The federal government's "Cloud First" mandate is progressing with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) among other federal agencies moving to the cloud.
Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage, launching a new AWS AsiaPac region in Sydney, Australia. This region launches with two availability zones so customers may use it for high availability applications.
Cloud companies making news include: Joyent named a new CEO and released its Joyent7 a fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform, a fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform; Telefonica Digital announced the global launch of Instant Servers; and...
Expanding their strategic relationship, two major cloud companies, Rightscale and Rackspace, announced that RightScale's cloud management is now integrated with the Rackspace Open Cloud (powered by OpenStack) and RightScale's cloud management...
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has collaborated with the TM Forum to publish a suite of documents outlining requirements for Compute Infrastructure as a Service (CIaaS) that aim to simplify cloud adoption by large enterprises.
As we look ahead to the upcoming year, some key technology areas are going to shift. There has been new innovations and advancements around some older ones. Although not an all-encompassing list– this is a good breakdown of where the IT community...
The term “cloud computing” can have many different meanings to various organizations. IT executives are beginning to widely adopt the technology, even though there is still some confusion of the technology. Cloud computing isn’t just one component...
A software bug in a data collection agent for Amazon's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) system triggered last Monday's service outage for many services running on Amazon Web Services, the company said today.
Cognizant is investing an initial $25 million to open additional data centers in North America and Europe in support of its cloud offerings, including new facilities in Arizona and Virginia.