Terremark, the cloud vendor owned by Verizon, has become a platinum member of EMC’s cloud service provider program, solidifying a relationship between …
Amazon CTO: You should be able to ‘walk away’ from cloud providers
One of the core philosophies related to Amazon Web Services’ market-leading suite of infrastructure as a service products is that …
Do you have a cloud career plan?
The explosive growth of cloud technologies is shaking up IT departments everywhere. This technology shift is creating a new professional …
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, …
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 …
Amazon may provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure
Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up …
Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test
If your enterprise finds itself needing to transfer a lot of data in the cloud, beware: depending on where the …
Sony division moves services from AWS to OpenStack
The division of Sony that suffered a cyber attack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and …
Apache embraces cloud with Deltacloud approval
Extending its range of open-source projects to cloud computing, the Apache Software Foundation has approved the Deltacloud as a top-level …
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, …
New security product claims to solve cloud protection issues
CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Facebook data centre project takes aim at vendor lock-in
By launching the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardise the market for …
Riverbed expands cloud storage ecosystem
Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced an expansion of the ecosystem for the Riverbed Whitewater family of cloud …
VMware CEO Maritz warns customers to be prepared for licensing changes
VMware’s CEO, Paul Maritz, has warned that the pricing model for virtualisation will evolve “radically” as it heads towards a …
Security remains a top concern for cloud app builders
Security, cited as an issue with cloud computing when the concept began to take hold several years ago, remains a …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Promise in public clouds
SNIA’s recent survey suggests that many companies are currently using or planning to use public cloud storage offerings in North …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …
Domino’s: IT outsourcing ‘crucial to resilience’
Domino’s Pizza has said that a move to cloud computing, and the outsourcing of a number of its key IT …