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Just last Tuesday Oracle acquired CMS company FatWire and data quality software vendor Datanomic. Today Oracle bought Pillar Data, a SAN storage company majority owned by Oracle CEO Larry

CA Technologies acquisition of a consulting firm gets to the heart of what happens to companies when they begin to adopt virtualization technologies. Andi Mann of CA makes the point

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

Google Voice, Google's call routing and VOIP service, is finally coming to Google Apps according to Fortune tech blogger Seth Weintraub. Weintraub writes that Google Voice is now enabled

Data backup service Mozy (owned by EMC and managed by ReadWriteCloud sponsor VMware) is running an interesting infographic about data storage that looks into how much data there is

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

There may be no place else to put all this "big data" except the cloud, if the sheer breadth of data continues to expand at the current rate. The demand

The social enterprise space continues to gain acceptance. After years of promise, the market seems to be truly hitting its stride. This is best represented by the continued funding of

Rackspace is offering a hosted desktop virtualization service with Citrix that provides a way to virtualize all those tablets and smartphones that people are bringing to work. It also

We're seeing this more and more in enterprise servers: a return to an older-style architecture where certain high-bandwidth, full-time functions are supplied by hardware. This time it's from BridgeSTOR, which

Forrester analyst James Staten has compiled his list of ten cloud computing (or, more specifically, infrastructure-as-a-service) predictions for 2011. Staten sees hosted private clouds and community clouds being increasingly

Salesforce.com is acquiring Jigsaw for $142 million in a deal that exemplifies how crowdsourcing has entered the business world. Sugar CRM also uses Jigsaw for business directory information. The deal

Google's Chrome OS and Chromebooks have been dinged for lacking some features needed for business but the company is starting to get around to addressing those concerns. On Wednesday, August

Larry Ellison may be remembered as the one who steered clear of the "folly" that is cloud computing. Or he may be remembered for ignoring the real and considerable impacts

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

Google has been working to harden Google Apps for its arrival into the enterprise. The tools bring browser based productivity into another dimension. And, where people are productive, security is

The big guns of the technology world are sometimes like that aging baseball team making another run for the World Series. The baseball team's roster is filled with stars in

A service has launched that in its business scope is similar to Hotwire.com by creating spot markets for excess capacity from cloud computing providers. SpotCloud provides a way for sellers

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

In December, BroadVision executives met with colleagues from SoftBank, the massive Japanese telecommunications company. What they came away with was a micro activity stream that does what Salesforce.com Chatter

Earlier this month we covered Gartner analyst David J. Cappuccio's concerns that a data center crisis is looming. This week we're seeing increased data center hiring. We talked to

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

According to Randy Bias of Cloudscaling, Amazon is closing in on $1 billion a year in revenue for AWS, and he predicts that it's on track to be the biggest

What is IT-as-a-Service and how do you determine its value for the enterprise? That's the question this month for our MacBook Air contest. Best comment on this post wins.

As usual, VMworld is generating tons of news and product announcements from companies in the virtualization and cloud space. This week there's a smattering of announcements that are worth checking