the Rackspace Dallas datacenter. We’ve been working hard on this since the announcement last...
Chris Brogan, Social Media Expert, Selec...
Chris Brogan (http://chrisbrogan.com) recently moved his blog to Cloud Sites, and today he blogged about his initial experience.
Chris teaches companies how to use Social Media tools to enhance their customer communications, increase sales, visibility, etc. As Chris says,
“I was pretty pleased...
The Cloud is Always Changing – New...
Nothing gets too dusty around here lately! As we continue to roll out more Rackspace Cloud Hosting offerings, and combine them all “under one roof”, we are also standardizing some of our “rules and regulations”. To make things less confusing to those that are using both traditional...
Hi,
I am Yousaf Sekander, a web development, aesthetics, search engine optimization, multimedia, user experience & social media junkie who likes to spend most of his time ranting about science, technology and politics.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me y.sekander |at| hotmail |co|. |uk|
You never know, for the right price I might consider selling this fantastic domain name. :]