Rapidly growing DigitalOcean opens second NYC data center
Continuing its rapid expansion, cloud service provider DigitalOcean has opened a second facility in the greater New York metropolitan area -- a data center located in Google's gargantuan Manhattan...
View ArticleWho are the real winners in the Microsoft-Oracle deal?
The new Microsoft-Oracle partnership benefits both companies, as Oracle gets access to Azure and Microsoft can finally license Java. Will the deal have any effect on either company's enterprise customers?
View ArticleGoogle to encrypt Cloud Storage data by default
Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service.
View ArticleRed Hat serves middleware to cloud developers
In a move to jump ahead of other PaaS (platform as a service) providers in the enterprise space, Red Hat will augment its OpenShift offering with a suite of middleware to ease the process of deploying...
View ArticleOpen Source App Development Platform Aims to Ensure Privacy in the Cloud
Data privacy is top of mind for users everywhere. Cloud storage and backup vendor SpiderOak plans to address privacy concerns with Crypton, an open-source Web app dev platform that crunches data in a...
View ArticleRed Hat CloudForms commandeers OpenStack for the enterprise
Can the OpenStack open-source private cloud software be tamed for enterprise use? Red Hat is trying: It is expanding its CloudForms management software to encompass Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack...
View ArticleWhy IBM will win the war with Amazon Web Services
Amazon dominates the Cloud, but IBM, strengthened by its SoftLayer acquisition, has unleashed a marketing campaign that fires on all cylinders. Whether IBM's Ccloud is, in fact, better may matter less...
View ArticleRed Hat expands OpenShift's European availability, slashes prices
Red Hat is cutting prices on the commercial version of its OpenShift Online PaaS (platform as a service) and making it available in more European countries, moves aimed at gaining a stronger foothold...
View ArticleAmazon bashes private Clouds, launches virtual desktops
Private clouds offer "none of the benefits" of a robust public cloud, and are only a stopgap solution perpetuated by "old-guard" IT companies such as IBM, said Andy Jassy, Amazon senior vice president...
View ArticleNew AWS service AppStream offloads graphics work to the cloud
With its new AppStream offering, Amazon is offering intensive graphics processing as a service, with the promise of freeing developers from worrying about the rendering capabilities of each user's device.
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Compute goes live
After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service.
View ArticleJoyent polishes Node.js with commercial support package
Recognizing the growing popularity of Node.js for building distributed Web applications, cloud provider Joyent will soon offer a commercial support package for managing the platform, wherever it is run.
View ArticleIBM lays plans to be a cloud storage broker
IBM is developing software that will allow organizations to use multiple cloud storage services interchangeably, reducing dependence on any single cloud vendor and ensuring that data remains available...
View ArticleOracle becomes sponsor of OpenStack Foundation
Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and plans to weave parts of the open-source infrastructure platform into its own products, saying it will give customers more flexibility...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches network of Azure providers
Microsoft has launched the Cloud OS Network, a global consortium of cloud service providers that offer Windows Azure IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service).
View ArticleCouchDB creator joins Salesforce.com to work on 'ridiculously cool'...
The creator of NoSQL database CouchDB says he is taking a job at Salesforce.com where he will work on a "quite ambitious" and "ridiculously cool" project related to the vendor's cloud infrastructure.
View ArticleAn OpenStack Primer for IT Executives
OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform, has garnered the support of more than 200 IT vendors. Enterprises embrace the platform for its flexible, hardware-agnostic architecture -- but they...
View ArticleRed Hat refreshes private Cloud stacks for the enterprise
Red Hat has updated a number of its products for running private clouds, better preparing them for the complex ways of the enterprise.
View ArticleMicrosoft PowerBI puts Web and internal data on the map
Microsoft's new service, Power BI, provides a way to analyze data and present the results in a visually appealing way, without the bother of consulting an enterprise business intelligence software...
View ArticleOracle software on Microsoft Azure gets a general availability date
Oracle's database, WebLogic application server and Java programming language will soon be generally available on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service, marking a major milestone in the high-profile...
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