Open Platform for NFV (or OPNFV) launches with the participation of nearly 40 founding member companies that represent all areas of IT from cloud computing to the telecom industry.

Dataloop.IO closes an early seed round of $800,000 (£480,000) which will help Dataloop.IO accelerate its product development and hire new talent in preparation for a public launch later this year.

On Tuesday the Department of Defense (DoD) acting CIO Terry Halvorsen announced it will perform a database consolidation that could lead to a $10 to $20 billion dollar savings

Last week at the 2014 OpenStack Silicon Valley conference, the WHIR spoke to Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation.

Many service providers feel like the big guys (Amazon, Google and Microsoft) are a threat. The question is what can you do about it?

Two years after switching its entire infrastructure to the cloud, The Pirate Bay now uses 21 virtual machines hosted at different providers to run its website, according to a report by TorrentFreak on Sunday.

German news outlet Tagesspiegel reports that Microsoft is considering a German data center.

Documents provided to German newspaper Der Spiegel by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the NSA and GCHQ breached Deutsche Telekom and local telecommunications provider Netcologne.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform provider for the hosting and service provider market, OnApp has bought SolusVM.