Amazon in the crosshairs of Google and Microsoft
Google and Microsoft tablet and cloud announcements seemed directly aimed at Amazon.
Stories by Brandon Butler
Amazon takes blame for outages, bugs and bottlenecks
Amazon Web Services says power outages, software bugs and rebooting bottlenecks led to a "significant impact to many customers," last week, according to a detailed post-mortem report the company released today about the service disruption.
How a legal blog survived traffic tidal wave after court's healthcare ruling
When a blog that typically attracts 30,000 visitors a day is hit with 5.35 million, its operators had better have been prepared for what seems way too big to be called a spike.
HP Cloud plans focus on open source, management
HP reiterated its commitment to open cloud computing standards this week at the Red Hat Summit, as the company's enterprise cloud vice president, Steve Dietch, said the differentiating feature of and compatibility with other cloud resources.
Cloud adoption pushes storage virtualization
Storage hypervisors are increasingly being used to virtualize storage hardware to allow for disparate infrastructures to be centrally managed.
Avaya expands mobile, social media support for call center software
Avaya today introduced new mobile device and social media features aimed at improving customer call centers.
Terremark executive shakeup
For the third time in two years, there's an executive shakeup at Terremark, the Verizon-owned cloud service provider.
Analysis: Why Microsoft spent $1.2bn on Yammer
Microsoft's $1.2 billion move to buy collaboration platform, Yammer, is a way for the tech giant to get more users in the increasingly important enterprise social collaboration market.
Gartner: 1/3 of consumer data will be stored in the cloud by '16
Consumer adoption of cloud services will continue to increase in the coming years, with one-third of personal data being stored in the cloud by 2016, Gartner predicts.
OpenStack company Piston adds virtual desktop infrastructure
Piston Cloud Computing is the first OpenStack-based company to embrace virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), marking OpenStack's entrance into the VDI market dominated by Citrix.
Open source cloud vendors air their differences
The open source cloud world looks to be getting more contentious. At a panel discussion this week, representatives from OpenStack, Citrix’s CloudStack and Eucalyptus – three competing open source cloud deployment software platforms – traded jabs back and forth.
Rackspace president: Cloud needs open alternative to Amazon
Rackspace President Lew Moorman says that the cloud market needs an open source alternative to the undisputed leading public cloud infrastructure provider in the market, Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft, Google, IBM and SalesForce.com heat up PaaS
What do you get when you get four of the biggest Cloud vendors in a room to talk about one of the hottest emerging trends in the industry? Not a whole lot of agreement for one thing.
Alerts about free food in the kitchen and other signs enterprise social tools are a hit
About 18 months ago Nathan Bricklin saw some gaps in the internal processes of Wells Fargo's wholesale business unit where he worked running the Web portal for the bank's major corporate accounts.
Eucalyptus makes moves to stand apart from open source cloud rivals
Eucalyptus has released the latest software update, but some experts say the open source cloud project still has an uphill climb compared to OpenStack and CloudStack.