SocialPandas Secures $1.5 Million in Seed Funding, Led By True Ventures
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SocialPandas (www.socialpandas.com), a startup provider of social selling applications, today announced that it has closed a $1.5 million round of seed funding led by True Ventures, a premier early-stage investment firm. The oversubscribed round also includes prominent angel investments from former Salesforce.com, VMware, and Apple executives as well as the Alchemist Accelerator. The company will use the funds to fuel product development for a launch in 2013.
“Social networks including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn represent enormous opportunities for new revenue streams for business-to-business (B2B) companies,” said Mark Trang, CEO & Co-Founder of SocialPandas. “Enterprises can track vanity metrics like Fans and Followers. However, no comprehensive tools exist for sales teams to discover new leads, engage top prospects, or optimize deal pipelines across social channels. Sales professionals are stuck using pre-social CRM tools, email, and phones while their customers are spending more time on social networks. We’re excited to bridge this gap with a platform built from ground-up that lets sales teams finally ‘speak social’ and compete in the social era.”
Details on the Dell Wyse D class cloud client family
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The new Dell Wyse D Class Cloud Client Family empowers customers with enhanced enterprise grade features, and packs a punch with improved computing performance.
– New dual core mid-range cloud client family delivers an exceptional user experience including high definition multimedia, voice and video functionalities and essential I/O support for virtualized desktop environments
– Includes flexible networking and storage options and easy "hands off" management
– Extremely energy-efficient, using only 9.2 watts of electricity in operation…
Boundary Offers Free Monitoring of Cloud Apps
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Boundary is trying to reach more customers for its application performance monitoring service with a free version that has all the same features as the existing offering. The service has also been upgraded to simplify problem diagnosis, the company said on Tuesday.
Boundary is used to keep track of cloud-based applications, distributed applications and clusters. It works by monitoring the flow of packets between servers and alerts users when something is going wrong.
The addition of a free version is meant to make it easier for enterprises to try out the service. The free version has all the same features as the paid version, but Boundary limits the amount of data that can be sent for analysis. Users also have to rely on community support and they can’t store historical data…
Monetizing The Cloud: 10 Benefits Of Agreement Based Billing
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Modern businesses are now beginning to understand the importance of the cloud in terms of delivering services and even products. The cloud makes everything easier and more efficient so more and more businesses are reaping the benefits of cloud computing. But just in case you do not know how this is done yet, here is your answer. Agreements-based billing (ABB) allows you and your business to monetize your cloud applications in order to appeal to customers in new and revolutionary ways and allow you to track and capture their activities on the cloud.
So here are 10 ways that you can use ABB to monetize the cloud:…
Security mindset must change with cloud
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Companies need to move away from the mentality of having complete control over their IT infrastructure and securing different IT stacks in a piecemeal manner when they make the move toward cloud computing, industry executives urge.
Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), said traditional IT security practices have always been black and white in that tech departments know they have complete control over the company’s hardware and infrastructure.
In knowing this, they can develop their own security regime or outsource it to a third-party provider completely, Reavis added during the CloudSec 2012 conference held here on Wednesday…
Cloud Computing: Microsoft revamps SkyDrive
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Microsoft has repurposed its SkyDrive cloud storage service for the smartphone, ultrabook and tablet computing age just ahead of the official rollout of Windows 8. The new SkyDrive comes with some snazzy new HTML 5 features that work across Windows and Mac environments, as well as a new app specifically for Android devices.
The move ideally positions Microsoft to compete aggressively against competition in the form of Google Drive, Apple’s iCloud, Amazon’s cloud services and fast-moving ventures like Dropbox.
The company has also revealed that its new Outlook.com email service, designed to take on Gmail and stave off competition in the form of Apple’s iCloud, has hit 10m users just one week after its big reveal…
Securely outsourcing to the cloud
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The first question that a CIO should ask his cloud provider is, “Where is my data located?”
The implication of releasing control of sensitive organisational data assets to third parties, such as cloud providers, remains a significant inhibitor to businesses transitioning to cloud-based services. Businesses need to be assured that the risk of data compromise and regulatory non-compliance either stays the same or is reduced when outsourcing.
There are multiple steps businesses should follow as data is transitioned outside of the organisation and during its ongoing management:…
Cloud Computing: DoctorsElite Lets You Access Medical Records from Mobile Devices
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Often the best ideas are bred of necessity. This is definitely the case with Gulfport, MS. based software company DoctorsElite, which among other things, allows patients to securely store medical records and access them from anywhere, in case of a disaster or emergency. The company recently announced their launch which includes an iOS app as well as other web features useful for patients, doctors and specialists.
Looking around the Guld Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Cyril V. Bethala, DoctorsElite co-founder who rode the storm out at the Hospital he was working in at the time, saw doctors leaving town and patients fleeing to refuges nationwide. "It was impossible in that devastation for millions of patients to access records, much less connect with doctors" said Dr. Bethala in a company statement. It was solving this problem that was the catalyst and inspiration behind DoctorsElite, co-founded by Dr. Bethala and his two physician brothers, Vivian Bethala and Vasanth Bethala, both practicing physicians who are now the Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer, respectively…
HP Scales Networking Tech for Cloud Scale
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Cloud computing relies on the ability of networks to scale effectively. HP is now expanding its network scalability efforts in a series of new efforts announced today.
The new HP Ethernet Virtual Interconnect (EVI) is a technology that enables up to eight different data centers located in different geographical locations to easily be interconnected. The EVI technology is a software upgrade for HP FlexFabric core switches.
In contrast with simply moving virtual machines from one data center to another with a software-based solution like VMware’s vMotion, the EVI approach is somewhat different.
Piston Cloud to Showcase OpenStack Integration With Cloud Foundry at VMworld
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced it will provide live demos of Cloud Foundry™ BOSH integration with Piston Enterprise OpenStack™ at the 2012 VMworld® Conference. This community open source project allows the Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to run on OpenStack. With cooperation from VMware®, Piston Cloud will distribute and support this new integrated capability in the next release of their flagship product, Piston Enterprise OpenStack.
Cloud Foundry is the leading open source PaaS offering with a fast growing ecosystem and strong enterprise demand. OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open-source cloud computing framework for building public and private clouds.