Amazon Web Services and Rackspace are warning their customers of upcoming reboots they’re taking to address a new Xen hypervisor security issue. In a premium support bulletin issued Thursday night, Amazon… Read more »
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 »
The week in cloud The past few weeks were not great for IBM but they did not bring the bloodbath — 110,000 job cuts or about 26 percent of total headcount — predicted by… Read more »
The writing was on the wall when IBM named another guy to head up its cloud operations, but now it’s apparently official: Lance Crosby, the CEO of SoftLayer, which IBM acquired… Read more »
IBM has pledged to deliver a $7 billion cloud business by 2015 for a couple of years — and now, according to its own numbers, it’s achieved that goal. On its… Read more »
Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front. The business of IT is very complex and getting increasingly more complex every day. It does not matter whether you… Read more »
Remember that data center land grab we keep talking about? It’s not letting up. This week it’s IBM’s turn (again) to claim data center expansion to fuel its effort to offer… Read more »
IBM’s putting on a charm offensive to win startups over to its cloud portfolio and SoftLayer’s bare metal options continue to appeal. But it still has a long, hard slog to… Read more »
Amazon Web Services, which debuted in 2006, has a huge lead in public cloud. But it’s unclear how long that lead will last, as Microsoft and Google gear up their IaaS efforts. Read more »
U.S. cloud companies see China as a huge opportunity. Now Big Blue is partnering with Tencent Cloud to bring cloud and SaaS business applications to that market. Read more »