Rackspace Hosting (RAX) is acquiring ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. The acquisition expands Rackspace’s big data play, allowing them to provide Open Cloud customers with demanding applications with a NoSQL DBaaS.

How did an expired SSL certificate crash the Windows Azure storage cloud computing platform Friday and Saturday? It's an expensive question for Microsoft, which is offering service credits to users.

Red Hat announced it will contribute its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the Apache Hadoop open community later this year, adding another component to the big data ecosystem.

NTT Communications has added several locations for its Enterprise Cloud, including data centers in Singapore, Virginia and California in the US, and England.

This week Amazon Web Services got the attention of the cloud computing community with its announcement of OpsWorks, which provides new configuration and automation features for applications housed on AWS. Here's a look at the notable analysis and...

Amazon has officially launched Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.

INetU adds a data center in the Pacific Northwest; Phoenix NAP adds services at its Asburn data center; an Internap survey finds that customers want clouds with control; and the United States is once again reported as having the top volume of spam...