Atlanta-based OutSystems, an application development specialist, has launched the seventh edition of Agile Platform, which the company claims will help customers to enhance control over application development, improve application lifecycle management and bridge the gap between the development and operations functions in an organization.
New features in OutSystems Agile Platform 7 include:
Simplified DevOps. Agile Platform 7 introduces LifeTime, a new component for application lifecycle management that provides increased control over application development without sacrificing operational simplicity. With …
Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) and SAP announced that AWS now offers more SAP certified services including SAP Business All-in-One for both Linux and Windows, and expanded certification for SAP Rapid Deployment and SAP Business Objects business intelligence (BI) to include Windows Server 2008 R2. The news comes as SAP kicks off the Sapphire Now customer and partner conference (Orlando, Fla., May 14-16).
For these two tech heavyweights, the enhanced collaboration allows customers and partners to implement SAP solutions on …
SalesForce.com (NYSE: CRM) division FinancialForce.com announced that the “2012 Cloud Accounting Evaluation Guide,” written by research firm Vital Analysis, is freely available on its website. The report is meant to help companies research current cloud accounting software, describing the “unique selection process and purchase criteria that should be used when buying an accounting solution today.” Also on the site is an on-demand webinar entitled “The Top 6 Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Accounting (but should).”…
Two up-and-coming cloud firms have received venture capital funding: Coupa Software, a provider of spend optimization software, and CopperEgg, a cloud monitoring and analytics firm.
Located in San Mateo, Calif., Coupa Software announced a round of $22 million in Series E financing led by new investor Crosslink Capital, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, and Mohr Davidow Ventures. Coupa added several enhancements to its cloud-based software earlier …
The NetSuite (NYSE: N) cloud-based ERP platform seems to be attracting the next-generation IT channel — whether you call them cloud VARs, cloud integrators or cloud consultants. Skeptical? Check out this week’s NetSuite SuiteWorld 2012 conference (May 14-17, San Francisco).
A SuiteWorld partner-only session on May 14 is expected to attract scores of NetSuite cloud integrators — many of whom are shifting customers from on-premises Microsoft Dynamics ERP to NetSuite’s cloud. That’s a recurring theme each year at SuiteWorld, where …
When Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) recently announced its long-term strategy for OpenShift, I began to think about potential implications for cloud-focused application developers and emerging cloud consultants. Already, cloud developers are seeking to understand cloud platforms like OpenStack, CloudStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and VMware Cloud Foundry. Amid all that noise, can Red Hat attract developers to OpenShift? And equally important: Can cloud consultants explain OpenShift and its alternatives to business customers?
So far, Red Hat is …
Cloud computing and cloud services stocks fell 2.43 percent for the week ended May 11, 2012. The biggest one-week losers in our Talkin’ Cloud Stocks Index were Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), VMware (NYSE: VMW), Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA) and SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI). The biggest weekly winner was Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB). Much like the broader Dow Jones Industry Index and the NASDAQ, our Talkin’ Cloud Stocks Index has been particularly volatile in the past few weeks.
Among the weekly changes …
Google has announced a flexible billing offer for Google Apps Authorized Resellers, and Google Drive also is available now via Google’s partner program. Those channel-centric moves should further silence critics who recently suggested that Google might deemphasize Google Apps in the future.
Ravi Byakod, technical lead, Google Apps, mentioned in Google+ post:
“Monthly post-pay billing is now available to resellers in the Google Apps Reseller program, providing flexibility in payment and cash flow to both resellers and their Google Apps…
Converged infrastructure and automated software firm Egenera announced that IBM (NYSE: IBM) has certified its main software, PAN Manager, for IBM’s BladeCenter platform. Based on Egenera’s PAN (processing area network) Architecture, its flagship PAN Manager is a converged infrastructure management software product that provides rapid provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery and secure multitenancy, as well as physical and virtual management.
For Egenera, which hailed the news as a “significant announcement,” this is confirmation of its commitment to giving enterprises …
Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) has some serious cloud mojo lately. The company attracted roughly 2,000 channel partners to its Citrix Summit 2012 partner event in San Francisco, from where the statistic emerged that an overwhelming majority of its VARs — 85 percent — see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack. Add to that its headline-stealing move to submit CloudStack to Apache Hadoop at the start of April, and with this week’s Citrix Synergy gathering in San Francisco, …
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