East Texas Tech Company Acquires Foundational Cloud Computing Patents
Kinetech Inc. a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) and PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC (PersonalWeb) today announced the recent completion of an asset contribution that provided BDE with majority ownership of PersonalWeb to combine the technology, software development and intellectual property strengths of both companies. As part of the transaction, Kinetech contributed its Truenames patent portfolio to PersonalWeb…
CIOs say move to cloud applications inevitable as public sector leads the way
CIOs will be spending between 40% and 80% of their IT budgets on cloud services in five years, according to senior IT leaders.
The promise of lower capital spending on IT, lower overall IT costs and greater technical agility make cloud computing inevitable, according to a panel of 50 CIOs.
But there remain significant hurdles to overcome before businesses can trust core business applications in the cloud, the CIOs told management consultants Xantus…
Morphlabs’ Pinoy makes mark in cloud computing
La Salle-educated Chinese-Filipino Winston Damarillo moved to the US at age 20, sleeping on his uncle’s couch for a year.
Verecloud Appoints Jeff Hutcheon as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Verecloud, Inc., innovators in the emerging cloud computing services business, today announced that it has appointed sales and marketing veteran Jeff Hutcheon as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing to lead Verecloud to a new level of success…
Virgin Media launches cloud services
Virgin Media Business has today launched a new cloud services and virtualisation portfolio.
Aiming to bring a easy-to-use and jargon free service to customers, Virgin has spearheaded the launch with the Virtual Private Data Centre, which is designed to offer powerful virtual computing to businesses of all sizes…
Google backs off year-old cloud computing lawsuit against federal agency
Usually it’s the defendant in a lawsuit that seeks to have a case dismissed.
But Google, for some mysterious reason, has filed a motion to dismiss the case it brought last October against the U.S. Department of the Interior alleging that the federal agency inappropriately rigged the bidding process for cloud-based email and collaboration services in favor of Microsoft…
CloudPassage Taps Joerg Rathenberg as Vice President of Marketing
CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, today announced that Joerg Rathenberg has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Rathenberg joins CloudPassage from virtual event leader Unisfair, where he was Vice President of Marketing…
A Look at IBM’s Small Business Cloud
IBM believes the world needs to get smaller and smarter, and the way to achieve both goals is for small businesses to embrace cloud computing.
For years, the century-old computer giant has promoted “solutions for a small planet.” Now it’s pushing solutions for “the smarter planet.” Whatever the tag line, the company says that cloud-based solutions from IBM can help small businesses grow faster and succeed bigger…
Is the cloud the ultimate disruptive innovation?
Grazed from Fortune. Author: Aaron Levie.
Fans of Clayton Christensen’s "Innovator’s Dilemma" will be unsurprised that the formula is still alive and well, even in 2011. Yes, apparently innovation still matters. To see the original effect in action, look no further than your desktop. How much desktop software do you generally use on a daily basis? Now, compare that to how many services you — and your company — are using in the cloud, delivered over the web. If you’re like most business people, for the past two decades you’ve been dealing with slow, painful and cumbersome applications to help run your projects, manage your customers and share files. Installations of software tend to take months, maintenance costs more than the original product price, and unexpected delays and down time result in a massive drop in productivity. But all this changes with the cloud…
Linux Labs Launches Beta Program for IaaS Cloud Computing Platform
Searchlight Solutions Ltd. (pinksheets:SLLN) today announces its subsidiary, Linux Labs International, Inc., is launching a beta program for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) style private and hybrid clouds based on their proprietary Indigo file system and Nimbus cloud operating system. The platform provides a single interface that lets users access high performance computing infrastructure resources available in private clouds…