Contra Costa County Department of Elections website was inaccessible on the day of the U.S. midterm elections.

Apple acquires stealth cloud infrastructure startup Union Bay Networks and opens a Seattle engineering office.

VMware to offer its vCloud Air public cloud in Australia out of Telstra data centers early next year.

Hardware giant Dell moves further into cloud brokerage with Dell Cloud Marketplace.

Cloud market reportedly growing six times faster than the overall IT market.

Internap expands OpenStack-based cloud platform, intros integrated OpenStack Horizon dashboard.

Mirantis releases Technical Preview of Mirantis OpenStack 6.0, an OpenStack distribution that includes the latest features included in OpenStack Juno.

Samsung acquires Proximal Data, a provider of server-side caching software.

Microsoft’s public cloud platform Azure continues to add functionality for Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT).