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Cloud computing helps organizations store, manage, share, and analyze their Big Data in an affordable and easy-to-use way. Today’s cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as Microsoft, GoGrid, Amazon, Google,…
To enhance its cloud computing capabilities Verizon acquired Terremark, a Miami-based cloud services and data center hosting provider, for $1.4 billion. With this acquisition Verizon will be competing with major cloud services…
Groupon, a shopping website that offers a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 300 markets and 35 countries, has selected the Vertica Analytics Platform from Vertica Systems , a leading provider of…
We have been covering data center management and also managed services in the cloud e.g. Rackspace’s new offering. ScaleXtreme focuses on a cloud based IT systems management. The Palo Alto company is backed by Accel Partners , a…
2010 was a big year for Cloud Computing and as the year approaches to an end we take a look and the top Cloud Computing stories of the year that made headlines around the world. Oracle Moves To The Cloud Larry Ellison, CEO of…
Rackspace announced today its first managed cloud offering, Cloud Servers with a managed service level. The San Antonio-based company says that this will give them an edge over commodity cloud players like Amazon Web Services .…
Salesforce.com Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff announced today at Dreamforce "Database.com", a database-as-a-service product that he hopes will take business away from Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., in a market…
Jitterbit's First Turnkey Solution for Amazon EC2 Mirrors Salesforce CRM Data for Backup and Advanced Reporting. Jitterbit , a leading provider of simplified, powerful, and flexible application and data integration solutions,…
According to a statement by the US Senator Joe Lieberman’s office, Amazon Web Services has discontinued providing its cloud computing services to WikiLeaks , the organization that has published hundreds of thousands of classified…
Wikileaks , the site that has infuriated the US government by releasing thousands of US diplomatic cables, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver its information. The site cablegate.wikileaks.org, which…