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 »
After all the news about a scarcity of women in the top management of companies (and in the ranks of engineers), here’s a bright spot: Half of the CIOs of Fortune 10 companies are… Read more »
After taking a ton of heat for what ended up being a 40-hour maintenance shutdown over the past two days, Verizon said the work it did will prevent these sorts of stoppages in the… Read more »
If you want a cogent — and hilarious — assessment of the state of cloud, take a look at Charles Fitzgerald’s latest blog post “A dispatch from cloud city — 2014… 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 »
2014 was the year in which both Microsoft and Google got serious about their public cloud options and taking on Amazon Web Services directly with their own Infrastructure as a Service… Read more »
Apprenda, which started out as a .NET-and-Windows-focused Platform-as-a-Service but has since opened up to other languages and technologies, continues to broaden its horizon. A new partnership with Piston Cloud gives it an entry into the OpenStack… Read more »
Remember that data center land grab we keep talking about? It’s not letting up. This week it’s IBM’s turn (again) to claim data center expansion to fuel its effort to offer… Read more »
I don’t normally go for these year-ahead predictions by tech big wigs (remember that before you hit send) but an item on this list by Rackspace CTO John Engates struck me. Engates wrote that… Read more »