Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …
Gartner: Platform as a service market to see sharp growth
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million …
Google gives cloud database performance boost
Google’s Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running …
Alarm bells for hyped OpenStack project
A scathing report about OpenStack from research firm Gartner warns businesses to beware of considerable hype and says misconceptions about the open source cloud …
Ellison: Oracle will unveil cloud infrastructure at OpenWorld
Oracle will announce a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison …
GITEX Preview: SafeNet
1. What are your company’s key products and services? SafeNet is the largest company in the world exclusively focused on …
Infosys unveils self-service cloud hub
Indian outsourcer Infosys yesterday unveiled a package of services and technologies that aim to help companies deploying hybrid clouds. Fragmentation …
Oracle's cloud hype set for major escalation
Oracle on Thursday began its run of nearly 100 Cloud Builder Summit events scheduled for locations across the globe until …
Cloud putting crimp in traditional software, hardware sales: Gartner
Enterprise spending on cloud computing growing at a faster rate than overall IT spending will pose a challenge to legacy …
Microsoft opens Azure to IaaS, Linux
Microsoft unveiled new capabilities for Azure that move the cloud offering from a platform as a service into the competitive landscape …
Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software
After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat yesterday launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms. Most organisations …
Judge clears Google of Java copyright infringement
A district court judge has ruled that the Java APIs in Android are not eligible for protection under U.S. copyright …
Customisable cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict
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 …