Birst nets $38 million for fueling growth, Capgemeni launches Elastic Analytics on Amazon's cloud, and SAP and the NFL team up to power cloud-based player comparison tools.

Splunk updates its application for VMware 3.0, NaviSite launches a Director IaaS platform support VMware vCloud Director, FalconStor enhances its storage solutions for VMware environments, and HotLink launches a VMware disaster recovery offering...

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.

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.

Tidemark raises $13 million to continue its product momentum and innovation, Nasuni launches Cloud Mirroring, and Caringo adds Amazon S3 support in version 2.0 of its CloudScaler software.

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances - an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

UK research firm Netcraft has issued an overview of Amazon's infrastructure in which it finds 158,000 web-facing servers.

Amazon (AMZN) announced the launch of the new AWS Certification Program with the first of several exams that will made available in 2013. In other cloud news, Penguin Computing announced its Icebreaker CS storage platform, while Software AG...

According to a report in Federal Computer Week (FCW), the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with Amazon Web Services to build a private cloud infrastructure.