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Article | 23/05/2013 IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.
Article | 21/05/2013 VMware launches network-savvy cloud service
VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator fr...
Article | 8/05/2013 Google simplifies content management on its cloud storage service
Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by u...
Article | 25/04/2013 ODCA: Virtual machines inching to portability
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring the...
Article | 24/04/2013 Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption featur...
Article | 16/04/2013 Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop
Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, calle...
Article | 15/04/2013 Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition ...
Article | 15/04/2013 Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers
Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as ...
Article | 9/04/2013 Amazon upgrades Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications
Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications now supports configuration files to simplify cloud setup and integration with Amazon's pr...
Article | 5/04/2013 Amazon Web Services and Google lower cloud pricing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Goog...
Article | 3/04/2013 Google simplifies integration of SMS and voice with App Engine
Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate SMS or voice communications in applications running on the company's App Engine platfor...
Article | 2/04/2013 Cloudian upgrades storage software with management, encryption features
Cloudian has upgraded its storage platform with improved reliability and security, as well as better integration with Amazon's Simple Storage Service.
Article | 25/03/2013 Apache helps free CloudStack from Citrix fetters
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further estab...
Article | 14/03/2013 Google BigQuery update aims for enticing Hadoop users
Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data table...
Article | 12/03/2013 Amazon Web Services aims to simplify roll-out of Node.js apps
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application devel...