NetSuite, the cloud-based ERM house majority-owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has agreed to buy OrderMotion, a cloud-based Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) order management company.
Financial terms were not disclosed. OrderMotion, which has been around for a long time, has gotten over $10 million in fairly recent backing.
NetSuite said it will use OrderMotion to strengthen its own order management system.
OrderMotion caters to B2B, B2C, retail, wholesale distribution and manufacturing, and its solution is used by e-commerce and omni-channel retailers in conjunction with front-end tools such as Demandware and the eBay-owned Magento.

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The OpenNebula project has just announced the immediate availability of OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle. The project has come a long way since the first «technology preview» of OpenNebula five years ago. During these years it has witnessed the rise and hype of the Cloud, the birth and decline of several virtualization technologies, but specially the encouraging and exciting growth of OpenNebula; both as a technology and as an active and engaged community.
OpenNebula 4.0 is the result of the terrific feedback of the day-to-day operation of virtualized infrastructures by many of its users, result of all their contributions, bug reports, patches, and translations, but one and foremost, OpenNebula 4.0 is the realization of a vision of simplicity, openness, code-correctness and a sysadmin-centric approach. This defines its personality as a community, it defines the OpenNebula Way.
OpenNebula 4.0 includes new features in most of its subsystems. It is showing for the first time a completely redesigned Sunstone, with a fresh and modern look and an updated workflow for most of the dialogs. The also new Sunstone Views functionality allows to customize the GUI for each type of user or group, so the interface implements a different provisioning model for each role. A whole new set of operations for VMs like system and disk snapshoting, capacity re-sizing, programmable VM actions and IPv6 among others. There are some new drivers also, like Ceph; as well as improvements for VMware, KVM and Xen. The scheduler has received some attention from the OpenNebula team to easily define more placement policies… and much more.

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It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap only a small percentage of the potential benefits that can be gained through cloud adoption.
In his General Session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gary Ballabio, Product Line Director at Akamai Technologies, will examine a variety of strategies you can employ to make your cloud architecture better performing, more secure and available. Learn best practices for achieving the optimal reliability for applications running in the cloud as well as maintaining or increasing the velocity of real-time data transfers happening in support of Big Data initiatives.

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Fusion-io’s two co-founders, CEO David Flynn and chief marketing officer Rick White, up and quit Wednesday sending the company’s stock into a nosedive, down better than 26% to $13.29 at noon, a record low.
They are off to turn early-stage investors.
Fusion board member, Shane Robinson, 59, the former chief strategy and technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, blamed, among others, for its disastrous acquisition of UK search company Autonomy, has been named CEO, president and chairman, effective immediately.

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Clustrix, the start-up with the NewSQL database that’s supposed to have no size limits, has raised a $16.5 million C round to build out distribution for the scale-out cloud database and push it into real-time analytics, e-commerce and web-scale applications.
Counting the new money the venture has gotten a total of $46.5 million in financing so far and will probably be back for more.
The company’s existing investors Sequoia Capital, US Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and former Cisco exec Don Listwin, CEO of Openwave Systems, kicked in.

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Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, and Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, will discuss the best practices for leveraging virtualization and cloud technologies without sacrificing security or compliance. Care providers, State and Federal entities, integrators and SaaS providers large and small will benefit from understanding the basics of protecting sensitive healthcare data, including PHI and EMR, in today’s fast-paced environment. The HIPAA Omnibus Rule and Business Associates Agreements (BAA) will also be covered in this important session for compliance-sensitive organizations.

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Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions

Few topics have lately drawn more hype and scrutiny than Big Data. Having originated with Internet firms, Big Data has captured enterprise attention with examples that show how organizations, from public sector to financial services firms, telcos, and media derived insights that improved customer retention, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.

Big Data has drawn media attention with examples that touch people’s lives, such as the massive data hunt that occurred in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. Yet few technology trends have also drawn so many myths – such as that Big Data is a special project that can only be undertaken by uniquely skilled professionals, requiring its own dedicated infrastructure.

Although that was the model for early Big Data projects among Internet firms, that model is not sustainable for the enterprise. To hit the enterprise mainstream, Big Data must become a …

After a raid at his New Zealand mansion in January last year, the larger than life Kim Dotcom has released a whitepaper taking direct aim at the US government.

The paper goes into detail how the raid wasn’t enough for “The Government Communications Security Bureau” who continued to illegally spy on Kim Dotcom for ten days after the raid on his home, according to his lawyers.

These very lawyers, US lawyer Ira Rothken and international lawyer Robert Amsterdam, have accused the Government of using “dirty tricks” to create a “black media campaign” against Kim.

Backing up this theory is the release of a 72-page indictment document to journalists by US prosecutors.

As a result of this media campaign, prosecutors attempted to create a “pitchfork mob” scenario towards the Megaupload founder, through taking aim at his high financial status and extravagant lifestyle.

Everything didn’t turn out quite to plan …

The platform as a service (PaaS) market is expected to reach $6.45bn by 2016 and grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 50%, with application infrastructure and middleware PaaS expected to grow the fastest.

That’s the big takeaway from analysts TechNavio, having published the latest industry report entitled Global Platform as a Service Market 2012-2016.

According to the researchers, the market currently stands at $1.31bn, with that number expecting to rise to $1.85bn by the end of this year.

These figures correspond similarly with Gartner’s predictions, saying that PaaS revenue was on target to hit $1.2bn by the end of 2012 – yet TechNavio notes some difficulties in the current market, particularly the lack of best use practices and universally recognised standards.

PaaS, whilst remaining the smallest cloud market, is generally recognised as the fastest growing. Informatica’s Juan Carlos Soto, speaking …