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Dell snaps up Enstratius to build cloud momentum
You have to give Michael Dell credit: his company’s still moving and shaking despite what have to be considerable distractions as he and his private equity pals take the whole shebang private. On...
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How an old-school telco gear maker got the cloud religion. Can it convert the...
Telcos feel like they are between a rock and hard place. When you consider the transition to all IP networks, the margin pressures associated with meeting the insatiable demand for mobile data and the...
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SAP to world: We’re a cloud company, no really!
SAP, the enterprise software giant, has been beating the cloud drum for years. Last year it put its All-in-One ERP application on Amazon Web Services. Five months later it did the same with HANA, its...
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From Amazon’s cloud guy: 6 hiring tips for startups
Nobody really thinks of Amazon Web Services as a startup any more. But it was not all that long ago when retail giant Amazon.com readied its push into the cloud infrastructure market. Andy Jassy,...
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MadeiraCloud nets $1.5M to paint a pretty picture of your Amazon cloud
MadeiraCloud, a startup in the crowded field of Amazon Web Services monitoring and management services, snagged $1.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. The company provides a graphical...
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Laggard Rackspace growth sparks concern: is there enough cloud biz to go around?
Here’s the narrative that cloud vendors would like us to believe: there are infinite workloads flowing to clouds of infinite capacity. There’s enough business for all, keep moving. But there is nagging...
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Google I/O: Arming for the battle of the public cloud stars
At Google I/O this week, the elephant in the room cloud-wise, will be whether the company announces “general availability” of the Google Compute Engine (GCE), the Amazon Web Services competitor...
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Amazon cloud watcher Newvem now watches Azure too
Newvem made its name monitoring your Amazon Web Services workloads and recommending where you can extract savings with another instance type or where you need to close security gaps. Now it’s adding...
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So Google Compute Engine is out, your move Amazon
Now that the fog of hype is starting to lift from the Moscone Center where Google rolled out its promised Amazon cloud killer, don’t expect the folks up in Seattle to stand still. As Amazon Web...
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As Amazon, Google, Microsoft beat each others brains in, who wins? The user
Here’s something we often forget: Competition is good. The Microsoft that produced the Windows-Office monopoly let its products get fat, dumb and happy. The Microsoft that must contend with the Oracle...
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The week in cloud: Google and Microsoft spar while IBM and SAP play hot hands
Google I/O, which saw the public launch of Google Compute Engine, also spawned a “I know you are, what am I,” slapfest between two companies that would like to unseat Amazon Web Services as the king of...
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FedRAMP seal of approval clears Amazon for more government work
Amazon Web Services can now claim a rare blessing among cloud providers: it has earned the FedRAMP accreditation that certifies that it has met a variety of security standards. That certification,...
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Cloudcheckr boosts support for Amazon GovCloud
CloudCheckr, one of several vendors that monitor Amazon Web Services usage for customers, says it is the only one of those rivals that can do that job for Amazon’s restricted GovCloud. GovCloud is a...
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How Amazon’s cloud competitors are trying to find cracks in AWS’s armor
It’s not exactly shocking that Amazon cloud competitors are polishing up their PR talking points about the benefits of hybrid cloud. And turning up the volume on their pitches. Here’s why: As Amazon...
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Amazon spreads net wider by federating Facebook and Google (and AWS) identities
Good news for developers who use Amazon Web Services and want to make those apps available to millions of Facebook and Google users: Amazon Web Services Identity Access Management (IAM) can now...
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Say hello to Netflix Conformity Monkey
We knew Netflix was going to keep churning out “monkeys” to help us with our cloud computing deployments because it told us so. So, meet Conformity Monkey, the latest member of the company’s Simian...
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Verizon’s new supersized LTE network will be bigger and badder, but not faster
Verizon Wireless is still months away from rolling out LTE network No. 2 using its recently acquired cable company airwaves, but that hasn’t stopped it from seeding its customer base with devices that...
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The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon’s cloud? Stay tuned.
Two of Microsoft’s biggest tech events are queued up for the next few weeks, TechEd in New Orleans this week and Build (formerly known as its Professional Developers Conference) later in the month and...
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Why IBM desperately needed to buy SoftLayer
IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer is a bid to make the IT giant relevant in a world where Amazon Web Services has come in from left field to snarf up workloads that IBM would very much like to own. That’s...
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T-Mobile’s plan to supercharge LTE: A whole lot of antennas
T-Mobile USA has been talking some smack lately about how its brand-spanking-new LTE network gives it an edge over the competition. Being the last major U.S. carrier to launch LTE means T-Mobile is...
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