After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat yesterday launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms. Most organisations …
Ellison: Oracle will deliver world's 'most comprehensive cloud'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared the company is ready to offer “the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth,” during …
SAP to pay $4.3B for cloud B2B vendor Ariba
SAP has agreed to purchase cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion. The deal has been unanimously approved by Ariba’s …
Dell reaches for the cloud with new prototype ARM server
Dell yesterday announced a prototype low-power server with ARM processors, following a growing demand by Web companies for custom-built servers …
Intel launches cloud-based single sign-on service
Intel launched a cloud-based password management service yesterday that has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com to give its customers an …
EMC announces programmes to expand partner cloud opportunities
EMC Corporation has announced new initiatives and products to enable the company’s worldwide network of channel partners to accelerate their …
EMC announces programmes to expand partner cloud opportunities at EMC World 2012
EMC Corporation has announced new initiatives and products to enable the company’s worldwide network of channel partners to accelerate their …
NYSE launches capital markets cloud platform in Europe
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, has launched its cloud-based Capital Markets Community Platform into Europe. The …
SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a “loosely coupled suite” …
Microsoft cloud survey: Security, cost both a deterrent and an attraction
Small and midsize businesses that actually use cloud services see them as a way to boost security and save money, according to …
Google shares Codie award for best cloud application/service
This evening’s annual Codie awards for business software features a three-way tie in cloud computing, with Google, Keynote Systems, and Scribe …
A Look behind the Cloud – uncovering hidden costs
Analysts forecast that over the next three to five years the market for cloud-based contact centre solutions will grow at …
EMEA firms splash a third of IT budget on the cloud
European enterprises plan to spend almost one-third of their annual IT budget on cloud computing over the next 18 months, …
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 …
Opening up the cloud opportunity for channel partners
George DeBono, GM, Middle East and Africa at Red Hat outlines some of the ways in which the open source …
Huawei: Touch-free smartphones and infinite cloud storage are on the way
Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its …
Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds
Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described …
Salesforce.com hypes social enterprise at cloud conference
Salesforce.com is touting social enterprise as the next major evolution in business computing and focussed on its emergence at its …
CommVault collaborates with Microsoft to offer cloud storage capability
CommVault today announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to offer a cloud storage capability that combines Simpana software with the …
From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by …