Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire portfolio of big data technologies and is teaming up… 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 »
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 »
Amazon Web Services cut prices on data transfers out of its cloud and both into and out of its CloudFront CDN effective December 1. The cuts are detailed in the chart below… Read more »
Companies like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks along with the Linux Foundation are hoping that the Open Platform for NFV Project will develop a standard for NFV, a network architecture… Read more »
Some 60 companies and organizations took part in planning meeting for the city’s payphone Wi-Fi project in May. We won’t know if Google is really serious about running the 10,000-hotspot network… Read more »
AWS, Google, Microsoft et al. have a huge appetite for unique IP addresses, but except for Amazon’s ELB, they don’t support IPv6. Expect that to change in the near future. Read more »
Gartner’s closely watched Magic Quadrant for cloud Infrastructure as a Service shows AWS in its usual top slot, but Microsoft makes a strong showing. Read more »
Companies love the agility that cloud deployment brings, but they also worry — quite a bit — about getting overly reliant on any one cloud provider, and that vendor’s integrated technology. Read more »
During the first quarter of 2014, changes in technology meant new products on the market, new roles in the enterprise, and structural changes for the IT department. Read more »