Category: News

Grazed from Renaissance Capital. Author: PR Announcement.

RingCentral, which provides cloud-based phone systems to small businesses, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. The San Mateo, CA-based company, which was founded in 1999 and booked $136 million in sales for the 12 months ended June 30, 2013, plans to list under the symbol RNG, but has yet to announce an exchange. RingCentral initially filed confidentially on June 24, 2013. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and BofA Merrill Lynch are the joint bookrunners on the deal. No pricing terms were disclosed.

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6k3fhc/hybrid_cloud) has announced the addition of the "Hybrid Cloud Market by Delivery Models, Cloud Management & Cloud Security – Global Advancements, Market Forecasts & Analysis (2013 – 2018)" report to their offering.

‘Hybrid Cloud Market by Delivery Models (Saas, Paas, Iaas), by Cloud Management (Cloud Bursting, Cloud Orchestration), by Cloud Security (Network Security, Data Security, Physical Security – Global Advancements, Market Forecasts & Analysis (2013 – 2018)’…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Chris Kanarkarus.

Salesforce.com’s next CRM (customer relationship management) software release will contain a slew of new features, with many focused on the Chatter collaboration and messaging tool as well as customer service, according to a set of official release notes. Many new features associated with Chatter concern usability and access to the system. For example, now iOS device users will be able to launch Chatter Mobile from their Salesforce.com email.

This is an important update "as most folks are still email-dependent," said analyst Ray Wang , CEO of Constellation Research. Another major new feature, albeit available only as a pilot, is called Salesforce Files. It allows users to "securely sync files between Chatter and your desktop and some mobile devices," according to the notes. "This is the competitor to Box," and something customers should look at, Wang said…

Grazed from Dell. Author: PR Announcement.

Today at VMworld 2013, Dell announced new cloud and virtualization solutions to help customers deliver increased performance, agility and efficiency. The new end-to-end offerings demonstrate the breadth of the Dell and VMware integrations and strength of the partnership.

"Customers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to procuring cloud and virtualization solutions and Dell is on target with its new offerings as the company is both innovating and partnering to give customers exactly the solutions that will best fit their business needs," said Wayne Pauley, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Dell’s new offerings should help customers boost IT performance and better enable business agility. When you include VMware’s virtualization technology with Dell’s solutions, customers will want to take a close look at how they can further enhance and quickly optimize their businesses with these joint solutions."…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lindsey Nelson.

Businesses have reached a tipping point. No longer is it a question of “if” they should turn to the cloud, rather the questions are now a matter of when and which areas of the business would you like to see impacted first. It’s more than just collaboration and anywhere, anytime access.

According to a recent survey administered by SAP and the Knowledge@Wharton group, 85% of respondents believe that cloud computing will not only transform their business, but their industry as well. Why? The survey discovered two main reasons why the adoption of cloud computing in businesses continues to grow globally…

Grazed from HP. Author: PR Announcement.

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a cloud service around SAP’s HANA in-memory database, targeting customers who want to analyse Big Data. Called HP As-a-Service Solution for SAP HANA, it will be available worldwide, but initial roll out is for Australia and New Zealand, HP has said.

The service runs in an HP managed cloud environment, as a managed virtual private cloud or a managed private cloud, within a regionalised, enterprise-class HP data centre facility, the company said. It is powered by HP AppSystem for SAP HANA which is SAP certified, and allows customers to benefit from in-memory computing technology and process large quantities of data in the main memory of the server to provide quicker results from analysis and transactions…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

DYXnet Group( http://www.dyxnet.com ), Greater China’s ICT (Information and Communication Technology) service provider, proudly won The Best Application Award of 2013 Asia Pacific Cloud Apps (APCA) Innovation Award, which is organized by Asia Pacific Cloud Apps Alliance, for its Cloud Dedicated Hosting (CDH) Service. DYXnet is one of the four winners in the Best Application category. The award event this year is named "Flying Cloud Cup", meaning "Cloud App Dragons fly in Asia".

"We are honored to be recognized by Asia Pacific Cloud Apps Alliance for our advancements in Cloud solutions, which also marks the second award for our Cloud service, following ‘CAPITAL Outstanding Green Excellence Awards’ organized by CAPITAL," said Mr. Lap Man, Founder & CEO of DYXnet Group. "We are delighted and encouraged with such recognition. The award further strengthens our belief in developing our Cloud service…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Lenovo today announced a comprehensive and validated architecture design to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) implement a private cloud environment. Lenovo supports EMC’s VSPEX(TM) program, which specifies EMC-validated technology — including Lenovo ThinkServers — to assemble a virtualization solution that’s pre-tested and proven to meet the IT challenges SMBs often face, such as mitigating costs associated with supporting IT infrastructure and accelerating IT service delivery.

"Lenovo ThinkServer as a core component of a validated VSPEX architecture, specifies leading virtualization, server, and network technology to create a complete virtualization solution that enables SMBs to spend less time and money on IT infrastructure and more time on their business," said Darrel Ward, vice president, Enterprise Product Group. "SMBs and channel providers will benefit from Lenovo’s VSPEX private cloud solutions, which are designed to scale and perform in a simple-to-deploy, single rack."…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

One of the most common questions I get from students is where they can find free cloud computing and enterprise software research. Few if any of my students work for companies who have subscriptions with the top analyst firms however. A small group of students are working on a start-up on the side and want to absorb as much market data as they can.

Many of my former students are also in IT management roles, and when they become interested in a specific cloud computing or enterprise topic over time, they write me and ask if I have any data on their subject of interest. I keep the following list updated from them too. To serve all these students I’ve been adding to the list shown below for a number of years…

Q&A Series: ProfitBricks.  Author: Hoofer.

ProfitBricks is a cloud computing company that provides high-end infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for companies and IT professionals.  They offer fast and stable virtual data centers that are based on high standard virtualization technology, which allows customers to easily scale their individual infrastructure to fit their specific needs at any time.  To find out more about this company, I spoke with Pete Johnson, the senior director of cloud platform evangelism.

Q: With so many players getting involved in public cloud, what are differentiators that make ProfitBricks stand out?

A: First generation public cloud providers did a great job creating the market, but like any initial offering 1.0 is never the endgame.  At ProfitBricks, we consider ourselves to be the price/performance leader in the public cloud space which we accomplish with our Cloud Computing 2.0 architecture. By that we mean a more flexible, easier to use public cloud with superior performance and at a better price…