IBM’s Worklight Acquisition: Few Thoughts
Two days back IBM announced their plans to acquire Worklight, the Israel based mobile development platform, to beef up their enterprise mobile strategy. IBM realizes that in this era of BYOD/Consumerization of IT, they need to had a strong mobile strategy supporting various platforms. In fact, at the recent Lotusphere 2012 conference, IBM showcased their [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra
I am sure regular readers of this blog are convinced that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services. We are seeing this trend happening now with so much action on the PaaS front. Today Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) reacted to the market trend and announced the acquisition of Orchestra, the Irish PHP PaaS company. [...]
Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises. Initially, Citrix will push the Cloud.com product lines and Citrix branded versions will [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Terracotta Is Software AG’s PaaS Play?
Software AG, the German software vendor with focus on business users, today announced the acquisition of Terracotta, the company behind distributed Java cache called Ehcache, signaling their intention for a serious cloud play. The details of the deal are unknown but it is a smart move by Software AG because Terrecotta has great expertise in [...]
Microsoft’s Skype Acquisition: My Immediate Concerns
Kara Swisher of BoomTown has confirmed that Microsoft has finalized the deal to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. According to her Microsoft will announce the news early in the morning tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier tonight that Microsoft–in what would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing in on buying [...]
Salesforce Acquires Radian6 To Help Their Customers Become Socially Adept
Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are acquiring Radian6, a company helping organizations monitor and engage with their customers on social media, for $326 Million to boost the social intelligence of their products like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force.com. Anyone who had seen the demo of their Service Cloud 3 [...]
Why Verizon’s Acquisition Of Terremark Is Not Exciting
Yesterday, Verizon announced that they are acquiring the cloud provider Terremark for $1.4 Billion According to Datacenter Knowledge, Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal that will accelerate the telecom provider’s push into cloud computing. Verizon will pay $19.00 in cash for each share of Terremark, about [...]
Acquisitions, Trust And Cloud Services
Last week, Salesforce.com acquired the web conferencing provider DimDim for $31 Million. Immediately after the news was out, DimDim sent a mail telling their users that free and month by month subscription plans will end by 15th March, 2011. Those with annual subscription will be allowed to continue till the end of their subscription period [...]
Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim
Image via CrunchBase Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that it is acquiring DimDim, a low priced Webex competitor, for approximately 31 Million in cash. DimDim was founded in 2007 with its development office in Hyderabad, India. They offered real time collaboration service with video, presentation, whiteboard, etc.. I have been using/following DimDim ever [...]
Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick Getting Ready For A Federated Clouds Future
Rackspace, a leading player in the traditional hosting world with some level of difficulty gaining traction in the cloud based world, today announced the acquisition of Cloudkick, one of the cloud management vendors with a pretty dashboard having HTML 5 based 3D server visualization. Rackspace is mum on the details of valuation. Interestingly, this is [...]
Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant
Warning: I think I’m becoming a curmudgeon – except that title has until now been reserved for somebody else . But I still have doubts about the recent transaction: LastPass acquired Xmarks. I really liked Xmarks – when it was Foxmarks. A simple bookmark synchronization service that would keep your Firefox up-to-date no matter where [...]
Quick Thoughts: Dell Acquires Boomi
Boomi (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the Pennsylvania based cloud services integration provider, is acquired by Dell today. Ever since IBM acquired Cast Iron, there were speculations that Boomi could be the next in the block and it has come true today. Dell has been building up the speculation machine on a possible cloud acquisition [...]
EMC Shows That It Understands Enterprise BI/Big Data Game With Greenplum Acquisition
Today EMC surprised the industry with its announcement that it is acquiring the privately held California based Greenplum Inc., a leading player in data warehousing space with a successful big data platform with superior business analytics. EMC is planning to use this acquisition to form a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure [...]
How Safe is Your Social Media Investment?
Image by via CrunchBase Recently, our guest author, Devan Sabaratnam, wrote about the shutting down of a service called I Want Sandy. Today, Pownce announced that they are shutting down the doors in two weeks time. This calls into question how reliable it is for users to move their data online and whether it is [...]
