The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact… Read more »
Despite all the criticism being bandied about in the IT press, cloud computing appears to be doing just fine. Yes, it needs to be more secure, reliability needs to improve, it… Read more »
When the 800-pound gorilla moves, people notice. In a week that brought a new partner portal program for the Rackspace Cloud and an entirely new cloud from SaaS-platform king OpSource, all… Read more »
Structure 09 was a great event for many reasons, but the best might have been its confirmation that cloud computing really has made great advances in the past year. It seemed… Read more »
It’s not that I have a one-track mind pointed directly at cloud computing, but week after week the paradigm dominates discussions around cutting-edge infrastructure. This week, for example saw several new… Read more »
You have to give McKinsey & Co. credit — its report questioning the cost efficiency of cloud computing has legs. It has been more than two weeks since the report was… Read more »
Joyent today announced it has agreed to acquire Reasonably Smart, a fledgling cloud startup based on JavaScript and Git, for an undisclosed amount. While on the surface it might look like… Read more »
GigaOM’s Structure 08 event offered a terrific opportunity to survey the changing landscape of computing infrastructure. But as with all technology shifts, innovation won’t just belong to the big established players… Read more »
Virtualization holds lots of promise: Move your physical machines to virtual ones, and you’ll reclaim capacity at the same time that you make operations easier. But applications seldom run on one… Read more »
During our on-stage chat at Startup Camp, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at some big news involving Amazon and its web services. Today, the company officially announced: Sun’s OpenSolaris OS… Read more »