VMware, the global virtualisation and cloud infrastructure service provider has been selected by Government of Maharashtra  for its MahaGov Cloud. MahaGov Cloud is an initiative by the Directorate of Information Technology (DIT), Government of Maharashtra to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) to various state departments for...

Publicly available for mass-consumption; Cloud Services Market is pegged to grow at a very healthy rate of 18.5% & could swell to become a US$ 131 Billion sector all within this year itself. Platforms like ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS) & ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS), have been confirmed to be the fastest ascending sectors which have been collectively growing more than 45% &...

Business analytic firms are taking a head on dive into the mainstream market pool. Once thought to be a backend job with little growth possible, these companies today have carved out a niche for them and have techniques and statistical prowess and proof for achieving an optimized decision or advice for their clients. Global Business Intelligence software, that these firms utilize in the process are...

WizIQ is an online Indian platform for schools, colleges and Universities. It is owned and operated by Authorgen which is in turn a subsidiary of Educomp. Authorgen has announced that they have raised $4 million in a Series B investment round which was lead by private equity firm Kaizen and Bertelsmann, a Germany based media company which also owns Gruner+Jahr (which acquired NetworkPlay and SeventyNine...

Software as a Service (SaaS) company Helpshift has achieved two milestones in one go. The company recently closed a US$ 3.2 Million Seed Funding round led by True Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. Additionally, it officially announced its product offering too. What does Helpshift do? Helpshift designs & deploys a ready-to-incorporate query solving software within an already built application. With...

Cloud computing and cloud services have been key buzz words for a couple of years now, especially from the beginning of 2012, and it continues to be so. Initially there was skepticism among Indian enterprises about this new technology. With time and knowledge this mindset has changed and more organizations are now making a beeline to move their offerings to cloud. The cloud services market has...

Online collaboration tools and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Salesforce has come up with a solution that allows business keep a close watch on social media chatter. Titled Marketing Cloud, the new software unveiled this week allows image-conscious & proactive companies to monitor Facebook & Twitter chatter & calculate the ‘impact’ of posts featuring them or relevant industry....

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) has pumped in US$ 5 Million in Bangalore based Appnomic Systems. The funding will be utilized to expand the firms operations in the US & bolster its product delivery platforms besides adding services. Appnomic is primarily a Software as a Service (SaaS) firm that specializes in application driven autonomic management of IT infrastructure. In simpler words, the company...

Indian Angel Network has chosen to invest in Cloud Based Software as a Service (SaaS) company Aurus Network Infotech Pvt. Ltd. The seed funding roung was jointly participated by IAN members Padmaja Ruparel, Saumya Meattle, Sharad Sharma and Ajai Chowdhry & the money will be utilized to setup a Research & Development (R&D) center. The exact quantum of investment has not been disclosed. Cloud...

The Cloud or the Internet has caused one of the most versatile and significant shifts in the way we operate. We no longer look at data as device specific or location specific, but rather context specific. It is possible to offload a lot of grunt work and data storage to the cloud. The Cloud has caused a lot of innovation in both the consumer field, with cloud being used to store personal information,...