Service-level agreements and legal standards for cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the …
SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire …
World's first cloud-based WAN optimisation solution coming to Middle East in Q3
A company that touts itself as the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimisation solution will bring its “game changing” service to …
AWS teams with Aryaka for unified infrastructure to access global cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced in partnership with Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimisation and application acceleration solution, …
VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service offering …
Infor prepares to roll out ‘Mongoose’ development platform
Infor is moving into the PaaS (platform as a service) market with an offering called Mongoose that is based on …
What to consider before signing up for Google Drive
Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google …
Infosys sees revenue grow more slowly than hoped
Infosys’ revenue in its fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended March 31 fell short of guidance, as global markets …
10 most powerful IaaS companies
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies, assembled by Network World with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, …
Startup YouDazzle combines social collaboration, cloud storage
There are plenty of collaboration software tools on the market, and a growing number of cloud storage options for businesses …
Terremark launches private cloud offering
Terremark is offering enterprises a new private cloud service that includes the option to burst onto a public cloud. The …
Citrix takes CloudStack to Apache, abandons OpenStack
Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has …
DotCloud adds vertical scaling to its PaaS offering
DotCloud has become the latest platform-as-a-service provider to add features typically associated with infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, this time by enabling vertical …
GroupLogic aims at Dropbox with enterprise file-sharing app
GroupLogic has released a file syncing and sharing application that offers the same convenience as Dropbox but with enterprise-level management …
Cloud economics improving for users in wake of price cuts
Cloud computing price cuts by Google, Amazon and now Microsoft may indicate that businesses are discovering that moving to the …
New key technology simplifies data encryption in the cloud
Data at rest has long been protected by technology called public key infrastructure (PKI), in which data is encrypted when …
Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffers serious outage
Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure and development service experienced a serious outage yesterday, with the system’s service management component going down …
Startup Porticor launches with encryption technology for cloud computing
New startup Porticor launches this week with technology aimed at giving enterprises a way to encrypt data held in cloud computing services, …
Citrix simplifies cloud service management
Citrix is shipping a new version of its cloud management software CloudStack that makes it simpler for service providers and …
HP updates software for cloud
Hewlett-Packard has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their …