Blippex calls on a few open-source tools to run its search engine on Amazon Web Services. The input is different from the usual search engine fodder, and so is the data… Read more »
OpenStack turned 3 and developers celebrated on Friday, but there’s still room for growth for the open-source cloud software, especially with IaaS vendors waiting in the wings. Read more »
Microsoft has boasted of big Azure revenue and now it’s talking up server count. The metrics are misleading, though, because developers just don’t flock to Azure the way they do to… Read more »
Numecent turns to a new model for delivering its software that lets users download programs in a matter of seconds: running applications on Amazon’s infrastructure. Read more »
A startup called Finally.io wants to make it easy for public-cloud novices to find out when they’re not making the most of their deployments. Read more »
Intelligence agencies want to do more in the cloud, while not sacrificing the security of top-secret information. Small wonder it’s investing in HyTrust, which caters to VMware but could support more… Read more »
Privacy was the hot button in the cloud this week following news of more government surveillance, although hot flash storage startups and the potential for more Amazon cloud growth also captured… Read more »
Cloudability is reporting that it’s managing $500 million worth of cloud deployments. That’s a big number, and it points to the continuing growth of the public-cloud market. Read more »
While VMware just revealed the specifics on its shared-infrastructure play and has to play catch-up with Amazon Web Services, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger can think of a few advantages of its… Read more »
Amazon Web Services outages have prodded customer Netflix to write software that can keep the service alive amid infrastructure issues. Now comes a new tool addressing issues around the Christmas Eve… Read more »