Windows Azure is now used by over 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies and continues to gain traction

Windows Azure is now used by over 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies and continues to gain traction
Red Hat has delivered a commercial version of OpenStack and is ready to take on VMware
After plenty of speculation, SoftLayer is snapped up by IBM in what will be one of the biggest cloud deals of the year
Microsoft is matching Amazon's IaaS prices - but what it really wants to sell is a fully Microsoft PaaS-based cloud, says Peter Judge
Oracle has expanded its IaaS capabilities with an onsite system that comes with no upfront costs
IT service providers will displace pure-play cloud providers in 2013, says Chris Preimesberger
Joyent lends its cloud orchestration kit to Telefónica for public cloud launch
AWS opens a market for buying and selling spare reserved instances
The tech giant seeks to compete with Amazon with the Google Compute Engine supporting Linux virtual machines
Dot Net Solutions co-founder Dan Scarfe says Microsoft is going to be the enterprise public cloud of choice ahead of Amazon
Azure may have an infrastructure option, but it's not pitching against Amazon Web Services, says Microsoft's Michael Newberry
Microsoft has added Infrastructure-as-a-Service support to its Azure cloud platform as part of the recent upgrades
Mitel's AnyWare offering will allow businesses to deploy the company's virtual UC environment hosted by Mitel NetSolutions
AWS and Eucalyptus Systems have joined to help enterprises to achieve on-premises to cloud migrations
Cisco is planning to roll out a package that includes its router and WAN offerings to simplify cloud computing connections
SoftLayer provides cloud security with Cloud Security Monitoring Service, a free download for its customers
Parallels's new cloud solution allows service providers to easily deliver cloud infrastructure as a service
Dell is launching an open-source cloud computing platform based on OpenStack with Dell's Crowbar installer
Scaling IT means using tools and services on both sides of the cloud divide
With interest in platform as a service on the rise, what must developers do to avoid falling into old traps?