Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

Shades of the Blitz! Cloud Wars Loom over Washington

For its next trick, the unquenchable, super-ambitious Google is gonna try taking over the US government. On Tuesday, after the first federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled Apps.gov, a thinly populated, GSA-managed, almost completely salesforce.com- and Google-dominated web store where federal agencies are supposed to go to get GSA-sanctioned cloud applications and “coming soon” infrastructure services [...]

Microsoft Rips Secret ‘Cloudnapping’ Manifesto

Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret “Open Cloud Manifesto” that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn’t identify the author or authors of this manifesto – one would guess organized by IBM given some recent whispers coming from its direction [...]

Cisco Pushes ‘City-as-a-Service’

Cisco has taken a piece of a really ambitious grid-turned-cloud company in Oz called Majitek that intends to turn all the devices and systems in an entire city into money-making utility services. This, it appears, is “intelligent urbanization,” especially in emerging markets, and is supposed to make for better city management, better quality of life [...]

Gmail Inches Toward Offline Support

Eighteen months or so after Google Gears debuted, a period of time scarred by several major Gmail outages, Google’s cloud-accessible-only e-mail is finally getting invested with offline support. English-speaking US and UK Gmail users who want to test the new skill can now catch up with the rest of the world. Google calls the feature [...]

Ingres Standardizes on Salesforce CRM

Ingres, the open source database company, is using Salesforce CRM. Apparently, it’s been using it for the last couple of months. It integrated Salesforce CRM with the Intacct financial management system from the Force.com AppExchange. It says it gives its sales, marketing and finance staff across five continents access to a single source of information. [...]

EMC Buys SourceLabs Pieces for its Cloud Infrastructure

For reasons it won’t explain EMC has bought some of the assets of SourceLabs – what exactly it won’t say – and hired some of its people – who exactly it won’t comment on – for its opaque Cloud Infrastructure Business. That’s the unit that’ll be run by Harel Kodesh, the ex-Microsoft veteran EMC just [...]