Could cloud giants like Amazon buying $139 million a year in hardware from a vendor be a bad thing? That's the question facing SGI, the hardware vendor with a long legacy in the hyperscale market.
A survey from Rackspace shows that the majority (60 per cent) of IT decision-makers see hybrid cloud as the culmination of their cloud journey, rather than a stepping stone to using the public cloud alone for all their cloud needs.
The U.S. Department of the Interior has tapped 10 companies to compete for a series of cloud computing projects that could involve a total investment of up to $10 billion. The agency has structured the deal as a rolling bakeoff between 10 systems...
Ravello's cloud hypervisor has entered in general availability. The company raised $26 million last February and has had uptake with over 2,000 enterprises.
Creating a truly distributed environment isn’t always easy. Fortunately, increased hardware performance and more bandwidth availability make creating such an environment a clear possibility. Bill Kleyman looks at the tools and strategies you'll...
OpenStack storage gets a boost as Basho has formally added OpenStack compatibility to its Riak CS cloud storage. Version 1.4 also includes a number of performance enhancements.
CloudPhysics raises $10 million and releases its SaaS application and Card Store, a repository of highly specialized apps targeting specific problems in virtualized environments
The growth is back at Rackspace Hosting. The cloud computing specialist added 4,762 physical servers in the second quarter of 2013, an average of 52 servers per day.
Amazon Web Services releases a trio of customer case studies that show the company's appeal across a range of needs. This includes Schumacher Group,a growing physician management company that deals with sensitive medical information.
On Wednesday Google announced numerous enhancements to its Cloud Platform, the addition of layer 3 load balancing to Compute Engine, which delivers Google-scale throughput and fault tolerance to manage Internet applications.