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 …
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 …
Big battles in 2012: IDC
Researchers at IDC, say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas. …
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 …
Dome9 launches automated firewall management service
Startup Dome9 Security is introducing automated management of firewall settings on servers in physical and virtual environments with the aim …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
VMWare’s Cloud Foundry opens PaaS
VMware unveiled an open platform-as-a-service offering on Tuesday that supports multiple programming frameworks including Spring for Java, Ruby on Rails …
Cloud Concept partners for Google Apps
Cloud Concept has announced that it has become an authorised reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration …
Red Hat launches hybrid cloud platform
Red Hat has launched a comprehensive package, called Red Hat Cloud Foundations, that will allow organizations to run applications in …