Six in 10 cloud computing customers say that they've been able to reduce their IT capital costs, according to a recent survey of 159 end users by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).

Is a "cloud broker" what your company needs to navigate the cloud computing opportunity? Here's a guide to cloud brokers and open source cloud management projects tools, with a description of their offerings.

Seattle startup OpsCode says its community of developers is creating a pool of open source tools for developer operations (DevOps), a combination of a systems administrator and developer who can quickly configure and...

NewScale has extended its IT service catalog offering to make ordering, provisioning and tracking of buying IT services as sexy as using Apple's AppStore, Dell.com or Amazon.com. Its latest update offers management...

Cloud technologists are intrigued by the potential applications for commodity-style trading of compute capacity, and have begun discussing how such an exchange might work. Key ingredients: the right framework and a...

Microsoft and HP announce a $250 million pact, which is focused on a joint "roadmap" for integrating Microsoft software and HP hardware, with implications for the hardware choices for Microsoft's data centers.

Microsoft has announced pricing for its hosted Windows Azure cloud computing application platform, and is urging Azure Community Technology Preview (CTP) users to upgrade to the commercial versions by Feb. 1.

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a privacy roundtable debate on Jan. 28 on the security implications to consumers of cloud computing, mobile computing, and social networking. The FTC wants a public debate into...