Inside IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud Build Out
Big companies like to orchestrate their announcements, and it is probably not a coincidence that IBM announced its plan to build out its SoftLayer public cloud just ahead of ...Full Article
Cloud Price War Rages As Microsoft Cuts Azure Storage Prices
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise ...Full Article
Amazon Cranks Up I/O On New EC2 Cloud Slices
Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has forged a new class of server instances for its EC2 compute cloud that feature the kind of high I/O that it says ...Full Article
Corente, Responsys Acquisitions Puff Up Oracle Cloud
Oracle bought Xsigo Systems back in June 2013 so it could virtualize network links for server clusters and their storage across local area networks, and now it has snapped ...Full Article
AWS Cloud Expands Into China, C3 Instances Sell Out
The Amazon Web Services subsidiary of the online retailing giant is expanding its cloud into China, one of the more difficult markets for any IT vendor to crack. China ...Full Article
Dell Pushes Clouds With Red Hat, Microsoft, and Google
Like all IT equipment suppliers, Dell had aspirations of building its own public cloud. But unlike its peers, Dell decided earlier this year to mothball its public cloud and ...Full Article
Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public ...Full Article
ScaleXtreme Reins in Clouds with Orchestration
Cloud management software provider ScaleXtreme is puffing up its third major release of its cloud management tools, adding a workflow and orchestration engine that can reach up into the ...Full Article
Amazon Web Services Outgrows And Dwarfs Cloud Rivals
Amazon Web Services had first-mover advantage when it launched its EC2 compute cloud back in March 2006, and that was by no means a guarantee of success. But incumbent ...Full Article
Amazon CTO Vogels Outlines Cloud Trends for 2014
With 2013 racing to an end, it’s the time of year when industry visionaries start to reflect on the road that was, and what may come. Among the reflections ...Full Article
