Cloudant raises $12 million in Series B funding

Cloudant has announced $12 million in series B funding from Devonshire Investors, the private equity firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments; Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud leader; and Toba Capital. The company also announced that current investors — Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation — purchased additional shares. The funding will be used to support Cloudant’s global expansion and grow the company’s support, service, and go-to-market...

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ServiceNow enables the ‘Citizen Developer’

ServiceNow® has announced the release of the ServiceNow App Creator enabling ‘citizen developers’ to easily create intuitive enterprise applications on the ServiceNow Service Automation Platform. With a simple “point-click-publish” approach, non-technical IT personnel through technically-savvy developers can rapidly build custom applications that use forms-based workflow to automate IT or line of business processes. App Creator ensures “best practice”...

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Five questions Boards of Directors need to ask about Cloud governance

The many benefits of cloud computing include helping enterprises become more efficient, agile, innovative and flexibile, but achieving those benefits depends on a number of factors, including the involvement of the board of directors. ISACA, a nonprofit, independent association of more than 100,000 governance, risk, security and assurance professionals worldwide, has issued new guidance outlining key questions for boards of directors to ask to ensure their enterprise’s cloud initiative is...

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Top American VAR chooses iomartcloud

SHI International Corp., one of North America's top 20 IT solutions providers, has chosen iomartcloud’s enterprise cloud platform to deliver reliable and flexible backup solutions for its customers in the United States. SHI selected iomartcloud’s platform because it delivers scalable, secure, and easy-to-manage enterprise-grade data backup and recovery through a more user-friendly interface. The partnership was announced at EMC World in Las Vegas.

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47 per cent of businesses face data loss at the hands of 3rd party cloud providers.
nGenx, a cloud services pioneer in the delivery of hosted workspaces, including applications,...
Rackspace® Hosting has announced the appointment of Ryan Neading as chief information officer....
Atos has launched its Digital Private Cloud offering, part of Atos Canopy Cloud portfolio to...
Robert Taccini joins company to usher in the next phase of HyperGrid’s strategic growth.
Proposition set to support small businesses fill gap left by Microsoft Small Business Server.
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Security considerations for private Cloud

Cybersecurity today can feel complex, especially if you are moving to or managing cloud security. But it doesn’t have to be. Hear from Rackspace Principal Architect, Luke Huckaba, as he explains some of the major concerns around Private Cloud and Security, and how Rackspace is helping to solve these issues both internally and for customers.

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