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Mirantis Joins Cloud Foundry To Hook Up PaaS And OpenStack

OpenStack company Mirantis looks to appease customers with PaaS framework

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G-Cloud 6 Services Go Live For Public Sector

'Jargon free' G-Cloud 6 services now available on the government's digital marketplace

Can IBM Win Hybrid Cloud In 2015?

A complete cloud overhaul is what must save this traditional hardware vendor

Oracle Feels Benefit From Strong Cloud Growth

Revenues at Oracle rise as the software giant sees a 45 percent increase at its cloud services business

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EMC’s Big Data Venture Pivotal Cosies Up With CapGemini

CapGemini plans to provide the consultancy skill to get EMC's Pivotal afloat on the Big Data Lake

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Red Hat Lowers OpenShift Prices

The Linux vendor is boosting its cloud strategy with lower OpenShift pricing and features that make it easier to deploy and use

CloudBees Builds PaaS With FoxWeave Acquisition

CloudBees' acquisition of FoxWeave, a provider of cloud-based integration services, arrives as the PaaS market heats up

Red Hat Takes OpenShift PaaS Commercial

After two years of testing, Red Hat has launched its OpenShift platform-as-a-service product commercially

MS-DOS Pioneer Joins Jelastic

Mark Zbikowski, a former Microsoft architect and contributor to MS-DOS, has joined PaaS maker Jelastic as a senior advisor

Microsoft Windows Azure IaaS Price Promise? It’s A Loss Leader

Microsoft is matching Amazon's IaaS prices - but what it really wants to sell is a fully Microsoft PaaS-based cloud, says Peter Judge

Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce Adds Social Identity And Mobile App Platform

Salesforce Platform gets socially-oriented SSO and a whole new way to develop mobile apps

Microsoft Azure Gains Infrastructure-as-a-Service Option

Microsoft has added Infrastructure-as-a-Service support to its Azure cloud platform as part of the recent upgrades

Oracle Launches Comprehensive Public Cloud Service

Oracle has officially launched itself as a cloud-service provider, offering platform, application, and social networking services

Oracle Readies Launch Of Public Cloud

Oracle will next week launch its own public Cloud, as it makes largest push into cloud-based business software

PaaS Market To Be Key Cloud Battleground

Frost & Sullivan has predicted that the platform as a service (PaaS) market will be the next cloud battleground

Red Hat To Offer Open Cloud Application Platform

Red Hat will offer its OpenShift cloud application platform as an alternative to VMware's vSphere, Microsoft's Azure and NASA/Rackspace's OpenStack

Jelastic Java Platform Set For Commercial Debut

Jelastic's Java plaform-as-a-service will become commercially available in North America and Europe next month

Pivotal Year For Platform as a Service, Says Gartner

There is a bright future for PaaS, as competition will heat up over the next five years according to Gartner

Open-Source OpenLogic Brings CloudSwing To Rackspace

Rackspace Hosting's Cloud Tools programme has been expanded with CloudSwing PaaS stacks

SaaS Uptake Hampered By Integration Concerns

Integration remains one of the biggest concerns vendors face when pushing software-as-a-service

PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service From Heroku

Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku launches relational object database service built on Postgres

Java Developers Get Cloud Platform Beta

Start-up Jelastic has released a beta of its Java platform-as-a-service for hosting service providers

IBM Launches ‘SmartCloud’ Platform As A Service

IBM puts mission-critical applications in the cloud with its new SmartCloud platform as a service

Database As A Service Launched By VMware

VMware announced vFabric Data Director, a database as a service platform for enterprises, at VMworld

Micro Cloud Foundry Beta Launched By VMware

Micro Cloud Foundry runs an implementation of VMware’s open PaaS offering on a developer’s computer

Global SaaS Revenue To Reach £7.6bn In 2011

The SaaS market is expected to grow by 20.7 percent in 2011, driven largely by CRM applications

Bridging The Gap Between Private And Public Clouds

Scaling IT means using tools and services on both sides of the cloud divide