It’s official: Everyone loves the CMO. But should they?
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With IT giants including IBM now actively targeting CMOs as primary buyers of IT solutions, you have to wonder if this is really a great idea. Read more »
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Netflix dives into AWS usage monitoring with Ice
Very few Amazon Web Services customers know that infrastructure better than Netflix. Now it’s open sourcing its tool for tracking AWS use and spending. Read more »
SendGrid picks fight with heavyweight MailChimp in email marketing
SendGrid grew a business enabling apps with automated sales confirmation, invoice and opt-in/opt-out email. Now it wants a piece of the email marketing business as well. Read more »
Cloud wars: what happens when one vendor outs another?
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Update: It’s messy when one tech vendor claims a major competitive win without the customer around to validate it. So, is Workday using HP Cloud or not? Read more »
HP Cloud scores big customer win, a passle of PaaS moves: The week in cloud
Updated: Hewlett-Packard claimed Workday is moving from AWS to HP Cloud. AWS said no way, and so it goes. Read more »
Done deal: AppFog melds into Savvis Cloud
Updated: Savvis will offer AppFog’s platform in both public and dedicated, private implementations to corporate customers. Read more »
Breaking: Savvis to buy AppFog
With AppFog, Savvis will get a Cloud Foundry-based Platform as a Service to run atop its own VSphere or vCloud Director-based infrastructure. Read more »
Chrome, Vine, Yahoo use on the rise for iOS users
Exclusive: New usage data from Onavo shows that iOS users are taking to Chrome, to Twitter’s Vine and to Yahoo apps. Read more »
New from Netflix: Open-sourced gatekeeper to improve the delivery of web services
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Netflix calls Zuul a robust edge services gatekeeper that can help other companies deploy web services faster and more flexibly. Read more »
FireHost secures $12M in funding to promote its secure cloud
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The company that claims Kevin Mitnick, The Clinton Foundation, Wal-Mart and Rush Limbaugh as customers will use its new funding to market and promote its secure cloud services. Read more »
Can free Red Hat on AWS make it the de facto Linux for the cloud, too?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances. Read more »
Dell builds a government cloud of its own
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Dell is building a Red Hat-OpenStack cloud foundation to attack the $20 billion or so of the government’s IT budget that is expected to move into the cloud. Read more »
Most Americans shrug off NSA snooping
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Updated: A narrow majority of Americans surveyed are okay with the government gathering data (or metadata) on our online activities, according to new Pew Research. Read more »
5 things to watch out for on Oracle’s earnings call
Hardware sales, Fusion adoption (or lack thereof) are two key factors to explore when Oracle goes through its fourth quarter earnings next week. Read more »
Ray Ozzie sounds off on NSA spygate
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Updated: The deal U.S. citizens struck after 9/11 exchanging privacy for security should be up for renewal or at least subject to debate, says former Microsoft top tech guru Ray Ozzie. Read more »
The week in cloud: Oracle and Dell make strange bedfellows; NSA spygate fallout
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Dell and Oracle deal takes coopetition to a new level, shows Oracle hardware vulnerability; will NSA spygate controversy impact cloud adoption? Read more »
GAO says “not so fast” on proposed secret Amazon-CIA cloud
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Updated: The Government Accountability Office sided with IBM which claimed the CIA unfairly awarded a secure cloud contract to Amazon Web Services. Read more »
How the NSA might snoop personal web data without the provider’s knowledge
Whether these top tier tech vendors were complicit or dupes in government spying on people’s data, this news does nothing to help their credibility. Read more »
Ruh-roh: Ray Lane owes the feds big ($100M) tax bill
After a couple tough years as HP chairman, Lane loses that gig and now faces a $100M tax bill from the IRS. Read more »
Mirantis rakes in more vendor funding, this time from Red Hat, Ericsson and SAP
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The systems integrator that pledged vendor-independent OpenStack recommendations, just got more vendor support. Read more »
Coming from Amazon — lots of Mini-Me clouds for government work?
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Amazon’s GovCloud targets U.S. state, federal and local government workloads. Here’s betting AWS will replicate that model abroad. Read more »
Panzura gets $25M to staff up global sales presence
Panzura looks to expand its enterprise cloud storage push with new money from Meritech Capital Partners and current backers. Read more »
If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em, says Kinvey, as it partners with Google
MBaaS player Kinvey says new integration will make it a snap for mobile developers to develop on Kinvey and deploy on Google App Engine, or vice versa. Read more »
SAP strikes again, buying hybris to boost e-commerce push
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And we’re off to the races again as SAP buys hybris, a Swiss e-commerce specialist, to expand its reach into a $37 billion market. Read more »
Amazon’s cloud is how big again?
New numbers from Netcraft show that the number of Amazon Web Services servers has exploded over the past 9 months. Read more »
Why IBM desperately needed to buy SoftLayer
Can IBM use SoftLayer as a way to fend off Amazon Web Service incursions? Or is it already too late? Read more »
AppScale’s mission: Making your mobile apps really mobile
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Developers love PaaSes for building code. But their IT masters don’t love running those business apps in some other guy’s cloud. AppScale can help with that. Read more »
It’s official: IBM to buy SoftLayer
SoftLayer and IBM’s legacy SmartCloud will form the basis of a new Global Cloud Services division. Read more »
ActiveState buys Appsecute for its social devops smarts
Appsecute’s service promises devops a central way to manage all their cloud-based services from AWS to Zendesk. Read more »
Here we go again: big changes coming to Microsoft
Microsoft is noted for big reorgs when it’s behind in a key market or markets. Well, it looks like that time is near again, according to yet another report. Read more »
Microsoft will offer Azure by the minute to take on Amazon’s cloud
At TechEd, Microsoft will keep pitching that Azure running in Microsoft data centers and Windows Server and Systems Center running at customer sites is the best of the hybrid cloud universe. Read more »
The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon’s cloud? Stay tuned.
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The public cloud computing landscape gets more interesting with Microsoft pushing its new Windows Azure infrastructure services vs. Amazon (and Google.) Read more »
Cyber theft hurts China too, says U.S. Secretary of Defense
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Updated: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told reporters that China has as much to lose as anyone if cyberthreats go unchecked. Read more »
More bad news for server makers
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Updated: Will the server market ever come back? IDC research shows worldwide revenue on server sales off nearly 8 percent year over year. Read more »
Surprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter
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What company remains atop the heap of IaaS/PaaS providers in Q1 2013? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. Read more »
Microsoft caves on Windows Start button. Kinda
A new version of the iconic Start Button will be part and parcel of a new Windows 8.1 desktop mode, says Microsoft corporate VP Antoine Leblond. Read more »
With 1M new downloads in 3 months, Node.js momentum just keeps on keeping on
The server-side JavaScript framework keeps winning adherents from GM to Yahoo, according to Strongloop, which offers commercially supported versions of the technology. Read more »
Killer cloud: report says Amazon Web Services threatens all IT incumbents
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New Morgan Stanley research expects AWS to hit $24 billion in revenue by 2022 and to put the hurt on legacy IT providers in the process. Read more »
Say hello to Netflix Conformity Monkey
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Conformity Monkey, as its name implies, finds badly behaving compute instances, in the Amazon public cloud. Read more »
Formula 1 racing changes pose big data challenge
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Even F1 racing is trying to save energy and as it navigates changes from V-8 to V-6 cars, there are lots of big data problems to be solved. Read more »
