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Five Cloud Computing Services Experts to Watch, Feb. 10
by Joe Panettieri on
2.10.12
Each Friday, we update the Talkin’ Cloud 200 with five new names. Each executive is an expert on cloud computing and cloud services. You’ll see names from cloud aggregators, cloud brokers, VARs and managed services providers. So, who are the latest executives to land on the Talkin’ Cloud 200? Here are our five latest entries:
1. Lucas Carlson, founder and CEO, AppFog. Twitter: @cardmagic
Carlson built AppFog to deliver a cloud-based PaaS solution. It is used by more than …
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Chinook: First Hosting Provider with Multitenant Microsoft Lync
by Matthew Weinberger on
2.10.12
Hosted service provider Chinook Communications has announced it’s the first company to market with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Multitenant Pack for Partner Hosting for unified communications.
This is a bigger deal than it might sound at first blush. One of the major selling points for Microsoft Office 365 — over both its Microsoft BPOS cloud predecessor and hosted Microsoft Lync 2010 services — was that its multitenant, modern infrastructure represented the wave of the future. In fact, at least one hosted …
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Rumor: Is Google Launching GDrive Cloud Storage This Year?
by Matthew Weinberger on
2.10.12
Rumor alert: The Wall Street Journal is hinting that Google is finally, really and completely getting ready to launch a so-called GDrive — a cloud storage offering that would take on Dropbox and Box directly.
The WSJ attributes its story to the extremely vague “people familiar with the matter.” As described by these sources, Google would offer GDrive, or perhaps just “Drive,” as a smartphone app and web interface. Upload your data from one, and it’s accessible anywhere else. As …
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Nivio Raises $21 Million in ‘Magic’ Cloud Desktop Funding
by Matthew Weinberger on
2.10.12
Desktop-as-a-service provider Nivio (the company spells its name with a lower-case “n,” for the record) has announced the close of a $21 million round of funding that will support the company’s stated mission “to bring the magic back to computing.”
The round of funding was led by India-based Videocon and Kansas City-based AEC Partners, and will go into expanding Nivio’s Palo Alto office while also enabling cloud platform rollout in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“We are extremely happy …
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Oracle Buys Taleo, Counters SAP-SuccessFactors In the Cloud
by Joe Panettieri on
2.9.12
Oracle is buying Taleo Corp. for $1.9 billion, marching into the cloud-based talent market and countering SAP‘s recent buyout of SuccessFactors. In essence, Oracle and SAP are trading big punches in the cloud computing industry. Just last week, SAP predicted it would be a cloud services leader within three years. But Oracle’s buyouts of Taleo and RightNow (in 2011) suggest CEO Larry Ellison will stay on the offensive.
According to a prepared statement from Oracle:
“Together, Oracle
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What You Need to Know About Cloud Compliance
by EVault Guest Blog on
2.9.12
You want to provide cloud-connected services to your customers. That’s a given. But when and how? There’s a lot to consider, including cloud adoption, regulations and compliance, and a slew of other topics aimed at helping organizations understand what is involved when moving to the cloud.
Based on our experience at EVault, we’ve boiled down the information we’ve gathered to bring you the nuts and bolts of what to consider & the most important takeaways you should keep in …
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Verio Now Offering Zimbra Cloud Collaboration to Partners
by Matthew Weinberger on
2.9.12
Service provider Verio has added VMware Zimbra collaboration to its portfolio of hosted messaging solutions for the company’s OEM and viaVerio reseller partners.
In the press release, Verio boasted when customers purchase Zimbra services from Verio, either as a standalone product or as part of a hosting package, they get a truly business-class solution.
To wit, here’s what Steve Renda, Verio senior vice president of Global Sales and Marketing, had to say in the press release:
“The VMware Zimbra extensive
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HootSuite Launches Social Networking Channel Partner Program
by Matthew Weinberger on
2.9.12
Depending on your level of immersion in the Twitter-verse, you may already be familiar with HootSuite, a social media dashboard primarily aimed at helping businesses build their brands in the bold new world of user-generated content. Now HootSuite has launched a pair of solution provider partner programs, designed to help systems integrators and VARs help develop their customers’ social strategies across Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and more.
The program comes in two tiers: the first, primarily affiliate-based in nature, enables …
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WorkSimple Launches Free Social Goals Tool for Google Apps
by Matthew Weinberger on
2.9.12
Cloud ISV WorkSimple has released a so-called “Free Forever” version of its flagship Social Performance tool to the Google Apps Marketplace SaaS app store — enabling customers to take advantage of its “leading social goal platform.”
What does that mean in plainer terms? According to the press release, the goal (badum-ching) is for employees to use Social Performance and set goals for the rest of the organization to see, comment on and generally open a dialogue around. In …
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