Cloud Computing News

Everyone is virtualizing, but are they realizing any of the promised savings? This overview of IBM's new virtualization optimization solutions will show you how integrated Cloud Solutions like SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Monitoring can deliver the savings virtualization promises.

Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company , today announced that it has been listed on the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust and Assurance Registry .

The German-based AOTERRA has come up with a unique way to use cloud computing to power homes.

With the full Senate starting its debate on a comprehensive immigration bill, Republican lawmakers in the House have released a plan of their own.

Cloud computing provider Joyent is determined to catch up to industry leader Amazon Web Services .

German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows.

German business software maker SAP said on Friday that Lars Dalgaard, who had widely been expected to lead its cloud computing business, was leaving.

Facebook on May 23 established Open Compute Project Taiwan in a bid to attract Taiwan-based hardware makers and promote industry standards for cloud computing data center equipment, according to the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute .

IT SERVICE providers can look forward to securing $1.2 billion worth of IT contracts from the Government this year.

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.