- CalPERS computer system over budget, late « Calpensions
- Infor to Embrace Microsoft's Azure Cloud CIO.com
- Steve Ballmer: Cloud Momentum in India
"If you look at Azure [in India?], Windows Azure, and SQL Azure, we have 250 partners who are working with Azure, and there are 4,700 applications already which partners and developers have built on this platform. We have 22,000 developers who have been trained, and are every day building, writing to Azure, 2,500 students across 20 top universities. When you look at big hosters, like Reliance, or NetMagic, they're using our cloud technology. So, it's just a staggering amount of momentum considering just how recent all this has been." - Yahoo Uses Windows Azure To Build Flickr App for Windows Phone 7 and Tablets – ReadWriteCloud
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Just what it says. - GoGrid Offers Hosted Private Cloud
"A valid question could be, 'Why aren't all clouds like this,'" he wondered, suggesting that most users would like a more secure and reliable cloud service. "At the end of the day, I'd rather see these things called something like 'more secure cloud.'" - Hussein Kanji's answer to Why has Microsoft seemingly stopped innovating? – Quora
"In virtually all of its major skirmishes with the rest of the software industry, you notice Microsoft maintained a steady march (sometimes leveraging monopolistic behavior, sometimes coming up with very clever ideas). But the fissure point for Microsoft to break into the category and become a winner usually emerged in the wake of a significant competitor mistake. When the competitor didn't crack, MIcrosoft found it very difficult, if not impossible, to win the battle. The most recent case in point is Google, but this is equally true in the money management space with Intuit vs. Microsoft money." - Does the announcement of Amazon Web Services's Beanstalk PaaS explain why Heroku sold when it did, and why they didn't get bought by Amazon? – Quora
"Elastic Beanstalk is essentially a single tenant PaaS/management stack/abstraction layer/deployment tool for allowing Java developers to deploy applications using AWS resources: EC2, cloudwatch, autoscaling, etc. There are no new core services being added to AWS. Elastic Beanstalk is essentially a custom AMI, a few new APIs, a new Management Console tab, and an Eclipse plugin." - Governmental Cloud in the EU – New Agency Report — ENISA
- SOLARWINDS SETS SIGHTS ON THE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE AND VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT MARKETS
- Now at Starbucks: Buy a Latte By Waving Your Phone – NYTimes.com
"On Wednesday, Starbucks plans to announce that customers of the 6,800 stores the company operates in the United States and the 1,000 that are in Target stores will be able to pay for their lattes with their cellphones instead of pulling out cash or a credit card." - Is SaaS office safe?
- Splunk Reports 2010 Revenue of $66 Million; 96% Annual Growth Rate
- H-P CEO Crafts New Strategy
- Cassandra Service Company Riptano Changes Name to DataStax
Man, I always liked Riptano. Better than this new name for sure. - IBM (nearly) hits $100bn in 2010 sales
"In the fourth quarter of 2010, IBM's mainframe sales were the best that company has seen in six years." - Dell Morphs into Amazonian ‘Public Cloud’ Biz?
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