Citrix CEO hedges cloud bets on customer demand for web collaboration tools
At Citrix’s annual Synergy conference in May 2011, the company introduced its "personal cloud" concept to replace traditional desktop computing and cater for IT departments supporting multiple devices, delivering on-demand applications and desktops, as well as protecting corporate data.
The thin-client specialist is now making inroads into the cloud. Citrix Systems CEO Mark Templeton says the company’s personal cloud concept envisages users being able to collaborate and communicate without geographical or corporate boundaries.
Cloud computing presents new challenges for management software
The cloud is revolutionizing networking, and this overhaul presents enormous challenges for IT managers who are used to being able to see, monitor and control their networks and systems.
Network and systems management software has been heading in this general direction for years and is better positioned than you might think to take this next step – but there are several areas that require more work by the industry.
IN DEPTH: Guide to cloud management software
Why consumer cloud needs a PR makeover
If I were Google, Box.net or any other number of cloud-service providers, I’d consider investing in television advertising. References to cloud computing, or “the cloud,” are becoming more abundant on the small screen, but they’re not always informative, nor are they particularly flattering. And that’s in addition to the public relations hit the cloud is taking on just about every other front.
If I didn’t know any better, I might think the cloud is a fairly useless and highly insecure place to store my data. Worse, I might think it’s a joke.
Twitter buys BackType to dig deeper with big data
Go Daddy Gets Private Equity Boost To Fuel Cloud Play
Go Daddy, the massive Web hosting and domain player, brought in a massive investment from a trio of private equity firms to further its cloud computing agenda.
The investment comes from KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. Go Daddy wouldn’t divulge the financial terms of the transaction, but several estimates put it at around $2.25 billion.
Go Daddy also stopped short of calling it a sale or acquisition, and instead is calling the deal a partnership and investment.
The Pace of Public Cloud Computing Change
Given all the noise about cloud computing, the average IT person might be forgiven if they were operating under the delusion that everything related to enterprise IT is about to shift to the cloud tomorrow, especially when it comes to public cloud computing services.
A New Social-Network
Social networking websites provide social networking service where people and groups connect and share, social networks encircle present internet and have become the platform where something about everything can be found.
Members have to register to use a social network service, registration fields include name and email; email verification follows registration. Must this forever be? In a research work for new social web entry, username and password automatically admit users without prior registration. Username and password will be unique and user experience will be different from what is obtainable on most present day social networks.
Size matters, in the big data cloud at least
As it’s the 4th of July today, I am anticipating a slightly slower news day for those of us in technology. Not that America runs the world you understand, but I think a day off for Silicon Valley will have some impact.
Given this reality, I want to revisit a subject I recently covered at feature level with some additional comments from companies that did not fit into my first draft.
The subject? — big data in the cloud.
But what is big data — and it is just marketing spin?