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 »
Internap is now offering OpenStack-based public cloud services for the enterprise-rich New York metropolitan area from its Secaucus, New Jersey data center. Atlanta-based Internap paints its OpenStack-based AgileCLOUD as a “scalable public cloud” with dedicated… 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 »
Will the third time be the charm? In the last five years, Congress has twice tried to fix the country’s dysfunctional patent laws only to see those efforts founder at the hands of shrewd lobbying by reform opponents. Now, lawmakers… 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 »
Late last year, the world got a good look at the challenges and pain associated with kernel maintenance required by cloud providers. A security vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor required immediate and… 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 »