November 12, 2015
Upthere Launches Its Home And Camera Apps Into Beta
The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting…
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November 9, 2015
Microsoft Goes For Another Israeli Security Firm Buying Secure Islands
Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure…
Read articleNovember 5, 2015
New Relic Acquires Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Service Opsmatic
The application monitoring service New Relic today announced better-than-expected quarterly earnings, but in addition, it also today disclosed that it has acquired the cloud infrastructure monitoring company Opsmatic.…
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Vera Joins Forces With Dropbox And Okta On Secure File Sharing
Vera, a secure file transfer company announced an agreement today with Dropbox and Okta to offer customers a way to transfer files in a secure fashion from end to…
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IBM’s Shopping Spree Continues As It Buys Cloud Brokerage Firm Gravitant
IBM could have a shopping problem. It’s become the company that can’t say no as it scoops up properties to prop up its cloud strategy. Last week it…
Read articleNovember 3, 2015
Google Apps For Work Passes 2M Paid Businesses, Now Vets And Recommends 3rd-Party Apps
Last month, Google made a bold move to win over more business customers using cloud-based apps by making Google Apps for Work free for any company that is…
Read articleNovember 2, 2015
ClearSky Data Lands $27 Million To Expand Hybrid Storage Solution
ClearSky Data has come up with an interesting approach to solve the data storage cost and speed problem. Today it was rewarded with a $27 million Series B…
Read articleOctober 29, 2015
An Inside Look At Upthere, The Company Aiming To Be Your Personal Cloud
The year is 2015 and yet the promise of the “personal cloud” has failed me. There are tons of drag and drop and syncing “backup services” but nowhere…
Read articleOctober 27, 2015
OpenStack Foundation Announces Certification Program For Cloud Admins
The OpenStack Foundation, the nonprofit behind the increasingly popular open-source cloud computing project, today announced the launch of a certification program for OpenStack cloud admins during its bi-annual…
Read articleOctober 26, 2015
Is Dell-EMC The Canary In The Coal Mine For More Enterprise M&A?
When Dell announced it was buying EMC earlier this month for $67 billion, it would have been easy to see the deal in isolation, but what if it were…
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