Monthly Archives: May 2011

Sybase releases mobile Unwired 2.0

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05/20/2011

Via ZDNet UK & Bloomberg: At the Sapphire Now event in Orlando, FL this week, SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe announced an update to the Sybase Unwired platform and SDK which will allow developers to create enterprise applications for the iPhone and other mobile devices, saying “So far mobility is a consumer play. We believe [...]


Forrester taps Abiquo as “Pure-Play” Leader

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05/19/2011

Via Abiquo: A new report released by Forrester Research titled, “Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions Q2 2011” taps Abiquo as the leading “pure-play” Private Cloud vendor in the market today, yet their bake-off only included 17 vendors noting that many who applied were eliminated: “Forrester invited vendors that had production ready solutions, and could provide [...]


SAP Blesses AWS

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05/18/2011

Via Infoworld & GigaOM In a push to acquire new business and keep existing customers that are moving to enterprise clouds, SAP has certified Amazon Web Services, saying essentially that the tide is too high to look back on cloud computing now despite AWS’ highly publicized outage last month. SAP has been a big AWS [...]


Top 50 Cloud Innovators

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05/18/2011

Via GigaOM Known for their great coverage of all things tech – most recently breaking last week’s story about Microsoft’s purchase of Skype- GigaOM has released its’ “Structure 50”- their 50 top cloud “innovators” for 2011. Some of these are name brands, others are new or haven’t made consistent headway on the street- at least [...]


Canonical Embraces OpenStack

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05/17/2011

Via Ostatic This month Canonical announced it will start supporting OpenStack code for Ubuntu enterprise OS saying  ”The OpenStack project has developed significant user, developer and industry attention over the last year as it has matured. The Ubuntu team has been working closely with the OpenStack project and this will form a strong basis for [...]


VMware Acquires Shavlik

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05/16/2011

Via Shavlik.com This morning Mark Shavlik owner of Shavlik Technologies an SMB security design and application development company founded in 1993 and based in New Brighton, MN announced his firm will be acquired by VMWare for an undisclosed sum writing: “we have grown to help thousands of customers simplify their IT management. Becoming part of [...]


FBI to investigate Amazon over Sony hack

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05/15/2011

Via Bloomberg Bloomberg is reporting this morning that the FBI will launch an investigation into the use of Amazon’s EC2 service to attack Sony’s PlayStation Network saying the government will “subpoena Amazon or seek a search warrant to access the history of transactions, trace who had access to the specific Internet address at the time [...]


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