IBM and Amazon are chasing a major CIA Cloud Computing contract for the US government.
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Most enterprise software is just beastly, says Phillips, but there's beauty to come with the 10x release of Infor's applications portfolio.
After nearly a year on the market, Amazon has finally provided its Cloud Drive apps for Windows and Mac with a file syncing folder, taking it into stiffer competition with Dropbox.
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has warned that the battle against closed registry generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) is not yet won, despite some larger vendors like Google appearing to take a step back.
Netflix has launched a Cloud Prize competition to challenge developers across the world to come up with improvements in security, reliability and usability.
Private Cloud market champion VMware is going public on its long-rumoured public Cloud IaaS offering and is pitching a hybrid future to customers.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and his market have the Innovator’s Dilemma, and the enemy isn’t public Cloud but private Clouds, says Forrester.
In 2012, the amount of storage shipped to service providers was greater than the amount of storage shipped to enterprise. This interests Thomas Georgens, CEO of storage firm NetApp.
Rackspace CEO Napier has grand ambitions to shake up Amazon and VMware's holds on the Cloud market, but it's a learning experience for him and his customers.
Having a data warehouse available in the Cloud marks a step forward in building business critical services for both enterprises and smaller companies.