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IBM Buys Into Cloud IaaS With SoftLayer Acquisition

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?