EMC buys Cloud Company Virtustream for $1.2 Billion

Posted on 26/05/2015 by i4u

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...

Amazon’s Web Business Could Hit $6 Billion this year

Posted on 24/04/2015 by ahmed

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...

Jeff Bezos Chose the Wrong Forcing Function for AWS

Posted on 10/04/2014 by forbes

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...

When Good Clouds Go Bad

Posted on 04/04/2014 by forbes

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...

Get An Enduring Cloud With CloudEndure

Posted on 18/03/2014 by forbes

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...

Sometimes The Goog Doesn’t Help Itself – "Potentially Catastrophic" Bug Surfaces

Posted on 15/03/2014 by forbes

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...

Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2014

Posted on 15/03/2014 by forbes

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...

Cloud Computing And Enterprises: Proof That Opposites Can Attract

Posted on 14/03/2014 by forbes

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 Repurposes $1B For Hybrid Cloud, Buys Database Startup Cloudant

Posted on 24/02/2014 by forbes

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...

Game On – Pivotal Announces the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Posted on 24/02/2014 by forbes

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...