Here’s Why Cloud Computing Stocks Dumped
Cloud software momo stock Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) dropped over 10% after investors reviewed quarterly earnings. The news had a negative impact on the high flying cloud computing sector. Here are some key stocks investors sold:
Constant Contact, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTCT): CTCT shares recently traded at $21.45, down $1.43, or 6.25%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $14.46 to $36.33. About the company: Constant Contact, Inc. provides web-based e-mail marketing tools and services to businesses, associations, and organizations to help them connect with their customers and members…
CA Develops New Partner Focus, Initiatives As Cloud Computing Reshapes Its Business
CA Technologies is overhauling its partner program as the company expands into cloud management software and targets prospective midmarket customers it has largely ignored until now.
Problem is, CA historically has had a less-than-stellar reputation as a channel-friendly company. But partners attending the CA World conference in Las Vegas this week seem impressed by what they have seen so far…
Birst Intros Cloud-Based Mobile BI SDK for iPad
Birst figures it’s scored an industry first by making its cloud-based Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) SDK available for the Apple iPad.
The new iOS SDK lets developers embed highly interactive and visual Birst-powered business analytics in their native iPad apps. Taking advantage of the iPad’s gesture-based interface, they can build mobile applications that filter information of interest and drill into details on both charts and report tables.
The widgetry saves developers from having to concentrate on the plumbing, such as the data warehouse, data integration, data quality and core BI engine, and lets them focus on building business intelligence into their applications. By writing to Birst’s Mobile APIs, the company says they can bypass the complicated data integration, quality and consolidation issues that underpin BI implementations…
Malware turns cool cloud idea into money-sucking parasite for consumers
Build a cloud computing service based on hardware belonging to other people, but sell it just like any other commercial cloud service.
Use the same highly distributed approach SETI did in the ’90s and try not to notice the similarity between a legitimate cloud service based on borrowed CPU cycles from privately owned machines, and malware-driven botnets that do the same thing except that they deliver DDOS rather than financial results.
The good and evil in that model changed places a bit, according to Kaspersky Labs, which yesterday identified both the malware and the plan malware writers used to exploit a cool new idea in cloud computing for their own benefit. …
5 Reasons Cloud Computing Is The Future
Much has been made in recent years regarding the growth of cloud computing. Cloud computing is the practice of storing data and files online in lieu of a physical computer or local server. Although ostensibly the term cloud computing sounds like some futuristic concept that is decades away, many individuals utilize cloud services every day, from web-based email, music and video to gaming sites that allow you to play high performance games on low-end machines. However, cloud computing perhaps makes the most sense for businesses, as the service offers increased flexibility and security at a price precipitously lower than the old paradigm of hardware and software upgrades.
Examples of cloud computing programs in business include SaaS, file storage, online backup storage, file syncing, and customer relationship management. In fact, it is now possible for companies to create their own private cloud, which is used to provide specialized services unique to a specific group of employees…
Cloud Computing: ScrumWorks Agile Widgetry Goes SaaS
Collabnet has hoisted its ScrumWorks Pro Agile project management tool into its Codesion public cloud development platform and made it on-demand.
It says developers can now "code, connect and deploy" software on an enterprise-grade platform backed by 24/7 support, uptime SLAs and integrations with the usual development solutions and both public and private cloud production environments.
Figure Amazon, Google App Engine, Force.com and Joyent…
Should the Cloud Go Public?
The evidence is beginning to slowly seep through: the public sector is finally starting to “get” cloud computing.
Almost every day we hear of corporations, local authorities and other public bodies dabbling with software as a service.
Small and medium-sized businesses have been “getting it” for a while but what is causing the public sector to join the cloud revolution?
Is it the simple fact that organizations are simply catching on to the benefits or maybe our age of austerity is forcing public bodies to be more creative in the way they seek to cut their costs…
Flex Discovery Extends Managed Service Offerings with the Addition of Cloud-Based Managed Hosting Service
Flex Discovery, a leading provider of managed e-discovery and attorney review services today announced the availability of its new Managed Hosting Service. The innovative offering provides law firms and corporations all the benefits of cloud computing for managing e-discovery without the security challenges of sharing the organization’s environment in a public cloud.
Utilizing dedicated computing equipment residing in a state-of-the-art data center, this service provides clients with a Private Cloud to manage e-discovery. Clients can license industry leading e-discovery software from Flex Discovery or can transfer applications currently held in-house to the Private Cloud environment, or both. This enables clients to transfer the IT infrastructure acquisition and maintenance responsibilities to Flex Discovery…
Cloud Computing Storage: Big Data Drives the Cloud Storage Increases
Enterprise IT strategies are under pressure to change, and increasingly the cloud is becoming an important component in revised strategies. Analysts at IDC expect that Enterprise IT shops will increasingly implement private-cloud solutions. And often the central component of these cloud solutions is storage.
Spending on private-cloud storage is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 28.9 percent from 2010 to 2015. At that rate, private-cloud storage will triple by 2015. That’s huge compared to the growth of on-premise storage which is growing currently at about 4 percent annually. The report notes that while revenues for cloud services will see huge growth over the next four years, the amount of money that public and private cloud providers will be required to spend is equally huge. Private and Public cloud providers are expected to be two of the biggest spenders on IT products over the next four years…
Cloud Computing company Apprenda Upgrades Its .NET Private PaaS
Remember .NET, the other application software platform besides J2EE, which always seems to dominate cloud conversations?
Well, Apprenda, which has got a rare if not unique "deploy anywhere" private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) stack for .NET, has just released Apprenda Platform 3.0, hoping to set the standard for enterprise-ready PaaS offerings.
For one thing, it’ll work with any .NET or SQL Server application now, making it appealing to service providers as well as enterprises interested in a private Azure-like set-up…