Surprise: Yahoo’s mobile push is working better than you think
… according to new statistics from Onavo, which tracks actual use of mobile apps and games by “millions” of iOS users. Read more »
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As Amazon, Google, Microsoft beat each others brains in, who wins? The user
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It may not be pleasant for the competitors, but cloud competition is nothing but good for cloud consumers — whether they’re startups or Fortune 100 companies. Read more »
So Google Compute Engine is out, your move Amazon
Now that GCE is available to all — complete with by-the-minute charges and a new NoSQL database service, we eagerly await Amazon’s response. Make no mistake, there will be one. Read more »
Amazon cloud watcher Newvem now watches Azure too
With Amazon beefing up its own AWS monitoring tools, it makes sense for companies like Newvem to take on other clouds. That’s just what Newvem is doing. Read more »
And, bam! Here’s Google Compute Engine
11 months after it was announced, Google Compute Engine is now available to the masses, Google Senior VP Urs Hölzle said Wednesday afternoon. Read more »
VMware takes on the BYOD problem with — you guessed it — virtualization
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A new service — two years in the making — from VMware and Verizon claims to enable true “dual persona” smart phones for enterprise use. Read more »
Airware, which puts the brains in drones, nets $10.7M in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz
Are you a big time farmer? A building manager? A ski resort operator? Airware is banking that you too could use a drone and now has $10.7 million to build customizable autopilots for commercial applications. Read more »
PernixData nets $20M to virtualize your server-side flash
The self-proclaimed VMware of server-side flash now has more money to build out enterprise-class sales and marketing staff and to add features to its software. Read more »
Amazon staffs up to give Trusted Advisor more powers
AWS has big plans for its Trusted Advisor and other enterprise support offerings but giving more metrics to customers will irk third-party service partners. Read more »
Microsoft’s Tami Reller: Windows Blue, or Windows 8.1, will be free to upgraders
Microsoft’s CMO promised an easy upgrade route for both Win 8 and Win RT users to Windows 8.1. Read more »
Man bites dog: Microsoft Outlook.com embraces Gmail users
Well, embrace is too strong a word, but Microsoft says it’s making it easier for colleagues and friends with different mail accounts to chit chat. Read more »
Cloudant snares $12M from Rackspace and others to build awareness for its cloudy database
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Cloudant will use its new cash to build out staff and offices in the U.K and Asia and to build awareness of its NoSQL database-as-a-service worldwide. Read more »
Google I/O: Arming for the battle of the public cloud stars
Whether or not Google officially rolls out its GCE public cloud to all takers this week, GCE will take on AWS and Windows Azure for market- and mind-share going forward. Read more »
The week in cloud: Google picks Debian; AWS console for Windows; Adobe faces wrath
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Google picked Debian as the default OS for the Google Compute Engine; AWS builds console to enable Windows IT admins to manage on-prem and AWS workloads, Adobe feels artists’ ire. Read more »
It’s Larry’s world, we only live in it
Love him or hate him, Oracle CEO, billionaire, America’s Cup aficianado Larry Ellison is nothing if not interesting. Read more »
Age old questions answered: Star Wars beats Star Trek, engineers like beer
… at least according to 4,800 PHP developers participating in Zend’s annual Developer Pulse survey. Read more »
Adobe users to Adobe: take your cloud and shove it
Creative Suite users take to Change.org to petition Adobe to abandon what they call a forced march to the cloud. Read more »
Laggard Rackspace growth sparks concern: is there enough cloud biz to go around?
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There are lots of potential cloud workloads out there but there are also about a zillion clouds. Is there really enough paid work to support them all? Read more »
MadeiraCloud nets $1.5M to paint a pretty picture of your Amazon cloud
Startup says its visualization tool is an easier way to see all AWS resources associated with a given application and will use its new money to advertise that feature. Read more »
Cloud providers seek to become “arms dealers” to telco, carrier clouds
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Tier 3, Dell, Rackspace — all would very much like to sell their cloud wares to telcos, carriers, managed service providers and are rolling out packages to attract those companies. Read more »
From Amazon’s cloud guy: 6 hiring tips for startups
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Amazon Web Services’ Andy Jassy knows a little something about staffing an internal startup; he shared lessons learned with entrepreneurs Wednesday morning. Read more »
Why Adobe’s big cloud bet really isn’t a huge gamble at all
Falling average selling prices, and millions of non-upgrading users made Adobe’s transition from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud inevitable. Read more »
SAP to world: We’re a cloud company, no really!
To the surprise of very few, SAP plans to put make its HANA analytical database available as a cloud service. Read more »
Whoops! Windows 8 do-over on the way
Uh oh. Looks like Windows 8 is due for some changes, according to a Financial Times report featuring thoughts from a Microsoft executive. Read more »
Inktank gears up Ceph storage with support for Red Hat Linux
Ceph is an open-source storage fan fave and now Inktank is buffing it up with Red Hat Linux support. Read more »
Adobe bets that Creative Cloud, not the desktop, is the future
RIP Adobe Creative Suite. In a true sign of the times Adobe nixes continued development on its landmark desktop apps to refocus on SaaS delivery. Read more »
Dropbox to host first-ever developers conference this summer
What better way to draw developers to your platform than by hosting a developers conference? That’s exactly what Dropbox is going to do. Read more »
EMC plots software-defined data center journey from ViPR storage virtualization base
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EMC says ViPR will abstract out a company’s storage and automate how it gets divvied up by the workload. The company will roll out its software-defined data center plan this week. Read more »
Dell snaps up Enstratius to build cloud momentum
With Enstratius, Dell gets enterprise-class cloud management capabilities, says Enstratius CTO George Reese. Read more »
Clustrix nets $16.5M to push its database outside the box
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NewSQL company will use its new cash to make its proprietary database more easily available to developers via their cloud infrastructure of choice, says CEO Robin Purohit. Read more »
First Dell, now BMC: Which legacy IT company will go private next?
Who is willing to bet that Dell and BMC taking themselves private is the end of a trend? Right, me neither. Read more »
Exclusive: Atlassian dresses up Stash to take on Github Enterprise
Atlassian hopes to outflank Github Enterprise with Stash, the new release of which supports forking, branching and private repositories. Read more »
The week in cloud: So much for a million clouds; AWS chief takes on private clouds
Shhhhh, it looks like cloud computing is not immune from industry consolidation and Amazon Web Services gets testy about private cloud adoption. Read more »
API-crazy Amazon adds a new tool to boost support for enterprise AWS customers
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Amazon says its new API will help businesses on support contracts automate how their support calls are set up and handled. Read more »
Microsoft: We’ve migrated 300M Hotmail users to Outlook.com
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Moving 300 million users from one popular (and often free) email system to another is bound to ruffle feathers. And feathers were ruffled. Read more »
One Linux over all: Mark Shuttleworth’s ambitious post-PC plans for Ubuntu
Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has really big, plans to put Ubuntu on your smartphone, on your tablet and (via OpenStack). What he doesn’t offer is details on revenue. Read more »
Xeround pulls the plug on cloud database service
Company tells users of its cloud-based MySQL database service to move their instances by May 8 or else. (May 15 for paying customers.) Read more »
VMware garage sale continues as it offloads WaveMaker to Pramati
Just two years after acquiring WaveMaker for its enterprise Java expertise, VMware is selling those assets to Pramati. Read more »
Amazon offers cloud certifications; more proof that AWS is all grown up
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Amazon is following the lead of its IT elders by rolling out technology certifications for developers, solution architects and admins. Read more »
IBM makes “world’s smallest” movie by filming atoms
Researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center used a two-ton scanning tunneling microscope to make a the world’s tiniest movie. Read more »
