Ubuntu Users See Private, Hybrid Cloud Expansion
Canonical, the company behind the open source cross-platform operating system Ubuntu, released its annual cloud and server survey this week that seeks to cast more light on the makeup ...Full Article
Cisco Fleshes Out Cloud Strategy
Cisco Systems fleshed out its cloud strategy this week with the launch of a software-licensing framework and a cloud-managed IT approach centered on leveraging its 2012 acquisition of cloud ...Full Article
Platform9 Rolls OpenStack Manager
Platform9, the cloud startup that emerged form stealth mode last August, unveiled its "Managed OpenStack" platform this week, a software-as-a-service offering aimed at quickly turning existing cloud infrastructure like ...Full Article
Pentagon Refines Cloud Security Rules
The Defense Information Systems Agency released new cloud security guidelines this week aimed at establishing policies for adoption of commercial cloud services by the U.S. military. The security requirements ...Full Article
Weekend Outage Puts Verizon Cloud on Defensive
Verizon continues to take heat this week following what was apparently a planned 40-hour cloud outage last weekend that was attributed to a massive upgrade of its enterprise-class cloud ...Full Article
AWS Rates Highest on Cloud Reliability
The reliability goal for cloud vendors is "five nines" (99.999 percent). According to cloud outage figures for 2014, a handful of vendors achieved that goal while Amazon Web Services ...Full Article
Red Hat Foresees Sprawling Cloud, Container Specs in 2015
"Cloud sprawl," the growing importance of the app developer and the maturing of the application container infrastructure are expected to drive enterprise operations in 2015, according to a year-end ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Gains U.S. Certification
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came to Washington this week to promote the government version of its Azure cloud platform. Nadella announced U.S. general availability of Microsoft Azure Government during ...Full Article
Critical Apps In The Cloud And High Availability
Enterprise data centers have been using cloud computing for several years for their low-risk environments, such as test-dev and non-mission-critical applications. In this context, the benefits of cloud computing ...Full Article
Pentagon Readies New Cloud Plan
The Defense Department is preparing to issue a new strategy for procuring cloud services that reportedly downgrades the role of its current "cloud broker," giving more flexibility to individual ...Full Article
