EMC today announced that it is acquiring privately-held Virtustream for $1.2 Billion. Virtustream will form EMC’s new managed cloud services business. The acquisition represents a transformational...
It has been years since Amazon Web Services has been the king of cloud computing and has remained the number one choice for most of the business for their cloud computing solutions but still there...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos loves forcing functions. At some point before 2010, Bezos decided that it was time for Amazon Web Services to make some rapid progress, so he started a project to move the...
Western Digital has been actively promoting its “My Cloud” cloud backup and remote access for their branded external storage products (they had a significant display of these services at the 2014 CES...
One of the issues attendant with the wholesale rush into the cloud, is the concern around disaster recovery in situations where customers put all their eggs in one basket. Imagine you’re an...
There’s little argument against the proposition that Google should be the biggest and most effective public cloud vendor. They have the scale, the networks, the operational experience and are...
By 2018, CIOs expect it to play a critical role in enabling their organizations strategic vision according to IBM’s latest study, Moving from the back office to the front lines – CIO insights from...
Everything the cloud stands for is diametrically opposed to what enterprise computing stands for. But that’s okay — cloud promises to free up and expand enterprises in ways never imaginable with...
IBM's trying to get more into the hybrid cloud game. The company announced several products led by a new platform, BlueMix, and acquired Cloudant, a Boston-based database company. The big news for...
Open source PaaS initiative Cloud Foundry (disclosure, I’m an adviser to ActiveState, a contributor to Cloud Foundry via their acquisition last year of Appsecute) is undeniably gaining the majority...