More AWS perks for business users Amazon Web Services has beefed up its identity management and access control capabilities so that businesses can more easily apply permissions to users, groups and… Read more »
Many news cycles have been burned on the debate over whether OpenStack-based cloud providers should or need to support the major Amazon Web Services APIs. Cloudscaling and its co-founder Randy Bias have long advocated that such… Read more »
The Cloud Foundry Foundation, put in place last year to promote the open-source platform as a service framework, now has new leadership. Sam Ramji, former VP of strategy of Apigee, is now… Read more »
It’s three weeks into 2015 and here’s the first cloud deal of the year: Managed service provider Datapipe is buying GoGrid, an infrastructure-as-a-service vendor that has been morphing into a big data specialist. Terms were not disclosed, but the… Read more »
Despite the success of Amazon Web Services, and the resources Microsoft and Google have poured into Azure and Google Cloud Platform respectively to compete with AWS, public cloud still has a bit of… Read more »
It looks as if EMC and activist investor Elliott Management have worked out their differences at least in the short term. EMC added two Elliott-friendly directors to its board, bringing the total… Read more »
The greater Boston-Cambridge area has no problem attracting bright young people from all over the world to its colleges and universities. But it has well-documented issues keeping the best-and-brightest local when they… Read more »
So yes, 2014 was a big year for cloud. Now it’s time for some predictions for the year ahead. Based on gut instinct, here are my picks. 1: Cloud consolidation will continue… Read more »
Rich Napolitano made a name for himself as top U.S. sales guy at Sun Microsystems and then as leader of EMC’s unified storage push. Now he’s CEO of Plexxi, a networking… Read more »