Some were surprised when IBM bought into the cloud with seven-yearold SoftLayer. but Chris Preimesberger thinks the strategy is paying off
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Google v Amazon: It’s Not Just A Price War
Google cut its prices to take on Amazon Web Services, says Chris Preimesberger, but it also added some powerful features
Mike Lynch Attacks HP Management Ahead Of Shareholder Meeting
Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch calls on shareholders to investigate 'misleading' HP statements
Software AG Announces Intelligent Business Operations Platform – CeBIT 2014
Software AG's CEO, Karl-Heinz Streibich, tells CeBIT he wants businesses to transform into digital enterprises by analysing data faster and more efficiently
MWC 2014 Video: CEO Rob Glaser Talks About The Potential Of RealPlayer Cloud
Glaser says the service is not attempting to compete with YouTube
The Big Boys Are Rocking The OpenStack Bandwagon
HP and IBM have picked up on OpenStack quickly, says Chris Preimesberger. But the real kudos should go to the inventors of the open source cloud platform
HP Risks Losing Customers’ Trust
HP's ill-conceived policy on firmware updates could damage its relationship with its customers, says Wayne Rash
5 Myths of Dimensional Modelling
Data warehouses should be fast and accessible. Data modelling is the way to ensure this, says Ralph Kimball
Rackspace CEO Retires As Firm Looks Towards Hybrid Cloud
Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier retires and is replaced by co-founder Graham Weston, who will steer the company to higher-level services
Learning Data Visualisation
To understand and communicate data, you must visualise it - for yourself and for other people - says Nathan Yau
Larry Ellison: The NSA Can’t Get Into Our Databases
Oracle CEO claims the database software “hasn't been broken into for a couple of decades”
Baboom! Kim Dotcom Previews Music Service, Launches Debut Album
Good Times by Kim Dotcom is out on Baboom, iTunes and Google Play
The Rise Of Scale Out Storage
Virtualisation helped solve It problems, but created more issues, that only scale out architectures can solve, says Stefan Bernbo
How Governments Will Shape Data Centres
Governments' energy policies and surveillance activities will unintentionally shape our data centres, says Peter Judge
Can European Telcos Protect Customers From The NSA?
European telcos could ease customers' fear of US-based surveillance, if they can build the right services, says Birger Steen
Dell World 2013: Dell Beefs Up Cloud With Red Hat OpenStack Alliance
Michael Dell announces deal with Red Hat to co-develop OpenStack products - and Microsoft and Google tie-ups
The Cloud Will No Longer Be Free
Free storage is going away - and so will other freemum services, says Wayne Rash
Check Point: Good Security Is About Discovering The Unknown
Gabi Reish from Check Point explains why traditional IT security solutions are becoming irrelevant
CA Expo: DevOps Still Top Of The Agenda
CEO Mike Gregoire says CA's fascination with rapid development practices is not going away
Big Data Strikes The Right Chord With Music Listeners
Mat Young explains the big data magic behind companies like Spotify and Shazam
Hadoop 2 Pushes Big Data Further Into The Mainstream
The new Apache Hadoop promises a world where Big Data players work together, says Doug Cutting
Box CEO Aaron Levie Calls Alleged NSA Spying ‘Inappropriate’
Box CEO calls for more transparency in government surveillance and says country-specific networks are a bad idea
Apple iWork Isn’t Enterprise Class
iWork might be free, but it isn't a patch on Microsoft Office, says Don Reisinger
IP Expo: Moving Workloads To Make The Most Of The Cloud
With multiple clouds to choose from, you need a way to move workloads between the different providers, says Ian Masters
Hounslow Council Believes In The G-Cloud
Hounslow Council's Anthony Kemp is full of praise for G-Cloud as it becomes Box's first UK government customer
Microsoft Should Open Its Azure Cloud – Or Fail
Drastic measures are needed if Microsoft is to make an impact on Amazon's cloud control, says Peter Judge
Former CTO of NSA: ‘See Everything To Protect The Right Things’
Machine-generated data can enhance cyber security, says Prescott Winter during his keynote at .conf 2013
Boxworks 2013: Box Eyes Future IPO As Expansion Continues
Box CEO Aaron Levie and COO Dan Levin say IPO is on the cards
Hey Apple! Fingerprints Are For Ease Of Use, Not Security
The iPhone 5S's fingerprint recognition is for ease-of use, says Sean Michael Kerner. For security, have a look at iCloud Keychain
It’s Time To End The Cloud Hype Cycle
There is a boom in data stored in the cloud, says Brian Gentile. Let's move on to real use of the post-transactional cloud!