Apple during its iPad 3 announcement also unveiled an update to its iCloud service which from now onwards will support movies too, means the movies you purchase on iTunes will be stored in the cloud and made available for re-download to any of your iOS device. This is seems an extension to the iCloud features with what the company currently offers. ...
According to a new study commissioned by software giant Microsoft, the current spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015. IDC’s research predicts revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion per year by 2015, which, combined with cloud efficiencies, will drive significant organizational...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a serious outage on Tuesday worldwide, leaving many customers unable to access core parts of the service for more than 12 hours. Azure is used by many companies to host and build web applications through Microsoft’s own data centers. Microsoft first noticed the outage issue Tuesday at 5:45 PST, according to a circulated...
Box, an online File Sharing and Cloud Content Management service, has announced a deal with Podio, a social business collaboration platform, to offer storage services to Podio customers expanding its reach across the borders and moving into Europe. Box which seen a strong growth in 2011, now having around 8 million users and 100,000 businesses with a plans to offer...
With the funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team led by Professor Martin Rinard, a principal investigator at CSAIL and leader of the Cloud Intrusion Detection and Repair project from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aim to develop a smart, self-healing cloud computing infrastructure that would be able to identify the nature of an attack almost instantaneously. Cloud computing has become completely ubiquitous, spawning hundreds of new web based services, platforms...
The publicly-listed provider of the cloud-based marketing and PR software, Vocus has reportedly acquired an email marketing company name iContact for small and medium sized businesses. The acquisition comes at a price of $169 million, reports TechCrunch. iContact has raised around $53.3 million to date. The acquired company also allows users to track email campaign,...
Google which is close to launch its “rumoured” Google Drive cloud storage product, looks like will include support for third-party apps and a software development kit. Google Drive allows users to stores pictures, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they could be easily accessible from an internet-connected device and giving the freedom to users...
Salesforce recently released its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter and full year earnings with Q4 revenue of $632 million, an increase of 38 percent on a year-over-year basis, Full Year Revenue of $2.27 Billion, up 37% year-over-year, Quarterly Operating Cash flow of $240 Million, up 45% year-over-year, Full Year Operating Cash Flow of $592 Million, up 29% year-over-year,...
What it would called it to be as when a tech giant asking users to opt out for its service – this is what Apple is doing these days, the Cupertino’s based company has sent out reminder emails to users who have yet to upgrade their MobileMe accounts to iCloud, according to Freakgeeks – the email was sent out yesterday, emphasizing on getting regular updates...
Apple has recently launched its iTunes in the Cloud service in Japan, reports Apple blog Macotokara – the part of Apple’s iCloud product, the cloud music service offers users the ability to enable automatic downloading of newly purchased songs and also allow users to re-download any number of songs that they purchased to any device Since it was with the US users...
