Microsoft Demo is First Shot in Fight to Own the Cloud
A demo is small beer, but add provocation from Amazon, growing cloud spending, and threats to Windows and you can expect a full Redmond sally to own the cloud.read more
View ArticleAmazon 'free' cloud beats Microsoft at its own game
Corporate toe-dippers will be more inclined to try cloud in general, and EC2 in particular, with free year of test-dev or short-project capacity from Amazon. read more
View ArticleEC2 SS2 cuts prices as Azure comes on strong
Cloud providers fight for attention, but does a new cloud-services portal threaten to commoditize a market for technology whose differentiating factors are invisible on purpose. read more
View ArticleKeeping your cloud packed up nice and tidy
Managed service/hosting company Datapipe offers to keep the slice of IT infrastructure you keep running on Amazon, assuming it's important enough that you'd rather it didn't crash unnoticed at...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine violates stateless nature of Web
Google's app platform still doesn't compare to 'real' cloud platforms, but expanding datastores, task time limits and push all make it more useful than it was.read more
View ArticleNetflix shows how to build a big business on the cloud
The future may belong to cloud computing, but few companies want to move themselves there no; Netflix moved to the future a year ago. read more
View Article'I'll always be there for you' Microsoft tells Azure users
Oddly, given how ephemeral the whole cloud-service environment can be, no major vendor has made length-of-service guarantees an issue. Until now.read more
View ArticleAmazon change makes 'public' cloud look a lot more like 'private'
VPNs, subnets, access control, make VMs in the look like LANs and make low-cost shared-tenancy look like pricey single-tenant clouds.read more
View ArticleDell to offer both major types of cloud, from 10 new data centers
Michael Dell has promised to build 10 new data centers to support his ambition to be a cloud provider, offering IAAS and PAAS to compete with both Microsoft and Amazon.read more
View ArticleVMware launches open-source cloud platform
Open-source code, support for a variety of tools and databases, available in your data center or someone else's, Cloud Foundry aims at Azure's weaknesses without adding too many of VMware's.read more
View ArticleAmazon's east coast cloud crashes, brings down customers
Amazon's EC2, poster child for enterprise class cloud computing, had major problems overnight, bringing down a series of web sites and other customers, marring its own reputation.read more
View ArticleAmazon crash reveals 'cloud' computing actually based on data centers
Hype makes it easy to forget the cloud requires the same skills and includes the same risks as n-tier applications and data-center computing anywhere.read more
View ArticleSpringpad looks to reinforce cloud in wake of Amazon disaster
Offering 24/7 service without 24/7 data centers became possible with the cloud, but Amazon has shown that even small Web 2.0 companies need failover alternatives to remain credible. read more
View ArticlePicking the right cloud provider: tough questions and fear of failure
Picking a good cloud provider is a lot like picking a good hosting provider; you have to ask the right questions and plan for when having the right answers doesn't prevent failure.read more
View ArticleMicrosoft cloud failure hurts its credibility and prospects for Office365
Microsoft waited two days to discuss the reason for BPOS outages; users complained it seemed less like an enterprise provider than a company "that can't support its own software."read more
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