by Ron Miller

Cloudability Scoops Up DataHero As Buying Binge Continues

Cloudability is expanding its customer base, engineering team and product line through acquisition. Today it announced it had bought DataHero, it's fourth small startup in less than a year. http://tcrn.ch/1TEcZSm

Cloud 5: The full cloud stack, 3 cloud trends, the cloud's key moment

It's Friday and that means it's time for my regular Friday feature, the Cloud 5. This week, we look at Oracle's cloud fortunes, the cloud stack and three cloud predictions for 2016. And per usual, fun with photo filters.http://ow.ly/W4LJo

IBM Snags Clearleap Cloud Video Service

IBM went cloud shopping again. This time it picked up Clearleap, a nice video content management service in the cloud. This should fit nicely with the Cleversafe purchase in October. Nothing goes together like video and storage. http://tcrn.ch/1XYWFfR

Cloud 5: HPE's OpenStack strategy, Ballmer's Microsoft cloud complaints

It's Friday and that means it's time for my regular feature, the Cloud 5. This week, HPE talks up its OpenStack program and Steve Ballmer disses Microsoft's cloud reporting. http://bit.ly/1IJ83p3

Motus Wearable Sensors Bring Biomechanics Out Of The Lab And Into The Ball Park

Ball players are pushing their bodies harder than ever before, and a company has introduced a wearable sensor pack that uses biomechanics to measure their swing or pitching motion to help keep them performing at their peak capability. http://tcrn.ch/1Nvb6Xs

Battlefield Vet Staffly Snags $1.25 Million Seed Round

I wrote about a small online retail staffing startup called Staffly for the September TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. Today that little company got $1.25 million in a second seed round. http://tcrn.ch/1N5TE8e

Dell Could Be Shopping Some Assets To Help Relieve EMC Deal Debt Load

Since Dell announced its intention to buy EMC for $67 billion, there has been rampant speculation (including by me) about how they would pay down the massive debt accrued to finance the deal. A rumor emerged today they could be looking to sell some existing assets. http://tcrn.ch/1TzzDvq

Big Data Still Requires Humans To Make Meaningful Connections

We would like to believe that technology like Big Data could solve all of our problems, but it's important to remember any technology is a means to an end, not the end itself.  http://tcrn.ch/1QUEJnp

HP & Microsoft put their heads together to fight AWS market dominance

HP announced it was replacing its in-house Infrastructure as a Service offering with Microsoft Azure. In spite of HP's messy cloud strategy, this is a reasonable approach for both companies to fight Amazon Web Service's market dominance. http://bit.ly/1HAhSup

Dell-EMC Deal Facing Issues On Multiple Fronts

The $67 billion Dell-EMC deal was never going to be easy, but it's suddenly facing issues on multiple fronts. http://tcrn.ch/1Ni3Wpg