Microsoft Announces 2016 Partner of the Year Winners and Finalists
By: Linda Rosencrance Microsoft this week announced the winners and finalists of the Microsoft 2016 Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize top Microsoft partners demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. This year, Microsoft acknowledged partners in 37 categories in each of the core partner competencies, […]
Cloud and software jobs surge over last 12 months
By: Business Cloud News Rackspace has released the findings from its annual analysis of the IT job market which highlighted demand for positions in and around cloud computing are rising at a healthy rate. Vacancies for AWS engineer roles increased by 125% over the last 12 months, where are those advertised for Microsoft Azure competencies […]
Salesforce ventures into e-Commerce with $2.8bn acquisition
By: Business Cloud News Salesforce has taken another step towards the e-Commerce market after announcing it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Demandware for $2.8 billion. Demandware provides a cloud-based e-commerce platform and related services for retailers and brands worldwide, going public during 2012 after raising $88 million in its initial public offering of […]
Oracle employee says she was sacked for refusing to fiddle cloud accounts
By: John Ribeiro Svetlana Blackburn was working as senior finance manager in Oracle’s cloud business. A senior finance manager in Oracle’s cloud business has complained to a federal court that she was terminated from her job because she refused to go along with accounting principles she considered unlawful. In a complaint in the U.S. District […]
Microsoft brings advanced security management to Office 365
By: Thor Oluvsrud Microsoft aims to give IT more visibility and control into Office 365 environments with advanced security features that leverage behavioral analytics and machine learning for threat detection. Security in the cloud is all about visibility and control, and Microsoft is aiming to give Office 365 customers more of both with Wednesday’s introduction […]
Crowe Horwath Acquires Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner Firm AbleBridge
By: Linda Rosencrance Microsoft Gold partner Crowe Horwath LLP, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm, has acquired Westborough, Mass.-based AbleBridge Inc., a Microsoft partner and provider of solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This will be Crowe Horwath’s first location in the Boston area. As part of the deal, Crowe has “welcomed the personnel […]
U.S. CIO aims to cut legacy spending, proposes IT modernization
y: Kenneth Corbin With three-quarters of all government IT spending going to support legacy systems, administration is seeking to borrow a page from private sector with a dedicated modernization fund. With the startling new finding that federal agencies spend about three-quarters of their IT budgets on keeping legacy systems running, is it any wonder that […]
Intel continues IoT innovation through Itseez acquisition
By: Jamie Davies Intel has continued its strides into the IoT market through the acquisition of Itseez, a computer vision and machine learning company. Itseez, which was founded by two former Intel employees, specializes in computer vision algorithms and implementations, which can be used for a number of different applications, including autonomous driving, digital security […]
Apple to sell ‘personal cloud’ products instore from June
By: Business Cloud News Promise Technologies has announced Apple will exclusively sell its Apollo ‘personal cloud’ appliances instore from June 7. The product itself is billed by Promise as a safer way to share and save photos, videos and files, which can be uploaded from anywhere in the world through the Apollo Cloud App which […]
Netsuite localizes services in Asian markets
By: Business Cloud News Netsuite has continued efforts to localize services worldwide, announcing a number of new partnerships at CXO Summit in Singapore, as well as new product launches. The company launched NetSuite OneWorld for companies based in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as multinationals specifically doing business across Asia. The NetSuite OneWorld solution […]