Amazon Web Service (AWS) is making access to its Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) automatic for new users of the Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service
Public Cloud

Private Cloud market champion VMware is going public on its long-rumoured public Cloud IaaS offering and is pitching a hybrid future to customers.

The UK government is set to introduce a Public Cloud First policy across Whitehall departments in what appears to be a major victory for the G-Cloud programme team in the Cabinet Office.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and his market have the Innovator’s Dilemma, and the enemy isn’t public Cloud but private Clouds, says Forrester.

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.

Cost efficiency remains the key driver of Cloud investment in the Western European government sector, according to a new study by global research firm IDC.

Dell has officially confirmed a buyout by its founder and CEO Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake, but where does this leave the Cloud strategy?

In a week in which the UK rail network has once more been tested by snowflakes, website Network Rail is to tackle peaks in usage during periods of disruption by turning to the Amazon public Cloud.

Could public Clouds ever become part of the critical national infrastructure? Maybe, says Gartner as government agencies adapt prioritising security of public Cloud infrastructures.

Public Cloud’s reputation for poor security makes it increasingly viewed as a service unsuited to the rigours of today’s businesses, suggests Jonathan Birch, EMEA Practice Lead for Technical Infrastructure at NTT DATA.
