Building a global cloud is extremely expensive, so if a cloud provider wants to play in that league and hasn’t already spent billions, it should rethink, says Satya Nadella. Read more »
IBM SoftLayer’s hybrid bare-metal/cloud infrastructure and free internal networking wins some converts, but it still has a long way to go in the AWS-obsessed world of startups. Read more »
And the answer is … It’s complicated. Edward Snowden’s disclosures at the very least raised questions that all IT pros need to think about regardless of their deployment choices. Read more »
Microsoft one-ups its encryption gameplan, adding Transport Layer Security to Outlook.com and enabling Perfect Forward Secrecy on Outlook.com and OneDrive. Read more »
Rackspace blazed the trail for OpenStack and offers an array of deployment options from bare metal to private and public OpenStack clouds; but will it find a buyer? Read more »
The week in cloud: Structure 2014 was abuzz about the impact of NSA spy-gate on cloud adoption; if there’s enough business to sustain umpteen-different providers; and whether security concerns will strangle… Read more »
Data security is a uniquely complex problem and lawmakers have struggled to enact new legislation. Cloud companies have to take their own steps to ensure their customers’ data is safe. Read more »
It’s a cloud, cloud world. But making pragmatic choices about deploying IT infrastructure sometimes involves embracing the more cost effective cloud, and sometimes requires some old-fashioned bare metal. Read more »