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Enterprise Cloud 2012: Key Trends to Look Out For
This year has been a significant one for enterprise cloud adoption, and 2012 will be even more so. There are a few predictions that outline the general direction towards which the industry is headed, highlighting a few key indicators that will play the most significant roles in this movement. One of the forecasts comes from ...
Apple Fined for Not Complying with EU Consumer Regulations
Apple Sales International, Apple Italia Srl and Apple Retail Italia were fined a total of 900,000 Euros, or about $1.2 million, by Italy’s Antitrust Authority for misleading customers about its tech support polices. Officials said that the three divisions failed to notify customers they deserve two years of support according to EU laws, and instead provided ...
This Week in Cloud: Expansion, New Funding
This past week or so we’ve had a couple of product announcements from three major players in the industry, in addition to two milestone rounds of funding in two smaller companies. SAP announced a major partnership with Google to integrate its ByDesign suite with Google Apps. The agreement has several aspects to it, representing a ...
Cisco Networking Academy Opens Up First Branch in Rio
Cisco’s first Praça do Conhecimento, or “Knowledge Square,” has been launched in Rio de Janeiro this week. The project is a collaboration between city officials and the Cisco Networking Academy; a global program that offers networking education and certification required in order to qualify for technical positions in this field. The first square is located ...
Big Data Growth: Increased Awareness for Better or Worse
Big data and Hadoop were big in 2011, and will likely be bigger in the coming year. O’Reilly’s Audrey Watters looked at the direction this trend took in the past year, and rounded up some key points. VC Interest One of the main indicators of growth is the mounting VC interest in big data companies. ...
Bonitasoft CEO on the State of BPM
Bonitasoft, a maker of an open-source business process management engine, is taking a unique approach with its offering by providing simplicity, among other things. It has also adopted the solution to the more significant trends in corporate IT today. Co-founder and CEO Miguel Valdés Faura shared his take of the market for BPM software in ...
IPO Fever Takes Hold of Workday
Enterprise HR and payroll management SaaS provider Workday is the latest to get caught up in the IPO frenzy. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported that the company has plans to raise $500 million in a public offering scheduled for next year. “The company would file its plan in the first half and make its debut ...
Akamai Snatches up Another Competitor, Cotendo, for $268 Million
Akamai has acquired Israeli content delivery network operator Cotendo for $268 million, in addition to the assumption of unvested options. The sum falls short of earlier reports predicting a price tag ranging between $300 million and $350 million. Cotendo leverages a network of 30 data centers to be able to stream content to a user ...
Cloudability Raises $1.1M to Trim the Cloud Fat
Cloudability received $1.1 million in seed funding from Trinity Ventures and Walden VC, among other investors. A local group of Portland angel investors also chipped in with another $255,000. The startup brings the economics of the cloud full circle from the user side: it addresses the fact that while as-a-service solutions are much cheaper than ...
IBM Faces Oracle’s Grudges, Grows in Banking, Healthcare Markets
IBM had a few noteworthy updates in the past few days. The first one comes not from IBM, but rather from Oracle. Oracle reported its earnings for the second quarter yesterday, disappointing investors and raising concerns that its lower software sales may be an early indicator of a decline in short-term IT spending. That had ...
