Amazon Web Services, the cloud services arm of e-retail giant Amazon.com, and Eucalyptus Systems, purveyors of the namesake infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private cloud platform, have announced a partnership that enables the easy migration of...»

In a blog post, Gartner analyst Tom Bittman identifies the top server virtualization trends to watch out for in 2012 as the market matures. Short version: VMware's dominance in this space is threatened as...»

Cloud-hosted Internet telephony provider RingCentral is bringing an old technology into the modern IT landscape with the introduction of CloudFax, promoted as the first-ever fully cloud-integrated fax solution - which may be akin to developing a new,...»

It was announced this week that Amazon.com is dropping no less than $775 million to purchase Kiva Systems, a company that manufactures robots for use in warehouses (Kiva prefers the term "material handling technology," but...»

Thanks to well-timed announcements by Moxie Software and Saba, I've heard no less than three vendors tell me that they've prepared the next generation of the social enterprise model in the last week. Salesforce.com makes up...»

Think Big Analytics is bringing its professional services to the public cloud. The Amazon cloud, to be specific. Think Big Analytics announced today a new consulting practice to help its clients deploy and leverage Big Data technologies on...»

Big Data isn’t just about 1s and 0s. More than most IT functions, Big Data and Data Science in particular are collaborative disciplines. Therefore, as I wrote in my 2012 Big Data predictions post, Big Data analytics...»

Whether for compliance reasons or simply because they didn’t know what else to do with it, enterprises have been storing large volumes of data for ages. With the advent of Big Data, those large volumes have grown...»

IBM has so many analytics potions that it sometimes seems  like they pour from a faucet. But let's face it.  You can serve a lot of drink when you have 9,000 consultants stirring the cauldron. That's...»

Microsoft delivered a much-awaited update on its roadmap for moving its cornerstone Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP applications to its Windows Azure cloud at these week's Microsoft Convergence conference. But that "update" amounts to little...»