Qualtrics, the company that makes sophisticated research simple, today
announced it has partnered with Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the two
firms’ largest-ever joint investment. Accel and Sequoia will provide a
range of services and $70 million to help Qualtrics expand its SaaS product
offerings beyond market research and accelerate its global growth, beginning
with the hiring of another 250 employees in the next year alone.
Qualtrics has established itself as the top choice of businesses for online
data collection and analysis by making it easy for anyone in a company to
conduct Ph.D.-level research. The company has been profitable since its
inception and has not accepted outside funding until now.
“Today most research and data collection is outsourced at great expense, or
done internally with tools that are either too basic or much too complex,”
said Ryan... (more)
Last year on our Open Government webinar Andy MacLeod of Cisco presented on
G-Cloud, the UK program to adopt Government Cloud Computing, providing an
initial basis for our G-Cloud section in GovCloud.info.
(Join our GovCloud Linkedin networking group here).
This year at the recent OMG conference on public sector Cloud Computing Andy
Tait of VMware also presented an update of where they are up to now.
Download his (15 page PDF) presentation here, to learn about:
How the ASG (Apps Store for Government) has been implemented as the
CloudStore How the catalogue has been populated with o... (more)
Parallels® (www.parallels.com), the hosting and cloud services enablement
leader, today announced an extensive collection of new software, services
capabilities, technology partnerships and updated market research, further
strengthening its position as the top global provider of complete hosting and
cloud delivery software for the actively-growing small and medium business
(SMB) cloud market. The series of announcements build upon the company’s
momentum as it continues to experience broad adoption of its cloud delivery
software, with twelve of the top thirty global service provid... (more)
PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/06/12 -- The latest market brief by The
Radicati Group, "Email Platforms for Service Providers - Market Quadrant,
2011" provides a competitive analysis of the Email Platforms for Service
Providers market. Email Platforms for Service Providers are highly scalable
and reliable platforms that allow service providers to deliver hosted email
services to their subscribers, as well as more advanced capabilities such as
groupware, instant messaging (IM), social networking, and mobile email
support.
Radicati Market Quadrants(SM) rank vendors based on a... (more)
Betcha IBM is worried that Amazon is gonna wind up owning the cloud. Betcha
other companies are worried about that too.
Amazon said Wednesday that it has extended EC2, its Elastic Compute Cloud, to
Europe.
European developers and businesses can now run their EC2 instances in what
Amazon calls "Availability Zones" that are actually in the European Union. By
operating closer to Amazon's EU-based S3 storage, it should mean lower
latency.
Amazon said it now has two Availability Zones in Europe that, besides EC2,
also support Elastic IP addresses and Amazon Block Store (EBS) as well ... (more)
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