Once a basher, now a believer, Oracle chief Larry Ellison has come full circle on cloud computing
No longer disparaging, Oracle czar Larry Ellison now sings the praises of cloud computing.
Stories by Brandon Butler
12 free cloud storage options
With all the public cloud storage offerings on the market today, many vendors just want customers to sign up for their services. So, in return for a new account, many offer free cloud storage.
Apprenda wants you to build your apps for the cloud ... for free
Continuing on a theme of cloud vendors offering free or low-cost versions of their offerings, private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company Apprenda this week launched a freemium "express" version of its application development service.
Salesforce.com takes aim at Cloud storage market ... and Box
Salesforce.com, the 800-pound gorilla of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),has jumped into the public Cloud storage market with what could be an eye toward one vendor in particular: Box.
OpenStack reaches milestone with launch of foundation
Sept. 19, 2012 will go down as a big day for OpenStack.
Who makes up OpenStack?
OpenStack is a big project with a lot of supporters. But just who makes up OpenStack?
Gartner: Cloud to grow 20 per cent this year to $109bn market
The Cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business process as a service (BPaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) dominating the market, but infrastructure as a service (IaaS) quickly gaining momentum.
Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage
Within a few years, mobile access to cloud-based storage will be a "checkmark" feature that will be fairly ubiquitous among the major vendors, predicts 451 Research Group analyst Simon Anderson. We're not quite there yet, but more and more vendors are rolling out the feature.
Oops. OpenStack board member says letting VMware into project was a mistake
VMware is in OpenStack now, but not everyone thinks that's such a good idea.
Cars as a Service? Mercedes-Benz latest to use cloud to flog vehicles
As a car manufacturer how do you express that your vehicles have the latest and greatest cutting-edge technology? Use the buzzwords.
Gartner: 5 things a private Cloud is NOT
The National Institute for Standards in Technology has a definition of what Cloud computing is that's fairly agreed upon within the industry. But research firm Gartner says there's still a lot of Cloud-washing, or market confusion on exactly what the technology is.
Just what is Dell's Cloud strategy?
Dell's agreement to offer a public cloud hosted by Nirvanix leaves open the question of the company's long-term strategy.
5 tips for locking in VC funding
With less VC funding and more startups in the market in the market these days, entrepreneurs looking to nail down money for their newest venture could be in for a tough time. But there are some tricks of the trade that venture capitalists say they are looking for and successfully funded companies have.
High performance computing, the latest 'it' thing in the cloud
Startup ProfitBricks leverages InfiniBand technology to compete with the growing crop of cloud providers offering powerful cloud-based machines
Watch out Amazon, Apple: Toys R Us jumps into tablet market
Amazon has its new Kindles. Rumours have it that Apple may have a new iPad Mini. And now Toys R Us is getting into the tablet game, too.