Okay, so it’s a few more than 300. What can I tell you? The segment is
growing by leaps and bounds. The question remains, who is gaining mind share
in the 1st quarter of 2012?
So let's take a look at the Top Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share, and The
Leaderboard (Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers). Large enterprise IT
companies continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand cloud compute
model enhancing their portfolios with Cloud acquisitions. Here is a snapshot
of 2012 acquisitions and the most recent changes to the rankings since 3Q2011
(followed by 2011 and 2010 acquisitions).
2012 Acquisitions: Akamai acquires Cotendo (Cloud platform / Web
acceleration) Apigee acquires Usergrid (API, mobile) AMD acquires Seamicro
(Microservers) Best Buy acquires mindSHIFT (Cloud Service Provider for SMB))
BMC acquires Numara (IT Management Solutions) Dell acquires AppAss... (more)
Trend Micro, a global cloud security provider, on Monday announced Deep
Discovery, the third generation of Trend Micro's threat management solution.
Deep Discovery delivers breakthrough features and performance designed to
help large enterprise and government organizations combat advanced persistent
threats (APTs) and targeted attacks.
APTs and Targeted Attacks are the New Norm
Targeted attacks and APTs are becoming commonplace across a wide range of
industries and company sizes requiring organizations of all sizes to take
action. Technology trends such as consumerization, virtua... (more)
While the whole world is embracing the new religion of IT infrastructure,
Cloud Computing, there have been a few apprehensions among industries which
deal with hyper-sensitive data. Health Industry, for instance, is
continuously looking at innovative ways to reduce healthcare costs and
improve customer service but at the same time wants to exhibit compliance
with the guidelines set by its administrative bodies, HIPAA and HITECH. With
IT always remaining an easy target when it comes to reducing operating costs,
this article advocates the adoption of cloud computing in healthcare w... (more)
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interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each
week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and
trends.
With the cost of healthcare data breaches continuing rise year after year, it
shouldn't come as a surprise that spending on the security of that
information is estimated to hit $40 billion this year, and balloon to $70
billion three years from now, according to a recently published report from
The Boyd Company. Read Original Content
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Callidus Software Inc. announced on Monday that Certify Data Systems, a
pioneer in Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology, has selected the
LeadFormix Marketing Automation platform to optimize its lead generation and
sales and marketing effectiveness. The agreement was signed in the first
quarter of 2012.
Certify Data Systems will leverage the LeadFormix platform to provide its
sales and marketing organizations with high-value insight from web, search,
and social channels, coupled with the tools to deliver high impact marketing
campaigns.
CallidusCloud's LeadFormix provid... (more)
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