Microsoft Azure hosts Hadoop, other open-source apps
Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the open-source...
View ArticleGoogle to issue credits for App Engine outage
Google will give refunds to paid subscribers of App Engine, its Web application development and hosting service, which suffered a partial outage on Friday.
View ArticleSalesforce.com's Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together
As Salesforce.com's SaaS offerings become more sophisticated, configuration and deployment gets more complex. In response, enterprises are increasingly turning to partners for implementation help.
View ArticleGartner: 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 take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize...
View ArticleAmazon connects node.js to AWS services
Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud computing capabilities.
View ArticleGoogle lets more users host App Engine applications in Europe
Google is letting more App Engine users choose to run their applications in a European data center, in order to improve performance for local users or to meet compliance demands.
View ArticleHP launches converged Cloud business unit
Banking on the trend toward Cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has created a stand-alone organization to oversee the company's hosted computing services and software offerings.
View ArticleSalesforce.com's Heroku responds to scalability complaint
Insufficient documentation on how to performance-tune a legacy Ruby on Rails stack led to a highly publicized complaint from one of the largest customers of Salesforce.com's Heroku PaaS...
View ArticleIs Your Cloud System a Mess? Our Self-Assessment Tool Will Tell You
Your cloud-based system may have been in use for seven years or more. It probably needs a tune-up. Let's see what kind of shape it's in and what you need to do to make it run like new.
View ArticleGoogle adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers
Google has launched fee-based support services for customers of its cloud platform and infrastructure products, like App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and Big Query.
View ArticleEngine Yard revamps user interface
Paving the way for more flexible use of its platform as a service (PaaS), Engine Yard has revamped its user interface and underlying infrastructure, which should provide customers with more ways to...
View ArticleGoogle BigQuery update aims for enticing Hadoop users
Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data tables.
View ArticleApache helps free CloudStack from Citrix fetters
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix, which acquired...
View ArticleAmazon upgrades Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications
Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications now supports configuration files to simplify cloud setup and integration with Amazon's private cloud and relational database.
View ArticleHow to Change Software Testing for New Cloud Configurations
If DevOps means infrastructure as code,' then that code very well could have bugs. DevOps also means you may not see those bugs in a test environment because, well, there is no test environment. Here's...
View ArticleRed Hat's OpenShift PaaS goes live
After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat OpenShift Online platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, charging customers and offering professional commercial support.
View ArticleRackspace supercharges MongoDB service
Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen,...
View ArticleOracle 12c database coming 'within two weeks,' middleware launch on deck
Oracle's long-awaited 12c database has apparently received a firm launch date, with a company executive stating that it will be released "within the next two weeks."
View ArticleDBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference
For a cloud storage provider, Dropbox puts on quite a show. On Tuesday it held its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco, and there was plenty of colorful activity to see.
View ArticleSAP reveals road map details for its HANA in-memory platform
SAP has provided an extensive window into the future direction of its HANA in-memory database platform, which has emerged as the central pillar of the company's product strategy.
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