Fast-moving cloud player Dropbox revealed a new acquisition that indicates its destiny lies in the direction of the mobile cloud with the purchase of mobile mail start-up Mailbox. This is in addition to other recent acquisitions that include mobile cloud music service Audiogalaxy, tablet advertising platform TapEngage and photo service Snapjoy.
16.Mar.2013 09:25
If data is going to be the oil of the 21st century, business leaders will need an edge when it comes to capitalising on opportunities in big data. Tech giants EMC and SAS have joined forces with the Irish Management Institute (IMI) and University College Cork (UCC) to create a new master’s degree in data business and a diploma in data business.
15.Mar.2013 10:52
The Irish Government is making an initial €1m investment in a new Dublin technology centre in data analytics called CeADAR, the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research, to leverage the high-growth area that is data analytics and the potential to create jobs.
15.Mar.2013 09:52
Netflix has launched the Netflix Cloud Prize competition in Github, which has US$100,000 available in prize money to challenge developers around the world to improve the features, usability, quality, reliability and security of cloud computing.
15.Mar.2013 07:12
In what it describes as a process of spring cleaning, Google is to retire a number of core internet and cloud products, including its popular RSS service Google Reader.
14.Mar.2013 06:45
Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure player VMware has appointed Bill Fathers as senior vice-president and general manager of VMware’s new Hybrid Cloud Services business unit.
14.Mar.2013 06:00
Technology giant HP has won a major contract with the European Commission to supply HP Integrity servers to support critical workloads, including database-intensive applications and other critical environments, across multiple EU countries.
13.Mar.2013 10:50
Hosted desktop provider Let’s Operate has launched a new total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator that allows SMEs to compare the actual cost of their current traditional IT with that of implementing cloud computing.
13.Mar.2013 09:56
Cloud-based personal organiser Evernote has confirmed that it has discovered and blocked suspicious activity that it deems an organised and co-ordinated attack. The news comes just after Apple, Facebook and Microsoft revealed their networks came under attack from hackers.
04.Mar.2013 11:19
The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5pc in 2013 to reach US$131bn worldwide, up from US$111bn in 2012, according to Gartner.
04.Mar.2013 10:57
Global spending on hosted private cloud services will be more than US$24bn by 2016, IDC has predicted. The sector will grow at a compound annual rate of 50pc a year over the next four years.
01.Mar.2013 14:48
IT and business decision makers have expressed their contempt for ‘cloud washing’ – the over-selling and over-promoting of cloud services as well as poor service delivery – leading to a potential reputation crisis for the tech sector overall.
28.Feb.2013 13:55
Cloud software provider Marketo is making its award-winning software suite multilingual as it sees increased customer adoption in Europe.
26.Feb.2013 11:19
Dublin-based electronic payments processing firm OmniPay has won the 2013 ‘Information Award’ at the Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) gala awards in Berlin.
21.Feb.2013 13:27
Galway ICT companies Computer Troubleshooters and CloudStrong have formed a strategic cloud partnership that will see CloudStrong be the dedicated cloud services supplier for Computer Troubleshooters.
21.Feb.2013 09:54
One of the world’s largest mobile operators Telefónica Digital has selected technology made by Irish technology company FeedHenry to enable a one-stop-shop for creating, managing and securely integrating mobile apps hosted in the cloud.
15.Feb.2013 10:50
