Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support
CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said I am aware of a couple of announcements coming up today in the PaaS space.
February’s Semantic Link Podcast Discusses Marketing the Semantic Web
February’s episode of the Semantic Link podcast is now online at SemanticWeb.com. During the show, regulars Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Ivan Herman, Eric Hoffer, Bernadette Hyland and Andraz Tori are joined by two special guests with some experience in both marketing and semantic technologies. Krista Thomas was responsible for marketing at Thomson Reuters‘ semantic technology [...]
Appistry releases CloudIQ Manager; co-founders talk about their company and the Cloud
St. Louis, Missouri-based Appistry [CloudAve coverage] announced CloudIQ Manager yesterday, describing it as; a smarter approach to cloud computing. As companies migrate their heterogeneous applications to cloud-based environments, Appistry CloudIQ Manager provides a single point of application management across the enterprise. Ahead of this announcement, I spent some time last week talking with two of [...]
University moves 50,000 accounts to Zimbra in a private Cloud
‘Fresh’ after a trans-Atlantic flight to Los Angeles, a two hour drive down the coast to San Diego, and a night somewhat disturbed by the clanking of goods trains, I had to read my copy of the Wall Street Journal more than once to be sure of what I was seeing. But yes, sure enough, [...]
Business sees value in the Cloud; yet security remains a concern
I spoke with Avanade CTO Tyson Hartman on Friday, ahead of the company’s publication of results from their Cloud Computing survey this morning. This study, conducted for Avanade by Kelton Research, interviewed 502 senior executives in seventeen countries. It found that 65% of those surveyed internationally (and 80% in the US) believe Cloud Computing to [...]
Nick Carr Discusses Cloud Computing and the Economic Climate
Nick Carr’s 2008 book, The Big Switch, has been closely associated with the rise of Cloud Computing in the minds of many; especially in the wider business world where these ideas are yet to achieve the prevalence that we expect for them over the next few years. With the paperback edition of Carr’s book just [...]
