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We all know that there is a lot of wasted space in most VM storage repositories due to duplicate data. (Or we should.) But what isn't as well known is

One of the newer startups in the Enterprise 2.0 community has been acquired by SuccessFactors, a SaaS provider that focuses on employee productivity. SuccessFactors is acquiring CubeTree for $20 million

Apple develops world-class APIs. But how do they do it? Here's a bit of insight into the process Apple goes through as explained by Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior VP of

Windows Azure Chief Bob Muglia is correct when he compares this year's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) to the 1992 event when Microsoft introduced Windows NT. You can trace the rise

When will the iPad deliver in the enterprise? We first asked this question on Feb 11th when we interviewed the Citrix team. At the time, we gave it a thumbs-up

The cloud fundamentally changes the way enterprise applications function. Increasingly we are seeing traditional enterprise applications emerge in the cloud and partner with other Web-based services that have consumer appeal.

Today Google announced a new service based on technology from its Postini acquisition: Google Message Continuity. "Google Message Continuity works by replicating email accounts hosted on Microsoft Exchange Servers

We posted yesterday about Wordpress.com founder Matt Mullenweg and his view that cloud computing is marketing speak. The conversation followed a significant Wordpress.com outage. In our research looking into the

The Chrome OS is a bit different than most operating systems. Scheduled to be unveiled late this year, the Chrome OS is entirely cloud-based. It's still speculative to say if

Central Desktop announced today a new collaborative framework that allows people to open, save, edit and co-author files stored in the cloud directly from Microsoft Office. Adding to the services

Couchio, the corporate sponsor of CouchDB, announces today that it is changing its name to CouchOne and introducing CouchOne Mobile, a mobile app development platform based on CouchDB. As with

John Musser knows the API market. He's the founder of Programmable Web, the well-regarded network that indexes and provides resources about APIs. Musser presented last week at Gluecon about the

A group of companies have formed an alliance to encourage cloud computing by making the data center radically different than it is today. The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) consists

A first peek at Apple's new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, shows a massive complex that demonstrates the huge commitment Apple may be making to cloud computing. According to

Google TV is about to launch. It's playing a part in the way people think about how the Internet and traditional media meet to form an entertainment experience that is

A drawback to the Twitter API is its incompatibility with the cloud. The API looks for one IP address when making a call. A rate limit is imposed so a

The Nikkei Daily in Japan is reporting that Fujitsu will invest $537 million in cloud computing for 2011. That seems like a staggering investment to us but perhaps it's not

Apple is building a massive data center in North Carolina for its iTunes Cloud. But, recently they faced a problem. To really get onto the cloud, Apple needed more land.

We do not hear much about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) when covering the cloud computing space. This struck me after reading the news yesterday about the dismissal of AMD

This week I attended HP ISS Tech Day at Hewlett-Packard's Houston facility along with several other bloggers. We were given a tour and demonstrations of HP's Industry Standard Servers

SimpleGeo provides a platform for developers to build location-aware applications, and it has the distinction of being our Most Promising Company For 2011. Spatial data is multidimensional, so SimpleGeo

Rackspace launched an iPad app to manage a cloud infrastructure, one of the first to offer such a service. Amazon Web Services (AWS) does not have apps for the iPhone

Puppet Labs, the commercial sponsor of the open-source server configuration framework Puppet, announces today its acquisition of an open source project called The Marionette Collective. The Marionette Collective, also known

Cloud Sherpas has made a business of migrating and servicing Google Apps customers. It has migrated 600,000 users from platforms such as Lotus Notes and Sharepoint. Cloud Sherpas also offers

It's official. Open Stackhas made its first release. It's a major moment for the nascent open cloud initiative, a service that combines the Rackspace object storage capabilities with NASA's Nebula,