Monthly Archives: May 2014
OpenStack Marketplace Opens Up Cloud Ecosystem
ATLANTA—The OpenStack Foundation today announced the official debut of the OpenStack Marketplace as a source to help organizations navigate the increasingly complex world of...
10 Best Practices for Spring Cleaning Your Data Center
10 Best Practices for Spring Cleaning Your Data Center
by Chris Preimesberger
Rationalize Your Apps
Insane amounts of money are spent on outdated or unused apps in...
Red Hat Advances Efforts to Manage All Clouds
ATLANTA—Red Hat is advancing its cloud efforts today with an open-source community endeavor to manage cloud deployments and collaboration with storage vendor NetApp for...
Microsoft Updates .NET, Visual Studio Online, Adds Cordova Support
Microsoft continued on its course of arming developers to build applications for the devices-first, cloud-first world by announcing new .NET technology, integrated support for...
NexID Biometrics Launches Mobile Live Finger Detection
Software and technology supplier to the biometric-authentication industry, NexID Biometrics, which offers liveness detection software for fingerprint-sensors on mobile devices, announced the launch of...
Web-Scale IT Architectures and Techniques Grow in Demand
The availability of capacity and performance management skills for horizontally scaled architectures will be a major constraint or risk to growth for 80 percent...
Small Businesses Turn to Online Sales to Boost Revenue
Half of all small business owners in the United States feel business conditions are good or excellent, the most since at least 2010, and...
SAP Cloud Effort Pushes Forward Despite Exec Turnover, Official Says
BOSTON—The recent executive shakeups at enterprise software giant SAP hit the company's cloud computing business particularly hard, with some of the top people in...
Google’s Busy Month of Acquisitions Continues Buying Spree
Since April, Google has acquired at least four companies—Stackdriver, Appetas, Adometry and Titan Aerospace. For most acquirers, that might be enough for a year...
Microsoft Releases Power BI Forecasting Tools
Microsoft has extended Power BI for Office 365 with a new update that brings forecasting capabilities to the company's cloud-based business intelligence software.First introduced...