Rackspace Hosting (RAX) saw gains in its cloud computing business in the first quarter of 2009, adding more than 8,000 customers on its suite of cloud services.
SoftLayer has launched CloudLayer, which bundles the company's existing storage and content delivery offerings with a compute-on-demand service that will run virtual machines on Citrix XenServer.
On Thursday IBM (IBM) announced the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, a hardware appliance that manages and maintains virtual machines in a "private cloud."
Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure company led by veterans of the data center teams from Amazon and Microsoft, has closed a Series A funding round of $2.5 million led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
It's no surprise that McKinsey's findings on cloud economics as a barrier to enterprise adoption have generated some reaction. Here's a roundup of some noteworthy commentary and follow-up.
A typical corporate data center is more economical than Amazon's EC2 when measured in cost per CPU equivalent, according to a new report from McKinsey.
Has the furor over the Open Cloud Manifesto opened the door for a more formal cloud computing trade association? The discussions continue, and the Cloud Security Alliance is announced.