The latest cloud news
The new era of the cloud—together with the expected explosion in connected devices and the dynamic applications optimized for them—information can be continuously fed to cloud-enabled “big data” and analytic engines, opening up…
Electricity providers will soon be up to many challenges as consumers learn how to use “smart meters” and how to upgrade their utility set-up. They need to be prepared for the influx of information more than what they are prepared…
We are living in the age of “Big Data” where billions of transactions, events or activities are generated through use of smartphones, web browsing, smartmeter sensors and more. Hadoop, MapReduce and a new generation of NoSQL…
MongoLab, a cloud-based database provider created by San Francisco-based ObjectLabs , announced today that it has closed a $3 million series A funding round led by GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital, Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures,…
The recent Sony's PlayStation Network security issue and Amazon Web service outage brought a number of people calling for the downfall of cloud computing. Sony's security blunder that let loose 100 million credit card numbers…
In its 18th year running, TiEcon has attracted 3000+ attendees. Each year, TiEcon creates a magical ecosystem and brings together entrepreneurs, professionals, advisors, investors, customers, and VCs for networking,…
With every passing day, the clout of cloud computing is increasing. Leaders in their own areas, new players come in and try to create a niche for themselves. Redhat already announced a PaaS offering called openshift, and now with…
The US government is facing a revolution in IT infrastructure. The country's first CIO, Vivek Kundra has taken early steps towards moving federal IT to the Cloud. Back in November 2010, Jeffrey Zients, the federal government's…
In an effort to support the cloud computing community with the latest thought leadership on cloud computing, security and virtualization, CloudTimes is proud to announce our own Research Library . The library consists of…
MeriTalk, the government information technology (IT) network, today announced the results of the “ Federal Cloud Weather Report ” report. The report provides a status on Federal cloud computing migration, explores agencies’ cloud…