Cloud 66 has come up with an interface for running and configuring Ruby on Rails applications on a few public clouds. It applies the best of Platform as a Service to other clouds.…
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More enterprises hopping onto clouds, despite PRISM gloom
Cloud providers' budgets are outpacing those for enterprise data centers as more enterprises adopt the cloud. That means more money coming in for cloud security companies and other ancillary businesses.…
Read MoreUnisys taps Intel to make money off the shift from RISC to x86
Unisys, an IT vendor that makes mainframes, (s uis) said Thursday it will work with Intel (s intc) to release a Xeon-based…
Read MoreSOASTA grabs $30M and looks abroad to grow even more
SOASTA sees opportunities to add customers in other countries, and it's taking on $30 million in Series E funding to act on that suspicion and turn more developers on to cloud load testing.…
Read MoreIBM researchers get closer to brain-like computing
Researchers at IBM built a simulator for a brain-like computing network and developed a programming language and applications to execute on it.…
Read MoreFusion-io revenues fall short; new CEO Robison keen on finding new customers
Fusion-io missed analysts' revenue estimates for the second quarter of 2013. But new CEO Shane Robison believes price cuts could entice more hyperscale customers to jump aboard.…
Read MoreGoogle adds load balancing, SQL-like queries in hot pursuit of more cloud business
Google has announced the availability of free load balancing for its Infrastructure-as-a-Service product and other new cloud features as it looks to rev up and challenge Amazon Web Services.…
Read MoreDigitalOcean takes $3.2M to make a simple cloud bigger
DigitalOcean, a young Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, is taking seed funding to add capacity and build out its services. At the same time, the company wants to remain easy to use.…
Read MoreAT&T and CSC join to sell clouds on telco-grade network
AT&T (s t) and CSC have formed a “global strategic alliance” to push CSC’s private cloud, BizCloud, and other CSC cloud products…
Read MoreSamsung builds upward with NAND flash
For years, companies such as Micron and Samsung have been shrinking NAND flash, but the laws of physics say they can only…
Read MoreDefense.net launches with $9.5M to stop big DDoS attacks
Startup Defense.net wants to tackle distributed denial of service attacks for big businesses. It's not saying much, although it's clear the company has an expert on hand to carry out on that mission.…
Read MoreHow Path engineers hacked their way to a fast, scalable messaging service
Path engineers put a lot of effort into writing the app's private messaging feature. They detail the steps they took to make the product just right in a new blog post.…
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