New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories

Ford Continues With Open Source Strategy To Attract Developers and Connect Cars In China

Also, [see this other story on the topic](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataCenterKnowledge/~3/KIgB7EGoc6A/). HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef

LiveOak raises more than $100 million to back Texas startups

This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not that IT becomes redundant; it becomes more strategically important than ever. And, significantly, it goes from being a department that normally says “no” to user requests to one that can start saying “yes.” Even comparatively minor things, such as the vast 50GB inbox quota that Office 365 offers will, for many, be a breath of fresh air.

Steady Growth in Corporate Cloud Spending

Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done

“We don’t move into a market unless we think we have a realistic chance of gaining 40% market share with sustainable differentiation,” Chambers said at the Cisco Live conference when asked if the company needs to acquire an established cloud provider like Rackspace to succeed in cloud services. “And we try not to move into markets that don’t have really good gross margins, unless they’re unusually strategic for us. That’s a market that is very, very price sensitive; that’s taking on the big giants in Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.

How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard - Network World