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NTT Touts Private Connection To Azure, AWS Clouds
NTT joins the party in offering private and dedicated access to public cloud services
Cisco Predicts ‘Second Wave’ Of Cloud Adoption
IDC And Cisco report finds that cloud is now used to help businesses grow and develop internally, with UK firms set to benefit
UK Public Sector Is Falling For The Public Cloud
Majority of public sector organisations use public cloud services, even if not officially signed off by IT department
Amazon’s Q2 Results Prove Just How Powerful AWS Cloud Is
AWS becomes $6bn service as Amazon stocks soar on Q2 announcement
Alibaba’s Ambitious US Cloud Plans Just Got Serious
Alibaba's cloud computing division Aliyun has unveiled plans to protect user data with a "Data Protection Pact" as the firm looks to expand in the West
AWS Has Unveiled A Colossal Wind Farm To Power Its Data Centres
North Carolina wind farm will generate 670,000 MWh of wind energy every year at bring AWS on track to hit 40 percent renewable goals
Microsoft Azure Embraces Rackspace’s Fanatical Support
Microsoft Azure looks for leg up in enterprise adoption by wafting Rackspace Fanatical Support in front of businesses looking to the cloud
AWS Launches Service Catalog For IT Departments
AWS Service Catalog allows users to browse internal 'marketplace' of AWS products to run at their own will, with permission from an IT admin
CenturyLink Stomps Data Centre Footprint Into Australia
Hybrid IT services can be dished out to regional and multinational corporations across five Australia locations with new data centre deal
Amazon Web Services Makes £1 Billion First Quarter Revenue
E-commerce giant finally reveals massive Amazon Web Services public cloud earnings for the first quarter of 2015
HP Admits It Can’t Compete ‘Head-To-Head’ With Big Public Cloud Players
BLOG: Helion Cloud head says it makes no sense for HP to compete against Amazon
Amazon, Watch Out – Microsoft Has The Fastest-Growing Cloud
But can it ever threaten Amazon’s 30 percent global market share?
‘Social’ Cloud Storage Platform Hive.im Raises $500,000
Focuses on personal content discovery and sharing rather than the traditional pay-per GB model
Tata IZO Platform Promises To Enable Public, Private And Hybrid Cloud
Tata IZO is billed as the ultimate cloud enablement platform with the benefits of a private network and the reach of the public Internet
The Xen Vulnerability That Rebooted the Public Cloud
More details are now public on the open-source Xen hypervisor vulnerability that triggered full Amazon, Rackspace and IBM cloud reboots
AWS Launches Cloud VDI Service
Amazon officially enters the desktop virtualisation market with the release of its new WorkSpaces
Red Hat Updates Cloud Product Portfolio, Adds More OpenStack Components
Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 and Cloud Infrastructure 4.0 will set the customers on the path to open hybrid cloud
SAS Updates Business Analytics For Cloud
SAS has upgraded its analytics engine with the ability to be deployed in either private or public clouds
VMware Confirms Hybrid Cloud Arrival Later This Year
VMware has finally confirmed its long rumoured Hybrid Cloud service offering
VMware Deletes Tweet On Public Cloud Service Launch
A mystery VMware message on Twitter is quickly deleted
Oracle Builds Cloud Challenge With £536m Eloqua Deal
Oracle has ramped up its cloud confrontation with Salesforce.com after the acquisition of Eloqua
Telefónica Jumps On Joyent To Launch Another Amazon Rival
Joyent lends its cloud orchestration kit to Telefónica for public cloud launch
Gartner Raises Forecast For Public Cloud Services
The market for subscription web services is now expected to grow 19.6 percent this year to $109bn worldwide, with business processes a key market, according to Gartner
VMware vCloud Test Drive Tempts New Users
A virtual data centre, virtually free for a virtual spin
Rackspace Releases Private Cloud Software For Free Download
Rackspace is hoping to tempt new users by making Rackspace Private Cloud Software available for free download
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
Joyent Brings Its Public Cloud To Europe
Joyent comes to Europe, providing IT teams with another IaaS option
Shuttleworth: Cloud Jobs Need Migration Help
Mark Shuttleworth says the industry needs portable workloads. He describes Canonical's solution to TechWeekEurope