5 lessons for CIOs in the age of the cloud
Chiquita Brands is famous for the fresh produce it brings to the table. It’s a mature, established company that’s has a “cloud first” mantra for all new applications, said CIO Kevin Ledford.
Zenefits snags $15M plus Lars Dalgaard for its board
SuccessFactors’ founder and former CEO brings lots of human resources know-how to upstart Zenefits, which has a new $15M in Series A funding under its belt.
OpenStack Havana goes live, but here’s what’s important: new users!
Next month’s OpenStack Summit will feature some new big-name users — Workday, Concur, Shutterstock — of the open-source cloud infrastructure.
Oracle, the leader in relational databases, is playing catchup everywhere else
Oracle leads the league in relational databases but it’s far from clear that the company can replicate its success in non-relational and in-memory categories. That’s why Larry Ellison’s no-show matters.
Microsoft paints the cloud Azure; Oracle gets lovey-dovey: the week in cloud
Microsoft pushes Azure to developers beyond the Windows world; Oracle seeks to partner its way to cloud credibility
Cloud wars: what happens when one vendor outs another?
Update: It’s messy when one tech vendor claims a major competitive win without the customer around to validate it. So, is Workday using HP Cloud or not?
HP Cloud scores big customer win, a passle of PaaS moves: The week in cloud
Updated: Hewlett-Packard claimed Workday is moving from AWS to HP Cloud. AWS said no way, and so it goes.
With SaaS, it’s not just about your apps — it’s how you connect those apps, too
Competitive advantage used to come from using pricey enterprise applications to create operational efficiencies. Ross Mason of MuleSoft says SaaS and APIs have killed that model, and the future belongs to companies that integrate applications to discover new business models.
Open-source CRM player SugarCRM talks up IPO
Encouraged by Workday’s splashy initial public offering, SugarCRM a provider of open-source customer relationship management software-as-a-service, is gearing up for an IPO of its own next year, according to CEO Larry Augustin. It looks like enterprise SaaS is the place to be for IPOs.