IBM bets £200 million on UK Big Data
IBM and the UK Government have announced a £313 million deal to further research into Big Data at the Hartree Centre in Daresbury. The deal sees IBM putting in £200 million...
Xero ups the ante for online accounting
Life seems to be one big bowl of cherries for cloud-based accounting vendor Xero. At Xerocon US, it announced that subscriber numbers worldwide had passed the 500,000 mark. Not bad for...
Telstra admits Pacnet breach
Telstra has made public a security breach at its recent acquisition Pacnet. According to the press release the breach occurred before the $697 million deal with Pacnet was finalised and once...
OpenStack interoperability and federated identity
At the OpenStack Summit taking place in Vancouver Canada, the two big announcements from day one are interoperability and federated identity. Both of these announcements should help reduce the concern that...
Tableau Online 9.0 accelerates analytics
Tableau has announced the immediate availability of its Tableau Online 9.0 Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics service.
This release comes a month after Tableau released its core...
Oracle brings Database as a Service to OpenStack
Oracle and Mirantis have announced that they will collaborate to bring Database as a Service (DBaaS) to OpenStack.
The plan is to enable Oracle Multitenant on the OpenStack Murano application catalogue making...
Mirantis to gain Platform as a Service
Mirantis and Pivotal have announced that they intend to integrate Cloud Foundry with OpenStack. The detail of the announcement was laid out in a blog by John Jainschigg, Technical Solutions Marketing...
CTERA releases enterprise Data Services Platform v5
CTERA has announced that after two years of work it has finally finished the CTERA Enterprise Data Services Platform v5. Citing it as a major milestone Liran Eshel, CEO and co-founder...
ERP +CRM : A new FrankenCloud?
AddonSoftware® and GoldMine® have formed a strategic partnership bringing together two customer bases that each believes is fertile ground for each others software. In the announcement there is however little reason...
NetSuite dumps Amazon for Microsoft
Netsuite has signed a strategic cloud alliance with Microsoft that will see it move all of its cloud and on-premises deployments to Azure by the end of 2015. This is a...