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Cloud Sherpas offers additional IT administrative tools that help make it easy to manage the increasingly popular Google Apps platform. The company is riding the momentum of growth today announced

For the first time in its history, Salesforce.com will launch a REST API. Designed for the Force.com platform, the new API is a departure for Salesforce.com, which has historically provided

One of the leading NoSQL databases has reached the coveted 1.0 release. Apache announced Cassandra 1.0 today, just two years after entering the Apache Incubator. Originally developed at Facebook, Cassandra

It's a gradual move that we see people make to the cloud. It may seem slow at times but it is happening. What moves it along are the incremental changes

Virtualization is often thought of as not the most sexy of topics. But what it can do continues to fascinate, especially in context of the larger mobile marketplace and what

Microsoft unveiled its private cloud in a box today. Windows Azure Platform Alliance is a container system that plugs into an enterprise data center. Microsoft is touting eBay as its

The terms "data visualization" and "infographics," are often used interchangeably. It's understandable as the meanings often overlap. Data is often associated with information. The words visualization and graphics have

In a recent survey by Evans Data, Google gets accolades for its public cloud. IBM gets top marks from developers for its private cloud. But what do developers want the

ReadWriteWeb presents exclusive embedded video of the Dreamforce 2011 conference in San Francisco, with running commentary by Scott Fulton. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff leads the festivities, and he's beginning by

InfoQ has released a video of Twitter's Kevin Weil speaking at Strange Loop earlier this year on how the company uses NoSQL. Weil is quick to point out that

If you've seen the ReadyTalk conferencing platform at work, you know it has one key feature that distinguishes it quite well over certain conferencing competitors: It can run entirely in

I am writing a post about ten trends that point to long-term growth in the enterprise technology market. I keep going back to the report we published last week.

If you were to give a moment's thought to the question of what's keeping high-volume storage centers -- especially the ones with cloud architectures -- from replacing their multiple, redundant

Cisco's cloud computing strategy is starting to accelerate, with a focus on providing infrastructure that makes it easier to get started and expand quickly. Cisco's added emphasis on the cloud

In this post, we'll explore the tug-of-war landscape of the payments industry through the lens of payment gateway Braintree. The company has initiated a Credit Card Data Portability Standard, starting

You'd think it would be an easy thing to market an all-in-one concept of a "cloud-in-a-box" - a package that gives enterprises everything they need to deploy and manage a

At 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning I was doing routine maintenance on my personal Amazon Web Services account and instead found myself looking at something I had no right to

Today, VMforce was officially unveiled by its parent organizations VMware and SalesForce. The companies came together to produce this love-child and are now proudly sharing it with the world. The

The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself

EMC is a large company focused on high performance storage for enterprises. It's offerings are closely aligned with the idea of extending infrastructure from virtualization to private cloud infrastructure. The

IBM Lotusphere is now just getting underway. It's fiddling and super rock. That is all I can call it. We'll be live blogging through the two days here at

We chose our top 10 services based upon what trends bubbled in 2010 and the companies and organizations that responded or even set the tone for the overall market.