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Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower.

While Tuesday's Xbox One presentation answered some questions about Microsoft's upcoming system, it left just as many or more unsettled.

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service for use in data reporting and analysis.

ChannelAdvisor Corporation is scheduled for an initial public offering on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Cloudian is integrating its platform with Citrix's CloudPortal Business Manager as it aims to make it easier to roll out and manage storage as a service.

Cloud providers must address threats against their own infrastructure and remain vigilant over cybercriminals who are fraudulently using their platform to conduct malicious activities, according to a cloud computing expert who is overseeing Dimension Data's global cloud operations.

It turns out cloud computing could be the most useful sales associate on the floor, and you won't have to worry about it stealing sales leads, ala "Glengarry Glen Ross." With the help of cloud computing, some brick-and-mortar stores are combating showrooming, a trend where consumers look at items in a store before buying them online, usually at ... (more)

Adding Microsoft's Windows Azure to the mix means university data will no longer have to traverse over the public Internet.

"Opportunity in Japan for growth and innovation we find incredible. Japan is our second largest subsidiary and I have a lot of optimism about our process here in Japan," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told reporters during a news conference.

The partnership brings together Skyscape's assured cloud services and ControlCircle's Max3000a monitoring and management platform to enable organisations to benefit from a fully monitored and managed compute as a service capability, consisting of servers and operating systems, on which applications and solutions can be deployed.

Beijing entrepreneur Alan Guo makes the point that today, big companies serve small companies rather than the other way around.

Cloud computing firm Amazon.ca released a cloud storage service today to compete with a long list of competitors including Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, Box.net, and more.

Asustek Computer on May 21 signed an MoU with Chunghwa Telecom for cooperation to set up a supply chain for cloud computing services in Taiwan and overseas markets, with the supply chain aimed to consist of about 1,000 Taiwan-based hardware and software suppliers, according to Asustek.

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"Open source has always provided a number of benefits, including easing adoption costs, propagating a better understanding of the technology, and allowing for faster evolution and commercialization of products and services based on it," noted Terry Woloszyn, Founder & CEO, Leeward Security Ltd., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference ... (more)

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday that the company will establish an office in Herndon, Va., to prove cloud computing services to businesses, government and educational organizations.

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Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing services to business and government customers.

As the virtualisation market saturates and more enterprises begin to explore cloud computing, VMware has launched a hybrid cloud IaaS platform.