Okay, so it’s a few more than 300. What can I tell you? The segment is
growing by leaps and bounds. The question remains, who is gaining mind share
in the 1st quarter of 2012?
So let's take a look at the Top Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share, and The
Leaderboard (Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers). Large enterprise IT
companies continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand cloud compute
model enhancing their portfolios with Cloud acquisitions. Here is a snapshot
of 2012 acquisitions and the most recent changes to the rankings since 3Q2011
(followed by 2011 and 2010 acquisitions).
2012 Acquisitions: Akamai acquires Cotendo (Cloud platform / Web
acceleration) Apigee acquires Usergrid (API, mobile) AMD acquires Seamicro
(Microservers) Best Buy acquires mindSHIFT (Cloud Service Provider for SMB))
BMC acquires Numara (IT Management Solutions) Dell acquires AppAss... (more)
IBM has jumped into the MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform)
competition with yesterday’s announced intent to acquire MEAP vendor
Worklight. Worklight is headquartered in New York and was founded in 2006
by CEO Shahar Kaminitz. Worklight's software supports HTML5, hybrid and
native applications for smartphones and tablets with industry-standard
technologies and tools. Their solutions include an Eclipse-based software
IDE (integrated development environment), mobile middleware, mobile solution
management and analytics.
Worklight Studio competes with Appcelerator, Ver... (more)
We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way
into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC
company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard
way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud).
Harris claims customers have a preference for on premise (private cloud)
solutions, though a McKinsey survey mentioned in the article indicates CIOs
will take a “balanced” approach (read: Hybrid Cloud). Besides, acquiring
on-premise IT business won’t get easier in the Federal government space
with its shift to a... (more)
my1login is the first personal portal to offer bullet-proof password
management integrated with a dashboard for email and social media.
A new secure personal portal, my1login, launches today in the US and UK
giving web users a highly encrypted 'vault' where they can manage, store and
even safely share their logins, passwords and PINs using a free, highly
secure, web-based interface.
Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook had his fan page hacked in January 2011.
If he isn't safe on his own social networking site then who is? It's not
clear whether he was careless with his password, w... (more)
Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.
Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active
players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we
identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony,
if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the
"Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in e... (more)
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