September 28, 2011
A Look at IBM’s Small Business Cloud
Grazed from Small Business Computing. Author: Gerry Blackwell.
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…
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…
Data center provider Telx (
Cloud application developer CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com) announced on Tuesday it has named former Oracle senior vice president Steven Harris the company’s senior vice president of products.
Today, the leading provider of cloud-based healthcare management solutions, CareCloud ( www.carecloud.com ) has announced Series A funding of $20.1 million, led by Intel Capital and joined by Norwest Venture Partners. The round includes an approximately $3.8 million conversion of debt to equity…
Birst figures it’s got the first SaaS-based BI software appliance.
Sensible Cloud, the industry’s first cloud control company, today introduced sense(TM), a new solution that makes cloud computing easier, more cost-effective and transparent, ensuring that organizations have tighter governance over cloud investments. sense automatically right-sizes cloud resources in real-time, driven by customers’ business, cost and performance parameters. sense is delivered in two configurations: as a platform with a highly-customized series of cloud control applications targeted at large enterprise organizations; or through controlmycloud.com, which offers a range of hosted template-based cloud control applications tailored specifically for SMEs. In both cases, customers select or design cloud control apps that enable them to scale cloud resources up and down as necessary to meet key business requirements, minimize costs and eliminate downtime and concerns associated with cloud outages…
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called