Cloud computing

Alcatel Lucent's ng Connect program is looking to reshape retail with LTE technology.

Recent collaborative study by Wall Street Journal and Indeed.com shows spurt in hiring across companies in the US

IBM will provide cloud computing software that will consolidate and integrate technology capabilities for critical command and control programs at NATO.

Data warehousing company Teradata announced its acquisition of cloud-based integrated marketing software maker Aprimo for $525 million to boost its analytics portfolio to counter Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

Red Hat announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 third quarter, reporting a rise in operating income of 92 percent year over year.

Amazon said several applications of Oracle are now available in its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, a commercial web service that allows customers to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications.

Barclays Capital upgraded rating of the data storage equipment maker NetApp, Inc. (NTAP) to 'overweight' from 'equal weight' and increased its price target to $67 from $56.

Dell Inc. announced an agreement to acquire data storage company Compellent Technologies Inc. for about $960 million, or about $27.75 per share in cash, to boost its storage presence.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia may be turning the corner with better execution in PC graphics with the GTX 580/570/560 product family based on its new Fermi architecture.

Salesforce is on the roll as the enterprise cloud-computing company announced that it has acquired Heroku, a company that offers Ruby platform-as-a-service (PaaS), for $212 million cash, just a day after releasing Database.com, the first cloud-based enterprise database.

Google has announced that SAP is launching a collaborative decision-making app StreamWork in Google Apps Marketplace which enables integration with Google Apps

Technology research firm Gartner expects the global market for the 'transformational' cloud computing technology to be worth over $30 billion in the next four years.

The cloud computing market in India is expected to grow at a ccompounded annual growth rate of 40 per cent by 2014, IT research firm IDC on Thursday said.

NASA turns to cloud computing to support its rovers Spirit and Opportunity as they scout the Martian terrain.

IBM Corp has introduced a new security initiative to make cloud computing safer.

Mobile and cloud computing technology will dominate enterprises as these two emerge as the most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery over the next five years, an IBM survey report said.

India’s budding cloud computing market is expected to touch $1 billion in the next five years, according to a survey.

Microsoft cloud computing platform Azure has found support among software giants like Dell, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard who are planning to embrace Azure for their data center products.