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Dell is Facing Challenges in the Cloud The schedule announced last year by Dell regarding their plans to launch Cloud-based app services was deemed too aggressive by experts, and right now it looks like said experts were right, as…
Greenpeace vs. Apple Cloud: Commitment to the Green Cloud IT giant Apple has recently come under fire for failing to fulfill its commitment to promote green practices in cloud computing, judging by the company’s decision to stop…
The Future of Cloud Adoption Public cloud computing is one of the biggest factors that speed up the pace of changes that occur in enterprise software these days. Newcomers in the market are constantly launching innovations that…
Cloud Companies to Watch: Enterprise OpenStack Pioneer – Piston If you are not familiar with the company called Piston Cloud Computing, chances are you’re going to be within a few years, since the startup is currently developing…
Assessing The Costs of Cloud Outages According to the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR), the total downtime of 13 well-known cloud services since 2007 amounts to 568 hours, which has an economic…
Free Access to Microsoft ALM Servers – TechEd Conference In its recent TechEd conference held in Orlando, Florida last June 4, Microsoft announced that they are already in the process of expanding access to their cloud-based…
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, together with Rackspace Hosting, are staging a price war for their services. Amazon started implementing its cloud support plans changes in response to the price slash Microsoft and Rackspace are…
KPMG has created an online resource regarding taxing of cloud computing services by tax authorities in various countries. Called as Country Perspective on Taxing the Cloud, the online resource aims to aid providers and users of…
SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) plans to use its testing methodology to benchmark cloud deployments . The company is well known in the industry because of its benchmarks on computer systems. It maintains and…
Zynga Taking on AWS as an IaaS Provider Zynga may be on its way to becoming a serious competitor to Amazon’s robust Infrastructure as a Service, since the social network gaming giant will soon sell cloud IaaS to game makers in…