Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative that… Read more »
Despite what you may hear from the Linux-and-Mac crowds, a good chunk of today’s enterprise workloads run on Windows Server, which is why Google really wants them to also run on the… Read more »
The combination of the changes at the application and infrastructure layers creates new imperatives for users and vendors of application-performance management (APM) solutions. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on why we have to move on from the operating system wars to get to cloud goodness. Read more »
The week in cloud: Was the Cloud Foundry Foundation set up to promote the open-source PaaS or to thwart Red Hat OpenShift? Or a little bit of both? Discuss. Read more »
Enterprises must identify the common features for each IaaS building block and compare them to the services offered by key players in the industry. Read more »
Two prominent announcements of support for OpenStack this week reflect the technology’s growing importance. Oracle has become a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, and Dell has expanded its relationship with Red… Read more »
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances. Read more »
Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has really big, plans to put Ubuntu on your smartphone, on your tablet and (via OpenStack). What he doesn’t offer is details on revenue. Read more »