The cloud computing sales pitch is seductive because the cloud offers many advantages. There are no utility bills to pay, no server room staff who want the night off, and no crazy [...]

Public cloud, private cloud: Increasingly, these terms are losing their meaning, as enterprise cloud-computing solutions blend the best features of both approaches into one. That s[...]

Facebook, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and other leading IT users think the open-source movement is ready to shake up the hardware industry the way Linux did in software. In the past, [...]

While many organisations have already been using cloud IaaS for several years, gradually moving from development to production, with an ever-expanding range of use cases and applic[...]

Amazon.com Inc made quite a splash in mid-December by announcing it will extend its cloud-computing services — Amazon Web Services — to China, beginning with a limited [...]

A leader such as Amazon, which sat with appropriate services (e.g. AWS or S3) in time standards in the cloud, is constantly under attack. Google entered the cloud business with Goo[...]

The shortage was first noted in a blog post last week by Amazon Web Services' (AWS) chief evangelist, Jeff Barr, who wrote that it took just two weeks for C3 use in its Elastic[...]

Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos and ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini appear set to address different technology markets and different audiences next week. But if you listen closely, MSPs[...]

Several months ago, I said that Netflix's push to drive the adoption of its open-source cloud-management toolkit, NetflixOSS, had the potential to "ruin cloud computing.&q[...]

Few would dispute the enormous impact that cloud computing has had on the technology and business landscape during the past decade. In 2001, the approach to hosting business applic[...]