Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014. The numbers… Read more »
Amazon Web Services continues to dominate public cloud usage across the board, but Microsoft Azure is making strides at least in business accounts, according to a new RightScale survey. cloud adoption… Read more »
Rackspace is going to stop distinguishing between the money it makes from public cloud and what it derives from “dedicated” cloud, a category that encompasses a bunch of options. Well that’s one way to sidestep… Read more »
Microsoft wants to boost its cloud’s profile among startups so it’s making $500,000 in Azure credits available to Y Combinator-backed companies. The credits start rolling with the Winter 2015 class and will… Read more »
Despite multibillion-dollar earnings and the continued birth of new startups, both buyers and suppliers still grapple with what the cloud computing industry will become and what their place within it should… Read more »
Microsoft already has a huge presence in most companies’ server rooms. And it hopes to keep it that way or at least, persuade those companies running Windows Server, SQL Server et al… 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’s nothing not new to say that there’s a battle raging amongst the cloud providers for the price of compute, storage and networking. Amazon started everything off with regular price cuts… Read more »
Citrix, which has led the charge for desktop virtualization, just acquired Sanbolic to help bleed out the complexity and cost that have kept virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) from broader adoption. Terms were… Read more »
When Verizon said it might shutter its new Verizon Cloud for 48 hours this weekend for a major upgrade, users were shocked. Some promised to live-tweet the event which starts Saturday at 1… Read more »